Matthew Noone begins our lunchtime concert series this semester with a programme that explores the sympathies between traditional Irish melodies and Indian Classical performance aesthetics. Join us this Thurs. 22nd September at 13:10 in Riverstown Hall.
Matthew 'Mattu' Noone, is an Australian-Irish ex-indie rocker and well-known performer of the 25 stringed lute called sarode. He has studied North Indian Classical music for over a decade with Sougata Roy Chowdhury in Kolkata and more recently with UK based sarodiya, K. Sridhar. He has performed Indian music across the globe and was a founding member of successful fusion group, The Bahh Band. He has recorded with a host of contemporary Irish musicians such as Tommy Hayes, Sean Tyrell and Ronan O 'Snodaigh and collaborated with Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill in a recent tour of India. Matthew plays a hybrid sarode which was created with funds from the Music Network to develop a new instrument particularly for playing Irish traditional music. He is also an Irish Research Council scholar and is currently completing practice based PhD research into Irish-Indian musical sympathies in the Irish world Academy in the University of Limerick.