Making a living as a composer - Amanda Feery on the worsening economic conditions for artists living in Dublin: amplify #1 (22 October 2019)

amplify - A podcast by Contemporary Music Centre - Fridays

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In the first episode of CMC's new fortnightly podcast, Evonne Ferguson and Jonathan Grimes talk with composer Amanda Feery about her recent work at the Dublin Fringe Festival, writing for symphonic wind band, making a living as a composer in Dublin and the worsening economic conditions for artists living in the capital, and why she chose to move back to Ireland from the US. Recorded in CMC in October 2019

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Amanda Feery

https://www.cmc.ie/composers/amanda-feery
https://soundcloud.com/amandafeery

Music

Nine Weeks
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/nine-weeks-review-extraordinary-performance-which-gives-voice-to-the-inexpressible–1.4016197

Ball State Symphony Band
https://www.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/music/ensembles/bands/symphony-band

Heartworm (clip)
https://twitter.com/amandafeery/status/1175037921767886849

Irish National Opera Studio
https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/

Evangelia Rigaki - This Hostel Life
https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/whats-on/current-upcoming-productions/this-hostel-life

Stephen McNeff - Banished
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/stephen-mcneffs-banished-at-kilmainham-gaol-museum-tickets–50368700138

Donnacha Dennehy - Second Violinist
https://thesecondviolinist.ie/

New Music Dublin
https://www.cmc.ie/content/new-music-dublin–2019

CrashLands
https://www.crashensemble.com/crashlands

Recording and production - Keith Fennell
Editing - Jonathan Grimes