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Gráinne Mulvey 'My music is increasingly concerned with a sense of place - with the natural world and mankind's relationship with that world.' |
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Gráinne Mulvey was born in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. She studied music with Eric Sweeney at Waterford Regional Technical College, Hormoz Farhat at Trinity College Dublin and Agustín Fernández at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1999 she gained a DPhil in Composition at the University of York under Nicola LeFanu. She has attended composition courses in Ireland and England and, in 1996, in Schwaz, Austria, with Boguslaw Schaeffer and Marek Choloniewski. In 1994 she won the Composers’ Class of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition and in 1998 she was awarded the Macaulay Fellowship administered by the Arts Council. Her music has been performed in Ireland, Britain and abroad, and has been broadcast by RTÉ. Recent works include a Trombone Concerto (2000), premiered by Barrie Webb and the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra; ‘Horrendous Elation’, commissioned by RTÉ and premiered by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in 2001; and ‘Jealous Moon’ (2001), commissioned jointly by Carlow County Council and Concorde. Two of her works, ‘Sextet Uno’ and ‘Rational Optional Insanity’, were released on CD by Black Box Music in 1999. Her orchestral work, ‘Akanos’ (2006) was performed at ISCM World Music Days by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2008. She currently teaches composition at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
| Composer web site: www.grainnemulvey.com |
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