Roger Doyle – composer, keyboardist and producer of own music, in concert and in the studio. Likes to work on large projects and to collaborate with others. His music is a celebration of the multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies.
Bandcamp downloads and CDs here: http://rogerdoyle1.bandcamp.com/&#13;
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Roger has worked extensively in theatre, film and dance in particular with the music-theatre company Operating Theatre which he co-founded with actress Olwen Fouere. Operating Theatre released singles with CBS and Mother Records in the 80s - the latter produced by Bono of U2 - and also mounted several theatre productions integrating music as an equal partner. In his 30s he worked in many styles, allowing the influences of pop music to filter through. He was one of the first people in Ireland to work on a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument.&#13;
In 1989, at the age of 40 he began his life's work BABEL which would occupy him for 10 years. In 1999 he set up the Silverdoor label and released BABEL as a 5-CD set, where each track corresponds to a room or place within a giant tower city. It contained 103 pieces of music and he worked with 48 collaborators on it.&#13;
In 2000 the CD UNDER THE GREEN TIME was released, a collaboration with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble; as was a CD of the piano music which Doyle composed for the Steven Berkoff production of SALOME, which played in Dublin's Gate Theatre, in London's West End and on three world tours.&#13;
From 2002-07 he worked on a large-scale electronic work PASSADES, constructed in 9 'sets', and released on 3 CDs.&#13;
From 2007-2010 he completed 2 'cinema for the ear' projects - live soundtracks for imaginary films: ADOLF GÉBLER, CLARINETTIST and THE ROOM IN THE TOWER (performed by the National Symphony Orchestra and The Crash Ensemble respectively - both released on CD), and in 2012  CHALANT-MEMENTO MORI - music composed around intimate verbal time capsules (telephone answering machine messages from the 1980s), together with  THE THOUSAND YEAR OLD BOY - software instruments compositions which are 'explorations in imagined world musics, past, present and future'. (2013).&#13;
He has just completed his first opera 'The Death By Fire Of Giordano Bruno' (2014).
In 1997 he won the Programme Music Prize (with Spirit Levels I-IV from Babel) and in 2007 the Magisterium Award (with The Ninth Set from Passades) at the Bourges International Electro-acoustic Music Competition, in France.&#13;
Roger Doyle is a member of Aosdana, Ireland's state-sponsored academy of creative artists and is constantly amazed that he is a composer.

Latest:
Helios - Espera: https://ghostly.ffm.to/helios-espera
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift: https://ampl.ink/5Y9Rw
Mint Julep - In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep: https://ampl.ink/omKoq
Goldmund - The Time it Takes: smarturl.it/ibfvzw

I write music for film and record as Helios, Mint Julep, Goldmund.

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Hugh Rodgers is an award-winning composer based in Dublin, Ireland. Working in film and television, he has scored internationally award-winning documentaries and dramas, as well as highly successful online commercials and PSAs. 

Film & TV credits include: 'Strange Occurrences In A Small Irish Village' (Feature Documentary); 'One Million Dubliners' (Feature Documentary), Sandboy (Short Drama), Somebody To Love (TV Documentary), Home (Short Documentary),  Hold On Tight (Short Documentary), Crossword (Short Drama), Growing Up Gay (TV Documentary Series), Today Is Better Than Two Tomorrows (Feature Documentary).

Be Honest is a solo project begun in winter of 2011 to explore new methods of improvisation, extended techniques, field recording and generative composition.

First release: Tea, Sugar, Soda, Soap (Fallow Field, 2013) - http://digital.fallowfield.ie/album/tea-sugar-soda-soap

imaleney@gmail.com

Barry O’ Halpin is a Dublin-based composer, member of Alarmist and electric guitarist with Crash Ensemble. 

In 2018-20 he was Arts & Humanities Artist in Residence at Parity Studios, University College Dublin, as well as Composer-In-Residence with Crash Ensemble, composing several works for solo guitar & small and large ensembles.

