Irish composer and musician
Linda Buckley
Born (1979-04-04 ) April 4, 1979 (age 45) Occupation(s) Composer
Musical artist
Linda Buckley (born 4 April 1979) is an Irish art music composer and musician.
[1] Her work has been performed by the
BBC Symphony Orchestra ,
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra ,
Crash Ensemble ,
Icebreaker and
Iarla Ó Lionaird .
[2] She has received a
Fulbright Scholarship and the Frankfurt Visual Music Award.
[3]
Career
Born at the
Old Head of Kinsale ,
County Cork , Buckley studied at
University College Cork and graduated with an MA in music and media technology from Trinity College Dublin. She studied composition with
John Godfrey , David Harold Cox,
Donnacha Dennehy , and
Roger Doyle .
[4]
In 2008, Buckley featured in a "Composer's Choice" series of concerts at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
[5] She was
RTÉ Lyric FM 's resident composer during 2011–2012.
[6] Her work featured in the 2017 New Music Dublin Festival at the
National Concert Hall , Dublin
[7] and by the
Crash Ensemble at the 2012
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival .
[8]
In 2016, Buckley worked with
uilleann piper David Power on the composition Antarctica which premiered that year at the
Kilkenny Arts Festival .
[9]
The Irish Times ' s Gemma Tipton wrote that "the music is beguiling."
[10]
In 2017, she was interviewed about her work by
Iarla Ó Lionaird as part of the RTÉ Lyric FM series Vocal Chords: In Conversation .
[11]
In 2018, her work Discordia was performed at the
Barbican Theatre .
[12] Later that year she composed a score for the 1922 film
Nosferatu with her sister Irene by request of the
Union Chapel , London.
[13] The same year composer
Christopher Fox wrote in the
Cambridge University Press publication
Tempo about her contributions to modern composition.
[14]
Buckley has lectured in composition at the
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ,
Trinity College Dublin and Pulse College Dublin.
[15]
Reception
Buckley has been described by music writer
Bob Gilmore as "a leading figure in the younger generation of Irish composers"
[16] and by Tim Rutherford-Johnson as "a combination of bold assertiveness and a smooth, glassy elegance".
[17]
References
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"Linda Buckley" . Contemporary Music Centre . 20 September 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
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"Linda Buckley" . Linda Buckley . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
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"Linda Buckley" . Linda Buckley . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ Johanne Heraty: Buckley, Linda", in The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. by Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), pp. 137–138.
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"REVIEWS" . The Irish Times . Retrieved 31 March 2019 .
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"Linda Buckley Announced as RTÉ Lyric FM Composer-in-Residence" . The Journal of Music: News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
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"New Music Dublin – composer Linda Buckley on 'being the noise' " . 23 February 2017.
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"Crash Ensemble at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival" . Contemporary Music Centre . 2 October 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2019 .
^ Long, Siobhan.
"Four of the best traditional music concerts in Ireland this week" . The Irish Times . Retrieved 31 March 2019 .
^ Fahrbach, Eberhard (2013), "Stormy and icy seas", in Walton, David W. H (ed.), Antarctica , Cambridge University Press, pp. 137–160,
doi :
10.1017/cbo9780511782299.006 ,
ISBN
9780511782299
^ athenamedia (10 November 2017).
"New Episode of Vocal Chords with guest Linda Buckley on December 3rd" . Retrieved 31 March 2019 .
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"Powerplant: The Filthy Fifteen @ Barbican Milton Court, London | Reviews" . musicOMH . 3 May 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2019 .
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"Cork sisters' original score for gothic classic Nosferatu" . www.irishexaminer.com . 11 November 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2019 .
^ Fox, Christopher (April 2018). " 'the Bright Places of Life as Clearly as the Dark': The Music of Linda Buckley". Tempo . 72 (284): 22–34.
doi :
10.1017/S0040298217001218 .
ISSN
0040-2982 .
S2CID
149532309 .
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"Linda Buckley Appointed Lecturer in Composition at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland" . The Journal of Music: News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
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"All Collisions End in Static: the Music of Linda Buckley" . The Journal of Music: News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ Millar, Paul (1 January 1996).
"An effortless combination of utility and elegance [Book Review]" . The Journal of New Zealand Studies . 6 (1).
doi :
10.26686/jnzs.v6i1.451 .
ISSN
2324-3740 .
External links
International National Academics Artists