Donnacha Dennehy
Donnacha Dennehy (born August 17, 1970 in Dublin ) is an Irish composer .
life and work
Dennehy studied music at Trinity College, Dublin , where he graduated with honors. He continued his studies with the help of a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). There he obtained a master's and a doctorate. His postgraduate training included a detour to IRCAM in Paris, where he studied with Gérard Grisey , and a stay in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen .
In 1997 Dennehy returned to Dublin and co-founded the Crash Ensemble , a new music formation. For this ensemble he wrote Junk Box Fraud , Derailed and For Herbert Brun . He returned to Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer and has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University since 2012 and a faculty member since 2014 . In the 2013-2014 season he was Composer in Residence of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra .
He is a member of Ireland's Aosdána Artists Academy .
Compositions
Orchestral works
- Junk Box Fraud (1997)
- The Vandal (2000)
- O (2002)
- Elastic Harmonic (2005); Violin and orchestra
- Hive (2005); Voices and orchestra
- Aisling Gheal (2007); Voice and chamber orchestra
- Grá agus Bás (2007); Voice and chamber orchestra
- Crane (2009)
- That the Night Come (2010); Soprano and chamber orchestra
- If he died, what then (2012); Soprano and chamber orchestra
- Disposable Dissonance (2012)
- The Hunger [(parts I-IV) 2013]; Soprano and chamber orchestra
- Three Sean Nós Settings (2013); Voice and orchestra
- Dirty Light (2013)
- Turn (2014)
Small ensembles with a voice
- Two Yeats Songs (1993); Soprano and flute
- Hinterlands (2002); two female voices and playback
- To Herbert Brun (2002); Voice, saxophone, trombone, double bass and live electronics
- The Weathering (2004); Soprano, recorder, drums, violin and video
- Swift's Epitaph (2008); Countertenor and drums
Instrumental ensembles
- Pluck, Stroke, and Hammer (1997); Piano quintet
- The Traces of a Revolutionary Song (1998)
- A Game for Gentlemen Played by Thugs (1999)
- Severance (1999)
- Ecstasis, full stop (1999); String quartet and playback
- Counting (2000); String quartet and playback
- Derailed (2000)
- Composition for percussion, loops, blips and flesh (2002); Drum sextet
- Glamor Sleeper (2002)
- Streetwalker (2003)
- The Pale (2003); Saxophone quartet and percussion sextet
- The Blotting (2004)
- Table Manners (2004); percussion quartet
- Mild, Medium-Lasting, Artificial Happiness (2004); Saxophone quartet or any formation of similar sounding instruments
- Tilt (2006); Electric guitar quartet
- Bulb (2006); Piano trio
- Push pulling (2007); String quartet
- Fold (2008)
- STAMP (2008); String quartet
- As An Nós (2009)
- An Irish Process (2009)
- Céad Slán (One Hundred Goodbyes) (2011); String quartet and playback
Solo / electro-acoustic music
- Work for Organ (1992)
- GUBU (1995); tape
- Begobs I-IV (1995); piano
- Metropolis Mutabilis (1995); Tape and optional video (by Hugh Reynolds)
- Voitures (1996); Oboe and tape
- Curves (1997); reinforced harp and ribbon
- Swerve (1998); Flute and tape
- FAT (2000); Flute and tape
- Mad, Avid, Sad (2000); organ
- pAt (2001); Piano and tape
- [H] interlands (2002); two female voices and tape
- PADDY (2003); Drums
- BRAT (2000/5); Recorder and tape (arrangement of FAT )
- North Strand (2007); piano
- North Circular (2007); piano
- Reservoir (2007); piano
- Stainless staining (2007); Piano and playback
- Overstrung (2010); Violin and playback
Open ensemble
- Blips and Static (2002); multiple boomboxes
- Flashbulb (2006); three melody instruments and one struck instrument
- A Fatal Optimist (2008); for any instrumentation
Theater, opera
- Misterman (2011); Music for a play by Enda Walsh
- The Last Hotel (2015); Libretto by Enda Walsh
- The Second Violinist (2017); Libretto by Enda Walsh
Discography
- Elastic Harmonic . NMC, 2007 (includes Glamor Sleeper; Paddy; Junk Box Fraud; Elastic Harmonic, pAt, Streetwalker )
- Grá agus Bás . Nonesuch, 2011
- Stainless staining . Canteloupe, 2012 (Lisa Moore, piano, with stainless staining ; reservoir )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Donnacha Dennehy on "Grá Agus Bás: Love and Death" . Princeton University, Fund for Irish Studies. 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
Web links
- Donnacha Dennehy , Official Website
- New York Times review
- Details of Lisa Moore EP recording
- Princeton University page on Donnacha Dennehy
- WQXR 96.3 FM, New York City, Meet the Composer : 'Donnacha Dennehy: I. "Mine is not the standard childhood"'. 26th of August. 2014
- WQXR 96.3 FM, New York City, Meet the Composer : "Donnacha Dennehy: II. Grisey, Andrissen and Gender Confusion". August 26, 2014
- WQXR 96.3 FM, New York City, Meet the Composer : "Donnacha Dennehy: Composing With Frequency". August 26, 2014
- NMC Records page on Donnacha Dennehy
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dennehy, Donnacha |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |