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Rhona Clarke is an Irish composer and pedagogue. She was born on 21 January, 1958 in Dublin, Ireland. She studied composition at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Trinity College Dublin, and has since gone on to become one of Ireland's most prominent composers.
She has written works for a variety of ensembles, including the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, and the Ulster Orchestra. She has also written works for solo instruments, including piano, violin, and cello.
In addition to her composing career, Rhona Clarke is also a pedagogue. She has taught composition at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the University of Limerick. She has also served as a mentor for the Irish Composers' Collective.
Rhona Clarke has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Irish Times/ESB Feis Ceoil Composition Prize, the RTÉ Lyric FM/ESB Feis Ceoil Composition Prize, and the IMRO/ESB Feis Ceoil Composition Prize.
As of 2021, Rhona Clarke's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.
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Dublin, Ireland |
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Rhona Clarke Net Worth
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Clarke has received commissions from RTÉ, the Cork International Choral Festival, Concorde, Music Network and the National Concert Hall, among others. Her work has been performed and broadcast throughout Ireland and worldwide. In January 2014, she was the featured composer in the Horizon Series of contemporary music by the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ. For this event, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra commissioned her orchestral composition SHIFT (2013). Since 2009 she has been collaborating with visual artist Marie Hanlon, including short experimental films with music, live music with visual projections and joint exhibitions; a recent example (July–September 2014) being the joint exhibition DIC TAT at the Gallery Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin.
Rhona Clarke's output includes choral, chamber, orchestral and electronic works. Her calm and evocative music in the early Suantraí Ghráinne created some curiosity at its 1984 performance. Early chamber works such as Sisyphus (1985) and Purple Dust are characterised by wide-spaced harmonic settings of a rather sparse tonal material. Some aleatoric passages alternate with more strictly notated pitches and a rather limited degree of dissonance. In Gloria Deo (1988) for soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra she combined modal influences from Renaissance music with free atonality. Since the early 1990s she has been exploring the possibilities of electro-acoustic music, winning an award at the 1992 Dublin Film Festival for her electronic score Whaling Afloat and Ashore. Her recent orchestral score SHIFT reflects her experiences in electro-acoustic processes: "Extended techniques, deliberately avoided in previous work, are embraced here using harmonics and noise elements in strings, and bowed, timbral effects on percussion. In a single, fifteen-minute movement, transformations in colour and texture vary from slow and intense in the opening section, to sudden and harsh later in the piece."
Rhona Clarke was born in Dublin and comes from a musical family. She sang in a women's choir from age 14 and was an outstanding piano pupil at the College of Music (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama), Dublin. She studied music at University College Dublin (Teacher's Diploma, 1978; BMus 1980) and taught at a number of schools in the Dublin area. When she participated in the Ennis Composition Summer School in 1985 she was introduced to the music of continental composers such as Luciano Berio and Witold Lutoslawski, which left a lasting impression. Some of her early works received awards, such as the Six Short Piano Pieces (1982), which won the composition prize of the Feis Ceoil, and the choral work Suantraí Ghráinne (1983), which won the Seán Ó Riada Memorial Trophy at the 1984 Cork Choral Festival. For Sisyphus (1985) for flute, clarinet and string trio she received the Varming Prize, which is awarded only every four years to an Irish composer under the age of 30. Clarke completed her first orchestral score in 1991 (A Great Rooted Tree). In 1992 she received a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast. She is a lecturer in music at St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University.
Rhona Clarke (born 21 January 1958) is an Irish composer and pedagogue.
