Ronan O’Reilly
Ronan O’Reilly studied piano, oboe, organ and composition at the College of Music in Dublin. He is a conductor, teacher, arranger, performer and music copyist for both RTÉ orchestras. As...
Category: Conductors
Our conductors, younger and older. In fact more than one of these conductors has conducted more than one of the other conductors as performers at the Festival!?
James Cavanagh
James Cavanagh was born in Dublin and began his career as a trumpet player. He was Head of Wind Brass and Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music where he...
Tom Crowley
Tom Crowley is a native of Cork. He graduated with honours from the Cork School of Music where he studied for a BMus with Adrian Petcu. During his studies, Tom...
Ruth O’Leary
On playing at the Festival for the first time….There was huge excitement in our school as it was our first time performing in the National Concert Hall. We were playing...
Katharina Baker
Katharina was born and raised in Lübeck in the North of Germany, where she was surrounded by music at home, at church and in school throughout her childhood and youth....
Gearóid Grant
Gearóid Grant is a Dubliner. He graduated with a BMus degree from University College Dublin, and since then he has combined a freelance career as conductor with a career in...
Helen McGrath
From Wexford, Helen studied at CIT Cork School of Music. Since graduating, she has been employed by the County Cork ETB School of Music (CCSM). Helen has worked extensively in...
Kitty Dalligan
Kitty Dalligan started playing music at an early age, studying violin and viola with renowned violinist Jaroslav Vanecek at Dublin’s Municipal School of Music, later known as the DIT Conservatory...