ARTIST PROFILE:
Mark Redmond

After filling in for Liam O’Flynn at short notice in 2017, Mark Redmond has performed Shaun Davey’s The Brendan Voyage (in its entirety) multiple times. Like O’Flynn, Redmond has gained a reputation as a performer on the uilleann pipes in a ‘traditional’ sense but also as one who melds with a wide range of genres.

He performs and records regularly with both the National Symphony and RTÉ Concert Orchestras. Within this context, he has featured in multiple live television and radio broadcasts for many historic occasions, including The Papal Mass, Phoenix Park, 2018; The State Commemoration for the centenary of the Easter Rising, Arbour Hill, 2016; The Eucharistic Congress, Croke Park, 2012, and the State Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland, 2011.

As a guest soloist, abroad, Redmond performed with Camerata Ireland at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington; the Nagoya University of Arts Wind Orchestra, Japan; the Savannah Philharmonic, Georgia, USA; and the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Rennes, France.

In 2014, along with Organist David Bremner, he recorded L’Air Du Temps, an album which combines traditional repertoire with music of the French Classical Organ School.

Currently a lecturer in Irish traditional music at TU Dublin and the RIAM, Mark received a First-Class Honours Degree from the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, where he was awarded the Leo Rowsome Gold Medal for Performance in 2012, before completing an Honours Masters in Music Performance in 2013.