Linda Buckley
Linda Buckley (born 1979) is an Irish composer and musician from the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork.[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
In 2008, Buckley featured in a "Composer's Choice" series of concerts at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.[4] She was RTÉ Lyric FM's resident composer during 2011–2012.[5] Her work featured in the 2017 New Music Dublin Festival at the National Concert Hall, Dublin[6] and by the Crash Ensemble at the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.[7]
In 2016 Buckley worked with uilleann piper David Power on the composition Antartica which premiered that year at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.[8] The Irish Times's Gemma Tipton wrote that "the music is beguiling."[9]
In 2017 she was interviewed about her work by Iarla Ó Lionaird as part of the RTÉ Lyric FM series Vocal Chords: In Conversation.[10]
In 2018 her work Discordia was performed at the Barbican Theatre.[11] Later that year she composed a score for the 1922 film Nosferatu with her sister Irene by request of the Union Chapel, London.[12] The same year composer Christopher Fox wrote in the Cambridge University Press publication Tempo about her contributions to modern composition.[13]
As of 2019 she is Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She previously lectured in composition in Trinity College Dublin and Pulse College Dublin.[14]
Reception
Buckley has been described by music writer Bob Gilmore as "a leading figure in the younger generation of Irish composers"[15] and by Tim Rutherford-Johnson as "a combination of bold assertiveness and a smooth, glassy elegance".[16]
External links
References
- "Linda Buckley". Contemporary Music Centre. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- "Linda Buckley". Linda Buckley. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
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- "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. Cite journal requires
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(help) - "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", 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.
- "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.