INO Orchestra

Recent performances have ranged from large-scale operas including Strauss’s Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier ("a dream team" The Arts Desk) and Salome (“a thumping triumph” ★★★★★ Irish Examiner) to Gounod's Faust ("the orchestra played with great gusto" ★★★★ Bachtrack), Puccini’s La bohème (“masterly” Business Post) and Verdi’s ever-popular La traviata. 

The INO Orchestra has also received critical acclaim when performing in chamber format, including for touring productions of Donizetti's Don Pasquale ("as bright, effervescent and quintessentially Italian as an Aperol spritz” The Irish Examiner) and Massenet's Werther ("a triumph" ★★★★ Irish Times).

The orchestra has performed Berlioz's Beatrice & Benedict in a concert performance narrated by Fiona Shaw at the National Concert Hall, Dublin ("exquisite playing from the INO Orchestra’s clarinets and tremolo strings: as magical as it get" The Arts Desk).

The INO Orchestra's contemporary repertoire includes Maxwell Davies’The Lighthouse, the European premiere of Emma O’Halloran and Mark O’Halloran’s Trade / Mary Motorhead and Brian Irvine and Netia Jones’s Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy (“Brian Irvine‘s score, played with tireless energy by 12 instrumentalists under versatile Fergus Sheil" The Arts Review), in which the orchestra made its international debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2023.

Members of the INO Orchestra are also engaged in INO’s diverse programme of education projects, recently performing in collaboration with Cork-based Hip Hop sensation Kabin Crew, which Hot Press described as “OUT OF THIS WORLD!”.
The orchestra can be heard on Irish National Opera’s recording of Puccini’s La bohème on Signum Classics.