CMC’s podcast returns for 2025 with a recording taken from CMC’s recent Spring Gathering event featuring soprano Sylvia O’Brien and flautist Bill Dowdall performing Cathy Purcell’s ‘Droplet’. Winner of the 2024 Finding a Voice Composition Competition, Cathy Purcell also speaks to Jonathan Grimes about her experience composing the work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

Show Notes

• Cathy Purcell
• Finding a Voice Composition Competition
• Finding a Voice Festival
• Evlana Ensemble
  • Sylvia O’Brien
  • Bill Dowdall

Music

‘Droplet’ by Cathy Purcell, performed live in CMC by Sylvia O’Brien and Bill Dowdall on 30 January 2025

For the final episode of amplify for 2024, Ian Wilson joins music journalist and contemporary music educator Tim Rutherford-Johnson for a conversation spanning his career and centred around a new essay commissioned by CMC. You'll also hear excerpts of live performances from the evening featuring Lina Andonovska (flute), Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin) and the composer himself, Ian Wilson (piano).

• Tim Rutherford-Johnson

• Ian Wilson

• • CMC Composer Page

• Lina Andonovska (Alto flute and piccolo)

• Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin)

You can order a hard copy of the essay here.

All music featured in this episode was recorded live in CMC's Library and Creative Space on December 6 2024.

Terra and Fuoco from I Quattro Elementi for solo violin - Ioana Petcu-Colan (Violin)

Die Zwitscher-Maschine for solo piccolo - Lina Andonovska (Piccolo)

Spilliaert's Beach for alto flute and piano - Lina Andonovska (Alto flute) and Ian Wilson (Piano)

Recording and editing: Keith Fennell

Introduction: Jonathan Grimes

Caterina Schembri, whose debut album 'Sea Salt & Turpentine' was released on Ergodos, talks to Jonathan Grimes about her musical background and work as a composer. Show Notes

• Caterina Schembri
• Sea Salt & Turpentine

Music

All music taken from Sea Salt & Turpentine (Ergodos)

• Caterina Schembri - Sea salt & Turpentine, Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble
• Caterina Schembri - Soft charcoal over moonstone, Nathan Sherman (viola)
• Caterina Schembri - There is a willow, Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble
• Caterina Schembri - I wake up in the night when I dream in black and white , Michelle O’Rourke (voice), Ficino Ensemble
• Caterina Schembri - It was only half as far, Ficino Ensemble