Amanda Feery is a composer working with acoustic, electronic, and improvised music. She has written for chamber and vocal ensembles, film, theatre, installation, and multimedia. She was the Mark Nelson Fellow in Music at Princeton University, completing her PhD in Music Composition in 2019. She has formed multiple collaborative relationships with many ensembles and musicians including Alarm Will Sound, Third Coast Percussion, Ensemble Mise-en, Bearthoven, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, ConTempo Quartet, the National Symphony Orchestra, This is How We Fly, Chamber Choir Ireland, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Paul Roe, Michelle O’Rourke, and Lina Andonovska plus many more.

Her work has been featured at New Music Dublin, First Fortnight Festival, and Dublin Fringe Festival, among others, and she has been composer-in-residence at Bang on a Can Summer Festival, SOUNDscape, and Greywood Arts. Her 2019 residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais focused on recording piano improvisations on public pianos in Paris.

Her recent projects include: A Thing I Cannot Name, a 20-minute opera film commissioned by the Irish National Opera; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra; and we could be diving for pearls, commissioned by Gleo Festival.

She was a 2023 recipient of the Markievicz Award, which is funding the composition of an hour-long radio work, in response to Eamon de Valera’s 1943 radio address, ‘On Language and the Irish Nation’ and she is currently a Lecturer in Composition at the University of Galway.

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