Navigator: Music for 'Muscles and Mind' with Dave Flynn

Guitarist and composer Dave Flynn is the Musician in Residence at Garter Lane, Waterford during October 2024, as part of IMC’s nationwide music residency programme NAVIGATOR.

On Sunday 27th October at 6pm at WGOA, Waterford Gallery of Art, Dave will perform work developed from ideas seeded in his improvisation workshop 'Musical Pathways', as well as improvisations in response to the current exhibition ‘Muscles and Mind’, with accompaniment by percussionist Cion O’Callaghan.

“I’m dedicating these improvisations to the memory of Waterford’s own Louis Stewart, an extraordinary musician who deeply inspired me. Though Louis was renowned for his jazz mastery, my residency will move between genres, from jazz and Irish trad to classical and beyond. Improvisation has been central to my work, whether through the spontaneous ornamentation in my Irish trad playing, improv within my modern classical compositions, my Congolese-Irish collaborations with Niwel Tsumbu, or my work with jazz experts like Hugh Buckley, Neil Yates and Matthew Berrill.” - Dave Flynn

Dave Flynn

Celebrated by the New York Times for the “power and grittiness” of his music, composer, conductor and guitarist Dave Flynn is a musician of international renown. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland, he redefined orchestral music by creating the cross-genre Irish Memory Orchestra: a “formidable collective of musicians” (The Irish Times) — and the first and only orchestra in the Western world to perform exclusively by memory.

Amalgamating orchestral, jazz, rock and folk elements with deft and deep understanding, his compositions have been performed by the likes of the Prague Chamber Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, New Juilliard Ensemble, Smith Quartet, New Zealand String Quartet, ConTempo Quartet, Vanbrugh Quartet, ConTempo Quartet, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Laura Snowden, Craig Ogden, John Feeley and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

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