On Sunday 28th of May at 5pm in the Church of the Good Shepherd in Churchtown, the Dublin Orchestral Players will be performing their summer concert, and we are thrilled that in the programme will be Ina Boyle’s Overture.
First Ina Boyle Songbook to be officially launched at October concert in collaboration with Irish Heritage
We are delighted that Irish Heritage will host the London launch of the first Ina Boyle songbook, with a selection of songs to be performed by young Irish artists studying in the UK. Date, venue and performance details to be announced over the coming weeks.
BBC Music magazine May 2023: fantastic review of Piatti Quartet CD
The recent release of the Piatti Quartet’s CD was reviewed by Geoff Brown in the Chamber Reviews section of the BBC Music magazine, May 2023.
‘From Ireland itself comes the slightly reticent but gripping String Quartet of 1934 by the gifted and newly discovered Ina Boyle’.
‘The Piatti Quartet bring to this repertoire a passion, symphathy and a carefully balanced ensemble sense guaranteed to make each of the composers shine.’
‘Boyle’s String Quartet in its premiere recording fascinates the most, with its mix of lean textures, carefully wrought argument and moments of lyrical magic from a soaring violin flying high over fluttering notes below’.
Ina Boyle's "The Joy of Earth" released by Halle Orchestra
“The Joy of Earth” has been released by the Halle Orchestra on the album “Shropshire Lad - English songs orchestrated and performed by Roderick Williams,” conducted by Sir Mark Elder. It is now available at Amazon.
Ina Boyle String Quartet released by Piatti Quartet
The Piatti Quartet have released a new recording of Ina Boyle’s String Quartet on the Rubicon label, along with other works by Vaughan Williams, Moeran, and Ireland.
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Carice Singers Performance of Ina Boyle's Caedmon's Hymn
The Carice Singers gave a performance as part of the Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary Celebrations at the Wigmore Hall on 12 October, 2022.
Dr Ita Beausang receives IRC-Harrison Medal 2022
The IBSL is delighted to announce that the Society for Music in Ireland Council has awarded the Irish Research Council Harrison Medal 2022 to Dr Ita Beausang, a patron of the IBSL, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to contextual studies of music in Ireland, from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Netherlands Premiere - Ina Boyle performed by Londinium Chamber Choir
London chamber choir Londinium, which under its Musical Director Andrew Griffiths has established a particular reputation for adventurous programming of 20th- and 21st-century British a cappella repertoire, toured to The Netherlands for the first time in August 2022 with concerts in Amsterdam and Leiden of British choral music celebrating the uplifting power of song.
Ina Boyle, composer of many idioms! - The Telegraph Article
Simon Heffer has written an important article on the history and visibility of female composers, with a particular focus on Ina Boyle. Simon Heffer also gives his own extremely complimentary insights into Ina’s music, complimenting her orchestral writing on The Magic Harp (1919) and Colin Clout (1921). He notes the influence of her teacher, Ralph Vaughn Williams, but also highlights how her ‘idiom goes far beyond that of her teacher.’
Hope on the road - in search of the Irish soul
Ireland at Heart - French Radio Broadcast
International Woman's Day 2022 Concert
'Lament for Bion' Premiere - RVW 150th Celebration
Piatti Quartet and Ina Boyle - CD Fundraiser
The Piatti Quartet are working to record a new CD with the label Rubicon Classics, featuring the premiere recording of Ina Boyle’s entire String Quartet in E minor, with a projected release in Autumn 2022. Ina’s music will feature alongside her teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams and fellow students John Ireland and Ernest Moeran, in a programme that links composers with their teachers and pupils and also highlighting the close bonds between UK and Ireland.