BIOGRAPHY

Dr Dorone Paris is an Israeli-American contemporary composer and saxophone player, living & working in Ireland since 2011. Straddling the intersection of performance art, interactive installation, and sociopolitical activism, her work is a profound exploration of identity, human rights, and the collective memory of conflict. Her international practice has seen her work performed to raptured audiences across Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, gaining her a unique perspective on the power of sound & experience as a tool for social change.

Dorone studied music and philosophy as BA degrees at the University of Haifa in Israel. Following the BAs, she continued her musical journey in the UK, completing a Master's Degree in Composition at the University of Leeds. She later moved to Cork, Ireland, to complete her doctorate studies in composition at University College Cork (UCC).

Being raised and educated in Israel influenced her political ideas and affected her musical creativity, aesthetics and philosophy. She is the founder of PATH art, an organisation dedicated to convincing her people that a peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Israel-Palestine is both possible and necessary. She is also the co-founder of Art Equality, a non-profit organisation and an activist movement for equality and feminism that offers support to artists whose work concerns gender equality.

Her music has been performed by groups such as Opera North ↗, the London New Wind Festival Ensemble, LS2 Ensemble, The New Haifa Symphony Orchestra, and the Meitar Ensemble ↗. Her work has been featured in venues and festivals such as London's Regent Hall, Leeds Grand Theatre, Mahmoud Darwish Cultural Centre, Madina Theatre, Rappaport Centre Israel, The Word's Voice Festival, Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, and The Israeli Music Festival, with performances throughout the UK, Ireland, Tunisia, Netherlands, Germany, Serbia, Bosnia, Israel and Palestine. Dorone was composer in residence for the Focam group in 2011-2012. Dorone currently lectures BA and Masters students in UCC and runs private music lessons from her home studio in Dublin. She has also presented papers and workshops at international festivals and conferences, including BlasFem (Bosnia), Vox Feminae (Israel), and events in Southampton (UK), Berlin (Germany), and Leiden (Netherlands).

FEATURES
& PUBLICATIONS

Coverage of Dorone's work in media

• COAL - An album of saxophone works from Dorone Paris performed by saxophonist Noam Dorembus, released by Métier in 2022 Divine Art Records ↗
• Podcast Interview with Tigran Arakelyan for Off the Podium ↗
• Book Feature - Featured in Benjamin Dwyer's book, Different Voices: Irish Music and Music in Ireland ↗
• Interview with FeministCreate ↗

TEACHING
& RESEARCH

Selected lectures, workshops, and academic positions

• 2024 MA Lecturer - Experimental Sound Practice, University College Cork (UCC)
• 2022 Guest Lecturer - FUAIM Lecture Series, University College Cork (UCC)
• 2018-2019 MA Lecturer - Research Methods, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT)
• 2017 Guest Lecture - Vox Feminae, University of Tel Aviv
• 2016-2018 Teaching Assistant - LOOP, University College Cork (UCC) / Kadenze
• 2016-2017 MA Lecturer - Understanding Digital Media Art, University College Cork (UCC)
• 2016 Guest Lecture - Feminist Matters, Leiden University
• 2016 Guest Lecture - Music, Political Activism & the State, University of Southampton
• 2015 Guest Lecture - Compositional Aesthetics and the Political, Goldsmiths, University of London
• 2014-2017 Undergraduate Tutor - Music Literacy, University College Cork (UCC)
• 2014 Guest Lecture - Composition in the 21st Century, Trinity College Dublin
• 2013 Guest Lecture - Symposium: Composition as Research, Maynooth University
• 2012 Workshop Organiser - New Music Concerts & Workshops, University of Leeds
• 2005 Workshop Initiator - Weekly Jazz Sessions, Yoqne'am Conservatory

CREDITS

Attributes & Acknowledgements

• For Utopia #1
  Justine Murphy (Soprano), Edgar Grunewald (Guitar & Pedals), Dorone Paris (Tenor saxophone) & Katie Gillum (Photography).
• In The Lion's Den
  Inma Pavon (Dancer), Heidi Deisch & Siobhan Mannion (Voices, Tambourine, Snare drum), Sylvia Hinz (Bass recorder), Claire O'Brien (Gong), Freddi Börnchen (Oboe), Julia Puertolas Turon (Sopranino Recorder), Elena Ziegler (Alto Recorder), Aideen Caroll (Clarinet), Dorone Paris (Tenor saxophone), John Strieder, Ciaran O'Kelly & Gareth Young (Production).
• Shelter / Mirror
  Shahd Zoubi (Visual Artist & Collaborator), Jonathan Chazan (Baritone Sax), Noam Dorembus (Tenor Sax), Eli Korman (Soprano Sax), Noga Chelouche & Amit Fried (Readers), Yarden Lennox & Jomana Aborizk (Performance Assistance), Anya Leviant & Ciarán O’Kelly (Production).
• Fokdan
  Shaden Abu-Elassal (Dancer), Raji Bathish (Poet), Tamer Massalha (Video artist), Hisham Suliman (Actor) & Jeries Ballan (Bouzouki).
• JHC / London's New Wind Festival
  Catherine Pluygers (Oboes), Phil Edwards (Clarinets), Henryk Sienkiewicz (Horn), Alan Tomlinson (Trombone) & Robert Coleridge (Piano).
• In Memoriam
  Vanbrugh String Quartet.
• From Threshold to Threshold
  Ian Fairley (Translator).
• Big Ears 2012
  Tom Croll-Knight, Luca Holland, Andrés Cabrera, Natalia Eernstman & all the amazing children who worked with us.
• Collaborators
  Paul Hession, Yair Levinson, Richard Ormrod, Paul Moore & Philip Doyle.

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