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2024
5th December 2024
Nonesuch Orchestra: Annual Lunchtime Concert at St John's Harrow.
1st December 2024
Dublin Song Series: Paula Murrihy & Dearbhla Collins; National Concert Hall, Dublin.
8th November 2024
The iconic BBC Concert Orchestra performed at the Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth for "Friday Night is Music Night." The program featured a performance of Ina Boyle's "Wild Geese." There performance was subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 22 November 2024.
3rd October 2024
Roderick Williams OBE and Christopher Glynn performed 'Songs of Travel' at The Two Moors Festival, including two Ina Boyle works, 'A Song of Enchantment' and 'The Joy of Earth'.
29th May 2024
Paula Murrihy mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano; Wigmore Hall
22nd March 2024
Orchestre National de Bretagne: Psalm for Cello and Orchestra
20th March 2024
Piatti Quartet: Quartet in E minor
16th and 17th March 2024
OFUNAM First Season 2024 - Program 8 Focus Sijes. Women's Days in Music, Spain
18th February 2024
Mississippi Valley Orchestra: Psalm for Cello (US Premiere)
16th February 2024
NSO: Finghin Collins plays Stanford
7th and 8th February 2024
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
2023
10th November
Mississippi Valley Orchestra: A Sea Poem (US Premiere)
13th and 14th October 2023
Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León: A Sea Poem (Spanish Premiere). Conducted by Thierry Fischer
11th October 2023
Songbook Launch with Irish Heritage
8th October 2023
Mississippi Valley Orchestra: Symphony No. 1 'Glencree'
30th September 2023
Roman River Festival Recital
17th August 2023
Chamber Music on Valentia
11th August 2023
Ulster Orchestra
4th June 2023
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival featured an arrangement of Roses for Cello and Piano in a recital entitled A Poet’s Garden, performed by Cellist, Nadège Rochat and Pianist, Judith Jáuregui.
3rd June 2023
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, in partnership with the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music featured The Stolen Child in an afternoon programme entitled Yeats in Music.
2nd June 2023
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival featured Elegy for Cello and Piano in their Irish Heritage Bursary Recital.
6th May 2023
The BlueWater Chamber Orchestra was joined by cello soloist Linda Atherton in a performance of Ina’s Elegy.
26th April 2023
Irish Heritage Spring Concert, Royal Overseas League Princess Alexandra Hall. Two of the Irish Heritage Bursary Winners performed Ina Boyle’s Elegy for viola and piano. RAM student Jamie Howe, joint winner of the Homan Potterton Bursary for Strings, was accompanied by Luke Lally Maguire, the overall Bursary winner.
8th March 2023
International Women's Day performance of Ina Boyle's String Quartet. The City of London School featured Ina Boyle’s String Quartet in a concert that happened to take place on the composer’s birthday.
2022
19th November 2022
Ina Boyle's Violin Concerto. Philip Clark and Elizabeth Vaughn led the Albemarle Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Ina’s Violin Concerto, with soloist Wanchi. Charlottesville, USA.
12th November 2022
Kamloops Symphony performs Ina's Violin Concerto. The Kamloops Symphony performed Ina Boyle’s Violin Concerto with guest soloist Andrew Wan, conducted by Dina Gilbert. Kamloops, BC Canada. More information can be found here.
29th October 2022
Royal Irish Academy of Music Philharmonia, The Royal Irish Academy of Music Philharmonia performed Ina’s Overture in a concert conducted by Mihhail Gerts. Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.
13th Octobter 2022
"The Last Invocation" at Wigmore Hall. As part of the Centenary of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ina’s song The Last Invocation was presented alongside works by other British composers, performed by Roderick Williams (baritone) and Susie Allan (piano).
12th October 2022
Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary Concert, Carice Singers. Kings Palace, London
30th September 2022
Ina Boyle's 2nd symphony (World Premiere). The RTE National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Brophy, performed the world premiere of Ina Boyle’s 2nd Symphony at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
11th September 2022
Ina Boyle's String Quartet in E minor. The ConTempo Quartet performed Ina Boyle’s Quartet in E minor in the Kevin Barry Recital Room at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
16th July 2022
Vaughan Williams 150, Festival 200 at St Mary’s Banbury - The Carice Singers. Conducted by George Parris, The Carice Singers will perform Ina Boyle’s Caedmon's Hymn (1926) at Festival 200 at St Mary’s Banbury on Saturday.
