Alannah Halay Explained

Alannah Halay
Other Names:Alannah Marie
Birth Name:Alannah Marie Halay
Birth Place:Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Yearsactive:2010–present
Alma Mater:BA, MMus, PhD, AFHEA, PCertLAM, QTS, PGCE [1]

Dr Alannah Marie Halay is an internationally performed British composer and author known for her work with avant-garde, contemporary classical, and experimental music. Halay studied at the University of Leeds, where she received her PhD in composition. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Career

Halay received a place at the University of Leeds via its Access to Leeds Scheme.[2] She began her composing career as an undergraduate, when her piece Dry Veins (2012) for piano and voice was performed in the Leeds Lieder festival in 2012.[3] During her PhD, she was the winner of the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia Composition Competition 2015, and her composition Air, Earth, Water, Fire was selected to be workshopped in its summer course and performed alongside its BBC Radio 4 programme.[4] [5] In the same year, she had a composition selected for the Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy, which would be performed in the Gaudeamus Muziekweek Festival in 2016.[6] She attended the Gaudeamus Muziekweek Academy in the summer 2015 where she studied composition and contemporary harp techniques, and where she was selected to be the UK composer in cellist Katharina Gross's worldwide Cellomondo project.[7] Later in 2015, she worked with Hans-Joachim Hespos as a performer and composer, performing Hespos' Tja (1981) for pianist, wuniof ‘k (1989) on piano, and realising the tape part for his MusikBoxen (1995). During this time she also received composition and performance training from Hespos.[8] In 2017, she worked with Dr Michael Spencer to celebrate the University of Leeds becoming a Steinway School, with their piece Resonance/Light/Decay being composed to be played on twenty-eight Steinway pianos.[9] [10] Throughout 2022, Halay worked with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through the support of enoa (European Network of Opera Academies), which selected her upcoming opera project, Queering Opera, for its Opera Creation Journey programme.[11] [12] [13] This follows her previous opera, Pacific Pleasures, which was written as a prequel to Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, and performed together by Bloomsbury Opera at Goodenough College in 2017.[14] [15]

Overall, Halay's music has been performed internationally, by musicians such as Ian Pace, Rui Baeta, Katharina Gross, Peter Wiegold (Notes Inégales), Ryszard Lubieniecki, Lara Martins, and others.[16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Publications

Halay's practice-led research formed the basis of her PhD thesis, Recognising Absurdity through Compositional Practice: Comparing an Avant-Garde Style with being avant garde. The same methodology has informed her other publications, including her edited book, (Per)Forming Art: Performance as Research in Contemporary Artworks, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.[21] Some of Halay's musical scores are available from the UCLA Music Library: Contemporary Music Score Collection.[22] Halay is also published by Vernon Press and the University of Nebraska Press.[23] [24]

List of Compositions

Discography

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Research: Alannah Marie Halay. University of Leeds School of Music. 2023-03-07.
  2. Web site: AHC . enoa gives a voice to School of Music alum . 2023-03-10 . ahc.leeds.ac.uk . 8 April 2022 . en.
  3. Web site: Leeds Lieder+ From Europe to America – A Day of Song . 2023-03-10 . bachtrack.com . en.
  4. Birth of an Orchestra . BBC Radio 4 Extra . Alan . Bennett . BBC Radio 4 . Jan 2022.
  5. Web site: Review: Yorkshire Young Sinfonia, York Barbican, August 22 Martin Scheuregger. The York Press. 23 August 2015 . 2023-03-07.
  6. Web site: Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2016 . 2023-03-10 . Gaudeamus . en-US.
  7. Web site: cellomondo composers . 2023-03-21 . cellomondos Webseite! . de-DE.
  8. Web site: Concerts : Composition . 2023-03-21 . composition.leeds.ac.uk.
  9. Web site: University of Leeds becomes All-Steinway School. Rhinegold Publishing. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122153849/http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/music_teacher/university-leeds-becomes-steinway-school/ . 2023-03-07. 22 January 2021 .
  10. Web site: BBC Radio Leeds - Andrew Edwards, 12/12/2017 . 2023-03-10 . BBC . en-GB.
  11. Web site: enoa gives a voice to School of Music alum. University of Leeds. 8 April 2022 . 2023-03-07.
  12. Web site: Opera Creation Journey #1. enoa. 2023-03-07.
  13. Web site: enoa . Glitter Balls . 2023-03-10 . enoa.
  14. Web site: A double bill of operas. spyinthestalls.com. 21 March 2017 . 2023-03-05.
  15. Web site: Bloomsbury Opera and Goodenough College present Tahiti! Chris Omaweng. LondonTheatre1. 26 March 2017 . 2023-03-05.
  16. Web site: Ian Pace at Fifty Concert . 2023-03-07 . Music at City.
  17. Web site: Eugeniusz Rudnik i jego maszyny Letnia noc . 2023-03-07 . polskieradio.pl.
  18. Web site: Gaudeamus Muziekweek: Cellomondo "cello-marathon" . 2023-03-10 . TivoliVredenburg . nl.
  19. Web site: Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej . 2023-03-10 . polmic.pl.
  20. Web site: Pace . I. . 2019-04-30 . 23 World Premieres of New Commissions for Ian Pace at 50 - 30 April 2018. Composers including Patricia de Almeida, James Dillon, Michael Finnissy, Christopher Fox, Sadie Harrison, Morgan Hayes, Wieland Hoban, Alwynne Pritchard, Lauren Redhead, Walter Zimmermann . 2023-03-10 . openaccess.city.ac.uk . en.
  21. Web site: (Per)Forming Art: Performance as Research in Contemporary Artworks - Cambridge Scholars Publishing . 2023-03-10 . www.cambridgescholars.com . en.
  22. Search . en.
  23. Alfia Nakipbekova . 2019-07-15 . Exploring Xenakis: Performance, Practice, Philosophy [Hardback] ]. en.
  24. Web site: 2017-12-14 . Journal - Nebraska Journals . 2023-03-10 . nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu . en-US.
  25. Web site: Electronic Experimentations, by Alannah Halay . 2023-11-12 . Alannah Halay . en.
  26. Halay . Alannah Marie . 2018 . "We Lived in the Gaps between the Stories": Alannah Marie Halay . Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture . 22 . 22–25 . 1553-0612.
  27. Halay . Alannah . 2020 . The Interlocutor . en.

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