1. biografia

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Rachel HOLSTEAD
Ventry
Tralee
Co. Kerry, Ireland
tf/cell:
mail: rachel@rachelholstead.net
http://www.rachelholstead.net/
luogo e data di nascita: Corca Dhuibhne (Ireland), 1978

She writes instrumental, vocal and electronic music and enjoys collaborations with artists in many different artforms.
In recent years, she has written music for the Irish Baroque Orchestra, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and Sinfonia Viva. She has written works that feature traditional Irish musicians for the Kerry International Chamber Music Festival and Ardee Baroque and has been commissioned by RTÉ, BBC Radio 3, Moving on Music and Louth County Council (through the Percent for Art Scheme). Her electroacoustic works have been performed in Germany, Spain, Canada, the U.S., Mexico, the UK and Ireland.
In 2005, she graduated with a PhD in composition from Queen’s University Belfast, where she worked under the guidance of Professor Michael Alcorn at the School of Music and Sonic Art. Before that, she did a music degree at Trinity College, Dublin, where she studied composition with Kevin O’ Connell and Donnacha Dennehy.
She has attended the Dartington International Summer School and the Ennis IMRO Composition Summer School (now the Irish Composition Summer School).