My Kingdom 2001
"Gribbin's string writing is hauntingly beautiful..." Screen International
A modern-day version of King Lear set in contemporary Liverpool starring Richard Harris
- Sky Pictures, Directed by Don Boyd
- Music by Deirdre Gribbin
The Dark Gene 2016
A documentary exploring the link between genetics and depression.
Finalist in the Documentary section Prize at the Berlinale Film Festival
-Film Tank Productions
-Music by Deirdre Gribbin
[www.filmtank.de/p/the-dark-gene]
Recordings and Further Sound Links
NMC D185 ISLAND PEOPLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNmXtPz1syk
Vanbrugh Quartet, Patricia Rosario and Lore Lixenberg
String quartets Merrow Sang and What the Whaleship Saw, Opera Crossing the Sea
Settings of Seamus Heaney's poetry
" The vocal writing is laudably expressive, yet those passages where the string quartet comes
into its own bring a palpable and moving sense of going ‘beyond words’.”
Richard Whitehouse Gramophone
VENUS BLAZING, UNITY OF BEING, EMPIRE STATES
LYRIC FM Composers of Ireland Series Vol. 4.
“… the virtues of the music itself are considerable. The solo writing is thoroughly
idiomatic and often striking...”
Andrew Clements The Guardian
Bulb: Irish Piano Trios
Fidelio Piano Trio (NMC D147)
“Deirdre Gribbin's How to Make the Water Sound is an evanescent and
thrilling work. It is that rare thing; music that evokes a program,
without once appealing to any conventional signifiers of musical
pictorialism.. There is rather a well thought out program of sounds
that convey, paradoxically, the very abstractness of the water they
contemplate and seek to echo.”
Stephen Graham Musical Criticism