Brian Irvine (other)
Brian Irvine may refer to: *Brian Irvine (composer) (born 1965), Northern Irish composer *Brian Irvine (cricketer), South African test cricketer *Brian Irvine (footballer) Brian Irvine (born 24 May 1965 in Bellshill, Scotland) is a former international footballer who played as a central defender for Falkirk, Aberdeen, Dundee, Ross County and managed Elgin City. He was capped nine times by Scotland. Career After ...

Brian Irvine (composer)
Brian Irvine (born 2 January 1965) is a composer from Northern Ireland. His work has been characterized as avant-garde, incorporating elements of "free jazz, rock, rap, thrash, tango, lounge and contemporary classical" music. Irvine was Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra (2007–2011) and Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Ulster. Career Born in Belfast his body of work includes operas, orchestral works, large-scale participatory work, film scores, multi media installations, dance works as well as ensemble, solo, and chamber pieces. Roles and collaboration He is Co-Artistic director of Dumbworld, a production company he formed with filmmaker John McIlduff in 2009, and was the first Associate Composer with the Ulster Orchestra from 2008 to 2012. In 2015 he became the first Music Laureate for the City of Belfast and in December of that year was named as the winner of the Paul Hamlyn Composers Award. For the last four years he has been Associate Professor ...
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Brian Irvine (cricketer)
Brian Lee Irvine (born 9 March 1944 in Durban, South Africa) is a former cricketer who played four Tests for South Africa in 1969–70 in the last Test series played by South Africa before official sporting links were broken over the apartheid policy. Career Irvine was a hard-hitting left-handed middle-order batsman, a fine outfielder who became a regular wicketkeeper and an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. He played one first-class match as an 18-year-old for a Western Province XI against the International Cavaliers – he turned 19 during the match. But he did not then reappear in first-class cricket until he became a regular in the Natal side in the 1965–66 season. After two seasons of modest batting, Irvine made a big advance in the 1967–68 season, scoring 504 runs in the South African domestic season and hitting his first two centuries. He was, however, pretty much an unknown quantity when he was signed by Essex as an overseas player for the 1968 English cr ...
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