Our Vocalists
All of our singers have Bachelor of Music honours degrees, or Masters Degrees, in Performance, and have performed on the most distinguished of stages, both nationally and internationally. Flexible and comfortable across all genres of music, their experience and stage credentials are guaranteed to make the music at your wedding something to remember forever.
Read on to discover more!
Vocalist
Rachel
Rachel Goode is a 26 year-old soprano from County Galway. In 2014 Rachel graduated with distinction from the Bachelor of Music at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and received the Michael MacNamara gold medal for the highest recital mark. In July 2018 Rachel graduated, again with distinction, from the MA in Opera Performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Rachel has performed at all of the main venues in Ireland including the National Concert Hall, the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and the National Opera House, Wexford, and has over ten years’ experience performing at weddings. She sings a variety of music genres and styles, so you can mix it up however you wish, with music from classical to pop!
Recordings Featuring Rachel
Rachel
soprano
Vocalist
Kayla
Kayla McDonagh is a classically trained soprano and graduate of the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama where, like all of our vocalists, she majored in vocal performance. She was described by Her.ie as “The Irish singer who gives Adele a run for her money!”
Kayla is a versatile singer, with years of experience helping couples from all over the country make their special day even more special through beautiful music.
Singing everything from Mozart to Adele, Kayla's setlist is endless and she enjoys learning any amount of new material to make sure the music at every wedding represents the couple perfectly.
Recordings Featuring Kayla
Kayla
soprano
Leanne
mezzo-soprano
Recordings Featuring Leanne
Vocalist
Leanne
Leanne Fitzgerald, a native of Co. Kerry, also graduated with a Bachelor of Music honours degree from the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.
Leanne is a regular performer as soloist and chorister with a number of different Irish ensembles.
In 2012/13, Leanne was selected for a choral internship with Chamber Choir Ireland conducted by Paul Hillier.
Leanne joined Irish a cappella vocal ensemble Ardú in 2015 and has since performed with the group at the Cork International Choral Festival, City of Derry International Choral Festival, Tampere Vocal Festival, Finland and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. As part of her work with Ardú, Leanne helped found and develop Ireland’s A Cappella Competition and the first ever Irish International A Cappella Festival (www.irishacappella.com)
In 2017, Ardú were featured as one of the few Irish ensembles on the new ‘Sing: Ultimate A Cappella’ TV competition on Sky One hosted by Cat Deeley.
Leanne also joined the ranks of Chamber Choir Ireland as alto in 2017. Garnering a strong reputation for its unique approach to creative commissioning, recording and programming, Chamber Choir Ireland is the country’s flagship choral ensemble and national chamber choir under the Artistic Direction of the multi-award-winning conductor, Paul Hillier. The Choir’s programmes span from early renaissance to the present day, incorporating established choral classics with cutting edge commissions, and a style of performance that incorporates versatility, dynamism and often vocal pyrotechnics.
Aside from choral singing, Leanne is regularly featured in chorus for Wide Open Opera, Opera Theatre Company, Irish National Opera and in 2018, was named Company Artist with Cork Opera House.
Eoin
tenor
“After hearing Eoin sing, we knew that his voice would contribute immensely to the beauty of our marriage ceremony. His love of music was evident from the professional assistance he provided in ensuring our music choice reflected both the meaning of the ceremony and our individual tastes. Eoin is a consummate professional. If you wish to ensure that your marriage ceremony is a truly beautiful, sincere and unforgettable experience, we recommend Eoin ‘the tenor’ Hynes.”
Vocalist
Eoin
A native of Co. Galway, tenor Eoin Hynes trained with internationally acclaimed tenor Emmanuel Lawler. He is a music graduate of both NUI Maynooth and the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. A multiple prizewinner at the Dublin Feis Ceoil and at the DIT Conservatory, Eoin won the tenor solo, Joseph O’Mara Cup (Opera aria), Nancy Calthrope Cup (French Song), Dermot Troy Trophy (Oratorio), the prestigious Count John McCormack Cup and the Conservatory Gold Medal on two occasions.
He was a Young Associate Artist with Opera Theatre Company 2011-2012. As a soloist on the oratorio platform, Eoin has performed works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Gounod, Dvorak and Jenkins, as well as Cassidy’s European Premiere of Famine Remembrance, and Leighton’s Crucifixus for the Music for Galway concert series. He has performed as soloist or in principal role at the National Concert Hall, the Gaiety Theatre, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Galway Cathedral, St. Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin, St Canice’s Cathedral Kilkenny, St. Patrick’s College Maynooth and internationally, at Westminster Cathedral London and Stephansdom Cathedral Vienna.
In Opera and Musical Theatre Eoin has performed the roles of First Priest, First Armed Man, Tamino (cover) with OTC’s touring production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Narrator from Bach’s Coffee Cantata OTC, soloist with Irish ballet dancer Monica Loughman for her show Masterpieces of World Opera and Ballet, Gondolier Marco Palmieri The Gondoliers and Freddy My Fair Lady with the Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society. As soloist, he toured with Dance Company Rhythm of the Dance in Germany and performed at the Heydar Aliyev Palace in Baku, Azerbaijan. He has performed with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, RTÉ Con Tempo Quartet, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Wiener Domorchester. In 2016, Eoin won joint first place in a competition called The Soloist performing with the acclaimed Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland for their Peace Proms U.K and Ireland concerts at Echo Arena Liverpool, R.D.S Arena Dublin, Odyssey Arena Belfast, Sports Arena Limerick. He released his Debut Album in autumn 2018.
