- Gráinne Mulvey
Gráinne Mulvey (born in
Dún Laoghaire ,County Dublin 1966) is an Irishcomposer .Biography
She studied with Eric Sweeney at
Waterford Regional Technical College , Hormoz Farhat atTrinity College Dublin and Agustín Fernández atQueen's University, Belfast . In 1999 she gained a DPhil in Composition at theUniversity of York underNicola LeFanu . She has attended composition courses throughout Europe, notably in Schwaz, Austria, withBoguslaw Schaeffer and Marek Choloniewski, Hoy with SirPeter Maxwell Davies andSally Beamish , Chichester with Jane Manning andAnthony Payne , Dartington withLouis Andriessen , IRCAM withKaija Saariaho and Wakefield with Jonathan Harvey.She currently holds the position of Head of Composition at
Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama, and is pursuing post-doctoral research in the field of electro-acoustic and computer music with DrVictor Lazzarini at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.Quotations
"Increasingly, I find my music concerns itself with a sense of place - with particular locations and with mankind's place in the natural order - " Gráinne Mulvey
Career Highlights
1994: Winner, Composers' Class of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition with "Rational Option Insanity" for oboe, clarinet, horn, violin and piano [O'Leary, Jane: Women Composers in Ireland: A Changing Profile International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, October 1996 http://www.iawm.org/articles_html/OLeary_Ireland.html] . "Étude No 1" for piano chosen to represent Ireland at the International Rostrum of Young Composers
1997: Awarded the Adjudicator's Prize at the Arklow Music Festival for "Relentless" for violin and piano
1998: Awarded the Macaulay Fellowship by the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon
1999: Winner, New Music for Sligo (Irish Section) with "Maelstrom" for string quartet. "Sextet Uno" and "Rational Optional Insanity" released on CD by Black Box Music [http://www.sanctuaryclassics.com/product_details.php?productId=5386 click for details]
2001: Appointed Lecturer in Composition at Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama. Adjudicator, Composition section, Feis Ceol, Dublin
2003: Winner, St John Memorial University Composers' Competition with "Latitude 50" for chamber orchestra. Appointed Head of Composition at DIT [http://conservatory.dit.ie/staff/Mulvey.htm] . Co-adjudicator, Markievicz Medal for Composition. Composer-in-residence, Mercy Convent, Waterford
2004: Jury member, Guido d'Arezzo International Composition Competition [http://www.polifonico.org/index.php/polifonico_ita_en/concorsi__1/archivio/archivio_concorso_internazionale_di_composizione/concorso_internazionale_di_composizione_2004/risultati] . Guest composer, Maynooth Composers' Summer School [http://www.cmc.ie/news/2004/irish-composition-summer-school.html]
2006: "Scorched Earth" chosen to represent Ireland at the ISCM International Rostrum of Composers
2007: Featured composer at RTÉ "Horizons" series - "Scorched Earth", "Akanos" and "Horizons Fanfare" performed by Robert Houlihan and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, National Concert Hall, Dublin [http://www.cmc.ie/news/2007/horizons2007.html]
2008: "Akanos" included on CD "Contemporary Music from Ireland, Vol. 7" [http://cmc.ie/shop/cd_detail.cfm?itemID=2526 click for details] . "Akanos" selected for ISCM World Music Days 2008 in Vilnius - to be performed by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra cond. Robertas Šervenikas [http://www.wmd2008.org/en/info/12 click for details]
References
External links
*Website: http://www.grainnemulvey.com/
*Gráinne Mulvey's profile at the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin: http://cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=88
*ISCM World Music Days 2008 http://www.wmd2008.org/en/info/12
*CD "Contemporary Music from Ireland, Vol. 7" http://cmc.ie/shop/cd_detail.cfm?itemID=2526
*CD "Rational Option Insanity" - details from http://www.sanctuaryclassics.com/product_details.php?productId=5386
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