Biography

Lecturer in conducting at MTU Cork School of Music and director of the 130-string Fleischmann Choir, Tom Doyle is highly sought after as a musical director and pianist in Cork City and its environs.

As a choral enthusiast, Tom has had the pleasure of working with the Blackpool Parish Choir, MusiCórum, the workplace choirs at Musgraves and Cork County Council, Munster Rugby Supporters Club Choir, the Wilcollane Singers, and the Cork Garda Male Voice Choir. From 2008 – 2015, Tom conducted the UCC Choral Society, helping to produce the ever-popular ‘Carols by Candlelight’ in the Honan Chapel as well as winning several awards at international competitions in Ghent, Verona and Olomouc.

An accomplished conductor and répétiteur, Tom has worked with renowned singers such as the late Cara O’Sullivan, Majella Cullagh and Mary Hegarty, and ensembles such as Irish Youth Opera, Irish National Opera, Cork Concert Orchestra, Cork Operatic Society and the University of Limerick Orchestra.

Tom is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is currently researching the sociocultural role of amateur opera and musical theatre in Cork during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

(November 2025)