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Stephen Gardner 'The most important advice I was given as a composer was “Don’t push your granny when she’s shaving.” If only we all followed that principle.' |
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Born in Belfast, Stephen Gardner studied at the University of Ulster and the University of Wales from 1984 to 1989, gaining the degrees of BA in music and MMus in composition. He has been the recipient of a Vaughan Williams Scholarship and a Draper’s Fellowship and has received commissions from Concorde, the Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, Gerard McChrystal, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Music Network, BBC Radio Ulster, the Belfast Festival at Queen’s and the Sonorities festival, Belfast. In 1998-99 he was composer-in-residence with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, the first such position with a local authority in Ireland. His orchestral works have been performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Youth Orchestra. Recent works include ‘It's the hole that kills you not the bullet’, which was premiered by Paul Roe in November 2005. Stephen Gardner was elected to Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists, in 2003. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
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