Sofia Gubaidulina comes to Ireland for the first time for a composer portrait concert on 1 May 2010 called The Fire and The Rose.

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RATHCOL (Philip Hammond) review for Belfast Telegraph

The most recent music of Alexander Knaifel  seems like an exercise in total simplicity. Within the international contemporary composition, he would be classed as a “minimalist”, maybe even a “holy” minimalist. His music uses the minimal of material to achieve its effect.
Promoted by the adventurous Louth Contemporary Music Society in [...]

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Ahead of the performance of his music on Friday 1 May 2009, Alexander Knaifel will feature
in an Irish Times interview with the esteemed music critic Michael Dervan.
 
RTÉ’s the Arts Show will also feature the pianist Oleg Malov performing the music of Alexander Knaifel on 29 April 2009 at 8pm on RTÉ Radio 1. 
 
Don’t forget [...]

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Drogheda Borough Council in association with Louth Contemporary Music Society for Drogheda Arts Festival present
The Rest is Noise: The Music of Alexander Knaifel
1 May 2009 

Russian composer brings new work to world premiere in Drogheda Louth Ireland 
The haunting music of Russian-born composer Alexander Knaifel is coming to County Louth with two world premieres of his music in [...]

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