Gráinne Mulvey

Gráinne Mulvey is a composer of acoustic and electronic music. She also likes to collaborate with other art forms particularly video, dance, liaise with improv groups, and write for art installations. She has written for many soloists such as soprano, Elizabeth Hilliard, cellist Martin Johnson, principal cellist of the RTE NSO, clarinettist Paul Roe, flautist Joe O’Farrell, pianists Thérèse Fahy, Nathalia Milstein, (winner of the International Dublin Piano Festival 2014,) and Matthew Schellhorn, to name but a few Ensembles such as Concorde, Hard Rain Soloists Ensemble, ACME in Chicago and orchestras RTE NSOI, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, The Northern Sinfonia, UK, and the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra have also championed her music.

Her music has been performed, recorded, broadcast (notably by RTE Lyric FM, BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM) and is published in Ireland and by BabelScores, France. She has represented Ireland at the ISCM World Music Days in 2008, and 2009 and at the International Rostrum of Composers in 1994, 2006 and 2015.

She has won various prestigious competitions, notably the RTE Musician Of The Future (Composers’ class) in 1994, the Sligo International Festival Composers’ Competition, in 1999 and the St. John’s Memorial University Award, Waterford and Newfoundland in 2003. She received a “most distinguished musician and special mention” at the IBLA International Foundation Competition in 2016. She is a joint winner with visual artist Mihai Cucu, in the Music Video category of The Cutting Edge Film Festival 2016, in the USA, for her electronic piece Proclamation.

Her music is published by Babel Scores, France, Prairie Dawg Press, New York and the CMC, Ireland. Her pieces have been recorded by the Concorde Ensemble, on the Black Box label.  The CMC Volume 7 CD includes her orchestral piece Akanos and her piece Calorescence performed by pianist Thérese Fahy, is on CMC label: New Music: New Ireland Vol. 2. The Gothic CD by Mary Dullea, pianist, includes her piece Étude on the Métier label msv 28549, her CD Akanos is on the Navona label Cat: NV5943 and two vocal pieces sung by soprano Elizabeth Hilliard, are on her Sea To The West CD, on the Métier label msv 28551, issued in November 2016. Her piece for installation Aeolus will be released in 2018 on the Métier Label and another was released on the Audior 5 volume of electronic music in Italy, May 2018.

She won placements on compilation CDs for her pieces: Interference Patterns, Interstices, and The Shoulder, which were released by RMN Music Recordings in September 2019 and 2020. Her piano piece The Thriving Port of Ros XII was released by the New Ross Piano Festival Committee in September 2018. Her piece celebrating women as part of Dublin International Chamber Music Festival 2020, is released on CD on the Métier label since June 2021 and her music more of her work will be released by Petrichor Records and the Diatribe label.

Her music has been performed in the UK, Ireland, Poland, France, Denmark, Vienna, Germany, Japan Canada and the US. Other performances during 2021/22 included Poland, Germany, Hungary and Ireland.

She is represented by the CMC Ireland, AIC, IMRO, IAWM, (International Alliance for Women in Music,) BabelScores, Contemporary Music Online Library, Donne In Musica and is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s organisation of creative artists.

She is interested in composition in all its forms; acoustic and electronic, in the spatialization of sound, real time, live electronics, acoustic and electronic improvised performance practices and collaboration with other disciplines. She holds a PhD from York University, UK, is Professor of Composition at TUD and is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s organisation of creative artists.

www.grainnemulvey.com