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Athena Corcoran-Tadd

Athena Corcoran-Tadd

Ireland
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Music

  • Composer
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  • Conductor
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  • Musician
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  • Songwriter
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  • Video Engineer
Types
Irish Folk, Experimental Music, Indie Folk

With a background in Irish traditional music, I have explored classical violin, pursued contemporary composition, dabbled in conducting, written a short film soundtrack. Part of a 'soul folk' band, I am currently seeing where solo fiddle combines with folk and contemporary music.

Projects

Who cares if you play?

Concerts, playing together, playing for an audience. This used to be as easy as it was essential. Musicians need an audience. While I'm still isolated I will be developing a 1 hr performance for an imagined house concert in the spring. And it won't be streamable: it will be live.

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Cordless Kites

A 6-part band based in London, they bring their diverse musical (and geographic) backgrounds together in a melange of original songs with rich vocal harmonies, groove, and sensitivity. Find their latest album, Released, on their website or any major streaming platform!

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5 maps in 5 dimensions

Commissioned by Radio France's programme "Creation Mondiale", "IFF" is a composition for the Parisian ensemble "Les Possibles": 5 interconnected pieces of 2 minutes each, for an ensemble of 5 musicians and a mezzo soprano.

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Zukunftanz: "and there is only the dance"

Commissioned by Parisian ensemble, Les Possibles, for an event celebrating their 10th anniversary: a piece of 3-5 minutes, to be "danceable". I wrote ZUKUNFTANZ (future dance) for 5 strings, horn and percussion. It was performed on November 25, 2021 at La Marbrerie, Paris.

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Between Desert and Sea

Commissioned by trio, flute, saxophone and classical guitar/storyteller to be performed on a sailing boat, the piece explores the moment of decision. Stepping aboard will change everything. It is a story of each of us, and of emigrants in particular.

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A Sibila - soundtrack to a feature film

I wrote the soundtrack for "A Sibila", the sybil, a Portuguese feature film which premiered in October 2023. Based on a famous Portuguese novel of the same name, the story explores a woman's emancipation in a rural context via her at times questionable powers of prophecy.

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Liminality - soundtrack for a short film

A Shuffle collaboration! In scoring their short film, Liminality, Tess, Anuj and I shared a wonderful and intensive period of music-sharing, brainstorming, sketching, imagining, redrafting and polishing, the last part of which I finished (literally) on the road in Mexico!

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