Composers
Oliver Hynes
(b. 1946)Oliver Hynes holds BA, DipMusTeach and BMus (Hons) degrees from University College Dublin and an MSc (Hons) in educational management from Trinity College Dublin.
Andy Ingamells
(b. 1988)Andy Ingamells is an experimental musician who develops unusual methods of composition that blur the line between composer and performer.
Marian Ingoldsby
(b. 1965)Marian Ingoldsby was born in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.
Brian Irvine
(b. 1965)Brian Irvine was born in Belfast.
Matthew Jacobson
(b. 1986)Matthew Jacobson is an Irish drummer, composer, bandleader, educator and producer.
Daniel Jacobson
(b. 1979)Musician, composer, producer of electronic music, jazz, contemporary music, who has written for many groups from small ensembles to big bands.
Fergus Johnston
(b. 1959)Fergus Johnston was born in Dublin and is a music graduate of Trinity College Dublin.
Darragh Kelly
(b. 1989)Darragh Kelly is a composer and musician. He is interested in the live vs the recorded, the virtual vs the actual, the bathetic, new music's ageing, and tonality's afterlife.
Derek Anthony Kelly
(b. 1971)Derek Anthony Kelly is originally from Dublin.
Mary Kelly
(b. 1957)Mary Kelly studied Music (B.Mus.) at UCD and Composition with James Wilson, Dublin, Robert
Saxton, London and with David Dramm in Amsterdam, where she was living at the time. She
T. C. Kelly
(1917 - 1985)T. C. Kelly was born in Wexford. He was awarded a BMus degree by University College Dublin and was director of music at Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare, for much of his career.
Vincent Kennedy was born in Dublin and studied trumpet winning many major prizes at the Feis Ceoil and performing with RTÉ National Symphony and other orchestras and ensembles before establishing h
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This section introduces the music of Irish composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is intended as a good starting point for anyone not familiar with Irish contemporary music.
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