New Music

Irish contemporary music from the Irish Composers Collective in the NCH’s Kevin Barry Room tonight (Mon 22). Violinist Cora Venus Lunny and cellist Kate Ellis play works by ICC composers including Glen Austin’s The Shaman’s Dance and Dave Flynn’s Between the Jigs and the Reels. www.nch.ie Meanwhile the Centre for Creative Practices is presenting a series with a difference: Components features new works by Irish composers that are being developed over the course of six Sunday concerts. The next concert on 28 March features Dan Bodwell on double bass. Cellist Kate Ellis takes up the strand on 11 April, David Bremner follows up on Fender Rhodes Piano on 18 April and the final concert on 25 April features Cathal Roche on saxophones. www.artpolonia.org