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Linda Buckley (* 4 April 1979) is an Irish musician and composer.

Life

Born at the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, Buckley studied at University College Cork and graduated with an MA in music and media technology from Trinity College Dublin. She studied composition with John Godfrey, David Harold Cox, Donnacha Dennehy, and Roger Doyle.

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 Antarctica which premiered that year at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. The Irish Times’s Gemma Tipton wrote that “the music is beguiling.”

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.

Buckley has lectured in composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Trinity College Dublin and Pulse College Dublin.

Her work has been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Icebreaker and Iarla Ó Lionaird.

Linda Buckley has received various awards. These include a Fulbright Scholarship to New York University, a Civitella Ranieri Scholarship, the Frankfurt Prize for Visual Music (for Silk Chroma) and Gold at the New York Festivals Radio Awards (for Mother’s Blood, Sister Songs, documentary film with Athena Media).

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