Fearghal
Tenor
Vocalist
Fearghal
Fearghal Curtis is from Dublin and is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London and the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin. Most recently he sang in the ensemble for Orfeo and Spalanzani/Chorus in the Tales of Hoffmann, both with Irish National Opera. He also sang the role of Stephen Dedalus in Eric Sweeney’s Ulysses (Bloomsday Festival) and the role of Taoiseach in the first modern performance of Robert O’Dwyer’s Eithne (Opera Theatre Company). He was a member of the chorus in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Irish National Opera), and in the award-winning production of Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The Second Violinist (Wide Open Opera/Landmark Productions).
Other opera highlights include Ensemble in Handel’s Acis and Galatea (OTC), Box in Sullivan’s Cox and Box and the title role in Rameau’s Pygmalion (Opera in the Open), Prologue/Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Orpheus/Mercury in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama) and Apollo/Spirit/Pastore/Ensemble in Monteverdi’s Orfeo (OTC, while he was an Associate Young Artist with the company). He also recently toured around Germany as lead classical tenor of The World of Musicals tour with GFD Promotions.
David
Bass-baritone
Vocalist
David
David Howes is a Bass-Baritone from Limerick where he studied with Oliver Cowpar. He then moved on to the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama where he completed the Bachelor of Music degree with 1st class honours. David now studies with Robert Dean and is a graduate of the distinguished Young Artist Programme with Northern Ireland Opera. With NI Opera David prepared the role of Tarquinius in Rape of Lucretia and performed Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte.
David is a multiple competition winner both in Limerick and Dublin. In the Feis Ceoil, he has won the Cuisine de France John McCormack Bursary, the Baritone solo, and the Count John McCormack Memorial Cup, to name but a few.
Highlights in oratorio include: Baritone solo in Puccini’s Messa Di Gloria (Limerick Choral Union) and the Bass solos in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Co-Orch Dublin), Vaughan-Williams’ First Nowell (Culwick Choral Society),Requiems by Saint-Saens, Brahms (Dún Laoghaire Choral Society), Mozart (with the Belfast Philharmonic Choir and Ulster Orchestra), Stanford and Fauré, Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C, Great Minor Mass, Haydn's Nelson Mass and The Creation (Chorus Ireland),and Handel's Messiah (Dún Laoghaire Choral Society), Dettingen Te Deum (Limerick Choral Union) and Dixit Dominus with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.
In opera, David has performed the roles of Jack and Flynn in the world premier of Andrew Synott’s Dubliners (A co-production between Opera Theatre Company and Wexford Festival Opera), Title role in Hans Krasa’s Brundibar(Killaloe Chamber Music Festival), Count Ceprano in Rigoletto (OTC), Buff in Der Schauspieldirektor (Irish National Opera), Prince Yamadori in Madame Butterfly (Lyric Opera, Dublin), Figaro in le nozze di Figaro (Zerere Arts Festival), Peintre and 2nd Philosophe in Charpentier’s Louise (Buxton Opera Festival), Il Cosacco in Risurrezione by Franco Alfano, Sciarrone in Tosca, and 2nd Archer in Le Pré Aux Clerc (WFO). Other roles include: Noye in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, French Soldier 1 in the European Premiere of Silent Night (WFO), Quince in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Yorke Trust, Norfolk), Marchese d'Obigny in La Traviata and 'Seargent' in La Boheme (Lyric Opera), and John Styx in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.
David has covered Figaro in Irish National Opera’s Inaugural production of le nozze di Figaro, the Title Role and Masetto in Don Giovanni (Northern Ireland Opera) conducted by Nicholas Chalmers and directed by Oliver Mears, and Bohus in Dvorak’s Jacobin (Buxton Festival Opera), conducted by Stephen Barlow. In the last number of years, he has also had the privilege of taking part in masterclasses with musicians of international renown including: Simon Keenlyside, Sir Thomas Allen, Gidon Saks, Patricia Bardon, Ann Murray, Malcolm Martineau, Katherine Harris, Susan Bullock, Ian Burnside, and Graham Johnson.
Future engagements include: Performing Mozart’s Requiem and Great C minor Mass with the Limerick Choral Union in April 2019 and a recital in the Rua Centre, Ballyrowan in late 2018.
“My sister got married in June 2018 and I was tasked with organising the church music for her as I work closely with musicians. I decided to go with a quartet - Soprano, Baritone, Violin and Piano. The group were so accommodating in terms of music choice and even had great ideas about repertoire. I insisted on lots of rich harmonies and what they produced on the day just blew all of us away. I genuinely had goosebumps throughout the ceremony. To date, the talking point of the wedding has been the church music. Maria, David, Deirdre and Lorna are true professionals and I will be eternally grateful to them for making my sister’s wedding the special occasion that it was. It most definitely was the most magnificent church music I have ever witnessed and I recommend anyone who is looking to hire musicians to go with these superb professionals. Choosing professional musicians, in my experience, makes all the difference. You won’t be disappointed!”
