June 2011
Deep End Dance wins Best Dance Film award at the Fastnet Film Festival. To view the film, click here . To view a ‘making of’ the film, click here
Score to 9/11: From the Ashes completed and recorded in Windmill Lane.
Scores for Here to Fall and Downpour completed and both films due to be premiered at the Galway Film Festival in July, 2011.
May 2011
A Story With Me In It begins its six-week run on RTÉ.
April 2011
Deep End Dance wins the 2011 Celtic Media Award for Best Short Drama
March 2011
Deep End Dance wins the Best Short Film Award at the Boston Irish Film Festival
Commissioned to compose music for Downpour, a short film in the Irish Film Board’s Short Shorts series.
Commissioned by Animo Productions to compose the score for A Story with me in it, a six-part documentary series on adult literacy.
Commissioned by Blacknorth Productions to compose the score for Here to Fall, an animation film selected as part of the ‘Frameworks’ Animation series.
February 2011
Voices from the Grave wins Best Documentary at the IFTA (Irish Film and Television Awards).
Deep End Dance is nominated for Best Short Film at the IFTA (Irish Film and Television Awards).
Commissioned by RTÉ to compose music for 9/11: From the Ashes, a documentary on the Irish stories of tragedy emanating from 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers.
December 2010
Unwrapped takes place in Tallaght
November 2010
Voices from the Grave and JFK: A Homecoming air on RTÉ.
October 2010
Commissioned by South Dublin County Council to compose music for Unwrapped, a Christmas festival including a dance performance, outdoor animation film and concert.
September 2010
Scores for Voices from the Grave and JFK: A Homecoming completed and recorded.
July 2010
Commissioned by Animo Productions to compose the score for JFK: A Homecoming, a feature length documentary on JFK’s visit to Ireland in 1963.
June 2010
Commissioned to compose the score for Voices from the Grave, a feature length documentary on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
May 2010
Stuck for Words airs on RTÉ.
April/May 2010
Deep End Dance score completed recorded and shown as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.
March 2010
Commissioned to compose the score for Stuck for Words, a six-part documentary series on adult literacy.
January/February 2010:
Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra performs in China. To view a performance of one of my traditional Irish music arrangements for the orchestra, click here
December 2009:
Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra arrangements due for recording in Bulgaria
November, 2009:
Fear premieres at Cork Film Festival.
October 2009:
Ramallah TV premieres on Al Jazeera Television.
September 2009:
The Enemies receives rave reviews and a ‘Best Production’ nomination at this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival. To read the review, click here.
September 2009:
Score completed for Journey to an Absolute Vantage Point. Performed at The National Concert Hall by Cora Venus Lunny (violin), Arun Rao (cello), and Conor Linehan (piano). Recorded and mixed by Steve Shannon.
May 2009:
Broadcast première of my new RTÉ lyric fm commission, Peace Be With You.
Performed by John Finucane (clarinet), Kevin Hanafin (saxophone) Sebastian Liebig (violin) and Martin Johnson (cello) and recorded at RTÉ, Studio II.
April 2009: Spinal Chord, written for the Dublin Guitar Quartet and commissioned by the Spatial Music Collective, is completed and ready for performance.
March 2009:
Score completed for Birds and Beasts and recorded with the National Concert Orchestra in Studio One at RTÉ.
March 2009:
Michael catches up with the California leg of the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra’s tour of the USA.
January 2009:
Score arrangements completed for The Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra’s tour of the USA, 2009.