EIBHLIS FARRELL - USA
BORN 27 JULY
BORN 27 JULY
Eibhlis Farrell is from Rostrevor in Co. Down and studied composition with Raymond Warren, Charles Wuorinen and Robert Moevs. She is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast and Bristol University, and has a doctorate from Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Her works cover a wide range of media and have been performed and broadcast throughout Europe and America. She has represented Ireland at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers and has been guest composer at many international festivals and conferences. She has also recently been the recipient of an Arts Council of Northern Ireland artist’s residency in the Banff Centre, Canada, and the An Foras Feasa visiting fellowship at La Muse Artist Centre, France. In 2011 she received a Distinguished Alumna Award from Rutgers University which cited her outstanding contribution to music and music education.
Eibhlis Farrell is currently Head of Music and Creative Media, and Director of Ionad Taighde Ceoil, the Centre for Research in Music, at Dundalk Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts and a member of Aosdána, and has served as a member of the Toscaireacht.
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Soundschock by Eibhillis Farrell
IDA HENRIETTE DA FONSECA - ITALY
BORN 27 JULY
Ida Henriette da Fonseca was a Danish opera singer and composer. She was the daughter of Abraham da Fonseca (1776–1849) and Marie Sofie Kiærskou (1784–1863). She and her sister Emilie da Fonseca were students of Giuseppe Siboni, choir master of the Opera in Copenhagen. She was given a place at the royal Opera alongside her sister the same year she debuted in 1827.
She made tours in Europe in 1829 and 1833–34, performing in Hannover, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, after which she was named one of the greatest singers in Scandinavia and prima donna, but as she was not a soprano but an alto, which was not fashionable at the time, she was in fact not given many parts at the Danish opera. She often performed breeches roles. She retired in 1840.
In 1841, she was named royal court singer at her request, as it would make it easier to get students: she was suffering from economical difficulties and worked as a singing teacher. She performed at court the last time in 1842. She was popular as a concert singer, however, and much active as such. In 1844-47, she visited Sweden and Norway. In 1848, she published her first composition, and became one of the very first woman composers of her country.
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Die Erwartung by Ida Henriette da Fonseca
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