Sinéad Cosgrove

2025 Bursary Recipient

Sinéad Cosgrove is from Dunleer, Co.Louth. She started singing lessons when she was 8 with Geraldine McGee in Dundalk and then in 2017 studied under Ronnie Dunne until her passing. 

She currently works full time in Finance and is a part time student under Imelda Drumm. She has sung in choirs from when she was young, but after she finished secondary school she sang in Cór Fingal under Eoin Conway, the Irish Youth Choir under Bernie Sherlock and now she sings in Lassus Scholars under Ite O’Donovan. 

She went to Rome with Lassus Scholars this year and sang in many Basilicas including Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican. She has sung many solos as part of Lassus as well as the Irish Youth Choir including when they were invited to the Youth Choral Festival in Switzerland. 

Last year was her first time competing in the Soprano solo Feis competition for which she received a Commended and which was surpassed this year by a 2nd place medal competing in the Margaret Burke Sheridan Cup. 

Book your tickets for the Bursary Concert taking place on the 11th October 2025 here.

Published by John McCormack Society

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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