Welcome! I am an Irish soprano and recording artist based in Galway in the West of Ireland.
You can find out some interesting facts about me on Navona Records Inside Story or in an interview with Galway Now.
One of my main passions is art song. My debut album of art song Togetherness can be purchased as download or streamed on all major platforms. It is a labour of love that emerged out of several years of an ongoing German-Irish collaboration. It has been my privilege to include several recording of new music by Irish composers Anne-Marie O’Farrell and Criostoir Ó Loingsigh on my album. Not my first rodeo with new music; I also premiered a work – Phosphoresence – for soprano, bass clarinet and piano by Christopher Moriarty in 2023.
In opera I recently played Molly Allgood in the Colm Tóibín/Alberto Caruso opera Lady Gregory in America at the 2025 Gregory/Yeats Autumn Gathering, dirceted by Lelia Doolan in association with the Abbey Theatre. A very interesting and highly successful venture in Gort, Co. Galway.
I am the founder and manager of the Triskel Ensemble, a string quartet of Galway based musicians. Inspired by the popularity of the candlight concerts, we perform in an informal style, and we programme a broad range of music from opera to musical theatre, movie themes to classical music. So far we have performed all over Galway, in Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin and in Ennis.
Friends tell me that my tranformation story – from being an engineer, becoming a parent, and becoming a full time musician is inspiring. One of my 2026 aims is to write more about this on Substack. By that I mean to really write about it- referencing the self doubt, the guilt, the times I nearly gave up and what kept me going. Because I have a family, for the moment I choose to focus on shorter term projects and concert work. I have worked extremely hard to get to where I am and performance is my oxygen. Anything I do, I do with passion and authenticity. In every concert, people from the audience always comment on the way that I introduce the music. Storytelling is part of being Irish and I feel that it is essential to help the audience relate to this music. I am constantly trying to innovate in how I programme and present music.
I am also a passionate educator. I have a small studio of private singing students and my choral vocal workshops for choirs nationwide are proving very popular.