Violinist Benjamin Baker’s new album with pianist Daniel Lebarhdt on Delphian Records is being released worldwide! Benjamin gave a wonderful performance of the violin concerto on the first CD of Ina Boyle's orchestral music, which was so important in Ina's revival. The album will be available on streaming services and as a physical CD.
Adrian Mantu, cellist and founder of the ConTempo Quartet (1995) in Galway has reimagined Boyle’s Elegy (1913) and Psalm (1927) using the typeset editions created as part of this project. The project aimed to reconceive and re-record a selection of historical Irish works originally written for cello and piano or cello and orchestra, this time for the unique combination of cello and accordion, with visual artwork.
“Women are not born to compose: Female Musical works from 1750 to 1950”
Organized by the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française, Venice, Italy.
Dublin City University’s PhD Scholar, Orla Shannon, will give a paper entitled, ‘‘Gentle Miss Ina Boyle’ (1889–1967) and gender (mis)representation in Ireland’s canon of twentieth-century art song”, at this year’s International Virtual Conference on Saturday 28th November 2020.
Ina Boyle’s “No Coward Soul Is Mine“ has not seen much attention in the concert hall following its premiere in 1960, performed by mezzo-soprano Janet Baker. David Byers recent work, creating a new edition for String Quartet and Voice, seeks to re-establish the song’s importance in Ina’s catalogue and highlight its beauty.
The Ina Boyle Society has announced that a selection of the twentieth-century Irish composer Ina Boyle’s song for voice and piano will be recorded this autumn at the Wigmore Hall. The songs were originally meant to be recorded as part of a live concert at the Wigmore Hall on 29 October, but due to the pandemic it will be a recording instead.
UPCOMING LIVE RECORDING PROJECT AT WIGMORE HALL - OCTOBER 2020
Ina Boyle is finally gaining recognition as a leading Irish composer of the early 20th Century. Her huge body of work, largely unperformed, sits in manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Living quietly in rural Ireland, Boyle travelled regularly to London for lessons with her mentor Vaughan Williams. Cut off from London musical life by the Second World War she saw performances of her work dwindle. In 1960, Janet Baker's debut Wigmore Hall recital included a work by Boyle. 60 years later, Ina Boyle songs return to Wigmore Hall.
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
Paula Murrihy (mezzo)
Ben McAteer (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)
The accompanying Ina Boyle Song Book will be produced by Technological University Dublin’s Conservatory of Music & Drama and will make the songs accessible for performance and for examination syllabi in Ireland and the UK.
Wednesday 19th February 2020 at 6.30pm
Boyle’s choral anthem The Transfiguration was performed by the choir of the Chapel’s Royal, HM Tower of London, on 7th July 2019. Directed by the Master of Music, Colm Carey.
