Roger Doyle
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| Born | 17 July 1949 Malahide, Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Composer, pianist, theatre producer, actor |
Roger Doyle (born 17 July 1949) is an Irish composer best known for his electro-acoustic work and for his piano music for theatre. He was born in Malahide, County Dublin.
Doyle studied piano from the age of nine. After leaving school he attended the Royal Irish Academy of Music for three years, studying composing, during which time he was awarded two composition scholarships. He also studied at the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and the Finnish Radio Experimental Music Studio on scholarships.
Doyle began as a drummer with Supply Demand and Curve and Jazz Therapy, playing free improvisatory and fusion music. He composed the album Rapid Eye Movements, including the work Fin-estra, as his attempt at a "masterpiece before the age of thirty". He released his first LP, Oizzo No, in 1975, and his second, Thalia, in 1978 on CBS Classics. Rapid Eye Movements (1981) was his third LP.
Doyle began his magnum opus, Babel, in 1989 – a 5-CD set that took ten years to compose. Each track corresponds to a 'room' or place within an imagined giant tower city, a kind of aural virtual reality. It celebrates the multiplicity of musical language. 103 pieces of music were composed for it and he worked with 48 collaborators. From 2002 to 2007 he worked on the three-volume electronic work Passades. 21 albums of his music have been released.
Doyle has also composed scores for several films including Budawanny, Pigs and the documentary Atlantean by Bob Quinn.
In 2013 he founded META Productions with opera director Eric Fraad, committed to exploring new forms of opera for the 21st century and creating works that live within the best traditions of opera and reformulating these in innovative and unique ways. His most recent work is the opera Heresy. Originally titled The Death by Fire of Giordano Bruno, act I was performed as part of a fully staged concert of Doyle's works at both the Kilkenny Arts Festival and in the Dublin Theatre Festival 2013. Heresy will be presented as part of 'Project 50', a season of work celebrating 50 years of Project Arts Centre 28 October – 5 November 2016. Heresy is an ambitious, contemporary electronic opera based on episodes from the life and works of Giordano Bruno and the first opera by Doyle, with a libretto by noted playwright and dramaturg Jocelyn Clarke and directed by Eric Fraad, with set and costume design by Bruno Schwengl and lighting design by Kevin McFadden. The cast includes Caitríona O'Leary, Daire Halpin, Morgan Crowley, and Robert Crowe.
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