Young shoulders spared the weight of tradition
"Pared-down ideas, electronics and a focus on visual influences inform young Irish composer Linda Buckley’s first work for the NSO, writes MICHAEL DERVAN
WRITING FOR orchestra is anything but a central concern for most young composers in the 21st century. Quite apart from anything else, many orchestras seem reluctant to take a punt on composers in their early 20s, and the first opportunity for Linda Buckley to work with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra has come at the age of 32.
She has, however, worked with orchestras before, on Osmosis with the amateurs of the Gateway Orchestra under Fergus Sheil in Wexford, and on turn for the Dresden Symphony Orchestra in 2009.
“That was a large-scale project which involved a video connection between Dresden and Venice. There was an ensemble in Venice, and the orchestra in Dresden, with a one-second time delay, which I had to write in to the actual piece.”
Her new work for the NSO is called chiyo, named after a female Japanese haiku poet from the 18th century."
WRITING FOR orchestra is anything but a central concern for most young composers in the 21st century. Quite apart from anything else, many orchestras seem reluctant to take a punt on composers in their early 20s, and the first opportunity for Linda Buckley to work with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra has come at the age of 32.
She has, however, worked with orchestras before, on Osmosis with the amateurs of the Gateway Orchestra under Fergus Sheil in Wexford, and on turn for the Dresden Symphony Orchestra in 2009.
“That was a large-scale project which involved a video connection between Dresden and Venice. There was an ensemble in Venice, and the orchestra in Dresden, with a one-second time delay, which I had to write in to the actual piece.”
Her new work for the NSO is called chiyo, named after a female Japanese haiku poet from the 18th century."
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