Irish composer and musician
Linda Buckley
Born (1979-04-04 ) April 4, 1979 (age 45) Occupation 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
^ "Linda Buckley" . Contemporary Music Centre . 20 September 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ "Linda Buckley" . Linda Buckley . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ "Linda Buckley" . Linda Buckley . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ Heraty, Johanne (2013). "Buckley, Linda". In White, Harry; Boydell, Barra (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland . Dublin: UCD Press . pp. 137–138.
^ "REVIEWS" . The Irish Times . Retrieved 31 March 2019 .
^ "Linda Buckley Announced as RTÉ Lyric FM Composer-in-Residence" . The Journal of Music: News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ "New Music Dublin – composer Linda Buckley on 'being the noise' " . 23 February 2017.
^ "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 .
^ "Powerplant: The Filthy Fifteen @ Barbican Milton Court, London | Reviews" . musicOMH . 3 May 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2019 .
^ "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 .
^ "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 .
^ "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