Students
Current Students
Laura Kilty
Laura Kilty is a Dublin based vocalist and composer. She studies voice with Sylvia O’Regan and studied composition and improvisation techniques with Ronan Guilfoyle on the Professional Musician’s Training Course at Newpark Music Centre. In 2008, she completed a Masters in Music and Media Technologies in Trinity College Dublin, where she studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle, graduating with first class honours. Laura is currently studying for a doctorate in composition under the supervision of Donnacha Dennehy at TCD. She has had air-time on Canadian radio station ‘The Francophone’ and had her pieces performed by, among others, Kate Ellis, Ensemble ICC, Karen Dervan, Soprano Elizabeth Hilliard, and The Milltown Choir and The Mornington Singers both conducted by Orla Flanagan. Laura and conductor Emma O’Halloran are directors of the innovative new choir and string ensemble, SoundSet. They are dedicated to bringing high quality performances and mixed media concerts to audiences at home and abroad.
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Jenn Kirby
Jenn Kirby is a composer and software developer. She received a BSc (Hons) in Software Development from Limerick Institute of Technology and an MSc (Hons) in Music Technology from the University of Limerick. She is currently studying for a doctorate in composition in Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Dr. Evangelia Rigaki. Jenn's interests are in both acoustic and electroacoustic contemporary music. Her approach to composition is strongly influenced by her computer science background.
Ian McDonnell
Ian Mc Donnell is a composer, DJ and producer from Dublin. He is currently doing a PhD in composition with Donnacha Dennehy at Trinity College, Dublin. He also writes music and DJs under the name Eomac, works with the collective/label !Kaboogie, and is a member of the electronic duo Lakker. His work ranges from solo and chamber instrumental pieces, to mixed media and installations, to improvised electronica, dance and pop music. He has performed at concerts by the Crash Ensemble and in a piano and laptop duo with composer Roger Doyle. He has also written music for theatre and dance, his most recent piece being a sound score for the show 'Out of Time' with dancer Colin Dunne, which was pemiered at the Dublin Dance Festival in April 2008. He is also an active member of the Spatial Music Collective and the Bottlenote Music Collective.
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Past Students
Enda Bates
Enda Bates is a composer, musician, producer and academic based in Dublin, Ireland. In March 2010, he completed a PhD in composition at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied with Donnacha Dennehy and Dr.Dermot Furlong. His music includes both acoustic and electroacoustic contemporary music and multi-channel, electronic music, and the use of spatially distributed sounds is a major feature of his work. He has received various commissions and awards including the 37th Florilege Vocal de Tours, the 2008 Irish National Choir of the Year competition, the 2009 Gaudeamus Music Prize shortlist and the 2010 Música Viva Competition. His work has been performed by, among others, the Crash Ensemble, Anne La Berge, the Doelen Quartet, Trio Scordatura, New Dublin Voices, the Miso Music Loudspeaker Orchestra and at international festivals including the Música Viva Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, the International Computer Music Conference and the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival. He is a founder member of the Spatial Music Collective and also regularly peEDC519rforms with the Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Miriam Ingram and Fairlights.
Linda Buckley
Linda Buckley is a composer currently based in Dublin, who writes for both electronic and acoustic forces. Her music has been described as "strange and beautiful" (Boston Globe, July 2004), a "fascinating interaction between live sound and electronics" (Irish Times, Nov 2006), with “an exciting body of work that marks her out as a leading figure in the younger generation of Irish composers working in the medium” (Journal of Music, Sept 2008).
Her music has been performed by the Dresden Sinfoniker Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Fidelio Trio, Orkest de Ereprijs, Janus Trio, Rothko Trio, University of York Javanese Gamelan, and at international festivals including the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at MassMoCA, Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, SoundImageSound Festival, University of the Pacific, California, Beijing Musicacoustica Festival, and Seoul International Computer Music Festival.
Awards and prizes include the Mary V. Hart Award (UCC, 2000), International Young Composers Meeting (Apeldoorn, 2005) and artist's bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. Linda is a member of the Spatial Music Collective, dedicated to the composition and performance of spatial acoustic and electroacoustic music.
She holds first-class honours degrees in both undergraduate Music from University College Cork, and Masters in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin. She holds a Ph.D in Composition from Trinity College, where she also lectures. Upcoming performances include chiyo commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra, galura for piano trio at M.I.T. Boston and fiol for string trio at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival.
Julie Feeney
Julie Feeney works as a composer, a singer, a producer, a musician, a songwriter, a theatre artist and as an educator. She composes instrumental music and songs with full orchestrations. Her debut album '13 songs' won the 'Choice Music Prize in 2006 - "Irish Album of the Year' and received rave reviews in all major U.K. and Irish press and the New York Times. She played most of the instruments and did all of the singing on the album - which she produced and released herself.
