“Irish-born composer-conductor Eímear Noone will conduct excerpts from the five nominated scores” at the Oscars awards on February 9, writes Jon Burlingame in Thursday’s (1/23) Variety.com. “She is the first female to lead the orchestra in the history of the televised awards, the Academy [of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] said…. Noone … praised Oscar musical director Rickey Minor as ‘an amazing kindred spirit who endeavors to elevate music and musicians at every possible turn.’ Minor is expected to conduct the rest of the show…. Noone … who divides her time between homes in Dublin and California … has conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, National Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic of London and the Sydney Symphony in Australia, among others.… For four years she conducted the Dublin City Concert Orchestra, an ensemble she founded at 21 for the performance of film music. A frequent conductor of Video Games Live, she is widely considered the world’s premier conductor of video game scores. ‘It’s an honor to be there, to help normalize something that I do every day,’ she notes. ‘Little girls everywhere will see this and say, “I think I’ll do that.” That’s what we want.’ ”
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