Congratulations to Rose Connolly, who has been named the winner of the Finding a Voice Competition for Emerging Women Composers 2020 (in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre).
Rose is a second-year student in the Royal Irish Academy of Music's undergraduate BMus Composition programme, studying with Jonathan Nangle. She has composed for the Contempo string quartet, and various RIAM ensembles, electronic and solo instrument works for Dublin’s esteemed musicians, David Collins and Ailbhe McDonagh. She has written scores for short animations, and was recently commissioned to write a Fanfare for the closing concert of Dublin Brass Week 2019. Up-coming projects include a series of saxophone quartet works for the Chatham quartet and a series of solo piano works written for the esteemed Phillip Martin.
Her new work will be premiered by renowned harpist Dr. Anne-Marie O'Farrell as part of Finding a Voice, a three-day concert series based in Clonmel, Tipperary, which focuses exclusively on women composers through the ages. The festival will take place from 6th-8th March 2020 to celebrate International Womens' Day.