"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.
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'The Binding of the Years'. UK Premiere. BBC Symphony
Orchestra. Pianist Finghin Collins. Conductor Alan Buribayev.
Maida Vale Studios. 15 March 2013.
Read Gribbin's thoughts on creating her new piano concerto, The Binding of the Years [see programme notes].
'Hearing Your Genes Evolve'. World Premiere. Smith Quartet. Greenwich International String Quartet Festival.
Cutty Sark Performance Space, London. 13 April 2013.
'What the Whaleship Saw'. US Premiere. Focus Festival.
Lincoln Center, New York. 28 January 2013. 8pm.
'Island People'. Release of Gribbin's new CD on the NMC
label. Featuring new settings of poetry by Seamus Heaney.
Vanbrugh Quartet. Spring 2013.
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See RTE Television's short film about the The Northern Irish influences on Deirdre Gribbin's new piano concerto |
