ARTIST PROFILE:
Aileen Cahill

Originally from Sligo, pianist Aileen Cahill is known for her extensive solo piano and collaborative work alike. A Masters graduate in Solo Piano (Dr. John O'Conor, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2007) and Piano Accompaniment (Catherina Lemoni-O'Doherty, TU Dublin Conservatoire, 2011), Aileen has been awarded many prizes and bursaries for solo piano, piano concerto and piano duet, as well as for instrumental and vocal chamber music. She is a member of Duo Anima, with violist, Andreea Banciu.

As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in venues throughout the island of Ireland, and across Europe, in England, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and Romania. In concert, she has appeared many times with Budweis Philharmonic Orchestra (Switzerland) and Viarmes Chamber Orchestra (France). She is a frequent conductor-soloist with Sligo Baroque Orchestra, with whom she has performed six Mozart piano concerti (Nos. 13, 15, 17, 21, 24 and 27), and will join them again to perform Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major later in 2026.

Previous roles have included repetiteur at Dundalk I.T., Maynooth University, and Lecturer in Piano and Piano Accompaniment at TU Dublin Conservatoire. A recent Doctoral graduate in Piano (DMus Performance) from TU Dublin Conservatoire, where she was a Research Scholar, she is now Music Information Coordinator for the Contemporary Music Centre’s Library and Archive in Dublin.