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Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin |
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Mícheal Ó Súilleabháin was born in Co. Tipperary in 1950. He studied music in the National University of Ireland, Cork (BMus 1972, MA 1973) and Queen’s University, Belfast (PhD 1987). Appointed lecturer in music at University College Cork in 1975, he has had parallel careers in the academic and performance worlds, with a concentration on Irish traditional music. In 1994, on his appointment as the first Chair of Music at the University of Limerick, he founded the Irish World Music Centre. In 1990 he was Visiting Professor at Boston College for a semester during which he founded the Archive for Irish Traditional Music in America. His numerous compositions, often for radio, television and film, are tonal in the main. Along with the development of a uniquely Irish piano style, much of his composition to date has explored the diametrically-opposed sounds of traditional and classical music. He has been recording commercially since 1975, playing his own compositions and arrangements of Irish traditional music, frequently with the Irish Chamber Orchestra. In 1993 he founded the ensemble Hiberno-Jazz, and in 1995 he devised, scripted and presented a television series on Irish music entitled A River of Sound for Hummingbird Productions in association with RTÉ and BBC. His main recordings are Cry of the Mountain (Gael Linn 1982), The Dolphin's Way (1987), Oilean/Island (1989), Casadh/Turning (1990), Gaiseadh/Flowing (1992), Lumen (1995), Between Worlds (1995) and Becoming (1998). Templum was released in Autumn 2001 and includes some of his most recent compositions. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
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