ARTIST PROFILE:
Gavin Maloney

Gavin Maloney is one of Ireland’s foremost musicians. He has long-standing relationships with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra and Choirs, with whom he has worked on a great variety of concerts, recordings and education projects.

Gavin received his training at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Mozarteum, Salzburg. At the age of 21 he successfully competed for the position of Assistant Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. He was the inaugural beneficiary of the Bryden Thomson Trust, through whose support he studied at the Danish National Opera and the Lucerne Festival Academy of Pierre Boulez.

Gavin has conducted all the leading orchestras and ensembles in Ireland. He has also conducted in Germany, France, Italy and the UK. He has made many distinguished collaborations with artists including Gabriela Montero, Tara Erraught, Sir James Galway, Ailish Tynan, John O’Conor, Chloë Hanslip and Hugh Tinney. In 2017 Gavin featured for the first time in the International Concert Series of Dublin’s National Concert Hall, appearing with Maxim Vengerov, who has described him as ‘a great maestro’.

Gavin’s recordings, on the NMC and lyric fm labels, have earned critical acclaim, including that of Gramophone magazine. His live recording of Nicola LeFanu’s Threnody (NMC) was recently released. Gavin has worked closely with Crash Ensemble and the EQ Ensemble, and for three years he directed the RTÉ NSO’s signature contemporary music series, Horizons. His ballet credits include Swan Lake with Ireland’s national ballet company. His concerts have been broadcast by the BBC, RTÉ, the European Broadcasting Union, Shanghai East Radio, and radio stations in North America and Australia.