Adam Wyeth is an award-winning and critically acclaimed poet, playwright and essayist with five books published with Salmon Poetry. In 2019 he received The Kavanagh Fellowship Award. Wyeth is the author of Silent Music, Highly Commended by the Forward Poetry Prize and The Art of Dying, an Irish Times Book of the Year. In 2013 Salmon Poetry published his book of essays, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry, Foreword by Paula Meehan. This book is used as a teaching tool around the world and has been officially added to DeSales University (Pennsylvania) MFA program in Creative Writing and DePaul University classes in Chicago – Books for Celtic Mythology and Books for Contemporary Celtic Literature. Wyeth’s plays have been performed across Ireland and also in New York and Berlin. His play This Is What Happened was published by Salmon in 2019. His fifth collection about:blank is a large four-part poetical sequence, which blurs genre, moving across, poetry, prose and dialogue. In 2020, Wyeth was selected for The Abbey Theatre’s (Ireland’s National Theatre) Engine Room Development Programme where he worked on about:blank as an audio-immersive piece. Subsequently, he received the Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award to complete the project. about:blank premiered at Dublin Theatre Festival 2021. Wyeth is also a recipient of the Live Music & Performance Scheme for a new music and text work in collaboration with Emmy-nominated composer David Downes, performed by pianist Rolf Hind and Cellist Adrian Mantu. Wyeth is an Associate Artist of the Civic Theatre, Dublin, and works on ideas and research for the RTÉ Poetry Programme. He teaches online creative writing correspondence courses at adamwyeth.com and Fishpublishing.com.

Brigid Leman was born in Ottawa, Canada, where she began violin lessons at age seven. She has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a Masters in Orchestra Performance from the Zürich University of the Arts in Switzerland (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) and a Postgraduate Certificate from the Hochschule für Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ in Weimar, Germany. Alongside her studies in Zürich and Weimar, Brigid played as an intern with the Zürich Opera and Jenaer Philharmonie. Her main teachers and mentors have included Bettina Mussumeli, Mark Sokol, Stephan Picard, Ulrich Gröner, Ikki Opitz and Mia Cooper.

From 2012 to 2015 and 2016 to 2019, Brigid held a contract position with the Hamburg State Opera (Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg) under Simone Young and Kent Nagano. She has been a guest player with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (Hamburg, Germany), the Hamburg Symphony, Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Lübeck (Germany), and with the Århus Symphony Orchestra (Denmark).

Since moving to Ireland in Autumn 2020, Brigid has played in Galway‘s Luminosa String Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Irish National Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra and Wexford Festival Opera.

Frieda Freytag is a multi-instrumentalist, writer and artist who has performed, recorded and worked with bands and singer-songwriters such as Dave Couse, Fox Owl Crow, Carol Faherty, The Southern Fold, Kellie Marie Reynolds, Garret Baker, Briana Corrigan and many others. She is also a passionate cello and piano teacher and has founded the Quaverberry Collective with some of her students, writing, performing and publishing their own original music.

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