Linda Buckley


Linda Buckley is an Irish composer and musician from the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork. Her work has been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Icebreaker and Iarla Ó Lionaird. She has received a Fulbright Scholarship and the Frankfurt Visual Music Award.

Career

In 2008, Buckley featured in a "Composer's Choice" series of concerts at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. She was RTÉ Lyric FM's resident composer during 2011–2012. Her work featured in the 2017 New Music Dublin Festival at the National Concert Hall, Dublin and by the Crash Ensemble at the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
In 2016 Buckley worked with uilleann piper David Power on the composition Antartica which premiered that year at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. The Irish Timess Gemma Tipton wrote that "the music is beguiling."
In 2017 she was interviewed about her work by Iarla Ó Lionaird as part of the RTÉ Lyric FM series Vocal Chords: In Conversation.
In 2018 her work Discordia was performed at the Barbican Theatre. Later that year she composed a score for the 1922 film Nosferatu with her sister Irene by request of the Union Chapel, London. The same year composer Christopher Fox wrote in the Cambridge University Press publication Tempo about her contributions to modern composition.
As of 2019 she is Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She previously lectured in composition in Trinity College Dublin and Pulse College Dublin.

Reception

Buckley has been described by music writer Bob Gilmore as "a leading figure in the younger generation of Irish composers" and by Tim Rutherford-Johnson as "a combination of bold assertiveness and a smooth, glassy elegance".