Donncha McDonagh – Baritone

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2024 Bursary Award Recipient

Donncha McDonagh is a baritone and choral conductor from Dublin. He began full-time studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 2023 with Dr Imelda Drumm, having grown up singing in Piccolo Lasso children’s choir under Dr Ite O’Donovan.

Donncha has sung with ensembles including Sestina in Belfast and the Charles Wood Singers in Armagh, and sings regularly with the cathedral choirs at Christ Church and St. Patrick’s in Dublin. He was a member of the inaugural Chamber Choir Ireland Studio in 2023-24 and will be a member of the Sixteen’s young artists programme, Genesis Sixteen, in 2024-25. In March 2024 Donncha was awarded the John McCormack Cup and the James Cuthbert Cup at the Feis Ceoil.

Donncha has been Conductor of Trinity College Dublin Chapel Choir since 2022, directing the choir at twice weekly services in Trinity Chapel, and on tour in the cathedrals of Monaco, Nice and Antwerp. In May 2024 he conducted the choir in a televised service on RTÉ One. Donncha was recently elected conductor of the Trinity Singers.

Join us at the Whyte Recital Hall on Saturday the 15th June to see Donncha McDonagh perform along with our other bursary award recipients. FREE ADMISSION.

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Founded in 1960, the John McCormack Society was set up to celebrate the life and legacy of the great Irish tenor. A global superstar in his day, McCormack first found success on the opera stage and later became a legendary concert recitalist. It is reckoned that McCormack recordings have sold in excess of 200 million

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