Donnacha Dennehy, Princeton University
Assistant Professor
Princeton, New Jersey
donnacha@princeton.edu
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(609) 258-5880
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Bio/Research
Donnacha Dennehy has received commissions from Dawn Upshaw, the Kronos Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bang On A Can, Joanna MacGregor, Percussion Group of the Hague, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players among others.
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Bio/Research
Donnacha Dennehy has received commissions from Dawn Upshaw, the Kronos Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bang On A Can, Joanna MacGregor, Percussion Group of the Hague, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players among others.
His work has featured in festivals such as the Nonesuch Explorations Festival (at the Barbican, London May 2014, and BAM New York, September 2014), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK (which opened its 2012 Festival with a portrait concert devoted to Dennehy’s music), ISCM World Music Days, Carnegie Hall’s Contemporary Music Subscription Series, Chicago Symphony’s Music Now, WNYC’s New Sounds Live, Bang On A Can, Ultima Festival in Oslo, Musica Viva Lisbon, the Saarbrucken Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam. In 2010 his large single-movement orchestral piece for the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Crane, was ‘recommended’ by the International Rostrum of Composers.
Returning to Ireland after studies in the USA, France and Holland, Dennehy founded Crash Ensemble in 1997. Alongside the singers Dawn Upshaw and Iarla O’Lionáird, Crash Ensemble features on the 2011 Nonesuch release of Dennehy’s music, entitled Grá agus Bás. NPR named it one of its “50 favorite albums’’ (in any genre) of 2011. In July 2012, Cantaloupe released an EP of his piano music, played by Lisa Moore. Previous releases include a number by NMC Records in London. Previously a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, Dennehy was appointed a Global Scholar for at Princeton University in the Autumn of 2012. He was also appointed composer-in-residence for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in Texas (2013-14). He joined the faculty at Princeton University in 2014.
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His work has featured in festivals such as the Nonesuch Explorations Festival (at the Barbican, London May 2014, and BAM New York, September 2014), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK (which opened its 2012 Festival with a portrait concert devoted to Dennehy’s music), ISCM World Music Days, Carnegie Hall’s Contemporary Music Subscription Series, Chicago Symphony’s Music Now, WNYC’s New Sounds Live, Bang On A Can, Ultima Festival in Oslo, Musica Viva Lisbon, the Saarbrucken Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam. In 2010 his large single-movement orchestral piece for the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Crane, was ‘recommended’ by the International Rostrum of Composers.
Returning to Ireland after studies in the USA, France and Holland, Dennehy founded Crash Ensemble in 1997. Alongside the singers Dawn Upshaw and Iarla O’Lionáird, Crash Ensemble features on the 2011 Nonesuch release of Dennehy’s music, entitled Grá agus Bás. NPR named it one of its “50 favorite albums’’ (in any genre) of 2011. In July 2012, Cantaloupe released an EP of his piano music, played by Lisa Moore. Previous releases include a number by NMC Records in London. Previously a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, Dennehy was appointed a Global Scholar for at Princeton University in the Autumn of 2012. He was also appointed composer-in-residence for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in Texas (2013-14). He joined the faculty at Princeton University in 2014.
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