Ahead of our upcoming outdoor Biosphere festival, the Dublin Enquirer has written up a broad account of what to expect throughout the week.
Read MoreRobert is named a recipient of a Music Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland /
Robert is pleased to announce that he has received a Music Bursary Award 2020 from the Arts Council of Ireland which will allow him to develop new work throughout the next year which builds on ideas from his recent masters studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.
Read MoreRobert is named a recipient of a South Dublin County Council Individual Artist Bursary Award 2020 /
The bursary will fund Robert to compose a new multi-media work based on research carried out throughout his recent masters studies.
Read MoreReview of audiovisual installation 'Cross' at Farmleigh House /
‘but more powerful was how Coleman impelled audiences to witness the suffering; the composer made the living come face-to-face with the dead.’
Read MoreRobert is named recipient of the Engagement with Architecture Award from the Arts Council of Ireland /
I am delighted to announce that I am a recipient of an Engagement with Architecture Award 2019 from the Arts Council of Ireland. This project will allow me to research the unique architectural heritage of the Dublin Port area through study, investigation and recording of the soundscape which characterises it.
Read MoreRobert is recipient of new commission from violinist Jane Hackett with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland /
Robert will be writing a new work for violinist Jane Hackett supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Commission Award.
Robert has previously collaborated with Jane in the past in 2016 when he wrote a three movement work for Jane Hackett and Siobhán Doyle titled Spectrum with visuals by Mihai Cucu.
The new work for violin and multimedia will complete the Spectrum set and is unusual in that it will be written to be performed specifically out of doors. It will be performed in the Netherlands and also in Ireland in Summer 2020.
New Site Specific Work at Dune Works /
‘How many sides do you see?’ is a new site specific work written for the special area of James Turrell’s Celestial Vault in Kijkduin. I have organised an event Dune Works, collaborating with sound artist Tony Guarino and artist Anni Nöps who will each present their own repsonses to the site and environment alongside my premiere which will be performed by Hague based ensemble But What About.
Read MoreREVIEW OF BODY NOISE WORK /
"The strangeness had ended; its reverberations, however, remain"
Big thank you to The Journal of Music & reviewer Tim Deovanni for the kind words of the review and for joining all the artists for a special evening at Body Noise Work.
Read MorePremiere of orchestral miniature with the Residentie Orkest /
‘Energy is also important’ will be premiered on 19th October at the Zuiderstrandtheatre, Den Haag by the Residentie Orkest (Hague Philharmonic).
Read MorePremiere at the New Ross Piano Festival 2018 /
Written for Billy O’Brien, Impulses will be premiered at Billy’s concert at the New Ross Piano Festival 2018.
Read MoreNew orchestral work commissioned by the National Concert Hall, Dublin to be performed in Cork and Dublin /
The culmination of Robert's Jerome Hynes Award 2017 sees the SinfoNua Orchestra, conducted by David Brophy premiere 'Colours depend on the light you see' with concerts in Cork and Dublin.
Read MoreAudiotalaia 2018 /
Robert has been awarded a Travel and Training Award from the Arts Council of Ireland to partake in this years Audiotalaia Summer Camp in Barcelona.
Read MoreRobert Coleman talks to Patrick Ellis ahead of KC Lab February 19th 2018 /
KC Lab concert on 19th February features a number of works by Hague composers including a premiere of Robert Coleman's Frameworks by Hue Blanes
See original post on Spring Festival the Hague here
Robert Coleman on being awarded the Jerome Hynes Composers Award 2017 /
Irish composer Robert Coleman was recently announced as the 2017 winner of the Jerome Hynes Young Composers’ Competition, awarded by the National Concert Hall.
Read MoreKirkoskammer: the Clarinet Review by Jay Wilson at GoldenPlec /
Read MoreThe feeling afterwards is like that after wandering through a well-curated art exhibition – a quietness, a gentle tiredness, as the new ideas just encountered formulate into questions. Some of the questions will be voiced, perhaps immediately after the concert, perhaps later in the pub, perhaps later still in an anecdote (or a review), but most will not.
Robert Coleman featured in Headstuff Alt Notes /
Alt Notes is a series looking at another alternative to the alternative music scene in Ireland. With musical diversity at its height around the country, this series is dedicated to bringing the contemporary and experimental musicians and composers of Ireland to your attention.
Read MoreRobert Coleman announced as winner of West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition 2016 /
The Winners of the 9th West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition have been announced
Read MoreKirkos Blackout reviewed by the Irish Times /
Read MoreFor atmospherics and attention to details of presentation, Kirkos score a bullseye.