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Jonathan Nangle '“There is more than one way to tell a story. Anybody who ever attempted to compose or improvise a sustained piece of music (or prose) will know how difficult it is to write with such sparseness and precision. How many notes? Why this one and not that one? How to move from one sound to the next? In the end, with so much swelling silence, why bother to make sounds at all?” |
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A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, having obtained a degree in Music and Philosophy and an M.Phil in Music and Media Technology, Jonathan Nangle studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy and Rob Canning and Electro-Acoustic composition with Roger Doyle. He currently attends private composition lessons with Kevin Volans. His work has featured in Crash Ensemble’s ‘Free State’ Concert Series, the Irish Composers Collective 2008/2009 Concert Series, Ergodos ‘Off The Grid’ Festival 2009, Imagine-Create Festival 2009, Ergodos Nationwide Irish Tour 2008 with Clarinetist Jonathan Sage, Dublin Fringe Festival, The York Spring Festival, Sounds Electric, Excursions Performance Festival and the ‘Soundings’ Concert Series Limerick. His work has been choreographed for film and stage and has appeared on screen and in radio broadcasts around the world. Awards include the Music21/Association of Irish Composers, Irish Composition Prize 2007 for his piece ‘our headlights blew softly into the black, illuminating very little’, which was also recently selected as one of only two recommended works in the under-30 category at the 56th International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 2009. He has developed a number of interactive sound and video installations for institutions such as the Contemporary Music Centre, Discover Science + Engineering and Sustainable Energy Ireland and regularly works for ensembles and composers looking to incorporate electronics into their performances/compositions. A lecturer in Music Technology and Electro-Acoustic Composition at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Jonathan Nangle is a member of the Spatial Music Collective and he performs live electronics in an improvising duo with the composer/pianist David Bremner. Recent engagements include an interactive sound installation for the Contemporary Music Centre for Culture Night 2009, a new work for the Dublin Guitar Quartet in collaboration with the Spatial Music Collective and a collaboration between the Spatial Music Collective and the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival 2009. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
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