Michael Dooley
Senior Orchestra
Michael is graduate of Waterford Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin. He began his brass and wind studies with Tommy Joyce and continued under Martin Prynn and professor J.M. Thome.
Joanne Cater
Intermediate Orchestra
Joanne graduated with honours from the Colchester Institute of Music in 1996 where she studied under the direction of Duke Dobing. She worked in Warwickshire from 1996 to 2000 as a peripatetic woodwind teacher.
Ingrid Nicola
Junior Orchestra
Ingrid Nicola is the violinist/founding member of ConTempo quartet,a celebrated string quartet that has become RTE's quartet in residence (Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster) in 2014 and is Galway's Ensemble in Residence since 2003.
John Fleming
Jazz Orchestra
John Fleming started to play the cornet at age ten with The Patrician Boys Brass Band in Galway. From the age of 15 he started to play trumpet with local jazz, rock and stage musical pit bands.