Tullamore International Summer Organ Series

Carole O’Connor is a first-class honours graduate of DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and UCD, where she respectively completed performance and master’s degrees. She furthered her organ studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and was awarded a PhD by DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. She has studied with Anne Leahy, Una Russell, Siobhán Kilkelly, Mary Lennon and David Adams.

Carole has given solo recitals throughout Ireland, including Galway Cathedral, St Patrick’s Cathedral, St Michael’s Church, Dun Laoghaire, the Unitarian Church, St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, and the National Concert Hall. As an organ duo with Patrice Keegan, she has performed in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, Church of the Assumption, Tullamore, and St Teresa’s Church, Clarendon Street as part of the 2019 Pipeworks Festival. She was artistic director of Dún Laoghaire Summer Organ Concerts for the 2021 and 2022 series.

Carole is the accompanist for the National Concert Hall’s junior and youth choirs, Cór na nÓg and Cór Linn, and organist and choir director of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Whitefriar Street, Dublin.

Directed by Thomas Charles Marshall, the Choir of St Ann's Church sings in liturgical settings throughout the year. It has an historical reputation for fine music and fine singing in the Anglican tradition. The choir’s history extends back well into the early 19th century, and was originally comprised of men and boys. In recent decades, it took in girls and later became a mixed adult choir.

Highlights of the choir activities include the annual Civic Carol Service, and the music for Good Friday.