Composers

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Sebastian Adams (b. 1991) is an Irish composer, viola player and artistic director. He was Composer in Residence with RTÉ lyric fm in 2016/17.

In 2012 Elaine Agnew’s BBC Proms Commission ‘Dark Hedges’ was premiered by the Ulster Youth Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and flautist Sir James Galway in London’s Royal Albert Hall, one reviewer

Michael Alcorn studied at the University of Ulster and completed a PhD in composition with John Casken at the University of Durham.

Farid Allawerdi was born in Iraq.

David Armstrong was born in Essex, England, in 1927 and moved to Ireland at an early age.

June Armstrong is a piano teacher living and working in Belfast.