Sylvia O’Brien

Regarded as one of Ireland’s leading sopranos, Sylvia O’Brien has impressed audiences internationally in her performances of opera, oratorio and chamber music. Awarded a Doctor of Music Performance from Trinity College Dublin in 2021, Dr O’Brien is a member of the vocal faculty of the Royal Irish Academy of Music where she lectures in voice, specialising in French song and contemporary vocal music. Her vocal and musical skills make her an important singer in her contemporary repertoire. Between 2008 to 2013 she worked very closely with the composer, performing with and for him at significant birthday concerts, including the complete O’Siadhail settings and premiering many song cycles including The Hiding Places of Love (2011), Gretchen (2012) and his final song cycle, Songs from the Resevoir (2018). 

Link to Sylvia O’Brien’s D Mus Perf Dissertation, Implications of collaboration : the recreative artist and autoethnographic research in Seóirse Bodley’s Never to have lived is best (1965) (Dublin: RIAM, 2022)