Fergus Johnston

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Fergus Johnston (born 1959) is an Irish composer and member of Aosdána. He studied for both a degree in music and a Master's Degree in Music and Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin and has a PhD in composition from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His output includes works for both orchestra and smaller ensemble, some works which include electronics, and 2 opera.

Johnston's music has been performed at many venues and festivals including the 1985 Asolo Musica Festival in Italy organised by the European Community Youth Orchestra, the 1996 International Society for Contemporary Music Festival (ISCM), the 2001 Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music in Belfast,[1] and Radio Teilifís Éireann's 2005 Living Music Festival. His use of system is unusual among Irish composers, his compositional process typically including a significant element of pre-planning.[2]

See also

  • List of 21st century classical composers
  • List of 20th century classical composers
  • List of alumni of the University of Dublin

Honors and awards

  • 1989 – Macaulay Fellowship, Arts Council of Ireland
  • 1992 – Elected to sit on Aosdána, Ireland's Academy of Arts.
  • 1996-2001 - Appointed as member of the Board of Directors of the National Concert Hall of Ireland, An Ceoláras Náisiúnta.

References

  1. ↑ Computer Music Journal, Volume 25, No. 4 (Winter, 2001), p.15
  2. ↑ Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland, ed White & Boydell, UCD press, 2013, Dublin; article by D. Bremner on Fergus Johnston, p. 544

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