Biography
Geoff Sheil is an award-winning Irish composer based in the Washington DC area. His work ranges from contemporary chamber music, to jazz, to electronic music and has been performed across North America and Europe.
He has studied at University of Cambridge, UK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA and University of South Florida, FL, and holds degrees in natural science, composition and conducting.
Geoff is now pursuing a DMA in composition at University of Maryland, College Park, on the prestigious Flagship Fellowship.
Photo Credit: Candace Kaw
He has studied at University of Cambridge, UK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA and University of South Florida, FL, and holds degrees in natural science, composition and conducting.
Geoff is now pursuing a DMA in composition at University of Maryland, College Park, on the prestigious Flagship Fellowship.
Photo Credit: Candace Kaw
Recent Media
Every Instrument in this Room was commissioned by Current Resonance in 2012, and later arranged for percussion duo and electronics.
Wild was read in February 2014 by the Kronos quartet as part of a UMD residency, and performed four times by invoke during the spring.
Awaiting The Rest was recently awarded the 2014 Feis Ceoil IMRO Chamber Composition Prize (Ireland).
Newport was performed in New York, Tampa and Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2012/13.
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