9th June 2022
Caedmon's Hymn, Lichfield Festival - Carice Singers. Conducted by George Parris, The Carice Singers performed Ina Boyle’s Caedmon's Hymn (1926) at Lichfield Festival on Saturday 9 July.
14th May 2022
Mississippi Valley Orchestra
24 February 2022
As part of the celebrations in Ralph Vaughan William’s anniversary year, the RCM Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jac van Steen, performs Vaughan Williams’s Symphony no 6, Ina Boyle’s Elegy for Cello and Orchestra, and Sibelius’ Swan of Tuonela.
Elegy for cello and orchestra
2021
22 November 2021
Chamber Choir Ireland, alongside guest director Nils Schweckendiek (Helsinki Chamber Choir) present a beautiful concert of songs that explore a “universal search for peace and comfort in places both internal and external, including Ina Boyle’s Five Gaelic Hymns (1923-24).
Five Gaelic Hymns for choir
22 November 2021
World premiere recording of Boyle’s Phantasy for violin and chamber orchestra, composed in 1926. Violinist Erin Hennessey typeset the first edition of the work; the score and parts are now available through the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin. She performs the Phantasy alongside faculty, students and alumni of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Phantasy for violin and chamber orchestra
13 November 2021
Crescent Festival Of Irish Contemporary Music 2021 performance of Sleep Song by Emma Nash (soprano) & Rebecca Warren (piano), alongside the premiere of Everlasting Voices, a new work by Rhona Clarke commissioned especially for Crescent 2021.
Sleep Song for Soprano and Piano
12 November 2021
Chamber Choir Ireland, alongside guest director Nils Schweckendiek (Helsinki Chamber Choir) present a beautiful concert of songs that explore a “universal search for peace and comfort in places both internal and external.
Gaelic Hymns for choir
29 May 2021
Performed as part of The 2021 Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI) and the Irish Chapter of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM Ireland), hosted by the Department of Music, Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Irish Traditional Music Archive.
Orla Shannon (Soprano), Aileen Cahill (Piano)
Three Medieval Latin Lyrics for Soprano and Piano
23 April 2021
The ConTempo Quartet will perform Quartet in E minor [1934]. Their concert will be online from Triskel Arts Centre on Friday 23 April, 8pm.
Quartet in E minor (1934)
8 March 2021
Performed as part of the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s 2021 Coffee Concert Series, in celebration of International Women’s Day 2021 by Aimee Banks (Soprano) and Grainne Dunne (pianist).
Sleep Song (1923)
6 March 2021
Ina Boyle’s Glencree is to be performed by Orchestre des Trois-Chêne, directed by Arturo Corrales, at Point favre Hall in Chêne-Bourg, Geneva, Switzerland.
Symphony No.1 ‘Glencree’
2020
30 November 2020
Performed at a concert in commemoration of the end of World War II at the Studio Olgastrasse Stuttgart. “Musik für Überlebende II (Music for Survivors).
Mezzo-Soprano, Aylish Kerrigan, Vladimir Valdivia, Piano; Johann Riepe, Cello; Johann Riepe Quartet.
Still falls the rain (1948) for contralto solo and string quartet with words by Edith Sitwell
Elegy (1913) for cello solo and orchestra [piano arrangement].
29 October 2020
Recording session at the Wigmore Hall, London. Soloists: Delphian Records and Iain Burnside.
‘3 Walter de la Mare songs’, ‘A song of shadows’, ‘A song of enchantment’, ‘Eternity’.
10 January 2020
RTÉ NSO at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Conductor George Jackson. Soloist: Martin Johnson Cello. Broadcast live on DLF Kultur.
Elegy for cello and orchestra
Psalm for cello and orchestra
19 February 2020
Walkinstown Library, Dublin. Orla Shannon (Soprano) and Aileen Cahill (Soprano).
