Diarmaid Moynihan

Diarmaid Moynihan is widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s foremost uilleann pipers and composers. He has been involved in music professionally since his early twenties and has a long and distinguished recording, performing, and composing career. He has performed or recorded with many world renowned traditional music stars including Donal Lunny, Flook, Guidewires, Liam O’ Maonlai and Alain Stivell among many others. He has also collaborated with a number of classical concert orchestras and jazz greats including keyboard player Pete Jacobson, drummer Nic France and saxophonist Richie Buckley. His compositions have been recorded by Lunasa, Cherish the Ladies, Michael McGoldrick, Kathryn Tickell and many more. A former winner of both the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil and the Oireachtas he was a founder member of the groundbreaking band, Calico. The award winning band toured regularly throughout Europe and the USA appearing at many of the major music festivals.

 

His music has featured on numerous programmes on TG4, BBC, RTE and Lyric FM and has been included in a number of manuscript publications. He is also a highly respected teacher and he has given master-classes in Italy, the USA, Germany, Finland and Australia and has taught at University College Cork, University of Limerick and The Cork School of Music. His most recent release, The Ligh

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Patricia Moynihan

Patricia studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Whilst there,she was awarded the prestigious Ulster Bank Bursary, the GSMD Wind prize and a scholarship to Cité de la Musique, Paris, to study with Pierre Boulez and David Robertson.

 

She now lives in London and has a busy career as an orchestral and chamber musician. She plays regularly with the country's finest symphony orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and chamber orchestras including the London Mozart Players, Camerata Ireland and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. She also plays with many opera and ballet orchestras , such as the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet Sinfonia and English National Opera.

 

Patricia has toured Japan many times with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Crawford Piano Trio. Her career has seen her perform across the USA, South America, Russia, the Baltic States, China and throughout Europe. She regularly coaches students in the major London colleges. She has recorded numerous CDs with Daniel Harding, Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink and played on major film scores such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Rise of the Guardians and Monuments Men. Patricia has performed for the Queen d

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Donncha Moynihan

Donncha Moynihan is a Cork based guitarist and recording engineer. He was a founding member of the traditional band Calico who released two award winning albums – Celanova Square and Songdogs. He has toured extensively with various traditional bands worldwide including Lunasa, At the Racket, Bavan, Alan Kelly and The Red Hat Band. His guitar playing has featured on many traditional and contemporary recordings. Along with many appearances on national tv and radio, he has also featured on and recorded the theme music for various tv and radio shows.

 

As a much sought after audio engineer, he has engineered and mixed a wide range of albums in various genres in his own cork based studio (www.therisestudio.com). Recent projects involved mixing albums for various world renowned jazz artists for labels such as Leo Records and Creative Source Recordings and for the classical label Naxos.

 

Along with recording and producing many albums, he also is involved in postproduction for tv and film. The Cheftains, Paul Brady and The High Kings are among the artists that he has recently mixed for national television specials. He has also recorded audio for theatre and has recently worked on Under the Elms and The Last Testament of Mary (sound designer Mel Mercier) which won a Dra

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Deirdre Moynihan

As a soprano soloist Deirdre Moynihan has performed with many orchestral, choral, operatic and chamber music groups both on the International stage and throughout Ireland. One of Ireland's foremost early music artists, her debut CD of Vivadi Cantatas was released by the international classical label, Naxos, to widespread critical acclaim. International Record Review described her voice as being “unfailingly beautiful in tone”, Musical Opinion referred to her performance as “splendid” while Music Web International wrote “a beautiful voice, which is perfectly suited to baroque music”. Deirdre also embraces the challenge of contemporary music and has premiered works by Raymond Deane, Bill Whelan, Ian Wilson and Brian Irvine. 

 

She has sung as a soloist with, amongst others, the R.T.É Concert Orchestra, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Crash Ensemble and Con Tempo string quartet. Radio broadcasts include Lyric FM, RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio Ulster. She has performed as a soloist with such prestigious conductors as John Wilson, Christophe Rousset, Matthew Hall and Jeffrey Skidmore. Deirdre also performs regularly with renowned classical guitarist, Alec O’ Leary. The Moynihan/O’ Leary debut CD, “From The Olive Tree”, has been widely praised with Classica

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