| Biography | Shaun Davey (born 1948) is an Irish composer.
Shaun Davey was born in Belfast in 1948 and attended Rockport School in County Down. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in the history of Art in 1971. He then took a master's degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In the late 1970s, he made his first recording, "Davey and Morris," with Donal Lunny and others. He worked as a composer of advertising jingles, including "The Pride of the Herd" for the National Dairy Council.
Davey's reputation is built on four large-scale concert works based on Irish history, all using uilleann pipes and folk tunes:-
1."The Brendan Voyage" (1980)
2."The Pilgrim" (1983) .
3."Granuaile" (1985)
4."The Relief of Derry Symphony" (1990) |