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‘Slip’ from David Flynn’s String Quartet No. 2, The Cranning, performed by ConTempo String Quartet. This work is on Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume Seven, available from the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin.
David Flynn is a composer and musician from Dublin, Ireland. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers Award and the IMRO Composition Award. His music has been performed by internationally acclaimed artists including Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, the Contempo and Smith Quartets, Rolf Hind, Ioana Petcu-Colan and the Dublin Guitar Quartet of whom David was a founding member.
He has received commissions from organisations including RTÉ, Music for Galway, the Contemporary Music Centre, Temple Bar Cultural Trust and West Cork Music with performances at festivals including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Masters of Tradition Festival, the EBU Folk Festival, the Mostly Modern Festival and the Guitar Festival of Ireland.
David has a Degree in Composition from the Dublin Institute of Technology and a Masters Degree from the Guildhall School of Music in London where he studied with Malcolm Singer. He is currently pursuing a Research Doctorate at the DIT.
David is active as a multi-genre performer and recently released ‘Draíocht’ his debut album in a traditional Irish style. His piece ‘Slip’ was recently released on the CMC CD ‘Contemporary Music from Ireland Vol.7′. Upcoming projects include a Fiddle Concerto to be premiered by Martin Hayes and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and an Irish tour with Hugh Buckley, Liz Coleman and Martin Tourish in September 2008.
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