Member of Aosdána (the affiliation of creative artists established by the Arts Council of Ireland to honour those artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts)
Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London (ARAM) (an honour bestowed upon those former students deemed to have made a 'significant contribution to the music profession').
Recipient of the 'Villa-Lobos Centenary Medal' (issued by the Brazilian Government)
PUBLICATIONS include:
Constellations: The Life and Music of John Buckley (Carysfort Press, 2011)
"Transformational Ostinati in György Ligeti's Sonatas for Solo Cello and Solo Viola" in György Ligeti: Of Strange Sounds and Foreign Lands (Boydell & Brewer, 2011)
"Within it lie ancient melodies": Dowland's Musical Rhetoric in Britten's Songs from the Chinese, The Music Times (Summer, 2012)
'From the Celtic to the Avant-garde: Shifting Perspectives in the Music of John Buckley', The Musical Times (Winter 2010)
O Master of secret configurations: Reflections on the Adorno/Berg Correspondence', The Musical Times (Summer, 2007)
'Laughing at the Chaos: György Ligeti (1923-2006)', The Journal of Music (September, 2007)
'The Life and Music of Brian Boydell', The Journal of Music (September, 2004)
'Irish Music in the 20th century', The Journal of Music (September, 2003)
Languages spoken
English, Spanish
Languages Spoken
Learning & Teaching Interests
Performance practice
Performance pedagogy
Composition
Performance as Research/Practice as Research
TAUGHT PROGRAMMES AND MODULES
Performance Practice MUS2051/3051
Supervision of doctoral students (PhD/ArtsD
Research Outputs & Interests
The music of György Sándor Ligeti
The music of Benjamin Britten
The music of Alban Berg
Irish Art Music from 1750 to date
Performance as Research/Practice as Research
Music composition
Classical guitar performance with an emphasis on 20th- & 21st-century music
