About.
Linda Buckley | Photo: Shane Scollard
Linda Buckley is a composer currently based in Dublin and Berlin, who writes for both electronic and acoustic forces. Her work has been described as "strange and beautiful" (Richard Dyer on Amhrain Amergin in The Boston Globe, July 2004) and as a "fascinating interaction between live sound and electronics" (Martin Adams on Stratus in The Irish Times, Nov 2006). The diverse instrumentations of her work include Javanese Gamelan, choir, multi-channel tape, prepared piano and orchestra.
Her music has been performed by the Crash Ensemble, Fidelio Trio, Orkest de Ereprijs, Janus Trio, Rothko Trio and Rolf Hind, and at international festivals including the Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at MassMoCA and the Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam.
Awards include the Mary V. Hart Award (UCC, 2000), 2nd prize in the International Young Composers Meeting (Apeldoorn, 2005) and Artist's Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. Linda is a member of the Spatial Music Collective, dedicated to the composition and performance of spatial acoustic and electroacoustic music.
She studied Music at University College Cork, and Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin. She lectures at Trinity College, where she is studying for a doctorate in Composition. Scores and CDs of her work, and further general information, are available from her page on the website of the Irish Contemporary Music Centre, and you can read an interview with Linda by Frans Waltmans on his music site.
Selected Past Performances
Die Oktoschlocks improv group, featuring Paula Matthusen (electronics), Brendan Dougherty (percussion), Guido Henneboehl (electronics), Keith O'Brien (guitar/electronics) and Linda Buckley (flute/electronics), Zentrale-Randlage, Berlin, May 2007 | Photo: Devin Hartmann
- July 2008
- galura for piano trio | Fidelio Trio, the Warehouse, Waterloo, London.
- nikuda for ensemble | Ensemble Scratch the Surface, the Warehouse, Waterloo, London
- June 2008
- nikuda for ensemble | Ensemble Scratch the Surface, Soundwaves Festival, Brighton
- May 2008
- Q for voice & tape | Natasha Lohan, Trinity College of Music London.
- fiol for string trio | Rothko String Trio, Hugh Lane Gallery premiere and Irish tour
- April 2008
- seek for 8-channel tape | CMC new music marathon, Maynooth
- March 2008
- volt, joklar, Q, galura | Composer's Choice concert with the Fidelio Trio and Natasha Lohan, National Concert Hall Dublin (John Field Room)
- immersia installation for electronics | Snakes & Ladders Festival, Winter Garden, New York, New York
- January 2008
- fall approaches for choir and 8-channel tape | New Dublin Voices, Trinity College Chapel Dublin (Spatial Music Collective)
- Nov 2007
- flit for flute and piano | Jennifer Wilhelms (flute) and Matthew McCright (piano), St. John's Church, West Village Manhattan, New York
- Oct 2007
- volt for violin and piano | Gregory Harrington (violin), Isabelle O' Connell (piano), Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), New York
- latitude longitude for string quartet | NUI Cork
- do you remember the planets? for viola and tape | Crash Ensemble Free State concert, SS Michael & John, Dublin
- latitude longitude for string quartet | University of Limerick
- latitude longitude for string quartet | NUI Galway
- latitude longitude for string quartet | Kilkenny
- latitude longitude for string quartet | Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
- Sep 2007
- Premiere of latitude longitude for string quartet | National Gallery Dublin
- joklar for piano | David Adams, Goethe Institut, Dublin
- do you remember the planets? for Viola and Tape | Present Music Ensemble, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Jul 2007
- do you remember the planets? for Viola & Tape | William Lane, International Viola Congress, Adelaide
- Jun 2007
- Premiere of Volt for Violin & Piano | Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea, The Warehouse, London
- Jun 2007
- Premiere of osmosis for Orchestra | The Gateway Orchestra, Clonard Church, Wexford
- May 2007
- Performance (electronic improvisation) at NWEAMO | Berlin & Venice
- Apr 2007
- all collisions end in static for Flute, Viola, Harp & Tape | Janus Trio, Colgate University Chapel, New York
- Mar 2007
- Telephones and Gongs (co-composer Mel Mercier) for Javanese Gamelan | O Riada Hall, UCC
- Jan 2007
- do you remember the planets? for Viola and Tape | William Lane, Theatre Royal, Hobart, Australia, and Cygnet Conservatory, Tasmania
- Nov 2006
- zone for Piano | Matthew McCright (USA), Printing House, Trinity College Dublin
- Nov 2006
- Stratus for Ensemble and Tape | Crash Ensemble, O’ Reilly Theatre Dublin
- Oct 2006
- all collisions end in static for Flute, Viola, Harp and Tape | Janus Trio, Roulette, New York
- May 2006
- Nonac for Voice and Tape | Brighton Festival Fringe, University of Brighton
- Sep 2005
- Bobeobi | Orchestra de Ereprijs, Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam
- Aug 2005
- Moonsick for Clarinet & Cello | Massimo di Trolio and Oliver Coates, commissioned by the Internationale Stichting Masterclass Apeldoorn
- Jun 2005
- ill met for Tape at Resounding Spaces | New York University, in conjunction with the 8th Biennial Feminist Theory and Music Conference, New York
- Apr 2005
- Libera Me for Choir, Organ and 4-Channel Tape | Renegade Ensemble, University of Minnesota
- Jul 2004
- Amhrain Amergin for large ensemble | Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
- Apr 2003
- Percolate for Percussion & Tape | Niamh O' Shea, University of Toronto
- Mar 2003
- Score for theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose, Cairo Theatre Symposium
- Feb 2002
- en-ek for Piano and Tape | Rolf Hind, John Field Room, National Concert Hall Dublin