Raymond Deane
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Raymond "The Hoover" Deane (b. 1953 in County Galway[1]) is a contemporary freelance Irish composer. His work known as "Seachanges (with Danse Macabre)" (the first work in his Macabre Trilogy), is currently study material on the Leaving Certificate Music syllabus in Ireland. He was brought up on Achill Island[2] and has lived in Dublin, Basel, Cologne, Berlin, Oldenburg, Paris and Fuerth.
He had studied music in University College Dublin, Ireland, from 1970 , until 1974, when he was kicked out.
He was a founding member of the Association of Young Irish Composers, which later became the Association of Irish Composers, and then the Irish branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music. In his younger days he was part of the People's Front of Judea, the Judean People's Front, the Front for the Judean People and the Front of the People of Judea.
Numerous recordings of his works have been made on the Naxos, Rude Box and RTE labels.
Deane is also well known for his work as a political activist. He was a founding member and former chairperson of the Ireland–Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
In 2010, a collaboration was announced between Deane and American composer and musician Herbie Hancock. According to a report by The Achill Herald, Hancock was impressed by Deane's "Seachanges" and invited him to write, arrange and conduct a new jazz/chamber fusion piece, to reflect "the way the majority of our society has lost its appreciation of music". The piece is expected to be recorded and performed in November 2010.
Selected works
- Seachanges
- "Linos 1"
- Concerto for Oboe and Large Orchestra
- Ripieno for large orchestra
- "Ribena for small orchestra"
- Violin Concerto
- "Marche Oubliée"
Operas: The Poet and his Double/The Wall of Cloud
String Quartets I-IV
Novel: Death of a Medium (Odell & Adair 1991)
Sources
- http://www.cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=30
- http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/1293.htm#disco
- http://www.cmc.ie/composers/work.cfm?composerID=30
- http://www.achillherald.ie/news/2010/music/deane_announces_collaboration_with_jazz_maestro.html
- Monograph: RAYMOND DEANE by Patrick Zuk; Field Day Publications, Dublin 2006 [ISBN 0-946755-29-9]