Deirdre Gribbin
Original Score
“A charismatic voice in new music” Paul Conway The Guardian
Belfast-born Gribbin was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University and Arts Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge. Her orchestral work UNITY OF BEING, performed in New York after 9-11, was featured in The New York Times. She won the Arts Foundation Award for Aldeburgh Festival commissioned opera HEY PERSEPHONE! and also The UNESCO Composers Prize. She has written music for Sky Pictures MY KINGDOM starring Richard Harris and THE DARK GENE shortlisted for a 2016 BERLINALE Film Festival Prize. She collaborated with Gate Theatre London founder Director Lou Stein on Radio Productions with Benedict Cumberbatch and Patrick Stewart. Her music has been performed by, The BBC Symphony, Philharmonia and RTE NSOI for the lyric fm label. Her second opera CROSSING THE SEA premiered at London’s Wilton’s Music Hall and was recorded for NMC label along with settings of Heaney’s poetry. She is creative associate with Chicken Shed Theatre London.