English and Creative Arts

Amanda Feery is a composer working with acoustic, electronic, and improvised music, having written for chamber and vocal ensembles, film, theatre, installation, and multimedia. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Music in 2006, she continued her studies in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin, completing an M.Phil in 2009. Amanda was the Mark Nelson Fellow in Music at Princeton University, completing her PhD in Music Composition in 2019. Her research focused on Kate Bushs song suite, The Ninth Wave. Whilst in the U.S, she formed collaborative relationships with a number of ensembles and musicians including Alarm Will Sound, Third Coast Percussion, Ensemble Mise-en, Bearthoven, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and cellist Amanda Gookin. Closer to home, past collaborators include Crash Ensemble, RTÉ ConTempo Quartet, the National Symphony Orchestra, This is How We Fly, Chamber Choir Ireland, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Paul Roe, Michelle O Rourke, and Lina Andonovska. Her work has been featured at New Music Dublin, First Fortnight Festival, and Dublin Fringe Festival, among others, and she has been composer-in-residence at Bang on a Can Summer Festival, SOUNDscape, and Greywood Arts. Her 2019 residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais focused on recording piano improvisations on public pianos in Paris. Recent projects include works for the National Symphony Orchestra and Irish National Opera. Upcoming projects include works for Cellissimo, Music Current Festival, and work as part of the creative team with artist Eimear Walshe, representing Ireland at Venice Biennale 2024. Future projects include an hour-long radio work responding to Eamon de Valera's radio speech 'On Language and the Irish Nation', for flutes, voices, and electronics, with a libretto by Eimear Walshe. Amanda is a 2023 recipient of the Markievicz Award for Music.