Michael Gallen

Michael Gallen is an Irish composer, writer, director and performer, and is Artistic Director of music-theatre company Straymaker. Works of note include Wilde Stories, a suite for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Cór na nÓg responding to Oscar Wilde's fairy tales; What You Forget, a large-scale choral work commissioned for the Ireland 1916 Centenary commemorations and Session, a co-creation with dance artists Colin Dunne and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui which toured across the main stages of Europe in 2019/20, including an Irish premiere at the Abbey Theatre. Michael is currently composing an evening-length work entitled Bád ón Alltar for the Orchestre Nationale de Bretagne, Ulster Orchestra and the Irish National Symphony Orchestra, and recently completed Impí, a new piece for soprano and chamber or