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IMRO Songwriting Masterclass with Chris Difford and Boo Hewerdine

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

Chris Difford is a rare breed. As a member of one of London’s best-loved bands, the Squeeze co-founder has made a lasting contribution to English music with hits such as ‘Cool For Cats’, ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Labelled With Love’, ‘Hourglass’ and ‘Tempted’. Despite the fact that Chris has helped soundtrack so many fans’ lives since […]

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IMRO Songwriting Masterclass with International Hit Writer Ruth Anne Cunningham

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

With a powerhouse voice and a whole lot of soul, Ireland born and London based RuthAnne found the missing link between gritty nineties R&B à la Lauryn Hill and seventies songwriter storytelling reminiscent of Carole King. The musical journey of artist, songwriter, to performer RuthAnne has been marked by fearlessness. By the age of seven she regularly […]

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IMRO International Touring & Festival Seminar

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

From Whelans to Wisconsin and Beyond. What does it take to break your music into new territories? A panel discussion hosted by IMRO featuring leading Irish and international music industry experts. In association with Temple Bar Tradfest PANEL Tom Sherlock | Artist Manager & Consultant Dublin-born Tom Sherlock has worked as a full-time music business professional since […]

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Music For Screen Networking Event

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

IMRO/MCPSI will host an industry networking event for the Music for Screen sector this coming January. We are inviting composers, publishers and music professionals working in the audiovisual and media content production sectors (film/TV, animation, advertising and video games) to attend and participate in this upcoming event. The event will provide an opportunity to present […]

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IMRO Songwriting Collaboration Seminar

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

Every time you pick up your guitar your fingers automatically go through a familiar and comfortable set of chord changes, rhythm patterns and picking styles. Out of these established songwriting patterns come melodies much like those that you have written before. Sound familiar? It's not uncommon for many writers at some point in their career […]

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Live interview at IMRO with Multi Platinum Hit Songwriter Carla Marie Williams

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

Carla Marie Williams is an inspiring figure of achievement. Starting her music career at the age of 14 years old where she sang in local talent shows in North West London, whilst writing poetry well beyond her years she strived and fine-tuned her talents, becoming a songwriter to a roll-call of stars including Beyoncé, Britney […]

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IMRO The Business of Music Seminar Series | Music Rights Inside & Out 

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

Date: Wednesday 22nd November Time: 1.00pm – 4:00pm Location: IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Dublin 2, D02 HW59 Bookings: (FREE event – Booking essential) events@imro.ie CMU MD and Business Editor Chris Cooke provides a beginners guide to music copyright, explaining how song and recording rights make money, how music licensing works, what the law says about copyright infringement, and why […]

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IMRO Hosts Monthly Songwriting Workshops

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

IMRO is continuing its  collaborative initiative with The Songwriting Collective, The next workshop will be on Thursday 2th November  from  6.00 pm to 9.00 pm in the IMRO HQ at Copyright House followed by presentation of Co-Writes and other self-penned songs in the Wellington Pub off Baggot Street Bridge. Each workshop provides an opportunity to […]

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IMRO Songwriting Seminar with Lisa Aschmann and Brett Perkins

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

Lisa Aschmann will offer her perspective and accompanying exercises related to creativity, song structure, melody-writing, prosody, lyrical focus and pacing - as well as talk about film music and offer insights into the world of the music supervisor and their current needs for songs and cues based on film stories in production. Lisa is a […]

IMRO Scoring for Film & TV Masterclass with Emmy Award winning composer Richard Bellis

Irish Music Rights Organisation Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland

FINDING “YOUR OWN VOICE” “You have to find your own voice”.  This is a phrase every emerging film composer hears more than once. As a result, a significant amount of head scratching is required just to figure out what, exactly, is meant by it and, equally perplexing, “How do I accomplish it?” Like other cliche phrases, […]

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