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Tom Cullivan 'I work to two rules: one adapted from Eric Gill on the legibility of typefaces, “one hundred percent accessibility one hundred percent of the time”; the other from Tom Paine on the intrusiveness of government, “that development is best which sounds like development least”.' |
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Tom Cullivan was born in Cavan and began studying the piano at an early age. He began composing incidental music for plays while studying at the National University of Ireland, Galway, becoming musicial director and composer with the College Drama Society. This led to involvement with other Galway theatre companies including An Taibhdhearc and Druid and to the composition of some fourteen scores for theatre during the 1970s. He continued his involvement in theatre during the 1990s, writing music for a series of one-man shows featuring the actor and singer Martin Dempsey. He also worked as musical director with the Dublin Theatre Company during this period, notably with the revival of J.P. Donleavy’s ‘The Ginger Man’ in 1999. His style, which is tonal, is influenced by the music of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composer-pianists and by his own family background in Irish traditional music. His music has been performed throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA. He has written many chamber and solo instrumental works including seven piano sonatas, two sonatas for bassoon and piano, two violin and piano sonatas, two piano quintets as well as other sonatas for cello and viola. His orchestral works include a symphony and two piano concertos. He has also written several choral works and songs. Tom Cullivan is a former Chairman of the Association of Irish Composers. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
| Composer web site: www.tomcullivan.eu |
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