Répétiteur

Aoife Moran

MARS, Madama Butterfly

Biography

Aoife is an Irish collaborative pianist and répétiteur from Dublin. For Irish National Opera, Aoife worked on Jennifer Walshe and Mark O’Connell’s MARS, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Emma O’Halloran & Mark O’Halloran’s Trade/Mary Motorhead, and Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade. In addition, she has also worked on Shane O’Reilly and Tom Lane’s Her Father’s Voice (Dublin Theatre Festival); Stanford’s The Critic , Donizetti’s Zoraida di Granata, and Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri (Wexford Festival Opera); Luke Byrne and Shirley Keane’s The Ballybruff Trilogy (Opera Workshop); Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Longhope Opera); Holst’s Sāvitri, Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Kurt Weill’s Der Zar lässt sich photographieren, Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune, and Menotti’s The Telephone(Guildhall School); and Vaughan Williams’ Sir John in Love (British Youth Opera). She was a member of the ‘Factory’ programme for young artists at Wexford Festival Opera 2023. Aoife completed a Junior Fellowship as a répétiteur at Guildhall School of Music and Drama after having studied on the Opera Course, where her studies were generously supported by the Guildhall School Foundation. She had also previously graduated from Guildhall with an Artist Masters in piano accompaniment, where she studied with Pamela Lidiard and Carole Presland. She began her studies at TU Dublin Conservatoire with a Bachelor of Music degree, where she studied with Catherina Lemoni-O’Doherty, and currently works as a vocal coach at the University of York.

October 2025