The Famish Road - A Musical Response

Eunan McCreesh was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He is a graduate of the University of Ulster and Queen’s University, where he studied composition with Agustín Fernández and James Clarke. Following his graduation with an MPhil in Composition in 1997, he was commissioned by local authorities to write a piece for combined local choirs which was performed at St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, and in the White House in March 1998. His string quartet, The Mutiny of Angels, was awarded first prize at the Sligo Contemporary Music Festival in November 2000, where it was performed by the Vogler String Quartet. His piano trio, The Famished Road, was runner-up in the same festival in 1998. Both The Mutiny of Angels and The Immeritous Tree of Dreaming for violin and piano have been shortlisted for performance by Britain’s Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) in the 2001/2002 season. Eunan McCreesh is currently head of music at St Catherine’s College for Girls in Armagh and is undertaking a PhD in composition at Queen’s University, Belfast.

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