Gráinne Mulvey

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Irish composer Gráinne Mulvey was born in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, in 1966.

1 Biography
2 Quotations
3 Career Highlights
4 External links

[edit] Biography

She studied with Eric Sweeney at Waterford Regional Technical College, Hormoz Farhat at Trinity College Dublin and Agustín Fernández at Queen's University, Belfast. In 1999 she gained a DPhil in Composition at the University of York under Nicola LeFanu. She has attended composition courses throughout Europe, notably in Schwaz, Austria, with Boguslaw Schaeffer and Marek Choloniewski, Hoy with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish, Chichester with Jane Manning and Anthony Payne, Dartington with Louis Andriessen, IRCAM with Kaija 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 Dr Victor Lazzarini at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

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 click for details

2001

Appointed Lecturer in Composition at Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama

Adjudicator, Composition section, Feis Ceol, Dublin

2002

Winner, St John Memorial University Composers' Competition with Latitude 50 for chamber orchestra

Appointed Head of Composition at DIT

Co-adjudicator, Markievicz Medal for Composition

2003

Composer-in-residence, Mercy Convent, Waterford

2004

Jury member, Guido d'Arezzo International Composition Competition.

Guest composer, Maynooth Composers' Summer School

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

2008

Akanos included on CD Contemporary Music from Ireland, Vol. 7 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 click for details