"Deirdre Gribbin is a charismatic and intriguing new voice in contemporary music." Paul Conway The Independent
Her music has been performed worldwide including The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York. Her orchestral work Empire States was an award winner in the 2003 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers.
She also won an Arts Foundation Award for her prestigious opera Hey Persephone!, which enjoyed an acclaimed run at Aldeburgh and Almeida Festivals. See 'about' pages 
HOT NEWS: The RTE CD release of Deirdre Gribbin's major orchestral works, VENUS BLAZING (performed by the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland), will have its London launch at Wilton's Music Hall on Friday, 29 January 2010 between 6-8pm. The RTE resident string quartet, the Vanbrugh Quartet, will play the UK premiere of Gribbin's MERROW SANG as part of the launch.
Entitled VENUS BLAZING, the CD is available from the
RTE lyric fm Label
from the 15 January 2010. Buy the new VENUS BLAZING CD
VENUS BLAZING will receive its Irish Premiere on 12th January (1pm) 2010 at the National Concert Hall, Dublin with soloist Bradley Creswick. Gribbin's award-winning EMPIRE STATES will also feature. Click here for booking and concert details
Deirdre Gribbin's new one woman opera Crossing the Sea was performed at Wilton's Music Hall as part of The China Now Festival 2008.
"If she ever writes another opera as haunting as Crossing The Sea, she-and we-will be lucky". Richard Morrison, The Times.
Read interviews with Deirdre Gribbin including the composers thoughts about her music and changing role of the composer of the 21st Century
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NEW: Unity of Being: The Music of Deirdre Gribbin (PDF 52kb)
This article by Bob Gilmore first appeared in the May-June 2005 issue of The Journal of Music in Ireland. Reproduced by permission.
Deirdre Gribbin's new violin concerto, Venus Blazing, is less a terrestrial concert than an interplanetary event.
The Guardian
Deirdre's new CD VENUS BLAZING is available from the
RTE lyric fm Label
from the 15 January 2010.