Written for diverse ensembles, his compositions frequently draw inspiration from the sounds and patterns of natural phenomena, weaving musical materials from animal choruses, electromagnetic spectra and the imagery of microbiology.  

His highly textural music is shot through with a crawling, organic energy, often preoccupied with unfamiliar microtonal sonorities, fluctuating rhythms, and liminal timbres.  He frequently explores new uses of the electric guitar alongside classical instrumentation, employing invented tunings and unorthodox techniques to create a sound-world less familiar than the sum of its parts.

His piece Lipids was written for and performed by Crash Ensemble in their 2015-16 Born in the 80s tour, and featured in their 2016 Composing the Island Music Marathon at the NCH.  In 2015, Toric for string orchestra was commissioned and performed by Fishamble Sinfonia & guest director Darragh Morgan, and earlier that year his Miniature for piano was performed by Raymond Deane in the Kevin Barry Room. NCH. Both as composer and guitarist, he has worked closely with Crash, Kirkos & Bastard Assignments, and curated the latter's 2014 Dublin show. 

As a member of Crash, he has premiered works by composers such as Tansy Davies, Ann Cleare, David Lang & Michael Gordon and performed at festivals Musica Nova (Finland)and Gaida (Lithuania).

He was Guitar Fellow at Bang On A Can’s 2017 Summer Music Festival in the Massachussetts, USA, as well as their November 2016 Villa Musica residency in Germany.

He is a composer and performer with experimental rock band Alarmist, whose 2015 LP Popular Demain, along with two previous EPs, have gained them an international following. Alarmist have gained acclaim for their live shows, with tours in the UK, Europe & Canada, including festivals Ottawa Jazz, Arctangent (UK), 12 Points (SWE/IR) and Match & Fuse (FR/UK). Media coverage has included BBC Radio, WNYC/NPR, All About Jazz, The Guardian and Nialler9.

He is currently a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast with Simon Mawhinney. In 2013 he obtained an MMus (Distinction) in Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London under Gwyn Pritchard & Paul Newland, 
In 2010 he was awarded the Geoffrey Singleton prize for his composition portfolio upon graduation from Music in Trinity College Dublin, where he studied with composers Donnacha Dennehy and Sean Reed.


(photo by Sophie Murphy)

"McGuire's vision is convincing and his craft accomplished" 
– Liam Cagney, TEMPO: A Quarterly Review of New Music

"... rather marvellous... Clearly a composer to keep an eye on for the future" 
– Simon Cummings, 5against4.com

Paul McGuire (b. 1988) is a Dublin-born composer, sound designer and producer based in London. He is principally interested in noise and the timbral exploration of sound rather than in melodic, harmonic or rhythmic expression, and the musical material in his work is created through the complete re-imagining of instrumental performance practice.

Paul earned a B.A. (Hons.) in Music from Trinity College Dublin, where he specialised in composition under Donnacha Dennehy and Sean Reed. He recently completed a PhD in "Composing with an Expanded Instrumental Palette" with Jennifer Walshe and Christopher Fox at Brunel University London, funded by the 2012 Elizabeth Maconchy Composition Fellowship Award.

Paul has received international recognition for his music. In 2015, he was awarded the George Butterworth Prize for his chamber work Panels, and in 2013 he won the Pablo Wendel – Performance Electrics International Composition Competition for his piece Marshes, written for mass guitar ensemble. His music has been performed at international festivals including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), SPOR (Denmark), Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (USA) and II Bienal Música Hoje (Brazil). He has collaborated with a number of established ensembles including London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Cross.Art, Open Source Guitars, and leading soloists Céline Papion, Sarah Nicolls and Loré Lixenberg.

In 2015, Paul released his debut album SLEEP SPINDLES on the London/Berlin-based Slip imprint. His piece Panels also features on NMC/Sound and Music's NEXT WAVE album, released in 2014.

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