Welcome to the official website of Irish composer Kevin O'Connell. You will find information, much of it previously unpublished, about the composer and his life. There are free samples of scores and music, as well as a regularly updated blog.

The extract used at the top of each page is from O'Connell's manuscript of From the Besieged City, composed 1988-1989.

Latest uploads (26 January 2012)

• On variation form (26.i.12)
• News: Seminar on Variation form and other forthcoming events (24.i.12)
• Remembering Cornelius Cardew (30.x.11)
• News: LIbrary Tour details (20.x.11)
• On composing for Heaney (19.x.11)
• Do you hear it all in your head? (4.x.11)
• On musicology (28.ix.11).
• On Torsten Rasch (4.vii.11)
• Yeats and Sibelius (2.vii.11)
• News: O'Connell's essay on Hindemith's contrapuntal teaching, 'Hindemith's voices' and his forthcoming paper at the SMI conference (9.vi.11)

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