Composers
Fiontán Ó Cearbhaill
(1922 - 1981)Fiontán Ó Cearbhaill was born in Wexford and moved to Waterford as a child. He was employed as a railway clerk for 27 years, gaining his B.Mus from Trinity College Dublin through evening study.
Seán Ó Dálaigh
(b. 1987)Seán Ó Dálaigh is a composer/performer from and based in Kerry, Ireland. His music is concerned with things like space, silence and the physicality of sound production.
Proinnsías Ó Duinn
(b. 1941)Proinnsías Ó Duinn was born in Clontarf in Dublin. He studied cello, piano and conducting at the College of Music, Dublin and began composing at the age of nineteen.
Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair
(1900 - 1982)Ó Gallchobhair (anglicised O’Gallagher) studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (1927-1935) and was a prolific composer of easy listening songs, piano and chamber music with a very strong Irish
Seán Ó Riada
(1931 - 1971)Seán Ó Riada was born in Cork. He studied music at University College Cork with Aloys Fleischmann and received his BMus in 1952.
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
(1950 - 2018)Mícheal Ó Súilleabhain was Chair of Music and Founding Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.
Conor O’Boyle
(b. 1991)
John O’Brien
(b. 1979)John O'Brien is a composer, conductor and director from Cork.
Vincent O’Brien
(1871 - 1948)Vincent O’Brien remains best known as the first singing teacher of Irish celebrities John McCormack and Margaret Burke Sheridan; in fact, James Joyce was his pupil, too.
Breffni O’Byrne
(b. 1988)Breffni O’Byrne was born in Ireland in 1988.
Kevin O’Connell
(b. 1958)Since his first BBC commission at age 25 (Concertino for 12 Players) Kevin O’Connell has completed a continuous succession of commissions including four operas and numerous orchestral and
Neil O’Connor
(b. 1979)Composer and performer Neil O Connor has been involved in experimental & electro-acoustic music for the past two decades and has performed extensively in Ireland, Europe, Australia, Asia and th