Ann Cleare
Irish composer
Ann Cleare (born 1983 in County Offaly) is an Irish composer. She is assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin. In 2019 she won the Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize, sharing it with Annesley Black and Mithatcan Öcal.
Education
Cleare studied with John Godfrey and Jesse Ronneau at University College Cork, where she was awarded an MPhil. She later studied at IRCAM in Paris and went on to complete her PhD in composition with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku at Harvard University. She has been an Associate Lecturer in Composition at the University of York.
On magnetic fields
Her 2011–2012 work, on magnetic fields, was commissioned by the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and premiered by the Collegium Novum Zürich. This work, which separates the performers into three chamber ensembles, uses two violin soloists as a kind of sculpted "electric current" to propel the interaction between the musicians.
She later created a version of the piece for two violins and loudspeaker which was premiered by the Riot Ensemble in London on 14 May 2018. In an interview with Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Cleare described the work:At the centre of two of the spatially divided chamber groups lies a solo violin.
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