Frank Lyons

Dr. Frank Lyons is a composer whose music has been performed in the UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia and the USA with broadcasts on BBC,RTE and ABCFM. Recent performances of his work have been given at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music by Ensemble Noszferatu, at Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music by Darragh Morgan and the Wired Ensemble and at the City of Derry Guitar Festival by Carlos Bonell. Mnemonics, commissioned by the City of Derry Guitar Festival for Carlos Bonell, will be given its Australian Premiere at the Darwin Guitar Festival in July 2005 by the young virtuoso guitarist Alan Banks.

Frank is also in demand as a lecturer; presentations in 2005 included those on the guitar music of Takemitsu at Darwin in July and on the jazz guitarist John Scofield at the Leeds International Jazz Conference in March.
Frank Lyons currently lectures in composition, music technology and popular music at the University of Ulster.