Joan Trimble (born June 18, 1915 in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, † August 6, 2000) was an Irish composer and pianist.
The Enkeltochter of the Irish poet William Copeland Trimble studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music from 1931 to 1936 and at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1932 to 1936. From 1936 to 1940 she studied with Arthur Benjamin, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London. Since 1938, she formed a piano duo with her sister Valerie Trimble and performed as a pianist. She composed piano pieces, songs, a Streichersuite (1953) and the play Érin go Brágh for wind orchestras. Their main activity is the opera Blind Raftery of 1957. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): GND: 129635006 (PICA, AKS) | LCCN: nr98016124 VIAF: 116564159 Wikipedia People Search
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