Shaun Davey
About
Biography
Filmography
Music (Feature Film)
Music (TV Mini-Series)
Life Events
1980
First garnered attention for "The Brendan Voyage", a musical suite for uileann pipes and orchestra inspired by historian Tim Severin's attempt to retrace the sea voyage of St Brendan
1983
Debuted "The Pilgrim", a suite for orchestra, soloists, pipe band and choir, at the Lorient Interceltic Festival
1985
Premiered "Granuile (Grace O'Malley)", written for singer Rita Connolly; a song cycle about a 16th-century female Irish seafarer
1993
Wrote incidental music used in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "The Winter's Tale"
1995
Penned the evocative underscore for the TV miniseries "The Hanging Gale" (aired in USA on Bravo in 1999)
1995
Debut as a film composer, "Loving"
1996
Wrote incidental music for Sebastian Barry's play "The Steward of Christendom"
1996
Scored Trevor Nunn's film adaptation of "Twelfth Night"
1997
Reteamed with Barry, providing music for the play "Prayers of Sherkin"
1998
Composed the score for the London stage musical "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"; played at the Royal Shakespeare Company
1998
Created the underscore for the Australian/Irish historical miniseries "Kings in Grass Castles"
1998
Wrote musical score for the film "Waking Ned Devine"
1999
Collaborated with Richard Nelson on the score for the stage musical "James Joyce's The Dead"; production debuted Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons; moved to Broadway; garnered Tony nomination for Score of a Musical
