Raymond Deane is an Irish composer of classical music.

Biography

He was brought up on Achill Island

Achill Island

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http://www.raymonddeane.com/ and has lived in Dublin, Basel

Basel

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, Cologne

Cologne

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, Berlin

Berlin

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, Oldenburg

Oldenburg

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, Paris

Paris

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 and Fuerth.

He studied music in University College Dublin

University College Dublin

University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...

, Ireland, from 1970 until graduation in 1974. He was awarded a doctorate in composition by the National University of Ireland in 2005. He is based in Dublin, Paris, and Fürth (Bavaria).

Deane has been a member of Aosdána

Aosdána

Aosdána is an Irish association of Artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland. Membership, which is by invitation from current members, is limited to 250 individuals; before 2005 it was limited to 200...

, the Irish state-supported academy of artists, since 1986.

He was a founding member of the Association of Young Irish Composers, which later became the Association of Irish Composers, the Irish branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music

International Society for Contemporary Music

The International Society for Contemporary Music is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music.ISCM was established in 1922, in Salzburg. Its core activity is the World Music Days Festival, held every year at a different location. The festival includes cutting edge productions...

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Recordings of his works have been made on the Naxos

Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...

, Black Box and RTÉ

RTE

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 labels.

Political activism

In 2001 Deane was a founding member of the Ireland–Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and served as its chairperson from 2002-5.

In August 2010 he initiated the "Irish artists' pledge to boycott Israel", arguing that "artists who perform in Israel are backing it whether they like it or not."

Selected works

• C-changes
• After-pieces for piano solo
• Concerto for Oboe and Large Orchestra
• Ripieno for large orchestra
• Violin Concerto

Operas: The Poet and his Double (1992)/The Wall of Cloud (1998)

String Quartets I-IV

Novel: Death of a Medium (Odell & Adair 1991)

His work "Seachanges (with Danse Macabre)

Seachanges (with Danse Macabre)

Seachanges is a contemporary piece of music written by Raymond Deane in 1993.It is part of the Leaving Certificate's Music syllabus along with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, The Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four", "She's Leaving Home", "Sgt...

" (the first work in his Macabre Trilogy), is currently study material on the Leaving Certificate Music syllabus in Ireland

Ireland

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Sources

• http://www.raymonddeane.com/
• http://www.cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=30
• http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/1293.htm#disco
• Monograph: RAYMOND DEANE by Patrick Zuk; Field Day Publications, Dublin 2006 [ISBN 0-946755-29-9]