Roger Doyle @ 60 – Roger Doyle and Crash Ensemble + very special guest to be announced closer to date, check web            Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2            7.30pm             €15 [price includes a CD of Roger Doyle's music]

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Crash Ensemble are a natural choice to lead a 60th birthday celebration for the pioneer they dubbed the “Godfather of Electronic Music in Ireland”. Also apt is the location, due to Doyle‚ s long association with the Project Arts Centre. Many of his works with his music theatre company Operating Theatre were premiered here.

For this event, Doyle will perform some works from his back catalogue, while the key offering will be the world premiere of ‚ The Room in the Tower‚ , a new work commissioned by the Arts Council and written for Crash Ensemble.

Everyone attending will receive a free CD of Roger Doyle’s music. 

This concert is held in association with Lyric FM, Project Arts Centre and the CMC.

Roger Doyle

Roger Doyle was born in Dublin and studied composition on scholarships at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht and the Finnish Radio Experimental Music Studio. He has worked extensively in theatre, film and dance, in particular with the music-theatre company Operating Theatre, which he co-founded with actress Olwen Fouéré.

A five-CD box set of his magnum opus ‚ Babel‚ was released to celebrate the work’s completion and to mark the composer’s fiftieth birthday in 1999. Other notable works released include a piano score for the Gate Theatre production of Salomé (directed by Steven Berkoff), and ‚”Under the Green Time” a collaboration with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, while a new large-scale electronic work ‚”Passades”‚ has just been completed and released on CD. Doyle was also recently commissioned by RTÉ for a new work for symphony orchestra and pre-recorded acted scenes.

Doyle has garnered numerous awards for his work, including the Programme Music Prize (1997) and the Magisterium Prize (2007) at the Bourges International Electro-Acoustic Music Competition, France, along with the Marten Toonder Award (2000). A member of Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists, Doyle describes himself as constantly amazed that he is a composer‚ and now even more amazed that he is 60.

http://www.myspace.com/rogerdoylemusic