Troy Donockley has built up a formidable reputation as both a Composer/Arranger and Musician/Performer and as a leading virtuoso of the Uilleann Pipes. His Orchestral workhas been performed in venues such as The Royal Festival Hall and Glasgow Concert Hall.
Born in Cumbria into a musical family, his musical journey has taken many diverse cultural turns, all within a focused plan to compose music of uncompromised integrity and passion. All join to create something very individual and very real.
His first album "The Unseen Stream" released in 1998, was critically acclaimed globally for its unique fusion of Traditional/Classical forms.
His latest album "The Pursuit of Illusion" (2003) continues to push the boundaries with a highly individual blend of the English Classical and Irish Folk traditions. Music from both albums has been used in Film/TV all over the world inc BBC1 , BBC2, C4, Discovery and CNN.
Troy has performed and is known all over the place - Europe, Middle/Far East, Australia, Japan, USA and has recorded with various other artists such as Maddy Prior (he has co-produced her last four albums), Maire Brennan (Clannad), Lesley Garrett. Barbara Dickson, Roy Harper, Alan Stivell, Del Amitri, Midge Ure (at the Edinburgh Live8 2005), Mostly Autumn and many more.
The Madness of Crowds.
A stunning new album, more info www.troydonockley.co.uk.
You can win the album on this spot, you can find there an interview and more links to relevant matters too.
The album will be avaiable in the shops in June, if you want to buy it on-line please surf to www.troydonockley.co.uk/.
The Pursuit of Illusion
Released April 2003.
The Unseen Stream
Released April 1998.
When Worlds Collide
Troy Donockley & Dave Bainbridge
Released November 2005.
From Silence
Troy Donockley & Dave Bainbridge
Released December 2004.
Also on DVD / 2006.
Troy worked with (or in):
Iona
Del Amitri
You Slosh
The Enid
Maddy Prior Joanne Hogg
Barbara Dickson Status Quo
Mostly Autumn Katrina & the Waves
Moya Brennan
Midge Ure
Rick Kemp Terl Bryant
Maartin Allcock Rob de Nijs
ProgAid
Kathryn Tickell
Alan Stivell Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight
Dave Bainbridge Geoffrey Oryema
Jennifer Cutting
Roy Harper
Magenta
Mandala Band
The Bad Shepherds
Eureka
Nightwish
and others!
The long-awaited Iona 'Live in London' DVD is finally available from www.iona.uk.com or usual outlets.
They have just relreleased "Journey in the Morn", please check them out.
A CD with Midge Ure.
"Duet" is the title of the live recording of Troy and Midge Ure recorded in December 1998 and July 1999.
NEWS;
Troy will hit the road with the The Bad Shepherds. They'll play your favourite classical punk songs in slightly different versions. Fiddle, uillean pipes and guitars. please join them on the road; from May till November in the whole U.K And one date in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
www.thebadshepherds.com
Official homepage:
www.troydonockley.co.uk/.
A new interview and more gossips.
At this moment this site is administrated by "Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands". Though this is the official myspace account of Troy Donockley,
the comments that are given does not necessarely represent the opinions of Troy. He will drop inn so now and then and do what ever he likes to do.
NEWS July 2010:
This is a message from Troy Donockley, who is on 102 gigs during tour with the Bad Shepherds;
Ironclad
Back to the 13th Century we go. 'Ironclad' is a major new film scheduled for release sometime this summer and is about the Knights Templar and the seige of Rochester Castle. It has a stellar cast and looks grungy and, er, very bloody. I played a load of Pipes and Low whistles on this score so watch out for it.
Title: Ironclad
Directed by: Jonathan English
Written by:
Jonathan English,
Erick Kastel
Starring:
Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Mackenzie Crook, Jason Flemyng, Kate Mara
Budget: $25 million
Earlier this year the Sound Track of Robin Hood, appeared also with some tunes of Troy.
Chris While & Julie Matthews.
I was recently invited to play pipes on the forthcoming album by this most wondrous pair of splendid old friends.Its a concept album and Julie described it as 'The Ben Hur of Folk Music'!!! The track I played on sure enough sounded deeply splendid
[ Chris and Julie are (ex-) members of Albion and as duo they were nominated as best duo, songwriter and more splendid ideas ]
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