Cathy McEvoy
Waltons New School of Music Faculty
Bluegrass Fiddle • Irish Fiddle • Violin • Sing Your Heart Out Choir • Outreach Programme • Music at Work Programme
Cathy is a full-time musician, arranger, composer and educator, with extensive gospel and choir experience. She holds an honours Music degree from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Composition from NUI Maynooth, and she has additionally studied both choral and orchestral conducting with maestros such as George Hurst (UK), Axel Theimer (Austria/US), Robert Houlihan (Ireland) and Rodolfo Sanglimbeni (Venezuela). In addition to directing the school’s Sing Your Heart Out Choir and Company Choirs for our Music at Work programme, Cathy also directs Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, Portmarnock Singers, Sandymount Gospel Choir and The Gospel Project. She has been the recipient of several arts awards, including an Artists Residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in 2018, a Travel and Training Award from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2016, and an EU Youth in Action in Award which allowed her to avail of Community Arts training in 2014. She has also worked as a vocal coach for both the Abbey Theatre and RTÉ Radio Drama and is on the Artists’ Panel of the National Concert Hall’s Music in Mind Programme. In addition, Cathy maintains a busy schedule as a freelance fiddle player, performing with a great number of traditional, roots and bluegrass bands, as well as the Dublin Symphony Orchestra, among others. Well-known artists with whom she has performed include the Manic Street Preachers, Mary Coughlan, Eleanor McEvoy and Ronan Hardiman (Lord of the Dance). In addition to her choir direction, Cathy has taught bluegrass fiddle, Irish fiddle and violin with the New School since 2011. cathymcevoy.com
Meet Your Teacher
Cathy plays the beautiful ‘Ashokan Farewell’ by Jay Ungar and talks about her violin teaching.
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