Antoinette Kirkwood

Background

She studied piano and composition with Dorothy Howell at the Royal Academy in London and often accompanied her mother, who was a lieder singer.

Career

Radio Eireann broadcast her music Kirkwood married writer Richard Phibbs in 1961.

Achievements

• This “very notable achievement” established that Kirkwood “can write a memorable tune in a definite key” that will captivate the listener.

Membership

Foreign four years beginning in 1969, she was a member of the Executive Committee of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain, now the British Association of Composers and Songwriters.