Ergodos has a number of productions available for booking on an ongoing basis. Details of productions currently available are below. Please direct any enquiries to info@ergodos.ie
Ergodos Musicians
Ergodos Musicians is a flexible ensemble of instruments and voices. The group’s performances are outstanding for their subtlety, attention to detail and emotion. Regular Ergodos Musicians include: violinist Ioana-Petcu-Colan (Ensemble Avalon, Irish Chamber Orchestra), young English clarinetist Jonathan Sage, cellist Kate Ellis (Crash Ensemble, Yurodny), violinist/violist Cora Venus Lunny (Yurodny, Fovea Hex) and vocalist Michelle O’Rourke (Tryst, Ergodos Voices), and their principal musical director is Garrett Sholdice. Ergodos Musicians have given Irish premieres of works by James Tenney and John Cage, as well as new repertoire by Jonathan Nangle, Garrett Sholdice, Simon O’Connor and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly.
Jonathan Sage
At the age of twenty-four, clarinettist Jonathan Sage already has an impressive track record, and his very considerable technical skill, mastery of many extended techniques and openness to sonic experimentation make him an ideal interpreter of new music. Ergodos has commissioned much new solo repertoire for Sage to premiere, including the highly virtuosic Particle by Jonathan Nangle (with funds from the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon) and the hauntingly minimal Bilinear by Richard Glover. Ergodos offers Jonathan Sage in a programme of intensely focussed new music for solo clarinet and solo basset clarinet (an eighteenth-century extended clarinet), with and without electronics.
Homburger/Guy
The acclaimed Baroque violin and double bass duo of Maya Homburger and Barry Guy combine the magisterial intensity of Baroque masters J.S. Bach and H.I.F. Biber with work by Guy himself, as well as and three Ergodos-commissioned works. (more)
Ergodos Voices
Ergodos Voices is a brazen, all-amplified, all-female vocal ensemble. Formed in 2009, their programmes cover the broad reach of human experience, often passionate, sometimes calm, sometimes rough, sometimes nostalgic, but always beautiful.
‘An overall solemn if not reverential affair, it saw them give voice and body to the musical imagination of a handful of Irish composers, a concurrent voice to a current musical moment.’ – Liam Cagney, musicalcriticism.com
Ergodos offers Ergodos Voices in programmes featuring commissioned new work by Irish composers and specially-arranged Medieval vocal music.
Dreamers of Pearl
‘Dreamers of Pearl belongs to a rare class of recent piano music – monumental compositions of great length, beauty, and depth – all self-consciously bound to tradition-orientated piano genres and their deeply ingrained structures, yet inventive and thrilling in ways that inspire a few brave pianists to dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to these often mercilessly difficult pieces.’ Amy C. Beal.
Dreamers of Pearl is a sixty minute masterpiece for solo piano by the New York composer Michael Byron. It is performed by its dedicatee, Joseph Kubera. Ergodos presents it with Benedict Schlepper-Connolly’s Ekstase IV, which serves as a tranquil prelude.