Impossibly Beautiful - Julie Feeney

album: Pages
Songer: Julie Feeney
Classical: Alternative, Classical, Pop
Archiv Prod Import: Mittens
Publish time: June 29, 2009
Language: English

Impossibly Beautiful:

01. Love Is A Tricky Thing
02. Impossibly Beautiful
03. Grace
04. Valentine's Song
05. One More Tune
06. Myth
07. Mr. Roving Eye Guy
08. Stay
09. Life's Nudge
10. Monster
11. Nothing To Declare
12. Knock Knock

About Julie Feeney

composer…producer…singer…musician…songwriter…educator…theatre artist

Julie works as a composer, a singer, a producer, a musician, a songwriter, a theatre artist and as an educator. She composes instrumental music and also songs with full orchestrations. Before her first album she worked mostly with composition of electronic music, and since her first album she has been exploring the orchestral sound-world.

Julie has finished producing her second album, ‘pages’ which she scored this time for voice and orchestra with no midi. She conducted the orchestra and later recorded the singing over the orchestral music. All of the singing and mixing was done athome. Instead of playing lots of instruments like she did on the first album, all of the music was this time played by the orchestra while she did again of the singing, conducting, composing and producing. The orchestra included trumpets, french horns, trombone, vibraphone, clarinet, flute, oboe, bassoon, violins, violas, cellos, double bass, glockenspiel, sticks and more. Julie spent a considerable amount of time working at the Artists’ Retreat in Annaghmakerrig in County Monaghan working on the words for the work. ‘pages’ will be released in April.

Her instrumental compositions have been for the Crash Ensemble and Icebreaker, and the electronic scores for Corp Feasa contemporary dance company, Loose Canon Theatre Company and for her own one woman shows where she incorporated live singing. She has orchestrated for and conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra string section and she orchestrated ‘13 songs’ for the 65 piece Ulster Orchestra at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast in 2007 when she sang solo with them. A video link to one of the songs is here.

She has worked as a theatre artist with Loose Canon Theatre Company; in a one woman show to her own electronic score; and in ‘Slat’ at Galway Arts Festival and in Paris in 2008 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais.

Her debut album ‘13 songs’ won in 2006 the ‘Choice Music Prize - Irish Album of the Year’. She played most of the instruments and did all of the singing, and produced and released the album. (The album cover sleeve and all of the credits can be seen on her main website). After that she signed a record deal and was able finally to pay back all of the money she borrowed to make and it and the first video (seen below which features the Beetle car, her favourite vehicle of all time). Just before her debut album, after graduating from Trinity College Dublin, she worked all over the world as a professional choral singer with various ensembles on numerous cds, dvds and broadcasts. She has her own record label, mittens, called after her mother’s favourite cat. She cannot drive a car.

As an educator Julie has worked at primary, secondary, university and professional development level in music education. A qualified primary teacher she has designed and facilitated workshops all over Ireland, in the U.S. and in Brazil and has published 3 music education CD roms. She lectured in music education at university level for three years. She works part-time as a model.

Julie Feeney's Blog: http://juliefeeney.com/blog/