Gráinne Mulvey is an Irish

Ireland

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 composer

Composer

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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

University of York

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 under Nicola LeFanu

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. She has attended composition courses throughout Europe, notably in Schwaz, Austria, with Boguslaw Schaeffer

Boguslaw Schaeffer

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 and Marek Choloniewski, Hoy with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

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 and Sally Beamish

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, Chichester with Jane Manning

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 and Anthony Payne

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, Dartington with Louis Andriessen

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, IRCAM with Kaija Saariaho

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 and Wakefield with Jonathan Harvey

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She currently holds the position of Head of Composition at Dublin Institute of Technology

Dublin Institute of Technology

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 Conservatory of Music and Drama, and is pursuing post-doctoral research in the field of electro-acoustic and computer music with Dr Victor Lazzarini

Victor Lazzarini

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 at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
In April 2010, she was elected to membership of Aosdána

Aosdána

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, the State recognised affiliation of creative artists in Ireland.

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.

1994: 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.

1999: 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

2003: Winner, St John Memorial University Composers' Competition with Latitude 50 for chamber orchestra.

2003: Appointed Head of Composition at DIT. Co-adjudicator, Markievicz Medal for Composition. Composer-in-residence, Mercy Convent, Waterford

2004: Jury member, Guido d'Arezzo International Composition Competition.

2004: 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.

2008: Akanos selected for ISCM World Music Days 2008 in Vilnius - performed by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra cond. Robertas Šervenikas click for details

2009: Akanos performed by the Filharmonie Hradec Králové, cond. Andreas S. Weiser as part of 2009 Prague Premières festival. click for details

2009: Stabat Mater selected for 2009 ISCM World Music Days, Sweden click for details

2010: Jury member, Guido d'Arezzo International Composition Competition

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