Four Quartets
Belfast dance company Maiden Voyage chose TS Eliot’s set of poems ‘Four Quartets’ as the inspiration for this work. Four choreographers and four dancers worked on the production. My first dance score….
A Particle of Dread
Field Day Theatre Company was founded by Stephen Rea and Brian Friel in 1980 and immediately established itself as the leading independent theatre voice in Ireland.
Women on the Verge of HRT (1996)
Marie Jones’ hit comedy ran very successfully in the West End during the mid-90s and is still favoured by many amateur drama societies.
Farewell
For Clare Dwyer Hogg’s play my aim was to encapsulate the play’s compliacted, resonant and sore moods in a few short bars. Barry Douglas did me the honour of recording the music.
Northern Star
Stewart Parker’s timeless play ran in Rosemary Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast, for a three-week run. A beautiful venue, I scored this for harp, sax and violin.
St Oscar
Terry Eagleton’s play about Oscar Wilde was my first production for Field Day Theatre Company, and it brought me into contact for the first time with the writer and director, Trevor Griffiths, a man whose craft of language has influenced me greatly.
The Conquest of Happiness
Based on the writings of Bertrand Russell, this was an intercollaboration between theatre companies in Belfast, Sarajevo and Ljubljana.
Belfast By Moonlight
Carlo Gebler’s play about Belfast, told through the eyes of five women from different eras over the city’s 400 year history was written entirely in verse.
A cellist and an uilleann piper
A cellist and an uilleann piper, he has worked with many leading musicians, both on stage and in the studio – these include Liam O’Flynn, Bryn Terfel, Barry Douglas, LSO, RPO, all the principle orchestras in Ireland, Christy Moore, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, The Dubliners, The Chieftains, Altan, Shaun Davey, Mary Black and Donal Lunny.
The West Ocean String Quartet
The West Ocean String Quartet has received global acclaim, and the quartet’s fourth album, An Indigo Sky, was awarded The Irish Times “CD of the Year” for 2013.
