Maeve Kelly

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Living and working in Dublin, composer, arranger and cellist Maeve Kelly is a graduate of MTU Cork School of Music and Technological University Dublin. She is currently working for a PhD in Music Composition at TUDublin under the supervision of composer Gráinne Mulvey. She takes her musical inspiration from societal and world issues, and has been writing on themes of language, migration and illness. She has most recently presented and performed her works at the Irish Narrative Enquiry Conference and the Perform_Live festival at the National Concert Hall, Ireland. In April 2022, Maeve was announced the winner of the Finding a Voice and Contemporary Music Centre’s competition for Emerging Women Composers. . She is fond of exploring absurdism in her music and often plays with warping the familiar and mundane to be presented in a strange and fresh condition. Maeve’s style is eclectic and she draws from influences of jazz, rock, classical and electroacoustic music in her work. Maeve is the current chairperson of the Irish Composers Collective.