Linda Buckley (born 4 April 1979) is an Irish art music composer and musician. Her work has been performed by the

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and Iarla Ó Lionaird. She has received a

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and the Frankfurt Visual Music Award.

Career

Born at the

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, Buckley studied at

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and graduated with an MA in music and media technology from Trinity College Dublin. She studied composition with

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, David Harold Cox,

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, and

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. In 2008, Buckley featured in a "Composer's Choice" series of concerts at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. She was

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's resident composer during 2011–2012. Her work featured in the 2017 New Music Dublin Festival at the

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, Dublin and by the

at the 2012

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. In 2016, Buckley worked with uilleann piper David Power on the composition ''Antarctica'' which premiered that year at the

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. ''

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''s Gemma Tipton wrote that "the music is beguiling." In 2017, she was interviewed about her work by Iarla Ó Lionaird as part of the RTÉ Lyric FM series ''Vocal Chords: In Conversation''. In 2018, her work ''Discordia'' was performed at the

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. Later that year she composed a score for the 1922 film ''

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'' with her sister Irene by request of the Union Chapel, London. The same year composer Christopher Fox wrote in the

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publication

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about her contributions to modern composition. Buckley has lectured in composition at the

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and Pulse College Dublin.

Reception

Buckley has been described by music writer

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as "a leading figure in the younger generation of Irish composers" and by Tim Rutherford-Johnson as "a combination of bold assertiveness and a smooth, glassy elegance".

References

External links

Linda Buckley's website
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