Anselm McDonnell is an Irish/Welsh composer who writes for orchestra, chamber groups, choirs, soloists, electronics, and opera. He has been commissioned by ensembles such the London Symphony Orchestra, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Crash Ensemble, the BBC Singers, BBC Radio 3, British Council, and NCH Dublin. His music has been performed around the world and is available on a number of CDs.
Anselm was a participant on the Adopt a Music Creator programme
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In April 2022 Anselm received one of Sound and Music’s Covid-19 Composer Awards:
“I’m so excited to have received funding from Sound and Music to support a recording of my new song cycle Kraina, created in collaboration with soprano Rebecca Murphy and author Aleksandra Łojeck, which highlights experiences of the Polish community in Belfast. Kraina (which means land) is a cycle of four songs in both Polish and English, using poems and prose from historical and contemporary Polish poets. This funding will equip me to explore music-making with local communities, an avenue of my work that I’ve been pursuing since pandemic restrictions lifted, as I realised how important the social aspect of music-making is to me.”