Studying composition in Guildhall School of Music
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Robert Crehan is a British composer whose work draws inspiration from visual art and literature and is currently focused on elements of improvisation and spontaneity. He completed his studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2017, and in 2018, enrolled at Guildhall School of Music and Drama for his postgraduate studies, and returned recently as a Postgraduate Researcher at GSMD where his research explores how non-expert or "amateur" approaches to music-making can influence and reshape traditional ideas of composition. He is supervised by Paul Newland, Richard Baker, and Steve Potter. 

His work has been performed around the world by ensembles including the Carice Singers, CoMA London, EXAUDI, London Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and Orkest de Ereprijs (NL). His work continues to gain recognition for its unique approach to composition. 

He is also enthusiastic about Music Education, having worked with learners of all ages and skill levels in multiple teaching positions.

Darragh Kelly is a composer and musician. He is interested in the ineluctable dialectics of the virtual vs the actual, subject vs object, the bathetic, the ecstatic, new music's ageing, and tonality's afterlife. Recent work makes use of AI, seeking to re-embody the output of neural networks and treat these systems as external organs of the body—a body in excess.​

Collaborators and performers have included Crash Ensemble, Heather Roche, The Smith Quartet, Darragh Morgan, Peter Brötzmann, Psappha Ensemble, Carla Rees, Michelle O'Rourke, and Elizabeth Hilliard. He received the 2018 West Cork Music Composition Prize for his work for string quartet, Blue, partly based upon the film by Derek Jarman. He is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre. In 2021, he received the Arts Council of Ireland Music Bursary, funding research and training in machine learning and a forthcoming collaboration with Irish composer and musician James McIlwrath. He has recently been awarded the Arts Council Next Generation Award for 2022, receiving €25,000 to support his work and research.

Darragh was a committee member for the Irish Composers' Collective for three years. He has studied at Trinity College Dublin and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

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