Irish Composer Paul McGuire Awarded George Butterworth Prize

Paul McGuire

Irish Composer Paul McGuire Awarded George Butterworth Prize

Paul McGuire from Dublin has been awarded the 2015 George Butterworth Prize for his work Panels.

The George Butterworth Prize is a £1,500 grant awarded to the composer of an outstanding new work created through one of Sound and Music’s emerging composer programmes. Panels was composed and recorded as part of the ‘Next Wave’ programme. The award is named after the early twentieth-century English composer and funded by the Butterworth Memorial Fund.  

McGuire describes Panels as ‘an exploration of noise’. In 2014, it was released by NMC on the album Next Wave, performed by Loré Lixenberg (listen below).

McGuire is currently studying with Jennifer Walshe and Christopher Fox at Brunel University in London. In 2009 he was awarded the Irish Arts Council’s Elizabeth Maconchy Fellowship to fund his studies.

His work has been performed by the London Sinfonietta, and at Bang On A Can in Massachusettsthe Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and SPOR in Aarhus.

He debut album, Sleep Spindles, has just been released on the Slip label. 

For more, visit www.paulmcguirecomposer.com

Published on 27 August 2015

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