ARTIST PROFILE:
Dearbhla Collins

Dearbhla Collins is one of Ireland’s finest musicians. She enjoys collaborating with singers who have a real passion for song, among whom are Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Tara Erraught and Nicky Spence. Her performances have brought her to the US, China, Japan, and many European countries. Venues she has performed in include the Wigmore Hall, London, the Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Lincoln Center, New York and Festivals including Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and Dublin International Chamber Music festival.

Dearbhla is Artistic Director of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition. She is passionate about mentoring young vocal talent and is Artistic Consultant at the National Opera Studio, London. She has for many years been a vocal coach at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin and is also visiting coach to Mascarade Opera Studio, Florence and the YAP Opera Academy of the Polish National Opera, Warsaw. She has given masterclasses and workshops to singers in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, China, in the Royal College of Music, London, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and Opera North, Leeds.

Dearbhla founded Dublin Song Series in 2013 and continues to curate it in partnership with the National Concert Hall and the Hugh Lane Gallery. The concerts in 2024/25 at the NCH feature mezzo soprano, Paula Murrihy, and the Irish debut performances of American baritone, Sean Michael Plumb and the tenor, Anthony Leon, winner of Operalia Competition 2022.

In October 2017 she was awarded an honorary doctorate for her services to music in Ireland from the National University of Ireland.