Conductor

Sinead Hayes

Rigoletto

Biography

Irish conductor Sinead Hayes is equally at home working with choir, orchestra and opera. For Irish National Opera Sinéad conducted Mozart’s The Opera Director (2019). She has also conducted Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Greg Caffrey’s The Chronic Identity Crisis of Pamplemousse for NI Opera, and Raymond Deane’s Vagabones for Opera Collective Ireland and Crash Ensemble, as well as the National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Sinéad made her Berlin Philharmonie debut playing Irish fiddle in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s family concerts and performing alongside members of the orchestra. She was appointed INO Studio Conductor for the 2018/2019 season, and was an assistant conductor and chorus director for INO productions, as well as conducting showcase events with the INO Studio artists. She studied violin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, graduated with a BMus in violin and composition from City University, London, and completed her MMus in orchestral conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, winning the Mortimer Furber conducting prize. She is currently in her fifth season as conductor of Belfast’s Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble, with which she has premiered works by Irish and international composers.

November 2024