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Joan Trimble was born on 18 June, 1915, is an Irish composer and pianist. Discover Joan Trimble's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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1915

Joan Trimble (18 June 1915 – 6 August 2000) was an Irish composer and pianist, and one of the most distinguished musicians to come from Ulster in the 20th century.

She studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in London, and she and her sister performed for many years as a celebrated piano duo.

In later years she inherited her father's newspaper and became its proprietor and editor.

Joan Trimble was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh (now Northern Ireland), a daughter of William Egbert Trimble, the proprietor of one of Ulster's best-known regional newspapers, and Marie Dowse from Dublin.

Joan grew up in an intensely musical household: her mother was a distinguished solo violinist from a famous Dublin family of musicians, from which all eleven children had attended the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and her father was a talented musician, a fine bass-baritone and a noted collector of folksong.

She attended Enniskillen Royal School for Girls and was the school's first Head Girl.

1925

Their partnership had a long and distinguished history, having won first prize at a Belfast music competition in 1925.

1931

In 1931, Joan and her sister Valerie (1917–1980), commenced studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.

1936

Joan studied composition with John F. Larchet and won a scholarship to the University of Dublin, from where she graduated with a BA degree in 1936.

She was awarded piano, violin and composition scholarships

and studied piano with Annie Lord and music at Trinity College Dublin (BA 1936, BMus 1937).

In 1936, the tenor John McCormack chose her to play piano solos during one of his tours.

She moved to London and joined her sister at the Royal College of Music, where her mentor was the Australian composer and pianist Arthur Benjamin, and where she studied composition with two of England's leading composers, Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

1937

Joan composed a total of twenty-four works in a creative career of twenty years, sixteen of them in the period 1937-1943, including Buttermilk Point (1938), settings of Irish folksong (1939-40), and the Sonatina for Two Pianos (1940); and a further six, including The Heather Glen (1949) and a Suite for Strings (1951), in the period 1949-1953.

1938

They gave their first professional recital as a duo in the evening of September 28, 1938, at the Royal College of Music in London, as war was about to be declared with Germany.

One of their audience said he had come to hear them "as it might be the last music he would ever hear."

They performed three of Joan's new compositions, Buttermilk Point, The Bard Of Lisgoole and The Humours of Carrick, Arnold Bax's Irish tone-poem for two pianos, Moy Mell, and the four-hand Jamaican Rumba, which had been composed for them by Arthur Benjamin for their debut performance.

It was Benjamin who had encouraged Joan and her sister, whose principal instrument was the cello, to play piano together, and this piece became their signature tune.

During the second world war, the sisters worked as volunteer nurses for the Red Cross in London and were regular performers on the BBC, at Dame Myra Hess's National Gallery lunchtime concerts and at the BBC's promenade concerts.

1939

Commissions for the BBC included Ulster Airs (1939–40) for the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra, and Erin Go Bragh, a march-rhapsody for brass band (1943).

1940

Her Phantasy for Piano trio (1940), which she wrote at the suggestion of Vaughan Williams, won the Cobbett Prize for chamber music and the Sullivan Prize for composition.

Joan later composed works for two pianos which they performed together, including the Sonatina (1940).

1942

Joan Trimble married in June 1942 in London, John Greenwood Gant (1917–2000), a Royal Army Medical Corps officer, with whom she had a son and two daughters.

Trimble first gained notice performing in a piano duo with her sister Valerie.

1943

The first of their many Prom appearances was in 1943, and their piano duets were broadcast for many years in the weekly BBC radio series 'Tuesday Serenade'.

Their repertoire was wide and included Arnold Cooke, Dallapiccola, and Stravinsky, and they premièred the two-piano concertos of Arthur Bliss and Lennox Berkeley.

1949

The County Mayo (1949) was an unusual combination of two pianos and baritone voice which had been suggested by the singer Robert Irwin.

1950

In the early 1950s, they gave the British première of one of Mendelssohn's concertos for two pianos, the A-flat.

1953

Her setting for voice and orchestra, How Dear to Me the Hour, won the Radio Éireann Centenary Prize in 1953.

1956

It was the second opera commissioned by the BBC for television, the first having been the one-act Manana in 1956 by Benjamin, Trimble's piano teacher at the Royal College of Music; and it was the first television opera written by a female composer

1957

In 1957, the BBC commissioned an opera from her, and she chose the 1924 Blind Raftery by Donn Byrne (1889-1928), the story of a wandering Irish bard set in the west of Ireland in the 17th century.

She asked Cedric Cliffe, who had worked with Arthur Benjamin, to write the libretto.

1959

Between 1959 and 1977 Trimble was professor of accompaniment and musicianship at the Royal College of Music, for ten years after 1967 commuting between London and Enniskillen.

1960

Trimble was honoured by the Royal College of Music in 1960 and by Queen's University Belfast in 1983.

1970

The sisters also performed modern music, including works by Stravinsky, Dallapiccola, Arthur Bliss and Lennox Berkeley, and they continued to perform in public until 1970.

1981

From 1981 to 1985 she was on the board of Ulster Television, and from 1983 to 1988 she was a member of the advisory committee of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

1985

In 1985 she received the rarely-bestowed fellowship of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

Also in 1985, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a concert to celebrate her 70th birthday, which included the first performance since 1957 of her composition for baritone and two pianos, The County Mayo.

1990

In 1990, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland commissioned Three Diversions for Wind Quintet from her for her 75th birthday.

Joan Trimble's music was conservative for her time and was always well crafted.