deirdre gribbin / composer / concerts and events

last updated: 22 December 2009

HOT NEWS: The RTE release of Deirdre Gribbin's major orchestral works, VENUS BLAZING (performed by the 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.

The CD includes three major orchestral works

Venus Blazing (2005)

Empire States (2004)

Unity of Being (2001)

Entitled VENUS BLAZING, the CD is available from the

RTE lyric fm Label

from the 12 January 2010.

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.

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