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Brian Irvine 'There is nothing finer, more exhilarating, more relentlessly exciting than putting on your musical space suit, leaping headlong into the Indiana Jones hyper ship and exploring the deeper infinity of the odd shaped legoland we call music. Finding stories, making shapes, expressing desires, swimming in the great magnificent sea of surreality...Come on in the waters lovely!!' |
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Brian Irvine was born in Belfast. He studied music at Berklee College of Music, Surrey University and University of Ulster, specialising in composition. His work includes orchestral works, chamber music, operas, film scores as well as solo and ensemble pieces. He has collaborated with and been commissioned by many diverse musical personalities throughout Europe and the United States. He has won a number of awards including the 2006 British Composers Award for his youth opera ‘The Tailors Daughter’ which was commissioned and premiered by Welsh National Opera. His second youth opera ‘The Calling of Maisy Day’ was also commissioned by Welsh National Opera and was premiered in July 2008. His Ivor Cutler inspired piece, ‘Interrupting Cutler’ won the BBC Radio 3 Jazz Award and in 2007 his orchestral work Secret Cinema was short listed for the British Academy of Composers /BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award. Other awards have included the Bass Ireland Award, and the Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He was also appointed as the New Music Fellow based at the Tolbooth in Scotland for three years. Recent compositions include several large scale orchestral commissions including a re-interpretation of the Pied Piper story for orchestra and children’s chorus, a piece for the Ulster Orchestra to mark the re-opening of the Ulster Hall in Belfast in 2009 and a solo piano piece, ‘Junk Genius: The Klippell Collection’. Together with writer filmmaker and director John Mcilduff he is also completing a major new Wexford Festival Opera commission entitled ‘DUMBWORLD’. Brian Irvine is currently the Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra. He also composes for and conducts his own 12–piece ensemble, which performs worldwide. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
| Composer web site: www.brianirvine.co.uk |
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