Composers
Paul Wilson
(b. 1974)Paul Wilson is a lecturer in music at Queen's University, Belfast.
Ian Wilson
(b. 1964)Ian Wilson was born in Belfast and began composing while at university.
James Wilson
(1922 - 2005)James Wilson was born in London and came to live in Ireland in the late 1940s.
Charles Wood
(1866 - 1926)Charles Wood stood for most of his life in the shadow of Charles V.
Katherine Wyers
(b. 1982)Having completed a masters degree in composition with Dr.
Omar Zatriqi
(b. 1987)
Eduard Zatriqi
(b. 1987)Born in Belfast, Eduard Zatriqi earned a BMus with first class honours (2009), and an MA and PhD in Music Composition (2010 and 2015, respectively) from Queen's University Belfast.
Patrick Zuk
(b. 1968)Patrick Zuk was born in 1968. His mother is Irish and his father is Polish. After early studies at the piano he studied composition with the late Professor Aloys Fleischmann.
Amanda Feery
(b. 1984)Amanda Feery graduated from Trinity College Dublin, having completed a B.A. in Music in 2006, and an M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies in 2009.
Dave Flynn
(b. 1977)Praised in the New York Times for the “power and grittiness” of his music, composer Dave Flynn has redefined the possibilities of orchestral music by creating the cross-genre Irish Memory Orchestra
Roger Doyle
(b. 1949)Roger Doyle was born in Dublin and studied composition on scholarships at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht and the Finnish Radio Experimental
Seán Doherty
(b. 1987)Seán was introduced to music through the Irish fiddle tradition of his hometown of Derry.
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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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