Some Background Information On David Downes

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David Downes is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied music and composition. Performing credits include concerts in Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Wembley Arena, and on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, appearing with among others, James Galway, Alan Stivell, Boyzone, The Washington Symphony, Moravian Philharmonic, Hollywood Studio Symphony, and National Symphony Orchestras. Recording credits as soloist include Michael W. Smith, Michael Crawford, Clannad, Moya Brennan, and Bill Whelan.

As a composer, his television, film and theatre credits include Thou Shalt Not Kill, The Enemy Within, The Hunt For Red Willie at the Peacock Theatre, and Jeff Daniels' Escanaba In The Moonlight. He composed the music for The Shaughraun at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, which broke box office records in 2004.

He has been Musical Director of Riverdance for the US touring company, European touring company, and on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre. He was also orchestrator of Riverdance On Broadway. As a producer David has worked extensively with oboist David Agnew and recently produced the Gold debut album of young Irish singer Chloe. He has also worked as orchestrator and arranger for Bonnie Tyler, Charlotte Church, and Secret Garden.

Information From Celtic Woman.com
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Irish film and television composer Louise Heaney has been chosen as one of 12 composers to participate in the 2007 ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis (Emmy award winner for the score of Stephen King?s ?IT? and a nomination for HBO?s ?Doublecrossed?).

The ASCAP Film Scoring workshop is "one-of-a-kind" experience for aspiring film and television composers, which each year sees hundreds of composer applicants from around the globe battling it out receive a much coveted initiation to take part in the course.

The 12 selected participants have the opportunity to record their original compositions with an ?A-List? of Hollywood professionals, including a 40-piece orchestra on a major studio film scoring stage. In addition, there are "From the Horse's Mouth" sessions with studio executives, agents, attorneys and music supervisors.

Irish composers that have previously attended the course include Philip Carty and David Downes (Musical Director/Composer for the Celtic Woman production).

Participant Louise Heaney has previously won the Best Original Score at the NYC Movie Making Madness for the horror ?The King's Tradition? and has provided original music for many film and TV projects including ?Feng Shui And My TV? and several reports for RTE's ?Capital D?. In 2006 she was awarded a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland/Screen Training Ireland to travel to New York to study with Steven Scott Smalley, orchestrator on the feature films ?Batman? and ?Mission Impossible?.

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