Composers
Sue Furlong
(1962 - 2018)Sue Furlong was one of the most important contributors to the Irish choral scene during her lifetime.
Michael Gallen
(b. 1986)Michael Gallen is an Irish composer, writer and performer.
Bianca Gannon
(b. 1987)
Bianca Gannon
(b. 1987)Bianca Gannon is an Irish interdisciplinary art music composer and improviser.
Stephen Gardner
(b. 1958)Stephen Gardner was born in Belfast. He studied at the universities of Ulster and Wales from 1984 to 1989.
Bernard Geary
(1934 - 2023)Bernard Geary was born in Cork. He has lived in Dublin since 1970, working as a teacher, composer and pianist.
John Gibson
(1951 - 2016)Pianist and composer John Gibson was born in Dublin in 1951. He studied piano with Rhona Marshall, and became a theory teacher at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
John Godfrey
(b. 1962)John Godfrey has been a composer, a performer, and a promoter of contemporary art music for more than 25 years.
Deirdre Gribbin
(b. 1967)“A charismatic voice in new music”.
Paul Conway, The Guardian
Joseph Groocock
(1913 - 1997)Joseph Groocock was born in Croydon, England, in 1913 and came to live in Ireland in 1937.
Ronan Guilfoyle
(b. 1958)Ronan Guilfoyle is one of Ireland’s best known jazz musicians.
Douglas Gunn
(1935 - 2016)Born in 1935, Douglas Gunn was a boy chorister at St Patrick’s Cathedral and the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin under Dr George Hewson, and later a lay Vicar Choral at St Patrick’s and Christ Ch
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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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An Irish composer is defined as anyone who was born or is permanently resident in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
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