Piaras Hoban Awarded YCW Commission
Piaras Hoban has been announced as the winner of HCMF's Young Composers' Workshop 2007 for his submission and into the gibbering masses it goes...
Piaras' work was rehearsed and performed by Ensemble MAE and HCMF Composer-in-Residence Yannis Kyriakides in the workshop on 22 November, along with pieces by Richard Glover, Sarah O'Halloran and Fumiko Miyachi.
Born in 1986, Piaras Hoban is an Irish composer currently studying in the School of Music and Sonic Arts at Queen's University, Belfast. He has studied composition with Piers Hellawell and Simon Mawhinney and also acoustic composition with Paul Wilson. His current musical interests are related to exploring the all pervasive nature of the mechanised environment.
Piaras will be awarded a commission for HCMF 2008.