AIC Member - Douglas Gunn

Douglas Gunn was born in 1935. He was a boy chorister at St Patrick’s Cathedral and the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, and later a lay Vicar Choral at St Patrick’s and Christ Church Cathedrals. In 1962 he joined RTÉ, working in Cork and Dublin. He taught recorder and baroque chamber music at the Cork School of Music and the Dublin Early Music Centre. While in Cork he founded the Locrian Consort and the Douglas Gunn Ensemble, an early music group in which he played recorders. He has conducted many choirs including the Lydian Singers, the RTÉ Singers, the Irish Pro Musica Chorale, Sequence Twenty and the Schola Cantorum.

Much of his compositional output is for choir, although it includes some chamber music, often for voice with recorder and other instruments. He has been commissioned by: Madrigal ‘75, University College Cork Choral Society, Cork Municipal School of Music, the Cork Ivy Day Committee and the Westport Arts Festival. His compositions, editions and arrangements have been widely performed, recorded and broadcast and have been published by J. and W. Chester, Ossian Publications and his own publishing companies, Poddle Press and Melrose Music.

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