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Siobhán Cleary ' “Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.” |
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Born in Dublin, Siobhán Cleary studied music at NUI Maynooth, Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin, where she completed a Masters in Music and Media Technology. She has attended composition courses in Italy, France and Poland where her tutors included Franco Donatoni and Louis Andriessen. She has also studied privately with Tom Johnson and Kevin Volans. Her music has been performed and broadcast in Ireland, the UK, the USA, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic and France. Her orchestral work, Threads (1992 rev.1994), was selected by Vienna Modern Masters for performance at the Second International Festival of New Music for Orchestra in Olomouc in the Czech Republic, and was later released on CD. She has also written the music for two Roger Corman films, ‘Spacejacked!’ and ‘Dangerous Curves’. Her orchestral work, ‘Alchemy’ (2001), commissioned by RTÉ, was performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in 2002, and in 2003 she was a featured composer in the Composers’ Choice concert series at the National Concert Hall. Recent commissions include ‘Conachlann’ (2008) commissioned for the Amstel Quartet and pianist Maria McGarry, and ‘Mis’ (2008), a work for Irish speaker and orchestra commissioned by the Kerry Chamber Orchestra. Future commissions include a work for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra for performance in 2009. Siobhán Cleary was elected a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists, in 2008. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
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