Just arrived postgraduate students meet at NOVARS for the studio induction on Wednesday 22, September 2010
See a list of current (and former) postgraduate at NOVARS here
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Darragh Morgan with MANTIS (Violin & Electronics)
Pictured above, Darragh Morgan during the recording session of Koorean Air in London, June 2010
Thursday 30th September 2010, 13:10
Four new works featuring solo violin and live electronics by many of the UK's leading acousmatic composers, all written for acclaimed violinist Darragh Morgan.
Darragh Morgan with MANTIS (Violin & Electronics)
Adrian Moore - Fields of Darkness and Light
Paul Wilson - Trapped in Ice
Ricardo Climent - Koorean Air (world première)
Simon Emmerson - Stringscape
Four new works featuring solo violin and live electronics by many of the UK's leading acousmatic composers, all written for acclaimed violinist Darragh Morgan. 'Darragh Morgan is hugely impressive, delivering a delicate performance alive to the subtleties and nuances of the music.' (The Strad, June 2010)
One soon got over the surreal experience of someone playing like Paganini, but wearing pants like Robbie Williams'
Sunday Tribune, South Africa
Time: 13:10
Admission Price: FREE
Irish violinist Darragh Morgan enjoys a hugely diverse and rewarding career. His special interest in contemporary music has led to many collaborations with today’s greatest composers and appearances with leading ensembles. Highlights include the world premieres of Sir John Tavener's Hymn of Dawn with the Ulster Orchestra and Andrew Poppy's Darwin's Sin Draw with the Crash Ensemble, and performing Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa in the closing concert of the RTE Living Music Festival. He received many invitations to lead world-class international groups such as Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Musik Fabrik, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Remix Ensemble working with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen and Heinz Holliger.
Darragh has performed at international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, Wien Modern, Maerz Musik Berlin, Lucern Festival, BBC Proms Chamber Music, Aldeburgh, Spitalfields and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. As a member of the Fidelio Trio and Smith Quartet, he has appeared in prestigious venues worldwide such as the Wigmore Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Seoul Arts Centre and Casa da Musica Porto.
Darragh has recorded over 25 CDs including Michael Nyman's complete piano trios with the Fidelio Trio and an acclaimed recording of Philip Glass' complete string quartets with the Smith Quartet.
Darragh is professor of violin and chamber music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and teaches regularly at the Royal College of Music, Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme, Pro Corda and Apple Hill Centre for Chamber Music. He has given masterclasses in the United Kingdom and abroad. Furthermore, he has been Artistic Director of CoMA's Open Score project, Music @ Drumcliffe in Ireland, and throughout the 2004 season was Artistic Director of Baroque 2000 in South Africa.
Darragh studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. He received chamber music coaching from the Amadeus and Takacs String Quartets, and participated in masterclasses with Sidney Griller, Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Zukofsky, Pinchas Zukerman, Yfrah Neaman and Pierre Amoyal. He plays a fine Italian violin from Bologna (1820) and an Irish violin made by Thomas Perry in 1795.
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