Irene Buckley
Award winning composer Irene Buckley is active across many music disciplines including choral, opera, orchestral, dance, theatre, film and electronics.
In recent years she has focused on composing live scores for silent films., which include The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Fall of the House of Usher, and also Nosferatu and Metropolis (both co-composed with Linda Buckley). These have been performed in venues such as Glasgow Cathedral for Glasgow Film Festival, Union Chapel London for Organ Reframed Festival, Brookfield Place, NYC for SilentFilms/LiveMusic Series and Zwinglikirche, Berlin (with Gudrun Gut).
She was nominated for Outstanding Original Score for Nothing Compares (co-composed with Linda Buckley) at the 16thCinema Eye Honors 2023 and her film score for The Swing was nominated for Best Original Music at the Festival International du Film d'Aubagne, France. She had received commissions from the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Irish National Opera, Cork International Film Festival and Union Chapel London. Irene holds a PhD in Composition and a BMus from University College Cork and an MA in Music Technology from Queens University Belfast. She attended Composition courses in the USA, Latvia and the Netherlands, alongside Film Scoring courses under Screen Training Ireland.