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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.
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.
Tuesday 5th of July 2005
St Swithans Quenington Parish Church
Mariane Thorsen Violin, Paul Watkin Cello
GRIBBIN Seen through it
New commission Premiere
Thursday 9th of June 2005
Venue: National Gallery of Ireland
Concorde Ensemble;
Jane O'Leary, conductor
GRIBBIN To Bathe Her Body in Whiteness
Saturday 11th of June 2005
Venue: Wiltons Music Hall
Concorde Ensemble;
Jane O'Leary, conductor
GRIBBIN To Bathe Her Body in Whiteness
VENUS BLAZING
"Less a terrestial concert than an interstellar event"
The Guardian
Venus Blazing Tour featuring Gribbin’s violin concerto with Ernst
Kovacic, and The Britten Sinfonia conductor Pierre-Andre Valade,
produced by Lou Stein Associates for The Contemporary Music Network CMN
with lighting by Bruce Springsteen’s lighting designer Jeff Ravitz. 2005
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"Deirdre Gribbin's new violin concerto, Venus Blazing, is less a terrestrial concert than an interplanetary event."
Alfred Hickling
02.02 The Guardian