feeney has been commissioned by "festival firsts", a co-producing network between galway arts festival, dublin theatre festival, "cork midsummer festival" and "kilkenny arts festival" to compose her first opera "bird" and the first developmental stage was presented at dublin theatre festival in october 2012. the second developmental stage was performed at a sold out performance in galway at galway arts festival in 2013. her instrumental compositions have been performed by crash ensemble and icebreaker, and she composed and performed in an orchestral song cycle version of her first album "13 songs" for her solo with the ulster orchestra at the waterfront hall at the waterfront hall in belfast. she scored a song cycle for the rté concert orchestra of her second album "pages" and this was broadcast live from rté radio studios on the "jk ensemble" live on rté lyric fm on 14 october 2010 as part of rté music week. she performed her own self-orchestrated songs with the rté concert orchestra from the national concert hall in may 2010 on 'mooney goes wild' broadcast live on rté radio 1 and on 'sunday miscellany' on rté radio 1 broadcast live on 13 december 2011. she has subsequently also orchestrated her third album "clocks" for the rté concert orchestra and she performed it with the orchestra at the national concert hall in dublin on august 9, 2013 including songs also from her previous two albums. she has composed electronic scores for "corp feasa" contemporary dance company, "loose canon" theatre company and for her own one-woman shows where she incorporated live singing. she composed an electronic score for "match" which was one of the short contemporary dance films for rté television as part of the "dance on the box" series on rté in 2006. she scored 10 choral arrangements of her music for a tour with 10 different choirs over 10 consecutive nights in 10 different towns in ireland in november 2012 in collaboration with "the strollers' touring network". she briefly studied composition with louis andriessen at the royal conservatory of the hague.