BIOGRAPHY

Judith Ring (1976, Dublin, Ireland)

Ring recently completed a PhD in composition at the University of York under the supervision of Ambrose Field and Roger Marsh with the aid of the Elizabeth Maconchy Fellowship from the Arts Council of Ireland.

In July she was the guest composer at the Irish composition summer school working alongside Nicola LeFanu, Martin O'Leary and John Mclachlan.

Ring studied for her Bmus at University College Dublin, subsequently completing her MPhil in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin with first class honours. At TCD she studied electro-acoustic composition under Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle.

Accumulation won first prize for the International Luigi Russolo electronic music composition competition 2000, in Varese, Italy and it has been performed in Dublin and Germany including EXPO 2000 in Hannover.

Ring has written pieces for Concorde ensemble, the Crash Ensemble, Percusemble, Trio Scordatura, University of York chamber orchestra, and Bradyworks (Canada). She has written solo + tape pieces for Natasha Lohan (voice), Paul Roe (bass clarinet), Laura Moody (Cello), Damien Harron (percussion), Elisabeth Smalt (adapted viola), Malachy Robinson (double bass), Andre Leroux (tenor sax) and an acoustic piece for Rolf Hind (piano).

In the past Ring's works were used in Dance theatre of Irelands performances, Evidence and Prism. In 2005 and 2006 she collaborated with two choreographers, Anna Melander and Vince Virr from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD, England) on 4 dance pieces. She has also written the music to two short films, one of which, "Time and again" directed by Barry Dowling, was aired on Network 2's program Debut. In August 2002 she co-composed the music alongside Jürgen Simpson for video artist Clare Langans, piece Glass hour which has been exhibited in the Tate Liverpool, RHA Dublin and MoMa New York among others. Her compositions have been widely performed in Europe and North America.

In December 2002, while living in Berlin, she received a scholarship from Akademie der Künste,to attend their Sommer Akademie for two weeks with 10 other international artists, directors, writers, and composers in Museumspark Rüdersdorf, just outside Berlin. In association with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg, she gave a three day workshop in film-music and sound design as part of the 7th Kinder and Jugendprojekt Live Medienkultur erfahren in December 2003.

In may 2004 there was a month long exhibition in Akademie der Künste, Berlin where the video piece, "Gone" that Judith Ring started at the Sommerakademie in 2003 was exhibited alongside 15 other artists work.

The 8th Kinder und Jugendprojekt Live Medienkultur erfahren that took place at Akademie der Künste, Berlin in October 2004 gave Judith Ring yet another possibility to influence and teach a group of young participants, the art of composing film music and other aspects of the film sound process.

She was featured as composer of the month in March 2006 on the Contemporary Music Centre website: www.cmc.ie

You can check out some of her compositions at myspace.com/judithring