Gráinne Mulvey

Gráinne Mulvey (born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin 1966) is an Irish composer.

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.

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