Event overview
The CMRU is pleased to welcome Irish composer and sound artist Jennifer Walshe to give this evening's lecture.
“Without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years.”
-- Michael Dervan, The Irish Times
Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University, Chicago, with a doctoral degree in composition in June 2002. Her chief teachers at Northwestern were Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. In 2000 Jennifer won the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt.
In addition to her activities as a composer, Jennifer frequently performs as a vocalist, specialising in extended techniques. Many of her compositions are commissioned for her voice either as a soloist or in conjunction with other instruments, and her works have been performed by her and others at international festivals.
Since 2007 Walshe has developed Grúpat, a project in which Walshe has assumed twelve different alter egos - all members of art collective Grúpat - and created compositions, installations, graphic scores, films, photography, sculptures and fashion under these alter egos. In 2013 Grúpat were featured at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, where work by Grúpat members filled the Huddersfield Art Gallery and a large-scale installation by Caoimhín Breathnach filled Bates Mill.
Walshe’s most recent project, 'Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde', involved the creation of a fictional history of the musical avant-garde in Ireland. This history spans 187 years, and is housed at aisteach.org, the website of the Aisteach Foundation, a fictional organisation which purports to be "The Avant-Garde Archive of Ireland". For the project, Walshe engaged a huge team of collaborators and created compositions, recordings, scores, articles and ephemera.
Free event, all welcome
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Nov 2015 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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