Professor Eibhlís Farrell is a composer member of Aosdána, the state-sponsored academy of Irish artists, and she has previously served on the Toscaireacht. She is graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast, Bristol University, and Rutgers University, New Jersey, from where she was awarded her doctorate, and studied composition with Raymond Warren in England and Charles Wuorinen in the United States. Her works have been performed and broadcast internationally and she has represented Ireland at the UNESCO sponsored International Composers’ Rostrum.  She was honoured by Rutgers University with the Distinguished Alumna Award for Distinguished Accomplishments and Service in the Humanities in Music and Music Education. She has been a guest composer and lecturer at many institutions in Ireland and internationally and previously held posts at St Mary’s University College, Belfast, as Head of the Conservatory of Music and Drama at Dublin Institute of Technology (TUDublin), and Head of Music and Creative Media and Director of the Centre for Research in Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology. Her work is available through the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin. (www.cmc.ie)