Séamas de Barra

Active as a composer and musicologist, Séamas de Barra’s compositions have been widely performed and broadcast both in Ireland and abroad. He has published numerous articles on Irish music and is a contributor to the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and to The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. He has co-edited (with Patrick Zuk) a pioneering series of monographs on Irish composers which were published jointly by Field Day Publications and the Keogh-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in the University of Notre Dame in the USA, and to which he contributed the first volume, Aloys Fleischmann, in 2006. His critical study of the music of Aloys Fleischmann Senior appeared in 2010 in Aloys Fleischmann (1884-1964): Immigrant Musician in Ireland by Joseph P. Cunningham and Ruth Fleischmann, and Ina Boyle (1889-1967): A Composer’s Life, which he co-authored with Ita Beausang, was published by Cork University Press in 2018. A monograph on Irish symphonist John Kinsella is in the press, and he is currently researching the life and work of composer, folk-song collector and arranger Carl Hardebeck, who made major contributions to the development of Irish music in the first half of the 20th century.

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