‘Sleep Song’ and ‘The Joy of Earth’
7 March 2020
Royal Irish Academy of Music Orchestra at St Bartholomews, Dublin. Conductor: Gerhard Markson.
Symphony No.1 ‘Glencree’
13 & 14 March 2020
Virginia Symphony Orchestra at the Regent University Virginia Beach, USA. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
Symphony No.1 ‘Glencree’
2019
1st February 2019
RTE National Symphony Orchestra, National Concert Hall, Dublin, on . Conducted by David Brophy.
‘Stanford, Buckley & Boyle’: Glencree Symphony No. 1
7th March 2019
San Remo Symphony Orchestra at the San Remo Ariston Theatre, San Remo. . Conducted by Maria Luisa Macellaro la Franca. Soloist: Razvan Stoica.
Concerto for Violin
9th March 2019
San Remo Symphony Orchestra at the San Remo Ariston Theatre, San Remo. Conducted by Maria Luisa Macellaro la Franca. Soloist: Razvan Stoica. ‘Donna di Fiori’ Prize for women who fight for human rights dedicated to the memory of Ina Boyle.
Concerto for Violin
31st May 2019
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, Dromore Yard, Lismore. Gemma Ní Bhriain, mezzo-soprano & Brenda Hurley, piano. International Opera Studio, Zürich.
Four Songs by Ina Boyle for mezzo-soprano and piano
2nd June 2019
River Road Baptist Church, Guest Conductor: Huw Williams, Bath Abbey, UK.
Evensong Anthems by Parry, Boyle and Gardiner
4th June 2019
Rediscovering Chamber Works of Ina Boyle. Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Elegy, Psalm, Three Ancient Irish Poems Three Songs by Walter de la Mare
14th & 15th June 2019
‘Celebration of Women Composers’, performed by the Paris Choral Society at the Cathedral Americaine, Director Zachary Ullery. Organist Andrew Dewar.
28th June 2019
‘Rediscovering Ina Boyle’: John Field Room National Concert Hall, Dublin. Colette Delahunt (soprano), Catriona McElhinney Grimes, (piano).
Songs by Vaughan Williams, E.J.Moeran, Ina Boyle
29th June 2019
Goethe Choir at St. Finian’s Church, Adelaide rd., conductor John Dexter.
Gaelic Hymns: ‘The Soul Leading’, ‘Soul Peace’
7th July 2019
Choir of The Chapels Royal, HM The Tower of London. Master of Music, Colm Carey (organ).
The Transfiguration
7th July 2019
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra at the Old Town Hall, Munich.
Wildgeese for small orchestra
13th October 2019
Vocal Essence Singers, conductor Philip Brunelle at the Summit Center St. Paul, Minnesota. US Premiere. Broadcast on Minnesota Radio.
Gaelic Hymns: I, II, III, IV, V
13th October 2019
Choir of Plymouth Congregational Church, St. Paul, Minnesota. Conductor Philip Brunelle.
A Spanish Pastoral for soprano and vocal ensemble
17th October 2019
RTÉ ConTempo Quartet at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
String Quartet in E minor (1937)
9th November 2019
Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra at City Hall, Cork, Conductor Keith Pascoe.
A Sea Poem for orchestra
2018
7th July 2019
Performed by the choir of the Chapel’s Royal, HM Tower of London. Directed by the Master of Music, Colm Carey.
The Transfiguration Anthem for tenor, choir and organ
30 September 2018
Performed by The Compline Choir at St Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, USA. The performance was part of a celebration mass for the Feast of St Michael & all Angels.
The Guardian Angel taken from the collection of 15 Gaelic Hymns
2018
Three Choirs Festival, Hereford Cathedral, 1 August 2018.
The Transfiguration Anthem for tenor, choir and organ
2018
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, Dromore Yard, 31 May 2018. Nadège Rochat cello, Dearbhla Collins piano. Orchestral & piano scores typeset and edited by Emma C. O'Keeffe. Premiere performance.
