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Siobhan Cleary (10 May 1970) is a classical composer from Ireland.

Biography
Born in Dublin in 1970, Siobhán Cleary studied music at NUI Maynooth, Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. She has attended composition courses in Italy, France and Poland where her tutors included Franco Donatoni and Louis Andriessen. She has also studied privately with Tom Johnson and Kevin Volans. She has studied ﬁlm scoring with Ennio Morriocone and Don Brandon Ray.

Music
In 1995 she was a ﬁnalist in the Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Young Composers’ Award at the Huddersﬁeld Festival. Other awards include a Pépinières Young European Artists award in 1996 for a three-month residency in Bologna and ﬁrst prize in the Arklow Music Festival Composers’ Competition in 1997. In 1997 a concert of her music was performed at Cité International des Arts in Paris. Her orchestral work, Threads (1992 rev.1994), was selected by Vienna Modern Masters for performance at the Second International Festival of New Music for Orchestra in Olomouc in the Czech Republic, and was later released on CD. Other orchestral works include ‘Alchemy’ (2001) and Cokaygne (2008) both commissioned by RTÉ and performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra  She has been a featured composer in the Composers’ Choice concert series  and Horizons Orchestral series at the National Concert Hall.

Siobhán has written the music for two Roger Corman ﬁlms, ‘Spacejacked!’ and          ‘Dangerous Curves’. She also composed the scores for the Andrew Legge ﬁlm, The TimeTraveller; Maynard Kraak’s Crazy Pickles and Planet Korda’s “The Book Smugglers”. She also worked with the Ciniteca di Bologna writing music scores to restored ﬁlms, most notably the Dali/Buñuel classic ‘Un Chien Andalou’ 	From Nov 2007 - May 2008 Siobhán was Composer - In Residence with the Kerry          County Council. An orchestral work Mis for the Kerry Chamber Orchestra and Irish speaking Narrator was commissioned for this residency and was performed in November 2009. She also led education workshops entitled In Common Time, a cross border, cross community music project facilitated by Co. Donegal VEC music education partnership.

Theophilus Thistle and the Myth of Miss Muffett, a work based on tongue twisters in          different languages was commissioned by the Cork Choral festival with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland which was  premiered on April 30th 2011 by the National Chamber Choir (directed by Paul Hiller). This work was selected by Paul Hillier to be performed as part of the Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year-long celebration of Irish arts in the United States in 2011. Also in 2010, She was also awarded a 3 month residency in the Culturel Centre Irlandais in Paris.

In 2005 she founded Ireland Promoting New Music which promotes the performance of contemporary music through its series New Sound Worlds. In 2010 Siobhán received a bursary from the Arts Council to complete her opera          “Jack Ashore” which has been selected for a  future full production at the Boston Metro Opera. She was recipient of the ﬁrst Annual Irish Residency at the soundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy in July 2013 which featured a premiere of the introduction of her new opera “Ondine” performed by Tony Arnold. Siobhán was elected to Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists in 2008.