Photo Laelia Milleri “It is written that in the beginning was the word! Hmm...already I am having problems.”(Goethe, from Faust) Roger Doyle was born in Dublin and studied composition on scholarships at the Royal…
You are here Home › Composers Composers Name Gender - Any - Female Male Year of Birth Year of Birth Date Format: 2026 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N Ó P Q R S T V W Z Sebastian Adams (b. 1991) Sebastian Adams (b.…
Photo Jenny Keogh I work to two rules: one adapted from Eric Gill on the legibility of typefaces, “one hundred percent accessibility one hundred percent of the time”; the other from Tom Paine on the intrusiveness…
My work embodies contradictions that I don’t attempt to overcome: indeed, its character is probably defined by the productive friction of contradictions. Raymond Deane was born in the west of Ireland. He moved with…
I have been composing now in one form or another for about fifty years. The result, when listed in a catalogue, reads like some crowded landscape where plants of every kind imaginable rub shoulders uneasily. Whatever…
Belfast-born David Byers studied composition with Raymond Warren at Queen’s University Belfast and then, as Manson Scholar in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music (London), with James Iliff. Awarded the…
�For he had gone alone into the island And brought back the whole thing. The house throbbed like his full violin.” (Seamus Heaney) “See everything through music - those chords yet to resound in you, swim like…
Photo Denis Mortell In the 1940s and early 1950s I was considered (in the Irish context) a very "modern" composer. Now, about forty years later, my music could possibly be considered rather old-fashioned. This is…
Photo Siobhán Cleary “Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.” (Pierre Boulez) Born in Dublin, Siobhán Cleary’s work has been performed and broadcast worldwide. She has been commissioned by National…
Photo Brian Byrne I now consider myself old enough to write what I feel like writing, unfettered by considerations of fads or fashions. Often my music is ‘occasional’, text-based or image-oriented. I hope it is…
