Peter Fahey has been described as a composer of “alluring soundscapes” and “arresting moments” (The New York Times), a “rising-star composer” (I CARE IF YOU LISTEN) and “a composer who is full of effective ideas” (The Journal of Music). His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall and the National Concert Hall, Dublin, and at festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek and Festival Música Nova, Brazil, by ensembles including Alarm Will Sound, the American Composers Orchestra, Continuum, Crash Ensemble, Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, ensemble recherche, Ensemble SurPlus, Klangforum Wien and Talea Ensemble, and, in his native Ireland, by Irish National Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Awards include the American Composers Orchestra’s Underwood Commission, a Next Generation Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Franz Liszt Stipendium from the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, as well as fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and MacDowell. Most recently, he won the 2025 Red Note New Music Festival Composition Competition and, in 2024, the Roy Minoff Composition Competition.
Peter studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, at Cornell University and, as an exchange scholar, at Columbia University. He also attended the Voix nouvelles Composition Session at the Royaumont Foundation, France and the International Summer Academy for Young Composers at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and he was a Susan and Ford Schumann Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
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