Vincent Kennedy was born in Dublin. He studied trumpet at CBS Westland Row, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the DIT Conservatory of Music, and performed with many ensembles before establishing himself as a composer. He is an executive member of the Association of Irish Composers, a founding member of the Irish Film and Television Academy and a member of the Irish Computer Society. He has written orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal music. His music has been performed by the Antipodes Ensemble, Concorde, the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra, Ottoni Ensemble, Strands Ensemble, Tine Verbecke, the Veale/Cleary Trio, RCBS, Band of An Garda Siochana and numerous symphonic wind ensembles, brass and pipe bands in concerts throughout Ireland, Europe, USA and Canada. In 2007 he received an Arts Council Bursary to enable him to spend time working on his first symphony.
His two major works of recent years "The Hook - A Place and A People"(2005) and "The Winds of Change" (2007) regularly receive performances in whole or in part. He made his North American conducting debut in April 2008 conducting his works including "What's a Heaven For?"(2006) in San Francisco and Walnut Creek California. He also conducted this work with the Rathfarnham Concert Band in in a concert which won the National Band Championships 2008.
Recent projects include a concert in the National Concert Hall in February 2008, devoted to his music. In January to March 2009 the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra will perform four of his pieces as part of a concert series in the USA.
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