deirdre gribbin / composer / concerts and events

The RTE release of Deirdre Gribbin's major orchestral works, VENUS BLAZING (performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland), had it's London launch at Wilton's Music Hall on Friday, 29 January 2010.

The CD includes three major orchestral works

Venus Blazing (2005)

Empire States (2004)

Unity of Being (2001)

Entitled VENUS BLAZING, the CD is available on the

RTE lyric fm Label

ANAHORISH, a setting of a poem by Seamus Heaney, premiered at the Whitla Hall, Belfast and given to Heaney as a present on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from Queen's University, Belfast, 2 December 2008.

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. Click here for full review.

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