Elegy (1913) for cello solo and orchestra (piano & cello arrangement performed)
Psalm (1927) for cello solo and orchestra (piano and cello arrangement performed)
23 April 2018
Stuttgart, Aylish Kerrigan (soprano).
Looking Back (1961-66) - 'Carrowdore', 'All Soul's Night', 'Oh Ghost that has gone' for soprano solo and piano
2018
Musical Tales, ILAC Library & Rathmines Library, Dublin, 23 April 2018.
Roses (1909), Blessing (1928), Song of Earth (1914)
7 - 8 April 2018
Ludlow English Song Weekend - Carice Singers cond. by George Parrish, Gareth Brynmor John (baritone), Gavan Ring (tenor). Sleep Song (1923)
Selections form Celtic Hymns (1923-24)
Three Songs by Walter de las Mare (1956)
8 March 2018
BBC Radio 3 broadcast - Scores typeset and edited by Sarah M. Burn.
Overture for Orchestra (1933-34)
Symphony No.1 'Glencree' (1924-27)
8 March 2018
Nadège Rochat cello, Dearbhla Collins piano, Wigmore Hall, London - Critical edition by Emma C. O'Keeffe.
Psalm (1927) fro cello solo and orchestra
2018
RTE Contempo Quartet: Complete Beethoven Series featuring Irish Composers. 7 Jan - Kilkenny, 11 Jan. - Limerick, 14 Jan. - Sligo, 25 Jan. - Cork, 28 Jan. -NCH Dublin, 9 Mar. - Clonmel.
String Quartet in E minor (1937)
2018
CD Recording. Premiere Performances. Watford Colloseum, London, October 2017. BBC Concert Orchestra, Nadege Rochat (cello), Ronald Corp (cond.), Benjamin Baker (violin).
Overture for Orchestra (1933-34)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (1935)
Symphony No. 1 “Glencree” (in the Wicklow Hills) (1924-27)
Wildgeese (1942)
Psalm for cello solo and orchestra (1927)
A Sea Poem (1919)
Colin Clout (1921)
2017
2017
Music in Monkstown, Dublin. May 2017. Premiere Performance. Critical editions by Emma C. O'Keeffe.
Three Ancient Irish Poems for soprano solo, viola and harp - 'Eve's Lament', 'Lament for Youth', 'Winter Song'
2017
CD recording. Aylish Kerrigan (soprano) & Dearbhla Collins (piano). Critical editions by Dr David J. Rhodes.
I am Wind on Sea for soprano and piano
Three Songs by Walter de la Mare (1954-56)
Sleep Song (1923)
2016
2016 'Composing the Island: A Century of music in Ireland 1916-2016' centenary celebrations, NCH, Dublin.
Symphony No.1 'Glencree' (1927)
Two Poems by John Donne
2016
Premiere performance / recording. Nadege Rochat (cello), Paul Meyer (cond.) & the Staatskapelle Weimar Orchestra. Critical edition by Emma C. O'Keeffe.
Elegy for cello and orchestra
2015
2015
Trinity College Chapel Dublin. Evensong. Trinity College Dublin Chapel Choir.
Enniskerry Hymn
2015
St Patrick’s cathedral Dublin. Evensong, Cathedral Choir.
The Transfiguration for tenor, choir and orchestra
2015
CIT Cork School of Music. Chiral Quartet, David Kenny viola, Ciara Moroney piano.
String Quartet in e minor
Phantasy for viola and piano
2014
2014
Trinity College Dublin Examination Hall, ‘In Tune’ Exhbition. Callino Quartet.
String quartet in e minor
2013
2013
Kilruddery House, ‘Wicklow on Song’. 4 songs, Regina Nathan soprano. Anne Cullen piano.
2013
Trinity College Chapel Dublin. RIAM Camerata conducted Blanaid Murphy.
The spacious firmament on high motet for SSAATB choir
2013
St Paul’s cathedral, London, Evensong. Cathedral Choir.
The spacious firmament on high motet for SSAATB choir
2013
St Vedast ,London. Hymn ‘Enniskerry’, Trinity College Dublin Chapel Choir.
