Barry O’Halpin performs in Rothe House as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival Secret Music Series 2021.Barry O'Halpin is a Dublin-based composer and electric guitarist, and Our latest episode in this year's Secret Music Series features the Dublin-based guitarist and composer, Barry O'Halpin performing in the beautiful Rothe House Museum & Garden.
A member of leading Irish contemporary music group Crash Ensemble, O'Halpin has also been the group’s Composer-in-Residence in 2018-2021.Barry’s music combines liminal timbres and microtonal sonorities with a strongly intuitive melodic and rhythmic streak, and a porous attitude to genre-boundary.
As a composer-performer, he uses invented tunings and unorthodox techniques to explore new uses of the electric guitar in the contemporary chamber ensemble.Exploring the melodic and harmonic boundaries and possibilities Barry performs exciting, inventive new music in a historic and beautiful space.