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Deirdre Gribbin is a charismatic and intriguing new voice in contemporary music Paul Conway The Independent

Her music has been performed worldwide including The Lincoln Center, NYC. She was finalist in the UNESCO Rostrum of Composers and won the Arts Foundation Opera Award for Hey Persephone!, which ran at Aldeburgh and Almeida Festivals. She is a Fulbright Churchill and Leverhulme Fellow.

She has collaborated with geneticists at the Wellcome Genome Campus and scientists in Toronto developing interactive video platforms for healthcare. She is Artistic Director of Venus Blazing Music Theatre Trust working with young people with cognitive delays. She has written for film including My Kingdom for Sky Pictures starring Richard Harris. The Dark Gene, featuring her DNA string quartet Hearing Your Genes Evolve was a finalist in the 2016 Berlinale Film Festival Documentary Prize.
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Kindersang Lincoln Center NYC, Center Irlandais Paris and JW3, London. To be recorded by Lore Lixenberg and David Alberman on First Hand Records with support from Help Musicians, Royal College of Music and Vaughan Williams Foundation - 04/2026.

Deirdre Gribbin is a composer who refuses to take easy options. In Kindersang, her steadfast integrity and uncompromising approach to her craft has resulted in a powerful and important work and its first UK performance made a profound and lasting impact. After the final note faded away, there was a telling pause for a collective gathering of thoughts and minds.
Paul Conway Musical Times, London.

Royal College of Music, London supports Venus Blazing Music Theatre Trust directed by Deirdre Gribbin at Park Theatre, London - more