Shaun Davey

Award-winning Irish composer with many year's experience in film, theatre and concert music, including wide experience in arranging and recording studio production.
Shaun Davey was born in Belfast in 1948. Originally trained at Trinity College, Dublin and The Courtauld Institute as an art historian, he has worked as a full-time professional composer since 1977. In Ireland his often large-scale, melodic, narrative compositions have been recognised as a bridge between Irish traditional music and orchestral traditions, eg The Brendan Voyage. His suite for the Dublin Special Olympics was performed before an audience of 80,000 and his setting of St Patricks’ prayer The Deers Cry was performed at the recent inauguration of the Irish President. His work features on the Irish school syllabus.
He is married to Rita Connolly and they live together in County Wicklow, Ireland