ARTIST PROFILE:
Macdara Ó Seireadáin

Macdara Ó Seireadáin is a native of Dublin and a First Class Honours graduate of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover and Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he studied with Johannes Peitz and John Finucane respectively.

A multiple competition prizewinner, Macdara has performed as soloist with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Uelzen Kammerorchester and others. In 2019, after holding orchestral positions in Austria and Germany, Macdara joined the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and has performed with numerous orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Staatsoper Hannover, Philharmonsiches Orchester Kiel, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, and Camerata Ireland.

Macdara has performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, China, Chile, and India, most recently completing a European concert tour with pianist Gintaras Januševičius, and in August 2024 was a headline performer at the International Clarinet Associations annual “Clarinetfest”. Furthermore, he is a member of the Ficino Ensemble with whom he has recorded two critically acclaimed CDs, and toured Penderecki Sextet around Ireland in 2024.

A keen chamber musician, he has collaborated with Finghin Collins, Ailish Tynan, Johannes Peitz, Sharon Kam, the Vanburgh, and the Apollon Musagete Quartet, and performed at numerous chamber music festivals including Great Music in Irish Houses, Fredener Musiktage, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Killaloe Chamber Music Festival, and Cellissimo.

Alongside a busy performing career, since 2017 he lectures on performance psychology and coaches musicians at both the Klaipėda Piano Masters and Feuerwerk Einbeck piano academies in Lithuania and Germany. Alongside these academies, he has worked with the Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra and has coached musicians worldwide to orchestral audition and competition successes.  Additionally, he is creator and host of the popular classical music podcast “Harmonically Speaking”.