»I love a kind of intensity. And that intensity, I definitively can hear, has some kind of connection to Rock in some way. Even though I'm never directly referencing it, but I do like a kind of prolonged ecstasy of Rock and EDM. There is some infiltration of that into me.«
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Donnacha Dennehy's music attracts through its colourful beauty. The Irish composer has been living in the USA for many years. There he regularly collaborates with New-York-based ensemble Alarm Will Sound. This collaboration brought them together at Beethovenfest 2022: two works of Dennehy were performed by the new music ensemble in Bonn. One of them was a world premier, the orchestral piece »Land of Winter«. Dennehy composed it for Beethovenfest with the support of a Guggenheim scholarship.
Listen to Dennehy and artistic director Steven Walter reflect on the festival in the podcast!
bee.contemporary
bee.contemporary is a podcasts by Beethovenfest Bonn. We invite guests from the areas of music, culture and society to talk to us about new artistic projects and contemporary debates.