About
Since this time, free improvisation has become a very strong focus for Cora, and their duo with Izumi Kimura is one of their favourite projects of all time. As a member of Yurodny, Cora has also written for them, and with Kate Ellis, was commissioned in 2016 to write a piece for Common Ground, relating to the 1916 commemorations. In 2020 Cora’s piece “Theft”, commissioned by the NSQF as part of their Beethoven Reflected Series, was premiered by the Ficino Quartet. In 2021, Cora was awarded a Ban Bam Commission Award by IMC, to write Currents, a dramatic improvisation for four musicians. The premier performance of this work was filmed at the disused Pigeon House power station, and will be shown on April 27 at the IFI.
As a freelancer and collaborator, Cora is often to be found playing with Crash Ensemble, notably in award-winning international performances of Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy's operas, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist. Cora also frequently contributes to albums of recorded music, film scores and theatre soundtracks, recently playing in the Abbey Theatre's production of The Great Hunger, on the soundtrack for Rioghnach Ni Grioghair’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You, in Pomes Penyeach with Adrian Crowley & Lisa Hannigan, and with Christine Tobin for her Returning Weather set.
In 2021, Lisa Dowdall and Cora were awarded an Arts for Young Audiences residency at the Linenhall Arts Centre, during which they developed Artways together, a process-based arts workshop, facilitating composition, improvisation, visual scoring and other creative activities.
In 2021, Folding was released on Farpoint Records, an album which Izumi Kimura and Cora collectively composed in response to Anthony Kelly’s recordings of Dun Laoghaire. This album has been warmly received by critics and musicians, being chosen as one of the favourite 5 Jazz Albums of 2021 by The Ticket.
As a freelancer and collaborator, Cora is often to be found playing with Crash Ensemble, notably in award-winning international performances of Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy's operas, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist. Cora also frequently contributes to albums of recorded music, film scores and theatre soundtracks, recently playing in the Abbey Theatre's production of The Great Hunger, on the soundtrack for Rioghnach Ni Grioghair’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You, in Pomes Penyeach with Adrian Crowley & Lisa Hannigan, and with Christine Tobin for her Returning Weather set.
In 2021, Lisa Dowdall and Cora were awarded an Arts for Young Audiences residency at the Linenhall Arts Centre, during which they developed Artways together, a process-based arts workshop, facilitating composition, improvisation, visual scoring and other creative activities.
In 2021, Folding was released on Farpoint Records, an album which Izumi Kimura and Cora collectively composed in response to Anthony Kelly’s recordings of Dun Laoghaire. This album has been warmly received by critics and musicians, being chosen as one of the favourite 5 Jazz Albums of 2021 by The Ticket.
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MusicFolding, collectively composed with Izumi Kimura and folded into Anthony Kelly's recordings of Dun Laoghaire, is available here at Farpoint Recordings
Terminus (Conscientiae), Cora's spontaneously composed response to Bartok's Sonata for Solo Violin is available here at Diatribe Records
Cora's latest music can be heard for free on www.patreon.com/trancebranches, where there is the option to support them financially via a subscription system. Cora's 2019 album Numinous Soup, which first appeared on the Patreon, is available on bandcamp.
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