Professional Development 2023

Each year, the Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival offers professional development opportunities for emerging composers and young artists.

Snapshots – Fidelio Winter Chamber Music Festival 2023

Snapshots is a professional development opportunity presented by Fidelio Trio in collaboration with the Contemporary Music Centre and GlasDrum, and in partnership with Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival 2023.

An exciting opportunity to write a two minute Snapshot for either solo violin, solo cello, or solo piano, inspired by the oasis that is the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin. VR Garden Walks click HERE.

This opportunity is suitable for emerging/early career music creators/composers and is open to any emerging/early career music creator/composer born in or based on the island of Ireland.

These pieces will receive one-to-one expert feedback and be workshopped with the music creators/composer and Fidelio Trio members: Darragh Morgan Violin, Tim Gill Cello, Mary Dullea, Piano on the afternoon of the 25th November 2023, in Belvedere House, DCU Glasnevin campus, Dublin 9.

As an integral part of the day’s events, this workshop is a natural extension of the lunchtime concert at the National Botanic Gardens which features the world premiere performances of four works for violin and electronics taking their inspiration from the flora of the National Botanic Gardens, by Grainne Mulvey, Siobhán Cleary, Seán Ó Dálaigh and Fergal Dowling. Participants are encouraged to attend this concert in advance of the workshop.  

Furthermore, post the Snapshots workshop, the participants will attend a 6pm roundtable discussion focusing on previous Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival commissions by composers John Buckley, Rhona Clarke, Ann Cleare and Kevin Volans.

Take part in Snapshots

To apply for this unique opportunity:

  • Please submit an expression of interest, relating to the theme, including a recent CV and one past work in pdf format to fideliotriowinterfestival@gmail.com with Snapshots in the email subject line by Friday 3rd of November 2023 at 5pm. 

  • 9 successful composers will be selected to participate in the workshop at the Winter Chamber Music Festival 2023. They will be notified shortly after the initial submission date and they will be allocated an instrument to write for

  • The 9 participant composers will be asked to submit short ca’ 2 minute *Snapshot for their allocated solo instrument by Tuesday 21st November 2023. No changes will be possible to your submitted Snapshot after this date

  • The in-person workshops with the 9 participant composers and members of the Fidelio Trio will take place on Saturday 25th November 2023 3-5pm at Belvedere House, St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University, followed by a roundtable discussion at 6pm. 

*Pieces with scordatura are not being accepted for this opportunity, prepared piano is not possible (due to performances schedule) and the workshop cannot facilitate pieces with electronics. 

Equal Opportunities

All applicants will receive equal opportunity irrespective of gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, ethnicity or indigenous status. 

Access 

For further details on the accessibility of Belvedere House, please see the following link: https://www.accessable.co.uk/dublin-city-university/st-patrick-s-campus/access-guides/c-block-belvedere-house#08dc0765-529d-3a48-9887-c5ee76020f9c

The Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival is presented by GlasDrum and Music@DCU with support funding from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Festivals Funding.

Professional Development 2022

 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY: FRAGMENTS – a musical laboratory where experiments can happen!  

This is a unique, exciting and in-person opportunity for emerging or early-career composers to try out new musical material -  fragments, sketches and ideas with the renowned members of the Fidelio Trio. 

Have you ever wondered what it would sound like to hear the violin played at the top of its register combined with rumbling of the lowest possible note on the keyboard? Or, the pulsating resonating effect of a violin, cello and piano all pounding out a low G at an almost out of control speed? 

These musical insights will be shared by the members of the Fidelio Trio in the Fragments workshop taking place as part of the Fidelio Trio’s annual Winter Chamber Music Festival in Drumcondra, Dublin.

Fragments is an opportunity to explore new sounds and techniques on the violin, cello and piano. Selected participants in Fragments will have the opportunity to hear Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan-violin, Tim Gill-cello, Mary Dullea-piano) play a selection of their musical sketches or try out new ideas and sounds in a collaborative format. Fragments is a unique creative laboratory presented by Fidelio Trio in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre (CMC) and GlasDrum, at the Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival 2022.

Participation in the Fragments workshop is free and open to any composer born in or based on the island of Ireland. As a partner, the Contemporary Music Centre will provide travel bursaries from within the island of Ireland for selected composers at this professional development workshop. Please outline in your application if you would like to avail of a travel bursary. 

Take part in Fragments

To apply for this unique opportunity:

  • Please submit an expression of interest including a recent CV and one past work in pdf format to fideliotriowinterfestival@gmail.com with Fragments in the email subject line by Friday 4th of November 2022

  • 6 successful composers will be selected to participate in the workshop at the Winter Chamber Music Festival 2022 and will be notified shortly after the initial submission date

  • The 6 participant composers will be asked to submit short *Fragments for piano trio by Tuesday 22nd November 2022. No changes will be possible to your submitted Fragments after this date

  • The in-person workshops with the 6 participant composers and Fidelio Trio will take place on Saturday 26th November 2022 3-5pm at Belvedere House, St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University. Each composer will receive 20 minutes workshop time.

 

*Fragments/Sketches will be workshopped. Please appreciate that this workshop is not intended to facilitate a performance read through of a work in progress/existing work. 

 NB - For any composers wishing to use preparation or scordatura in their pieces this must be clearly stated in your application

 

Those who submit an expression of interest but who are not selected as participants are welcome to attend the workshop as observers, and can also avail of the CMC travel bursary to attend in this capacity.

APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED

The Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival is presented by GlasDrum and Music at DCU with support funding from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Festivals Funding. Fragments is delivered in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre.

Featured Young Artist 2022

Mollie Wrafter - Violin

Mollie Wrafter has recently graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. During her time at RNCM, she won the Norman George Violin Competition and the Nossek Prize for Chamber Music. She was awarded the Irish Heritage Performance Bursary for her Wigmore Hall debut performance in 2019. Since completing her undergraduate study at RNCM, she has enjoyed a busy freelance career balancing solo engagements and her quartet. In April 2022, Mollie won the Aileen Gore Cup & RTE Lyric FM Award at the Feis Ceoil in Dublin. Subsequently, she was awarded the RDS Jago Award and a professional solo engagement with the RTE Concert Orchestra.

Mollie features on Manchester Collective’s debut LP, ‘The Centre is Everywhere’ and was named one of Golden Plec Magazine’s ‘PlecPicks’ in 2021. This year, she is returning to RNCM with the Treske Quartet to take part in the ‘RNCM Chamber Studio’ residency. The quartet has performed around the UK and has worked with a number of emerging composers. Most recently, Treske travelled to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada for the Evolution: Quartet programme, an innovative artist development programme for quartets and composers who are in the early stages of career development. Here, they worked with Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Bouche Caro, and performed the premiere of his piece ‘La Candela’ in collaboration with the JACK Quartet. Mollie plays a 1714 Collingwood violin and Sartory bow.