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Geraldine was born Geraldine Denny in Belfast in 1967. Her interest in music was awakened when she was 7 years old, during a holiday when she stayed with a family of musicians, which included the composer John Dunn. At 11 she began the clarinet, and the piano, both of which she studied at the Belfast School of Music until she was 18. It was during this time that Geraldine’s passion for writing music began. She started to write her first piano pieces and began studying orchestration with the help and encouragement of her music teacher Gerry Deignan, In 1986 Geraldine went to the London College of Music to study clarinet with David Campbell and piano with Renalda Mackie. Following a 3 year degree course she then completed a one year post graduate diploma in Film Music under Francis Shaw. By then the urge to write music could no longer be contained and in the years that followed Geraldine wrote a number of works. These included a Recorder Concertino (played by Ruth Whatley), the Bass Clarinet Concerto, a Septet for string quintet, flute and harpsichord (led by violinist Carl Beddow ) and a concerto for solo Bflat clarinet and orchestra, which has yet to be performed. During these years, in the early 1990s, Geraldine also wrote 4 musicals for Herne Hill Primary School in London. Throughout the 1990s Geraldine taught clarinet and piano at Ibstock Place School in Roehampton, London, and this soon lead to her producing orchestrations and arrangements for the school orchestra, band and choir. Through this work she met Peter Morris who commissioned her to write a piece for his Thameside Clarinet Choir. The 3 movement Divertissement was the result, and it was played in several concerts by the choir. A clarinet quartet, commissioned by Michael Byrant for his clarinet “ play days “ was soon to follow. After a break in music writing to start a family, March 2008 saw Geraldine return to writing with a seven movement piece for piano ‘Miscellany’. Requested by pianist and conductor, Anthony Davie, it was premiered in October 2008 by Simon Callaghan in the Compass Theatre, Ickenham, Middlesex, UK. The year 2009 saw the world premiere of her flute concerto, performed by flautist Gary Woolf (who commissioned the work) and the Chiltern Camerata in High Wycombe, UK, and conducted by composer Simon Lambros. Gary Woolf has also performed this work twice in Germany with the Alte Philharmonie, conducted by Thorsten SchmidKapfenburg, in 2011. Geraldine is now married, and lives in the UK with her family. She regularly plays clarinet and cello with local symphony orchestras, and also enjoys playing and writing traditional Irish Folk music. For further details on Geraldine Green please visit her website at; www.geraldinegreen.co.uk or at www.oakmountmusic.co.uk
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