Author Archives: seanlclancy

Here is a list of some forthcoming performances that I’m involved in. I would be delighted if you could make them! Tuesday 4 February 2014 National Concert Hall, Dublin 1pm Changing Rates of Change for Symphony Orchestra Performed by RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gavin Maloney. Ten Minutes of Music on The Subject ofContinue reading “Forthcoming Performances”

Below is a list of some forthcoming performances of my music: Wednesday 4 September 2013 – 8pm @NonClassical, The Shacklewell Arms, Dalston, London, UK.   Three Minutes of Music – performed by Workers Union Ensemble conducted by Ben Oliver. Details here Sunday 13 October 2013 – 3pm Little Missenden Festival, Little Missenden Church, Little Missenden, UK. FourteenContinue reading “Forthcoming performances”

I’ve been writing a lot of music recently. Come to think of it, I’ve written seven pieces since January.  Currently, I’m engaged in writing an orchestral piece. After this, I move onto something on a much bigger scale, which will hopefully be realised in 2014. In addition to this compositional activity, I’m recording another recordContinue reading “Towards a monolithic non-teleological music”

I’m just back from two fabulous weeks in Montréal where I was a participant in the Bozzini Quartet’s Composer’s Kitchen alongside fellow composers Marielle Groven, Simon Martin and Amber Priestley, as well as mentor composers Laurence Crane and Michael Oesterle. We were all immensely fortunate to work extremely close with the quartet and two incredibly brilliant and insightfulContinue reading “Montréal”

TWO UK-BASED COMPOSERS INVITED TO COMPOSER’S KITCHEN IN MONTREAL THANKS TO COLLABORATION WITH HUDDERSFIELD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL (hcmf//) Seán Clancy and Amber Priestley to attend seven-day workshop in Montréal: April 21 – 27, 2013 High-octane Montréal-based Bozzini Quartet has invited two young UK-based composers – Seán Clancy and Amber Priestley – to take part inContinue reading “Bozzini Quartet/Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Composer’s Kitchen Press Release”

12 February 2013 – World Premiere of Décès for 4 voices and Ensemble. UCD Ad Astra Scholars conducted by Ciaran Crilly. 8pm National Concert Hall, Dublin. More Info 1-3 March 2013 – Workshop of Red, Blue, Orange for piano trio. Fidelio Trio. National Concert Hall, Dublin (details to be confirmed). More info 10 March 2013Continue reading “Forthcoming Performances”

2013 has gotten off to an incredibly busy start, kicking off with a wonderful performance of Findetotenlieder in Birmingham by Thumb conducted by Dan Watson. In January I was selected to participate in the New Music Dublin composer workshop in March with the incredible Fidelio Trio and Johannes Maria Staud as part of Ireland’s EU Presidency Cultural ProgrammeContinue reading “This is the news”

Things have been so busy of late that, this small tiny pocket of the internet has become dreadfully neglected, but I’m taking this little respite in work to rectify this situation for anyone that is interested. 2012 was quite a crazy year, despite being one of the most personally difficult years I have experienced with much emotional strumContinue reading “2012-2013”

It has been an incredibly busy week, but one that has been extremely fruitful and afforded me the opportunity to hear a lot of wonderful music have some incredibly insightful discussions about music and work with some fantastic musicians. On Monday my PhD viva voce took place, which was the culmination of a little overContinue reading “The Past Week”