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Michael Holohan '“For he had gone alone into the island |
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Born in Dublin in 1956, Michael Holohan was educated at University College Dublin, the Dublin College of Music and Queen’s University, Belfast. He has won numerous prizes for his compositions as well as Arts Council travel awards to attend masterclasses with Messiaen, Boulez, Xenakis, Berio and Lachenmann in France. His music has been performed both in Ireland and abroad, and has been broadcast by RTÉ, BBC and other international networks. His orchestral works ‘Cromwell’ (1994),’ Building Bridges’ (1995), ‘Leaves of Glass’ (1995) and ‘The Lost Land’ (1996) have all been premiered by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. He has collaborated regularly with well known Irish poets such as Seamus Heaney, Richard Murphy, Dermot Healy and Paul Durcan. ‘Running Beast’, his collaboration with the playwright Donal O’ Kelly toured Ireland and Europe extensively during 2007 as part of the government’s 400th Commemoration of the Flight of the Earls. He is a former chairman of The Association of Irish Composers and the Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda. In 1999 he was elected to Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
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