Guirne Creith

Guirne Creith (born Gladys Mary Cohen; 21 February 1907, in London – 1996) was an English composer and pianist most active in the 1920s and 1930s. She received the Charles Lucas Prize in 1925, having entered the Royal Academy of Music just two years before under the pseudonym Guirne M Creith. A second recording came out in 2026. Works Many of Creith’s manuscripts are missing. Her compositions include four orchestral pieces (only the concerto survives), six works of chamber music (though all six of these are lost and known only from descriptions, so their instrumentation is a matter of conjecture; the Ballade might be for orchestra for example), six songs (five of them published between 1929 and 1956, and the other lost - apparently her only published works), and one ballet (also lost). In all, of these, only her published songs and the violin concerto are known to survive, and the latter only because the manuscript was rediscovered. BBC broadcast listings and newspaper reviews show that Creith’s time in the public spotlight was limited. Her Ballet Suite in Four Movements was broadcast on 8 February 1928, with the composer conducting. The orchestral tone poem May Eve was broadcast o