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Judith Ring (1976, Dublin, Ireland) is a composer and musician living in York, England. Ring is currently studying for 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 Irish Arts Council. She studied her Bmus at University College Dublin subsequently studying for a Masters in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin from which she graduated in 2000 with first class honours. At TCD she studied composition under Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle. Ring's specialised area of composition is musique concréte, which involves the use of 'found sounds' as source material for the electronic part. Her piece 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. She has written pieces for the Crash Ensemble, National Concert Hall Dublin and Bradyworks (Canada). Her works have also been used in Dance theatre of Irelands shows, Evidence and Prism. 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. Her piece Stagger for solo piano was a commission from the National Concert Hall, Dublin for a workshop with pianist Rolf Hind in 2001. 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. Interference for four channel tape and mezzo-soprano written especially for singer Natasha Lohan was performed in November 2002 by the Crash Ensemble. As part of the composers choice series featuring the Whispering Gallery in the National Concert Hall she composed Fusion for Double Bass and tape which was performed by Malachy Robinson in April 2003. In December 2002 she received a scholarship from Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 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. Ring received an Arts Council award in 2003 for her piece phorM for Tenor Saxophone and tape commissioned by Bradyworks, a contemporary music ensemble based in Canada. This was performed by saxophonist André Leroux as part of a Crash Ensemble festival held in Dublin in December 2003. It received subsequent performances by Bradyworks in Montreal, Trois-Rivieres and Toronto, Canada in December 2004. 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
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