‘Standard Deviations’ at Dublin’s National Concert Hall

Ireland’s National Symphony Orchestra gave the first performance of ‘Standard Deviations’ on Tuesday 14th November, as part of Composer Lab 2023. It was a thrill to hear this piece come to life under the baton of Gavin Maloney. You can find the performance, broadcast by Lyric FM, on the ‘Works’ page. I introduced the piece by saying that the title is from statistics, denoting how far a particular value lies or deviates from the mean value; and that its applicability to music is that once you have a musical context you can deviate from it either by a little or by a lot. What I forgot to say is that I just like the title for the hell of it.