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FUAIM Concert: Matthew Berrill & Jack Talty, 10/11/23, 1.10pm, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral
For this special FUAIM concert, Berrill and Talty build on previous collaborations as members of Ensemble Ériu and the Irish Memory Orchestra to explore original and traditional duet music for concertinas and clarinets.
Multi-instrumentalist Matthew Berrill leads a diverse career as a performer, improviser, composer, arranger and curator. He is an integral member of numerous ensembles in the jazz, improvised and traditional Irish music spheres, including The Irish Memory Orchestra and Ensemble Ériu, with whom he has recorded three critically-acclaimed albums for Raelach Records. He plays in trio with Cormac McCarthy and Iarla Ó Lionáird, and is a regular performer with the acclaimed singer Mick Flannery. In 2022, he graduated with Distinction in the Masters in Arts course from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was awarded the Benjamin Doéniger Jazz Scholarship. Recent highlights include world premieres at Boyle Arts Festival and at the National Concert Hall as part of New Music Dublin, and soundscape composition for the award-winning spectacle theatre company Macnas for their production of Con Mór. Matthew has worked with RTÉ Concert Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Northern Ireland Opera. He curated Galway Music Residency’s 3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music Series for four years from 2018 until 2021, and in partnership with Galway Music Residency and ConTempo Quartet, he instigated the JazzTempo project. Matthew is grateful for the generous support of the Arts Council.
Jack Talty is a multi-award-winning traditional musician, composer, producer, academic, and educator from Lissycasey in county Clare. In 2021, he was appointed to the post of Lecturer in Irish Traditional Music at the School of Film, Music and Theatre at University College Cork. As a performer, Jack has toured extensively throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, and Asia, and he has contributed to over 100 albums to date as a musician, producer, composer, arranger, and engineer. A regular contributor to traditional music programming on various media, Jack is also the Artistic Director of Raelach Records, a traditional music label that he founded in 2011. In November 2016, Jack released his debut solo concertina album, In Flow on Raelach Records. In September 2018, Jack was appointed Traditional Artist in Residence at University College Cork. In 2019, Jack and photographer and filmmaker Maurice Gunning were appointed as the inaugural Clare Arts Office Creators in Residence at the Irish Traditional Music Archive. Duala, the film produced during this residency was premiered at Glór, Ennis, on Culture Night 2020.
Jack has collaborated with composer Ailís Ní Riain on No Other Word For It, an immersive installation featuring traditional and classical musicians, premiered at Imbolc International Arts Festival, Derry, 26 Jan 2020. He also performed the premiere of Aonaracht 1 for solo concertina and electronics by Úna Monaghan at New Music Dublin, National Concert Hall, 27 Feb 2020. Jack was awarded the 2021 Liam O'Flynn Award by the Arts Council and the National Concert Hall, the culmination of which was a performance at the Tradition Now festival in October 2021.
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