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Huge congratulations to Gabrieli & Paul McCreesh (ft. 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞) who have just won best Choral Album 2024 🏆 at the #GramoAwards (Gramophone / Presto Music) for their magnificent recording of #Elgar: THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS! 🍾

We‘ve got BIG news! Gabrieli’s recording of Elgar: Dream of Gerontius has just WON best Choral Album of 2024 at the #GramoAwards🍾🍾 A massive thank you to everyone who helped this album come to life! Gramophone Paul McCreesh PNChM Signum Classics 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

Oh what a night! 🥳🎶 We’ve had such a special day of singing and making music with our dear friends BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and a whole host of special guests 🌟 Thank you for celebrating our 100th birthday with us! 🥹🎉 🎧 Listen on BBC Sounds 📺 Recorded for future broadcast on BBC iPlayer

After 16 wonderful years, Paul Hillier gives his final performances as our esteemed Artistic Director next week in Dublin and Belfast. To mark the occasion, Paul and the singers of CCI take us on a journey to Renaissance Venice with ‘In Illo Tempore’. #rtesupportingthearts

Whether it’s Ed Sheeran being sued by Marvin Gaye’s estate 40 years after Gaye’s death, or John Fogerty being sued for sounding too much like John Fogerty, it always comes back to the fact that music does not work well as something that can be owned in a capitalist sense

I’ll take two

Very important thread.

It’s publication day for Harmony (Unfinished) 🍏I am deeply grateful to my publishers The Gallery Press, to University of Notre Dame Dublin for the gift of time to write, and to the friends who accompanied me along the way. I hope these poems resonate💫

How it feels to be a Latinist among Hellenists

A long and thunderous standing ovation for Paul Hiller and the singers of Chamber Choir Ireland tonight—and a fitting end to Paul’s tremendous 16-year tenure as Artistic Director. Bravo, Maestro!

Compline — the best way to end your day

Please support this fantastic initiative from Rebecca Lea — a beautiful collection of music for winter, including the premiere recording of the Voice and Piano version of my “The Darkest Midnight”

This is such a fantastic album. Go listen!

Seems Harris has realised the only way anyone will pay any attention to him is by drip feeding info about the next GE

And finally our fabulous baritone, Eoghan Desmond (falalalalaaaa falafel male). We’re excited for Sunday, only a few days to go and a few tickets left, link in bio! #GrandeFratello #soloist #bass #dublin

What does writing music even look like? Most days it’s just scribbling, planning, scheming, plotting. Most of the actual artistic bit happens on scraps of paper. The finished product that a choir sings from is just a lot of tedious typesetting.

It's been drawn to my attention that AI music is now being illegally registered with PROs and monetised, taking money away from legitimate composers (this situation will affect everyone if it continues). I strongly feel that each of the PROs including PRS for Music needs an