Brian Bolger, Pat Brunnock, Cian O Hara and Michael O'Toole
Influences
Sample Repertoire
Cuban Landscape with Rain, Cuban Landscape with Rumba and Toccata by Leo Brouwer.
String Quartet No.3 Mishima, String Quartet No.2 Company and Piece in the Shape of a Square by Philip Glass. Summa by Arvo Part. Quasi una Fantasia by Henryk Gorecki. Soundscapes over Landscapes by The Redneck Manifesto.Chimurenga by David Flynn. String Quartet No.1 (White Man Sleeps) and Four Guitars by Kevin Volans. Weak by Brian Bolger. Filament of Memory by John Mac Laughlan. Electric Counterpoint, Nagoya Guitars and Triple Quartet by Steve Reich. Three Pieces for String Quartet No.1 by Igor Stravinsky. Changing The Guard by Nikita Koskin. Uncle Meat by Frank Zappa. Tilt by Donnacha Dennehey.
Sounds Like
Would suit people into the 'minimalists' such as Reich, Glass and Part and 'post-rock' bands like Don Caballero, Battles, Slint and Aerial M. Concerts are performed on either classical or electric guitars and include pieces such as Electric Counterpoint or Nagoya Guitars by Reich and arrangements of Philip Glass quartets, Mishima and Company etc.
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Black Box studios-France
Dublin Guitar Quartet – Biography
‘This is a quartet with a difference.’
Michael Dervan - Irish Times
‘This album has been the soundtrack to the last two weeks of my life. It’s beautiful.’
O'Connell - Mongrel Magazine.
‘Strange that one of the best underground releases of the year in Ireland is the work of a quartet of classically trained guitarists. Strange, but true.’
Bob Black- Foggy Notions Magazine
The Dublin Guitar Quartet are exclusively devoted to contemporary music. The structure of the group is unique in that Bolger and Brunnock play eight and eleven-string guitars. This increases the available note range enabling the quartet to develop an entirely new repertoire for the guitar quartet medium and produce arrangements that would be impossible for standard guitar quartets. They are also developing the electric side of guitar quartet performance and are producing arrangements for this medium. Performances include a mix of celebrated works of the guitar quartet repertoire and modern classics by internationally acclaimed composers such Steve Reich, Henryk Gorecki and Arvo Part.
The quartet is committed to performing new Irish works. In March of 2004, Lyric FM broadcast their Mermaid Arts Centre concert over two installments of the ‘Horizons’ programme. This concert included a world premier of Four Guitars by internationally acclaimed composer Kevin Volans. The composer became interested in the group on hearing their arrangement of a work he originally composed for New York’s Kronos Quartet and this inspired him to compose a radical new work for their repertoire.
The quartet also gave a performance at the National Concert Hall as part of the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival 2006 (D.E.A.F.) This included a premiere of new work by Donnacha Dennehy. The concert was broadcast on Bernard Clarke’s Nova on RTE Lyric FM. In 2007 the group commissioned seventeen members of the YCC (Young Composers' Collective) to produce a set of 1-minute miniatures. These were performed during the Printing House festival of New Music at Trinity College.
They have also been successful in bringing new music to unlikely audiences. They have played as guests of ‘rock’ groups such as The Redneck Manifesto (Dublin) and Final Fantasy (Canada) performing in venues such as Vicar st., Whelan’s of Wexford Street, the Project Arts Centre, Crawdaddy and the Roisin Dubh, Galway. They also gave the opening concert at the inaugural Guitar Festival of Ireland (2004) which also included performances by John Williams and Louis Stewart.
In 2005 the quartet undertook a tour of Ireland in which they performed in venues such as Galway’s Town Hall Theatre, the Market Place in Armagh and Crawdaddy at the Pod in Dublin. The quartet were also invited to perform at the Crash Ensembles' ten year anniversary concert last October. On July 17th 2008 the quartet performed in concert with Philip Glass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dundalk.
Their debut album, Deleted Pieces was released in March 2005. The disc includes works by Henryk Gorecki, Kevin Volans, Leo Brouwer and the Redneck Manifesto. They are currently working on two releases for 2009. The first is a Music Network/Arts Council funded recording of works by established and emerging Irish composers for classical guitar quartet. This August they will travel to Black Box studios in France to produce a recording of arrangements for electric guitar quartet by internationally established composers.
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