Raymond O’Donnell has been Director of Music at Galway Cathedral since January 1994. A native of Dublin, he studied organ at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral under Gerard Gillen, where he was organ scholar for three years. He studied music and mathematical physics at NUI Maynooth, graduating in 1991 with a first-class honours MA in organ interpretation and performance; while an undergraduate he spent a year on scholarship to University of Louisville, Kentucky, for advanced organ studies under Melvin Dickenson. He has attended masterclasses with Daniel Roth, Marie-Claire Alain, Ben Van Oosten and others.
Before coming to Galway he was director of sacred music at Clongowes Wood College in Co. Kildare; and in recent years he has returned to Maynooth University and St Patrick's Pontifical University as an adjunct lecturer and tutor. He is in regular demand as both soloist and accompanist in Ireland and across Europe.
The Director of Music can be contacted at music@galwaycathedral.ie.
Previous Directors of Music
- Mary Dale: Summer 1967 - December 1993
- Brendan O'Boyle: November 1965 - summer 1967