Tenor

Cathal McCabe

Biography

Cathal McCabe is a tenor from Dublin. He recently obtained a first-class honours Bachelor of Music from the TU Dublin Conservatoire of Music and Drama, where he received the Michael McNamara award for the highest performance mark, as well as the Anne Leahy award for highest dissertation mark. He was also the recipient of the 2023 Excellence Award from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. In 2023, he won the Song Prize at the NI Opera/BBC Radio 3 Glenarm Festival of Voice. He has won multiple awards at the Feis Ceoil, including the Dermot Troy Cup, the John McCormack Cup, and the Count John McCormack Recital Medal.

He has sung the role of Nanki-Poo in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado in the National Concert Hall, and the role of Henry Crawford in the Irish premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park. He also gave the Irish premiere of a selection of songs by Poldowski in the Kevin Barry Room at the NCH. He has sung multiple times in the Grand Opera House Belfast, as the lead tenor in NI Opera’s production of Cupid’s Bow and in their Morning Melodies recital series. In October, he will sing the role of First Shouter in Lady Gregory in America at Wexford Festival Opera.

September 2024