2013
St. John’s Smith Square, London, Europe Day Concert, European Union Youth Orchestra, conductor Laurence Pilot. Repeated Harpa Hall Reykjavik.
Wildgeese for small orchestra
1920-2011
2011
Black Box Theatre Dundalk, Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland Enniskerry. Three concerts: String quartet in e minor; Callino Quartet; 6 Songs, Colette McGahan mezzo-soprano, David Brophy piano.
String quartet in e minor
2010
Ulster Hall, Ulster Orchestra conducted Kenneth Montgomery, Catherine Leonard violin.
Concerto for violin and orchestra
2000
Longford, Belfast, Westmeath, Dublin. National Chamber Choir Tour conducted Colin Mawby.
O Thou whose Spirit motet
1977
Monkstown Church Dublin. RTÉ Singers conducted Eric Sweeney.
Three Gaelic Hymns
1977
Monkstown Church Dublin. RTÉ Singers conducted Michael Bowles.
The Transfiguration for tenor, choir and organ
1964
Saffron Walden, Macnaghten String Quartet/Margaret Cable mezzo soprano.
Three Songs by Ben Jonson
Still falls the rain for string quartet
1960
Wigmore Hall, Kathleen Merrett Orchestra/ Janet Baker mezzo soprano.
No coward soul is mine for mezzo soprano and string quartet
1956
Arts Council London, Purcell Singers conducted Imogen Holst.
Gaelic Hymns
1955
Gaiety Theatre Dublin. Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra conducted Edmond Appia.
Wildgeese for small orchestra
1955
Arts Council London. Joan Gray mezzo soprano, Eric Stephens piano.
Two Songs of the Woods
Three Mediaeval Latin Lyrics
1950
Abbey Lecture Hall Dublin. Dublin Orchestral Players conducted Brian Boydell.
Elegy from Virgilian Suite
1949
Phoenix Hall Dublin. Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra, conducted Brian Boydell.
The Vision of Er Scene 111
1949
Palma Mallorca. Orchesta Sinfonica de Mallorca conducted Ekitai Ahn.
Colin Clout for orchestra
1948
Capitol Theatre Dublin. Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra conducted Edmond Appia
Wildgeese for small orchestra
1948 Wigmore Hall, Oriana Madrigal Society, conducted Charles Kennedy Scott.
Gaelic Hymns
1945
Beverly Minster, René Soames tenor, Hirsch Quartet.
Think then my soule
1942
BBC London. Harold Bradbury tenor/ Zorian Quartet.
Think then my soule
1937
BBC London, Macnaghten String Quartet.
String quartet in E minor
1938
Gaiety Theatre Dublin. Radio Éireann Orchestra conducted Aloys Fleischmann.
Colin Clout for orchestra
1936
Aula Maxima University College Cork. Cork University Orchestra conducted Aloys Fleischmann.
Colin Clout for orchestra
1933
Aeolian Hall, Oriana Madrigal Society, conducted Charles Kennedy Scott.
Gaelic Hymns
1931
Aeolian Hall, Oriana Madrigal Society conducted Charles Kennedy Scott.
Gaelic Hymns
1929
Theatre Royal Dublin and RDS Dublin. Two performances, Dublin Philharmonic Society conducted Fritz Brase.
The Magic Harp for orchestra
1927
Bournemouth. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted Landon Ronald.
The Magic Harp for orchestra
1925
Royal College of Music. LSO conducted Adrian Boult.
Movement from the Glencree Symphony
1923
Promenade Concert, Queen’s Hall. (New) Queen’s Hall Orchestra conducted Sir Henry Wood.
The Magic Harp for orchestra
1922
RCM. LSO conducted Adrian Boult.
Colin Clout for orchestra
1922
St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin. Cathedral Choir.
The Transfiguration Motet
1920
RCM. LSO conducted Adrian Boult.
The Magic Harp for orchestra
1920
Bournemouth. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted Dan Godfrey.
The Magic Harp for orchestra
1920
Woodbrook, Bray. Bray Choral Society conducted Thomas Weaving.
Soldiers at Peace for choir and orchestra