Summer Organ Recitals- David O’Shea

David O’Shea enjoys a busy musical career as a keyboard-player, conductor, teacher and researcher. He was educated at the TU Dublin Conservatoire (BMus), University of Cambridge (MMus), and Trinity College, Dublin (PhD). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
Since 2011, David has been organist of the grouped parishes of Sandford Parish Church, Ranelagh, and St Philip’s, Milltown in south Dublin, where he coordinates a busy musical programme. He has performed as an accompanist, conductor and soloist around Ireland, and in the UK, Luxembourg, Spain, and the USA.
David is involved in a number of educational initiatives. As well as teaching the organ privately and on the Archbishop’s Certificate in Church Music, he is Education & Outreach Officer with Pipeworks. He is a part-time Assistant Lecturer in Academic Studies at the TU Dublin Conservatoire, and has written and lectured extensively on the topic of organ and choral music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His book The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, 1814–1922 is published by the Boydell Press.