Latest

The Art of the Collaboration


Broadcatsing Tueday May 21st at 2pm

Listen back now here

The Hugh Lane Concert series continues with The Art of the Collaboration. Renowned musician and coach Paul Roe has brought together a co-operative of musicians and thinkers to explore the variety of natures, qualities and experiences of differing performance practices, and crucially, what can be learned from those understandings while offering audiences a unique insight and heightened understanding of the mind and of the performer. Paul is joined by Mick O’Brien on Uileann Pipes and Killian O’Brien as the collaborative designer. Other collaborators are Ultan O’Brien (Fiddle), Ken Edge (Saxophone) and Persian musicians Shayan and Shahab Coohe.

Core to the project of ‘The Art of Collaboration’ is to positively interrogate differing approaches to music making and by extension musical collaborations. The co-operative of musicians come from a broad and diverse range of musical backgrounds, which straddle various forms of learning and interpretation. The project also carries a research element with four leading thinkers in the worlds of health (mental and physical), science, business and design.

About the series
The Hugh Lane Concert series showcases contemporary, traditional, classical and jazz music concerts recorded at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, as part of the Sundays @ Noon concerts. This radio series captures the best in Irish and international based composers and musicians performing in front of a live audience. As well as the performances, Near FM have recorded in-depth interviews with the musicians, and reactions from members of the public.

Series 1 is available here

Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television licence fee.

Latest on Listen Again

  John Gormley, film-maker at Greenstem Films and Green Foundation Ireland and Sustainable Media Ireland board member joins Mercedes López to present their documentary on the Tolka River and its [...]

  Lorna Hayes, Deputy CEO and Head of Policy & Research,  European Movement Ireland joined Mercedes López to talk  about  “The Europe that we want” workshops for young people, a [...]

  Sinéad Rocha, Campaigns Co-ordinator, Gary Walsh, Campaigns Manager, Oxfam Ireland and Lorna Hayes, Deputy CEO and Head of Policy & Research,  European Movement Ireland joined Mercedes López to talk [...]

Ronan Kennedy, Senior Policy Officer, Oireachtas Liaison and Democratic Freedoms, ICCL (Irish Council for Civil Liberties) talked to Mercedes López about the 2026 report on the current Rule of Law [...]

Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Ray McAdam talks to Mercedes López about this year’s Lord Mayor’s Awards. https://www.dublincity.ie/your-city-council/about-your-elected-councillors/lord-mayor/lord-mayors-awards 1st Broadcast 9th April 2026     [...]

Sinead Powell is education and support with Sinead Powell in this interview with Ger Leddin she talks about living with diabetes 1st Broadcast 9th April 2026 https://www.diabetes.ie/   [...]

    Naomi Fitzgibbon of the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association speaks to Ger Leddin on both Motor Neurone Disease, the challenges facing people living with MND and the organisation’s [...]

  Dennis McIntyre looks at the Life of Johnny Cash and plays some of his wonderful songs 1st Broadcast 8th April 2026   [...]