Donnacha Dennehy

Composer Donnacha Dennehy has woven influences from Irish traditional and popular styles into a rigorous post-minimalist framework, and in the 2010s his music has increasingly often been recorded and performed in both academic and public venues. Dennehy was born August 17, 1970, in Dublin. As a child he was exposed to Irish folk music at a family home in County Kerry. "There'd be long, all-night sessions in my grandmother's house with singing and poetry, and people remembering 30-stanza poems," Dennehy told the U.S. National Public Radio network. "These would go right through...