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New Article: A SENSE OF THE IRREVERSIBLE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSIC OF ANN CLEARE
Written by Christian Carey, published by Tempo Journal for New Music, Cambridge University Press
An article on the work of Ann Cleare, focusing on representative works that display Cleare’s use of microtonality, unconventional scoring, intermedia, and timbral writing. It also discusses her connection to Irish language and poetry, environmentalism and visual art, noting that: “there are few composers writing today who can eloquently contend with such a plethora of issues, from the geologic history of oceans, to bardic poetry, to the fears elicited by the morning paper or the darkness of night. Cleare is one.”
The full article is available to read here
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Interview with Swiss Radio, SRF, Florian Hauser:
Die Netzwerkerin. Ann Cleare und ihre Klangwesen
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Artist in Residence with Crash Ensemble
Ann has been announced as an Artist in Residence with the wonderful Crash Ensemble! Further details here: https://www.crashensemble.com/news
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Article in the Irish Times
Loud and Cleare: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/loud-and-cleare-the-offaly-woman-wowing-audiences-with-breakthrough-sounds-1.4669255
Ann Cleare in interview with Derek Scally
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Gaudeamus Juror for 2022 Prize
The Gaudeamus Award 2022 is now open for submissions! Deadline is October the 1st. The jury for 2022 will consist of composers Huang Ro, Ann Cleare and Ted Hearne. For full information on the terms, categories and submission details, go here: https://gaudeamus.nl/call/gaudeamus-award/
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International Juror for SOUNZ Contemporary Music Prize/Te Tohu Auaha 2021, New Zealand
SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, with APRA AMCOS NZ, is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2021 SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu Auaha, celebrating excellence in contemporary composition. The finalists were selected by a judging panel of independent industry representatives, including an international composer representative Ann Cleare. Further details can be found here: https://news.sounz.org.nz/2021-sounz-contemporary-award-te-tohu-auaha-finalists/
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Awarded a 2019 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize
Text by Gascia Ouzounian: Is it Music at all?
Photos by Amelie Kahn Ackermann
Portrait Film by Johannes List
Prize Ceremony at Prinzregententheater Munich, June 2019
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