Brian Dungan
Percussion
As an orchestral percussionist Brian Dungan works regularly with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Crash Ensemble and is also timpanist of Fishamble Sinfonia.
In April 2018 he premiered the solo work WORD FOR WORD by Irish composer Sam Perkin for a Crash Ensemble concert in the Hugh Lane Gallery. Brian has performed in Irish premieres of Adès’ Powder Her Face (Northern Ireland Opera) and Totentanz (RTÉ NSO) as well as John Cage's Living Room Music with Bangers and Crash at the 2017 New Music Dublin Festival. Brian played in Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians in a joint performance with Crash Ensemble, Bang on a Can Allstars and Sō Percussion in Dublin in 2014. He played the John Cage duo for flute and percussion, Roanji, with flautist Manuel Zurria in 2014, and recorded Perotin’s Viderunt Omnes for eight cellos and percussion by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky in 2012, both for Louth Contemporary Music Society. Brian played for Arvo Pärt in a chamber group assembled for the composition seminar at the 2008 RTÉ Living Music Festival.
Brian studied at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy, Budapest; Trinity College, Dublin; and with Richard O’Donnell on the Masters programme at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
In April 2018 he premiered the solo work WORD FOR WORD by Irish composer Sam Perkin for a Crash Ensemble concert in the Hugh Lane Gallery. Brian has performed in Irish premieres of Adès’ Powder Her Face (Northern Ireland Opera) and Totentanz (RTÉ NSO) as well as John Cage's Living Room Music with Bangers and Crash at the 2017 New Music Dublin Festival. Brian played in Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians in a joint performance with Crash Ensemble, Bang on a Can Allstars and Sō Percussion in Dublin in 2014. He played the John Cage duo for flute and percussion, Roanji, with flautist Manuel Zurria in 2014, and recorded Perotin’s Viderunt Omnes for eight cellos and percussion by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky in 2012, both for Louth Contemporary Music Society. Brian played for Arvo Pärt in a chamber group assembled for the composition seminar at the 2008 RTÉ Living Music Festival.
Brian studied at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy, Budapest; Trinity College, Dublin; and with Richard O’Donnell on the Masters programme at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Brian appears in Words and Music on 30 June 2018
