Raymond Deane
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| Born | Raymond Deane 27 January 1953 Achill Island, Republic Of Ireland |
Raymond Deane (b. 1953 in County Galway[1]) is an Irish composer of classical music.
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[edit] Biography
He was brought up on Achill Island[2] and has lived in Dublin, Basel, Cologne, Berlin, Oldenburg, Paris and Fuerth.
He studied music in University College Dublin, Ireland, from 1970 until graduation in 1974. He was awarded a doctorate in composition by the National University of Ireland in 2005. He is based in Dublin, Paris, and Fürth (Bavaria).
Deane has been a member of Aosdána, the Irish state-supported academy of artists, since 1986.[1]
He was a founding member of the Association of Young Irish Composers, which later became the Association of Irish Composers, the Irish branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
Recordings of his works have been made on the Naxos, Black Box and RTÉ labels.
[edit] Political activism
In 2001 Deane was a founding member of the Ireland–Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and served as its chairperson from 2002-5.
In August 2010 he initiated the "Irish artists' pledge to boycott Israel", arguing that "artists who perform in Israel are backing it whether they like it or not."[2]
[edit] Selected works
- C-changes
- After-pieces for piano solo
- Concerto for Oboe and Large Orchestra
- Ripieno for large orchestra
- Violin Concerto
Operas: The Poet and his Double (1992)/The Wall of Cloud (1998)
String Quartets I-IV
Novel: Death of a Medium (Odell & Adair 1991)
His work "Seachanges (with Danse Macabre)" (the first work in his Macabre Trilogy), is currently study material on the Leaving Certificate Music syllabus in Ireland.
[edit] References
- ^ http://cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=30
- ^ "Conor Sullivan". 150 Irish artists pledge to boycott Israel. 8 August 2010. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0813/1224276715164.html. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
[edit] Sources
- http://www.raymonddeane.com/
- http://www.cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=30
- http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/1293.htm#disco
- Monograph: RAYMOND DEANE by Patrick Zuk; Field Day Publications, Dublin 2006 [ISBN 0-946755-29-9]
