Ann Cleare
Ann Cleare (born 1983 in County Offaly) is an Irish composer. She is Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin. In 2019 she won the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize, sharing it with Annesley Black and Mithatcan Öcal. Education Cleare studied with John Godfrey (composer), John Godfrey and Jesse Ronneau at University College Cork, where she was awarded an MPhil. She later studied at IRCAM in Paris and went on to complete her PhD in composition with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku at Harvard University. ''On magnetic fields'' Her 2011–2012 work, ''on magnetic fields'', was commissioned by the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and premiered by the Collegium Novum Zürich. This work, which separates the performers into three chamber ensembles, uses two violin soloists as a kind of sculpted "electric current" to propel the interaction between the musicians. She later created a version of the piece for two violins and loudspeaker ...
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County Offaly
County Offaly (; ga, Contae Uíbh Fhailí) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe. It was formerly known as King's County, in honour of Philip II of Spain. Offaly County Council is the local authority for the county. The county population was 82,668 at the 2022 census.
Central Statistics Office figures

Geography and political subdivisions

Offaly is the 18th largest of Ireland's 32 counties by area and the 24th largest in terms of population. It is the fifth largest of Leinster's 12 counties by size and the 10th largest by population.

Physical geography

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