Derek Ball

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Derek Ball is a composer and amateur string, woodwind and brass player who \"took 30 years off\" to work as a doctor and then at the end of 2004 returned to a musical career he had never really left. Born in Co Donegal, he spent his teens in Dublin and studied composition with the larger-than-life Archie Potter and later with Jim Wilson, winning various competitions, having chamber pieces performed, and having some orchestral performances and one broadcast, as well as being represented in international festivals in France.

He qualified in medicine at TCD and worked as a psychiatrist in Dublin before moving to Glasgow in 1978. He is married with one daughter who is a sometime clarsach player. In recent years his pieces have been played by Dublin pianist Owen Lorigan, Unison (Glasgow University), NYSOS, Two\'s Company, the Saltire Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, the Paragon Ensemble (Glasgow), Paul Roe and Leonie Curtin (Dublin),the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, the Crash Ensemble (Dublin), the Argento Ensemble (New York), and French cellist Marc Coppey.