Shaun Davey is one of Ireland's leading professional composers. In recent years he has composed and produced scores for the BBC TV series 'Ballykissangel' [BAFTA - nominated], won an Ivor Novello award for the music for 'the Hanging Gale', composed and produced music for feature films 'The Tailor of Panama', 'Waking Ned', 'Twelfth Night' [Ivor Novello nominated], and for the Hallmark TV film of 'David Copperfield'.
In UK Theatre he has been composer to many Royal Shakespeare Company productions [including The Tempest, King Lear, A Winters Tale and Pericles] and in the USA his music for 'James Joyce's The Dead' was nominated for a Tony Award. Other theatre credits include 'Fair Maid of the West', 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'[RSC], 'The Steward of Christendom' [Royal Court] and 'The Well of the Saints' [Abbey].
As a composer of concert works he began in 1980 with 'The Brendan Voyage', a fusion of orchestral and Irish traditional styles, with an uilleann piper as soloist. He continued this genre with 'The Pilgrim', 'Granuaile', and 'The Relief of Derry Symphony', all of which are available on Tara Records.
Shaun Davey also enjoys working in the field of film documentary and as composer of music for special occasions; in 2003 he composed the music for the Dublin Special Olympics, performed in Croke Park Stadium before a live audience of 80,000.

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