Michael Holohan

Michael Holohan (born 27 March 1956) is an Irish composer.[1]

Biography

Michael Holohan was born in Drumcondra, Dublin. He was educated at O'Connell's Schools, University College Dublin (BA, 1978) and Queen's University in Belfast. He studied composition with Jane O'Leary, Eric Sweeney and Seóirse Bodley. He also attended masterclasses by Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, and Helmut Lachenmann in France.

Holohan was chairman of the Association of Irish Composers (AIC), 1987–9, and was later appointed chairman of the Droichead Arts Centre in Drogheda, where he lives since the mid-1980s.[2]

Holohan was elected to Aosdána, an Irish association of artists, in 1999.

Music

Holohan has composed for solo instrument, ensemble, orchestra, stage, choir and voice. He has also collaborated with a number of poets including Nobel prize-winners Seamus Heaney and Tomas Tranströmer, Ivan Lalic and Paul Durcan.

Selected Works

Orchestral

Ensemble

Choir

Voice

Solo

Stage

Electro-Acoustic

Select discography

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Adrian: "Holohan, Michael", in: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. by Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 495–6; ISBN 978-1-906359-78-2.
  2. ↑ Smith (2013), as above, p. 495.

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