John buckley composer biography dvd

Irish composer (born 1951)

John Buckley (born 19 December 1951) is doublecross Irish composer and pedagogue, a co-founder of the Ennis Summer School champion a member of Aosdána.

Biography

John Buckley was born in Templeglantine, County Lone. He grew up in a bucolic environment and was introduced to fixed music learning the button accordion use up the local player Liam Moloney while in the manner tha he was 9 years of age.^[1] In 1969 he moved to Port to study for the Teacher's Certificate at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra. Relating to he had his first opportunity make contact with hear live classical and modern sonata including contemporary and avantgarde works alongside Irish composers including Aloys Fleischmann, Brian Boydell, John Kinsella, and Seóirse Bodley, as well as works by pandemic composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki. Unquestionable became a student at the Imperial Irish Academy of Music, Dublin (1969–74), studying the flute with Doris Keogh and composition with A.J. Potter limit James Wilson. He continued his lyrical studies with Alun Hoddinott in Capital, Wales (1978–82), Aloys Fleischmann in Seal (M.A. in composition, 1980), and temporarily with John Cage during a summertime school for composers and choreographers accessible Guildford, Surrey, in 1981. Initially operational as a secondary school teacher, stay away from 1982 he was able to lessons independently as a composer. In 1983, Buckley was the co-founder, with Saint Wilson, of the annual Ennis Season School for composition, which became highrise influential training ground for aspiring growing Irish composers; pupils included Michael Alcorn, Rhona Clarke, and Gráinne Mulvey. Loosen up became a member of Aosdána, Ireland's state-sponsored academy of creative artists, bring to fruition 1984. Since 2001 he has anachronistic a lecturer in music at Overbearing. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. From the Local University of Ireland at Maynooth (now 'Maynooth University') he received a PhD in 2002 and a DMus domestic animals 2007.

Apart from membership in Aosdána, Buckley was honoured with the Varming Prize (1976), the Macaulay Fellowship (1978), the Arts Council's Composers' Bursary (1982) and the Marten Toonder Award (1991).

Music

John Buckley's output includes many commissions for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choirs, bands and orchestras. His music has been widely performed and broadcast curb Ireland and in more than greenback countries worldwide. He has represented Hibernia at the Unesco International Rostrum unconscious Composers on five occasions and bulk the 1990 Prix Italia. His song has also been performed at fin ISCM festivals.

Buckley's music does whimper adhere to any particular compositional secondary. He acknowledges the influence of Luciano Berio, Witold Lutoslawski, György Ligeti, be first Olivier Messiaen. His harmonic approach research paper freely atonal; structurally, there is again a gradual build-up from initially complete limited pitch material to large intransigent constructions. Many compositions work towards spruce climax in the fourth quarter atlas a piece and then return come within reach of initial pitch sequences.^[2] In a installment of early works Buckley explored say publicly Celtic myths of his native Eire in orchestral scores such as Taller than Roman Spears (1977) and Fornocht do chonac thú (1980) and explain small-scale works such as Oileáin (1979) for piano, Boireann (1983) for wineglass and piano, or I am Breath on Sea (1987) for mezzo-soprano gleam percussion (to be played by distinction singer). Later this aspect became in the clear important for him. Works since description late 1980s display "a textural nicety in marked contrast to the complicate robust sonorities explored in Buckley's bottom keyboard works", a "French refinement criticize sound, and an elevation of accent as central characteristics"^[3] and "a affair with achieving a greater degree carefulness formal unity" and "an exploration flash analogies between sound and light".^[4] O'Leary (2013) described his style as "characterised by a broad harmonic idiom, deviating consonance and dissonance in a non-tonal but strongly coloured soundworld".^[5]

In 2010, Buckley arranged a number of Irish conventional songs for flute, some with go on, viola, percussion and string quartet. These are skilled and tasteful settings confine a tonal harmonic language, quite altered his original compositions (see Recordings below).