Her instrumental compositions have been for the Crash Ensemble and Icebreaker, and the electronic scores for Corp Feasa contemporary dance company, Loose Canon Theatre Company and for her own one-woman shows where she incorporated live singing.
She has orchestrated for and conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra string section and she orchestrated '13 songs' for the 65-piece Ulster Orchestra at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast in 2007.
She has worked as a theatre artist with Loose Canon Theatre Company; in a one-woman show to her own electronic score; and in 'Slat' at Galway Arts Festival and in Paris in 2008 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. After she graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2001, she worked all over the world as a professional choral singer with various ensembles on numerous cds, dvds and broadcasts.
Jonathan Nangle
Jonathan Nangle is a composer whose work explores many diverse fields ranging from notated acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions, through live and spatially distributed electronics, to video, interactive sound installation and electronic improvisation. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, with a degree in Music and Philosophy (2003) and an M.Phil in Music and Media Technology (2005), he studied composition with Donnacha Dennehy and Rob Canning and Electro-Acoustic composition with Roger Doyle. He currently attends private composition lessons with Kevin Volans.
His work has been commissioned and performed internationally by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Ensemble Scratch the Surface, The Dublin Guitar Quartet, Ergodos Orchestra, Darragh Morgan, Roberto Oliveira and David Bremner, amongst others.
Awards include a commendation in the under-30 category at the 56th International Rostrum of Composers in 2009. Jonathan currently lectures in Music Technology and Electro-Acoustic Composition at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Sean Reed
Studies at Trinity College Dublin, under Manfred Stahnke at the Hamburg College of Music and Theater, and at the Eastman School of Music. Active as a composer for classical instrumental ensembles as well as electro-acoustic music. Collaborative work with visual art, video, dance, theater, and space-sound installations. International performances of independent and collaborative works, including by soloists of the ensemble modern, within the zeitoper series of the Hanover State Opera, at the Munich Biennale, the CYNETart, ISEA and ICMC festivals, the Berlin transmediale, and at the EMPAC in Troy, NY. Sean has received several prizes and stipends, including within the German Society for New Music's Nachwuchsforum, the Asolo 1st prize for computer art, by the Darmstadt INMM, the Culture Committee of the Federation of German Industries, and the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media (ZKM). His works have been broadcast on DEGEM Webradio. Sean recently completed his Ph.D. in Composition under Donnacha Dennehy at Trinity College Dublin, where he also teaches graduate level courses within the MMT in Orchestration and Music Technology and has taught undergraduate courses in Composition. Sean is a member of the Dublin Spatial Music Collective, and his work is published by Sumtone.
Judith Ring
Judith Ring was born in Dublin. She graduated with an MPhil in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin in 2000, where she studied with Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle. In June 2009 she completed her PhD in composition at the University of York, England, studying with composers Ambrose Field and Roger Marsh. She was awarded the Elizabeth Maconchy fellowship from the Arts Council of Ireland to fund her PhD.
Judith Ring has received commissions from ensembles including Concorde, Crash Ensemble, Trio Scordatura and Percusemble as well as composing a series of solo and tape works with performers such as singer Natasha Lohan, clarinetist Paul Roe, percussionist Damien Harron and many others.
As part of The-Link-Project she is a co-director, alongside her colleagues Angie Atmadjaja, Emily Kalies and Enrico Bertelli of Sensorium – multidisciplinary music events.
Her work has been performed throughout Europe and the Americas.
Jürgen Simpson
Jürgen Simpson completed an MPhil. in Music and Media Technologies at TCD in 2000, and lectured there for a time before taking up the position of centre director at The Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music, University of Limerick. Simpson's work includes two operas; ‘Neshika’, with librettist Clare MacCumhaill, was performed at the Dublin Theatre Fringe Festival in 2000; ‘Thwaite’ (librettist Simon Doyle) was commissioned by The Genesis Foundation and premiered in 2003 by Almeida Opera London, Aldeburgh and in Ireland by Opera Theatre Company. A third opera (librettist Michael West) is to be premiered in 2013 at the PUSH festival in Vancouver and the Cork Midsummer Festival. Simpson has composed the music for eleven films, five of these with artist Clare Langan, their 2007 film 'Metamorphosis' winning the Oberhausen International Filmfestival. In 2005 he collaborated with composer Michael Nyman creating 'Flicker' for the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company. He has created numerous installation works with venues including the Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast and the Venice Architectural Biennale. He was a member of the band ‘The Jimmy Cake’ from 2000 to 2008, recording and producing their third album 'Spectre and Crown'.