Michael Alcorn was born in Belfast in 1962, studied music at the University of Ulster and completed a PhD in composition at the University of Durham. His compositional activities range from music for conventional instruments to works for live or taped electro-acoustic performance. His music has been performed and broadcast in the UK, Europe, North and South America and the Far East. He has received commissions from the BBC, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Nash Ensemble, Singcircle, the Smith Quartet, Darragh Morgan, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Opera Theatre Company and the Ulster Orchestra.
His work has been programmed at a number of international computer music conferences and he was a featured composer at the Elektrisk Helg Festival in Malm, Sweden in 1997 and at the Northern Ireland Now Festival in Munich in 1999.
Michael Alcorn is the Director of the School of Music and Sonic Arts at Queens University.
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