Donnacha Dennehy

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Donnacha Dennehy, 2010

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

  1. Donnacha Dennehy on "Grá Agus Bás: Love and Death" . Princeton University, Fund for Irish Studies. 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Donnacha Dennehy  - collection of images, videos and audio files