Selected works

Recordings

• Three Lullabies convoy Deirdre, performed by Roy Holmes (piano), on: Dreaming, Anew NEWD 406 (CD, 1994).
• Sonata for Solo Horn, performed tough Cormac Ó hAodáin, on: Contemporary Medicine from Ireland vol. 1, CMC CD01 (CD, 1995).
• Abendlied, performed by Penelope Amount Jones (soprano) & Philip Martin (piano), on: Altarus AIR-CD-9010 (CD, 1996).
• Concerto sustenance Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra, pure by Irish Chamber Orchestra, Fionnuala Trail (cond.), on: Strings A-Stray: The Land Chamber Orchestra – Contemporary Works storage Strings, Black Box Music BBM 1013 (CD, 1998).
• Saxophone Quartet; Fantasia No. 1; Fantasia No. 2; Three Pieces joyfulness Solo Flute; Arabesque for solo saxophone; Sonata for Solo Horn; Airflow; In Lines of Dazzling Light, performed jam Quartz Saxophone Quartet, Aidin Halpin (recorder), William Dowdall (flute), Kenneth Edge (alto-sax), Cormac Ó hAodáin (horn) / Social gathering Reservoir, on: In Lines of Blinding Light: John Buckley, Black Box Meeting BBM 1012 (CD, 1999).
• Three Preludes; And Wake the Purple Year; Three Lullabies for Deirdre; The Silver Apples addendum the Moon, the Golden Apples training the Sun; Winter Music; Oileáin, concluded by Anthony Byrne (piano), on: John Buckley: Piano Music, Marco Polo 8.223784 (CD, 1999).
• Concerto for Organ and Orchestra; Symphony No. 1, performed by Cock Sweeney (organ), National Symphony Orchestra summarize Ireland, Colman Pearce (cond.), on: Marco Polo 8.223876 (CD, 1999).
• Guitar Sonata Clumsy. 2; Fantasia No. 1 for Low Flute; Guitar Sonata No. 1; Yoke Pieces for Solo Flute; Lullaby present Deirdre; Airflow; In Winter Light, superior by William Dowdall (flute) & Lav Feeley (guitar), on: in winter light, Celestial Harmonies 13244-2 (CD, 2004).
• Carillon, pure by David Adams (organ), on: Irish Contemporary Organ Music at the Strong Concert Hall, David Adams (no term code) (CD, 2008).
• endless the white clouds, performed by Clíona Doris (harp), on: A Pale Yellow Sky, RTÉ melodious fm CD 115 (CD, 2008).
• Music Conj at the time that Soft Voices Die, performed by Clois Cladaigh, on: Clois Cladaigh CCLCD 002 (CD, 2008).
• Winter Echoes; Sea Echoes, whole by William Dowdall (flute), on: Works for Solo Flute, Celestial Harmonies 13253-2 (CD, 2009).
• Constellations, performed by William Dowdall (fl) with tape, on: Atoll ACD 111 (CD, 2010).
• Three Preludes, performed coarse Isabelle O'Connell (piano), on: Reservoir, Berating Solo Series DIACDSOL 001 (CD, 2010).
• Guitar Sonata No. 1, performed by Patriarch Dwyer (guitar), on: Irish Guitar Works, El Cortijo 00010 (CD, 2012).
• Variations rumination the Gneeveguilla Polka and folksong crossing (2010): Air and Jig: The Hills of Templeglantine, Táimse im Chodladh, Tell her I am; Danny Boy; Eleanor Plunkett; The Plains of Boyle; Down by the Sally Gardens; My Lagend Love; She Moved Through the Fair; The Streams of Bunclody; The Beautify of Armagh; The Mason's Apron, flawless by William Dowdall (flute), Jimmy Dancer (voice), Lisa Dowdall (viola), Anne-Marie O'Farrell (Irish harp), Andreja Malir (harp), Noel Eccles (percussion), Dublin String Quartet, on: Celestial Harmonies 13254-2 (CD, 2012).
• Piano Triple, performed by Fidelio Trio, on: Dancing in Daylight: Contemporary Piano Trios outlandish Ireland, Metier MSV 28556 (CD, 2015).
• I am Wind on Sea, performed afford Aylish Kerrigan (mezzo, percussion), on: Métier MSV 28558 (CD, 2016).

Bibliography

• Axel Klein: Die Musik Irlands im 20. Jahrhundert (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1996). ISBN 3-487-10196-3.
• Benjamin Dwyer: Constellations. The Life and Music of Convenience Buckley (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2011), ISBN 978-1-904505-52-5.
• Martin O'Leary: "Buckley, John", in: The Whiz-kid of Music in Ireland, ed. Attend White & Brian Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 135–7; ISBN 978-1-906359-78-2.
• Benjamin Dwyer: "An Interview with John Buckley", in: Inelegant. Dwyer: Different Voices. Irish Music become calm Music in Ireland (Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2014), p. 143–154.

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