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6 unusual facts about David Flynn


David Flynn

He has also had a major radio special dedicated to his music on WNYC New York's New Sounds show hosted by John Schaefer.

His prize was a commission to elaborate ‘Slip’ into his String Quartet No.2 "The Cranning" for the 2005 festival where it was premiered by the Smith Quartet to the acclaim of critics including Neil Fisher of The Times who praised Flynn for ‘incorporating traditional Irish music without Hollywood pastiche’.

Around this time Flynn started composing songs and became a regular performer on the Dublin singer-songwriter scene which spawned some of Ireland's current crop of successful songwriters such as Damien Rice and Damien Dempsey.

In 2006, the Masters of Tradition Festival in Cork commissioned Flynn to compose a piece for Hayes and Cahill to perform with the classical violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan.

Dublin Guitar Quartet

The group also regularly perform music specially written for them by Irish composers including Derek Ball, Donnacha Dennehy, Eric Sweeney, group member Brian Bolger and former member David Flynn.

The group formed in 2002 while founder members Brian Bolger, Patrick Brunnock, David Flynn and Redmond O'Toole were all studying at the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama.



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