Michael McGlynn

Michael McGlynn (born 11 May 1964) is an Irish composer and the founder and artistic director of the vocal ensemble Anúna, which he established in Dublin in 1987 as the principal vehicle for the creation, performance, and recording of his music. His work draws on medieval polyphony, Irish traditional music, and contemporary compositional language, and has been discussed in scholarship as part of the development of a distinctively Irish choral voice. Career Early life and Anúna Michael McGlynn was born in Dublin and attended Coláiste na Rinne and Blackrock College. He studied Music and English at University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985 and a Bachelor of Music degree in 1986. In 1991 the ensemble adopted the name Anúna. During the late 1980s and early 1990s McGlynn developed the body of choral work that would form the core of his compositional reputation, including the Celtic Mass (1989–91) and Invocation (1993), both subsequently the subject of detailed scholarly analysis. In 1990 he wrote music for the Gate Theatre production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, in a new adaptation by Frank McGuinness directed by Adrian Noble, which