Members

Mary Walsh

Mary is a Dublin-based conductor who has completed an MA in Conducting and a BMus degree in the MTU Cork School of Music, Cork.

During her masters, Mary conducted Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale, Mozart’s Linz Symphony and Barber’s Adagio for Strings.

In 2022, Mary was selected as a finalist in Dublin Feis Ceol Conducting Competition as well as the National Concert Hall Female Conductor Programme where she conducted both the National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

In 2021, she was selected to take part in the Sorrell Women’s Conducting Programme in the Royal Academy of Music, London under the guidance of Sian Edwards and Alice Farnham.

In 2022 Mary worked as assistant conductor to conductor Elaine Kelly on the opera production of Horse Ape Bird. A children’s opera produced by Irish National Opera, Music Generation Kildare, Music Generation Meath and Solstice Arts Centre. Mary was also assistant conductor to Stephen Barlow on the opera Alice in Wonderland produced by Opera Collective Ireland.

Mary’s professional work lies primarily in conducting. She is currently the conductor of Dublin Welsh Male Voice Choir, Wexford Gateway Orchestra and St. Mary’s Junior School Choir and Newpark Junior Choir.

As a choral singer, Mary sings with New Dublin Voices directed by Bernie Sherlock.

Tomos Watkins

Tomos Watkins was born in Cardiff and moved to Dublin in 2021.

He was Organ Scholar of Pembroke College Oxford before undertaking an MMus in Choral Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he studied with Neil Ferris, Sarah Tenant-Flowers, and Adrian Partington, and won the Fujisawa Male Voice Choir Award for Choral Conducting two years consecutively.

Tomos is currently pursuing PhD studies in Historical Musicology at University College Dublin. His thesis, ‘Protagonist of the World: Constructing White Masculinities in the Operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau,’ is supported by an Ad Astra scholarship and his work has been published in The Musicology Review.

Tomos is Music Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at Christ Church Cathedral, where he also sings in the Cathedral Choir. He directs the AIB Choral Society and works regularly with the National Symphony Chorus, including as Guest Choral Director for Daphnis et Chloé in January 2023. Since 2019, Tomos has been a conducting tutor for the UK’s leading choral charity, Sing for Pleasure.

Members (as at 1st January 2026)

• David Abbott
• Albert Campbell
• Jim Carroll
• David Kelly
• Alex McIntosh
• Dorian Rees
• Connor Hillman
• Arnold Kavukattu
• Bryan Lynch
• Cecil McCabe

• Trevor Byron
• Alan Collins
• Chris Davies
• John Hoey
• Brian Maher
• Pat Mullins
• Peter O’Brien
• Peter O’Leary
• Benjamin Szabo
• Fred Daly

• Frank Bergin
• Mark Delargy
• Ronan Egan
• Tom Kelly
• Eddie O’Sullivan
• Hugh Quigley
• Gerry Stone
• Sean Stone
• Brian Kelly
• Andy Carlisle
• Mark MacMahon
• Osian Denman

• Brian Flynn
• Gareth Llwyd Jones
• John Lauder
• David Lombard
• John Wong
• Declan Gannon
• John Dunne
• Jody Judge
• Tiago Dennehy

Life Members

• • Alan Ogmore Tilley
  • Keith Young
  • Sally Kelly