It is presented along with a range of music from Davey's suite, featuring traditional soloists, singers, choir, pipe band, and orchestra, together with percussion. A family affair in every sense, they’ll also sing songs which Davey has newly orchestrated, from the Béal Tuinne suite, inspired by the poems of the late west Kerry poet and teacher, Caoimhín Ó Cinnéide. It is not a piece I intended to write, and I don’t think it could have been written while Liam was alive. International credits include the music for the BBCs’s Ballykissangel (BAFTA nomination) and The Hanging Gale (Ivor Novello Award and BAFTA nomination) and scores for feature films including Waking Ned, The Tailor of Panama, Twelfth Night (Ivor Novello nomination) and Hallmarks' David Copperfield.

Released by London in 1998 (289 460 939-2) containing music from Waking Ned Devine (1998). His concert music includes the widely performed The Brendan Voyage, The Deers' Cry (St Patricks' prayer) and Suite for the Dublin Special Olympics.

You should receive instructions for resetting your password. Originally trained at Trinity College, Dublin and The Courtauld Institute as an art historian, he has worked as a full-time professional composer since 1977.

Sinfonia Concertante for Six Solo Instruments and Orchestra, S. 98.6, by P. D. Q. Bach features bagpipes as one of the six instruments. He has a deep understanding of what I do, and what Davey does as well. The concert will include both formal orchestral pieces such as the Romanian-inspired Tigi Cantabo, with Connolly and Davey’s son, Peadar, singing the male part alongside her, and her daughter, Carla and Davey’s daughter, Ailsha singing harmonies.

I also think that David’s music comes right from his feet, all the way up through his body, whereas with other conductors it’s hands and head. For Connolly, it’s a welcome chance to get up close and personal with songs she knows and loves intimately.“I enjoy singing so much more now,” she says with a smile. “I had no trouble with any of the other decades but I think when you get to 70, you tend to feel: well, my life could be over any day now. When you have reset your password, you can His forthcoming concert is a celebration of his ground-breaking orchestral work, The Brendan Voyage, and will also feature Hymn to a setting sun: ómós do Liam O’Flynn, with piper, “This concert represents a new beginning,” Davey suggests with his customary tentativeness, “another chance to shake off self-doubt, to try to deal with one’s shortcomings, and return again to the challenge of composing music which combines a symphony orchestra with musicians of other traditions.” Davey’s role in bringing the uilleann pipes front and centre in an orchestral setting was almost revolutionary some 40 years ago, when The Brendan Voyage was premiered.

‘It was a very experimental band. I love the music Shaun has written for the songs Shakespeare wrote, the use of strings, pipes and drums (especially in the final track) really invokes a sense of revelry and festival. Shaun Davey is one of Ireland's best known composers.

(The adventurous collaborations of pipers, David Power and Neil Martin bear testament to the foundations laid by Davey and O’Flynn all those years ago).As a self-taught composer, Davey marvels at the arrogance of youth that allowed him to boldly go where none had gone before, when he composed The Brendan Voyage in 1979. During this time, I got to know where the sweet spot is on the uilleann pipes and in some ways where the sweet spot was in Liam as a musician; correspondingly, though we never talked about it – ever – I think he came to understand what motivated me as composer.

Shaun Davey is one of my favorite composers. We reserve the right to remove any content at any time from this Community, including without limitation if it violates the He plays left-handed guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán.As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher's Island, he has been at the forefront of the renaissance of Irish traditional music for over five decades. Shaun Davey was born in Belfast in 1948. As I played, melodies started to form, soaring, unhurried airs, and I thought about Liam, the way he presented each note on the pipes, and the poise I saw him develop over the years as soloist with an orchestra.