Composer Joan Trimble dies
Irish composer Joan Trimble died on 6 August 2000, following a short illness. A native of Enniskillen, Joan studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, and toured as pianist with the tenor John McCormack. Academic degrees at Trinity College Dublin and piano classes with Arthur Benjamin at the Royal College of Music in London were followed by composition studies with Herbert Howells and Vaughan Williams. Compositions include a Phantasy Trio (1940), with which she won the Cobbett Prize, Erin go Bragh (1943), a brass band rhapsody commissioned by the BBC, and Blind Rafferty, an opera for TV. Trimble returned to Ireland at the end of her life, nursing an invalid husband and managing Enniskillen's Impartial Reporter, a family-owned business since 1825. Read Joan Trimble's obituary in The Irish Times.
Posted: 18 August 2000
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