Projects

Find out more about the collaborative projects of which I am apart and learn about their genesis and continued exodus.

Vivre Musicale, Inc.

Founded in 2009 and participant in such arts festivals as Artscape in Baltimore, Maryland and the INTERSECTIONS Festival in Washington, D.C., Vivre Musicale is a non-profit chamber music collective that provides career advancement opportunities to contemporary, professional and pre-professional classical musicians through professional education, program diversification, and interdisciplinary collaboration focused on further enhancing the concert experience.

Winner of the 2011-2012 CMA/ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming, recipient of the 2012 Irish Arts Council Music Commissions Award, and winner of the 2015 KBC Great Music in Irish Houses Festival Support Act- Residency, Vivre Musicale is committed to thought-provoking concert programming that promotes community outreach, civic engagement, and social equality, drawing on the power of music to connect communities while furthering social dialogue.

In a world where classical music is besieged by class and culture wars, it is the music itself that must inspire, propel, and give voice. If Vivre is life, then Vivre Musicale is the living music, the chamber collective of the past, the present, and the future.


Black Boy

More info coming soon…


Dathanna: Hues & Shades

Dathanna, the Irish word for ‘colour,’ centres timbral hues and shades, colours of sound, phrasing, texture and virtuosity through musical expression. We have worked to present an album of intimate chamber works that showcase these tonal elements and ideas. A part of those colour elements is the breath, choreography of the fingers, shifting pedals, creaking chairs and the feeling of being enveloped by the sound of pedal harp and clarinet. This album has been recorded with these elements in mind to present a soundscape reminiscent of the warmth and setting of 19th century salon music concerts. It is a celebration of ambience, pulchritudinous fellowship and the sharing in the vulnerability and unspoken reverence of chamber music.


An album of tonal virtuosity and curiosity, Dathanna: Hues & Shades is a foray into the tonal beauty and the unique pairing of clarinet and harp.


Mondrian Trio

Mondrian Trio, much like the masterpieces of their namesake, are defined by their individual creativity, poise and artistic conviction, all which render them autonomous, separate elements that together, enhance their union. Founded in 2015 and winner of the 2015 Great Music in Irish Houses Support Act Residency, the Vivre Musicale Mondrian Trio with American clarinetist, Berginald Rash; Italian cellist, Anna Marcossi; and Italian-Argentinian pianist, Annalisa Monticelli is setting the stage in Dublin and abroad with charismatic performances, impactful programming, and evocative beauty of ensemble. The Mondrian Trio has participated in masterclasses and coached with such artists as Gottfried von der Goltz of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, John Finucane, Simon Aspell, Michael D'Arcy, Finghin Collins, Aaron Boyd of the Escher Quartet, Stephan Forck of the Vogler Quartett, and more. It is a trio whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but whose parts are breathtaking. 


Decus Ensemble

Decus Ensemble are a flexible and diverse group of professional classical musicians who work together to promote the works of less well-known composers throughout classical music history, for a range of instruments. As part of the plainsightSOUND project that launched in 2018, they are currently exploring the music and histories of Black Caribbean and African classical composers with links to Britain.