International award for composer/ pianist
COMPOSER, musician and school director Denis Carey (pictured) is Composer of the Year. The award maker is Liveireland.com, one of the world’s largest internet stations for Irish and Celtic music.
It describes Carey as “Ireland’s best all-round piano player. A master. This year’s album Moving On also cements his spot as one of the Ireland’s truly great composers”.
The Limerick based maestro was delighted and bemused by the accolades streaming from http://my.liveireland.com/profiles/blogs/the-livies-liveireland-music. He admitted to Arts page, “I’d disagree with a few of those! But it’s good to get some feedback from music journalists and critics and anyone else”.
This is not the first international award Denis Carey has garnered. His first album, An Turas (The Journey), was released in 2001 and earned him Composer of the Year Award from the Chicago Irish-American News.
Director of the Peter Dee Academy of Music on O’Connell Avenue, the dedicated Newport man is a regular player in Newfoundland lively Breton culture, backing several charity concerts in Ireland annually as well.
Film call for Fresh Film Festival
YOUNG film makers in the making, rise now to the clarion call of Fresh Film Festival’s 2010 competition.
If you are between the ages of 7 and 18 years of age and have been involved in the making of a short film, consider submitting it to Fresh Film Festival by Friday January 29.
Go online for entry details available on www.freshfilmfestival.net as the 13th Fresh Film Festival will take place from March 22-25. The entry deadline for the Junior and Senior Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Awards of 2009 is January 29 also.
“This year’s festival will feature an exciting collection of national and international films, special events and Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year awards,” says the festival organisers. These will feature the Brownbag Animation award, The Radharc award for best documentary, RTE Two Tube’s 60 Second Short and The International award. Senior Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Awards 2009 take place on Wednesday March 24 and the Junior Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Awards will take place on Thursday March 25.
Voices of Limerick
SPECIAL mention to Voices of Limerick, who are special guests at a New Year’s Concert Gala this Saturday 23 at National Concert Hall.
Voices of Limerick will perform in concert with baritone Paolo Gavanelli and tenor Dennis O’Neill, with piano accompaniment by Alessandro Pierfederici and Phillip Thomas.
An evening of popular arias and duets will be staged by these renowned soloists, the choir directed by Colette Davis.
