Driven, Determined, and Busy Driven, Determined, and Busy Michael Dungan talks to some of the younger generation of emerging Irish composers.
Irish composers is a lively, successful bunch.
All born in the 1970s, they are children of the Information Age, the Internet and the Compact Disc. Their latter school years and third-level careers coincided with the emergence of the Celtic Tiger, Ireland's economic miracle. Driven, determined, and busy, they are also generously candid about their lives, music and opinions. These latter swing between wide divergence and close consensus. But nearly all the composers agree that it's a good time for composition in Ireland.