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]

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Linda Buckley

References
  1. "Linda Buckley". Contemporary Music Centre. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  2. "Linda Buckley". Linda Buckley. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
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  4. "REVIEWS". The Irish Times. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  5. "Linda Buckley Announced as RTÉ Lyric FM Composer-in-Residence". The Journal of Music: News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  6. "New Music Dublin – composer Linda Buckley on 'being the noise'". 23 February 2017. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "Crash Ensemble at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival". Contemporary Music Centre. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  8. Long, Siobhan. "Four of the best traditional music concerts in Ireland this week". The Irish Times. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  9. Fahrbach, Eberhard (2013), "Stormy and icy seas", Antarctica, Cambridge University Press, pp. 137–160, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511782299.006, ISBN 9780511782299
  10. athenamedia (10 November 2017). "New Episode of Vocal Chords with guest Linda Buckley on December 3rd". Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  11. "Powerplant: The Filthy Fifteen @ Barbican Milton Court, London | Reviews". musicOMH. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  12. "Cork sisters' original score for gothic classic Nosferatu". www.irishexaminer.com. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  13. 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.
  14. "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.
  15. "All Collisions End in Static: the Music of Linda Buckley". The Journal of Music: News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  16. 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.
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