Activities

Television documentary on recent work 2007/2008
Residency Schloss Solitude April/May 2007
Jury member, Gaudeamus Composition Competition, Amsterdam, Feb/Sept 2007
CD Recording: Complete solo percussion music, Jonny Axelsson, Feb 2007.
Recording of Cicada, Dec 2006
Video artwork: Jonny Axelsson Performing Akrodha, by Peter O’Kennedy, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006
Jury Member, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 2005/2006
CD Release: White Man Sleeps, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Greyslate Records, 2006
Public Lecture Series on the Avant-Garde in Music since WWll, Irish Museum of Modern Art Feb/April 2005
Arts Council of Ireland, Martin Toonder Award, 2005
Featured Composer, Huddersfield Festival, Nov. 2004
Keynote speaker, Princess Constance Magogo kaDinizulu conference, Ravinia, Chicago, June 2004
Featured Composer, Ultima Festival, Oslo, Oct 2003
Visiting lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2003

Performances (selection)

Complete String Quartets
2008 Smith Quartet, London, venue TBC

Trio Concerto
October 7th, 2007 Storioni Trio, RTE Symphony Orchestra, National Concert Hall, Dublin

Gaudeamus Festival Sept 2007
works TBC

Piano Trio
23 June 2007 Fidelio Trio, Brighton Sound Waves Festival/recording 3rd August

Cello Concerto
April 23rd, 2007 Belfast Sonorities festival, Ulster Orchestra, Gavriel Lipkind solo cello, Greg Rose, conducting Whitla Hall

Chakra for three percussionists
18th March 2007 SISU (Sweden) Rome, Teatro Studio hall, in the Auditorium, via P. de Coubertin 30

Joining Up the Dots- premiere
17th Feb 2007 Crash Ensemble premiere, Vickers Street, Dublin. Part of the RTE Living Music Festival,

Piano Concerto no. 2 Atlantic Crossing - premiere
Nov 15 – 18 2006 Marc-André Hamelin (solo) Michael Tilson Thomas (cond.) San Francisco Symphony Chosen as one of the Bay Area’s best 10 events of 2006

Glosa a lo Divino - premiere
30 June 2006 East Neuk festival, St. Andrews, Scotland,. Theatre of Voices, cond. Paul Hillier

10th String Quartet - premiere
Feb 2006 Vanburgh Quartet, RTE Living Music Festival, Dublin, 2005

Cello Concerto/Stripweave for Orchestra
Jan 2006 Gavriel Lipkind, RTE Symphony Orchestra, Robert Houlihan, cond. RTE Composer’s Choice Series

Trio Concerto - premiere
25 March 2006 Storioni Trio, Belgian Royal Philharmonic, Olari Elts, Cond..Antwerp Noord Nederlans Orkest de Filharmonie, cond. Alexander Liebreich 22 Oct 2005

Double Take - premiere
Sept 2005 Music Network tour of Ireland , Carol McGonnell Clarinet

9th String Quartet - premiere
Nov 2005 Smith Quartet, Huddersfield Festival

8th String Quartet -premiere
June 2004 Kronos Quartet commission, Ravinia Festival, Chicago, other performances, Rome, Barbican, London, Dublin, etc.

Strip-Weave for Orchestra
June 2003 BBC Proms, Ulster Orchestra, Cond. Thierry Fischer,