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Julie Feeney's biography;
Julie Feeney works as a composer, a singer, a producer, a musician, a songwriter, a theatre artist and as an educator. She composes instrumental music and songs with full orchestrations.
Her second self-produced album, 'Pages' will be released in late Spring 2009, which she composed for voice and orchestra. She conducted the orchestra and later recorded her singing. Her debut album '13 songs' won the 'Choice Music Prize in 2006 - "Irish Album of the Year' and received rave reviews in all major U.K. and Irish press and the New York Times. She played most of the instruments and did all of the singing on the album - which she produced and released herself.
Her instrumental compositions have been for the Crash Ensemble and Icebreaker, and the electronic scores for Corp Feasa contemporary dance company, Loose Canon Theatre Company and for her own one-woman shows where she incorporated live singing.
She has orchestrated for and conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra string section and she orchestrated '13 songs' for the 65-piece Ulster Orchestra at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast in 2007.
She has worked as a theatre artist with Loose Canon Theatre Company; in a one-woman show to her own electronic score; and in 'Slat' at Galway Arts Festival and in Paris in 2008 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. After she graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2001, she worked all over the world as a professional choral singer with various ensembles on numerous cds, dvds and broadcasts.
As an educator Julie has worked at primary, secondary, university and professional development level in music education. A qualified primary teacher she has designed and facilitated workshops all over Ireland, in the U.S. and in Brazil and has published 3 music education CD roms. She lectured in Music Education at university level for three years. Julie has her own own label, "Mittens," called after her mother's favourite cat.
She works part-time as a model.
"...This album marks the blossoming of a major talent..." The Observer
"...the world will listen..." The Guardian ****
"... a charming, urbane and dreamy record..." New York Times
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