Jennifer Walshe

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Jennifer Walshe (born 1 June 1974) is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist.

Biography Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) with a doctoral degree in composition in June 2002. Her chief teachers at Northwestern were Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. In 2003–04 Walshe was a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; during 2004–05 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.

Walshe's work has been performed all over the world by ensembles such as Alter Ego, ensemble recherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Schlagquartett Köln, Crash Ensemble, Con Tempo Quartet, Trio Scordatura, Ensemble Ascolta, Champ d'Action, ensemble laboratorium, ensemble surplus, the Rilke Ensemble, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, Bozzini Quartet, Callino Quartet, Ensemble 2000, Concorde, Kaleidoscop, Black Hair, Continuum, Musica Nova Consort, ensemble chronophonie, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Quintet, the Hebrides Ensemble, Psappha, and Q-02 among others.

Since 2016, Walshe has been Professor at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In 2019, The Guardian ranked XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!! (2003) the 25th greatest work of art music since 2000, with Kate Molleson stating that "she yanks off the plastic veneer of commercial culture by parodying then systematically dismembering the archetypes."

As of 2021, Walshe is Professor of Composition at the University of Oxford.

Works

A Girl's Book of Song (2016) for girls' choir EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT (2016) for voice, string quartet and film (with sound) AN GLÉACHT (2015) for 1+ performers 1984 IT'S O.K. (2015) for violin, cello and percussion VOLUNTEER CHORUS (2015) for 5 or more performers 13 Vices (2015) for string trio, three improvisers and voice; written in collaboration with Irvine Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde (2015) Zusammen ii (2015) for seven performers The Chimes Hours (2014) for ensemble, four soloists, quartet of improvisers, multiple installations and film; written in collaboration with Lee Patterson and Peter Meanwell Zusammen i (2014) for ten performers, from The Chimes Hours THE TOTAL MOUNTAIN (2014) for voice and film (with sound) THE SIGNING (2014) shadow opera for voice, violin, shadow puppets and film; written in collaboration with Tony Conrad TRAINING IS THE OPPOSITE (2014) chamber opera for soprano, string quartet, electronics and film THEY LEFT HIM IN THE OCEAN (2014) for string quartet and DVD DORDÁN (2013) for clarinet, trombone, guitar, cello, double bass and DVD WASH ME WHITER THAN SNOW (2013) for violin, cello and DVD DURATION & ITS SIMPLE MODES (2013) for solo voice and 16 voice choir LANGUAGE RUINS EVERYTHING (2013) for counter-tenor, piano, volunteer chorus and DVD EVERYTHING YOU OWN HAS BEEN TAKEN TO A DEPOT SOMEWHERE (2013) for three performers Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-garde Vol. 1: Dada for voice and electronics (2012) The White Noisery (2012) for 16 voices (with objects) and CD SILENTLY & VERY FAST (2012) for any number of performers Look, Stranger on this Island (2012) for voice and electronics Die Taktik (2012) opera for 4 voices, chorus, 3 dancers, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and electronics Atlanta 2089 (2011) for voice, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, guitar, cello and DVD METTA (2011) for flute, clarinet, trombone, tuba, piano, percussion, violin, cello and voice Flor Hartigan's to Damhnait Brixius (2011) for voice and ensemble A Folk Song Collection (2011) for three voices ALL THE MANY PEOPLES (2011) for solo voice, DVD and electronics The Soft Menagerie (2011) for three voices WATCHED OVER LOVINGLY BY SILENT MACHINES (2011) for five voices (with objects) and DVD Julian & Kanye (2011) for three voices HYGIENE (2011) for violin, viola or cello, 8 performers and DVD lashings of the old ultra-v (2010) for four male voices and electronics The Church of Frequency & Protein (2010) for voice, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, guitar, cello and DVD Stuttgart 2089 (2010) for voice, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, guitar, cello and DVD Freya Birren's The Faerie Queene (2010) for voice, guitar and DVD Wilhelm vs. Bruce (Fists of Fury!) (2010) for 16-channel sound Hotel Chelsea (2010) for organ and symphony orchestra The Geometry (2009) opera for 4 actors, voice, clarinet, guitar, live electronics Performat #2 (2009) for voice and electronics Freya Birren's Libris Solar (2009) for voice and orchestra MARLOWE S. (2009) for string quartet, tape recorder and CD Thelma Mansfield (2008) for flute, percussion and piano with DVD Violetta Mahon's Dream Diaries, 1988–2008 (2008) for trumpet, trombone, cello, two percussionists, piano, cello and CD PADDY REILLY RUNS WITH THE DEVIL (2008) for five vocalists with mp3 players he was she was (2008) for four performers and CD The Dowager Marchylove's The Wasistas of Thereswhere (2008) for voice, tin whistle, kazoo and live electronics becher (2008) for solo piano Turf Boon's Community Choir Drawing 8291: lámh (2008) for voice, chamber ensemble and laptop Detleva Verens' Scintillia (2008) for solo voice, with film canister and comb Flor Hartigan's Conturador (2008) for solo or ensemble i: same person/ii: not the same person (2007) for solo voice (with psaltery), instruments and laptop, or for solo voice (with psalter) and electronics Flor Hartigan's whives: trio and solo (2007) My Extensive Relationship with Mr. Stephen Patrick M. (2007) for oboe, clarinet, accordion, percussion, voice, cello and CD "The Blue Room" (2007) for piano, from FASTER, FASTER, PUSSYCAT – KILL KILL KILL! Ukeoirn O'Connor's Three Songs (2007) for voice and ukulele Physics for the Girl in the Street (2007) for voice and percussion quartet elephant (2006) for harp and guns passenger (2006) for string orchestra 22’30” (2006) for a singer for voice and laptop dub/ber/vie (2006) for voice, 4-channel sound projection and live electronics The Procedure for Smoothing Air (2005) for trombone, voice, piano, cello and CD Motel Abandon (2005) for voice, actor, cello, DVD and multiple CDs The Book of Tamworth (2005) for any forces (your name here) (2005) for voice, violin and video G.L.O.R.I.- (2005) for solo voice meanwhile, back at the ranch... (2005) for seven performers and image controller 214: the son and heir (2004) for voice, clarinet and cello nature data (2004) for voice and dictaphones A Fyne Prospeckte: Jim and Christine Sheenan's Chateau Tamworth (2004) for four performers x=dative case (2004) for French horn set phasers on KILL! (2004) for three female voices and two male voices, trombone, two percussionists, prepared piano, viola, cello, video, slides and CD Cooking with Stone (2004) open score 132: the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat (2004) for voice, cello and viola/percussion 112: dear hero imprison'd (2004) for two voices and cello THIS IS WHY PEOPLE O.D. ON PILLS /AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE (2004) for solo or ensemble a sensitive number for the laydeez (2004) for viola, saxophone, percussion, piano and video XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!! (2003) for two female vocalists, clarinet, trombone, accordion, cello, two puppeteers, two camera operators and CD minard/nithsdale (2003) for string quartet and two boomboxes been in a room and a room and a room and a room (2002) for twelve voices theme from (2002) for violin and piano with walkie-talkies here we are now (2002) for voice, cello, trombone and percussion unbreakable line. hinged waist. (2002) for flute, oboe, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello movement v: presto giocose (2002) for chamber orchestra ná déan NÍL CEAD (2001) for voice and string ensemble dirty white fields (2001) for voice and violin NOW WASH YOUR HANDS (2001) for voice, cello and two djs small small big (2001) for wind ensemble moving in/love song/city front garden with old men (2001) for tenor voice and piano like glass in a mirror on a windowpane (2000) for wind quintet as mo cheann (2000) for voice and violin