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AIC Member - Oliver Hynes

Carlow-born composer Oliver Hynes holds honours degrees from University College Dublin in both music and music teaching, and an MSc (Hons) in educational management from Trinity College Dublin. He studied piano, organ and composition at the College of Music, Dublin, and taught in Carlow before joining the Department of Education and Science as a senior inspector of music. He has been active in developing music through the Feis Ceoil and the Association of Irish Composers, and active as a musician in many choral groups as singer, conductor and adjudicator.

As a composer he has written masses and other church music, arrangements of Irish folk-songs and settings of contemporary Irish poetry. His setting of Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s Fothrach tí i Mín na Craoibhe was awarded the Sean Ó Riada Memorial Trophy at the 1999 Cork International Choral Festival. His major work Rising, for soprano, choir and orchestra, was commissioned by the Lawlor Foundation in Tullow, Co. Carlow, to commemorate the bicentenary of the 1798 Uprising.