Cillian Donaghy

Musical Director
Musician
Location: Archway, England, UK

Agent

Credits

Year Job Title
Project Type		 Project Name
Director / Company		 Location
2018 Musical Director
Event 		GSA Summer School
Guildford School of Acting
2018 Musical Director
Music & Singing 		Tess of the D'urbervilles
Youth Music Theatre UK
2017 Tenor Soloist
Performing Arts 		Handel's Messiah
Cantor Manei
2017 Project Manager
Event 		Education & Outreach Department
Royal Norhern College of Music
2017 Co-Director & Producer
Event 		Voiceworks Productions & Saturday Schools
Voiceworks
2017 Musical Director
Music & Singing 		Rent (School Edition)
Royal Northern College of Music Young Company
2017 Conductor
Music & Singing 		Macclesfield Mydel Ladies Choir
Macclesfield Mydel Ladies Choir
2017 Singing Tutor & Répétiteur
Event 		Holy Cross Music Department
Holy Cross College Bury
2017 Musical Director
Music & Singing 		Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
Voiceworks
2017 Ensemble
Music & Singing 		Il turco in Italia
Bergen National Opera
2016 Tenor Soloist
Performing Arts 		Bach's Christmas Oratorio Part 1
Cantor Manei
2016 Tenor Soloist
Performing Arts 		Coronation Mass, Mozart
Cantor Manei
2016 Musical Director
Music & Singing 		Oliver!
Voiceworks
2016 Ensemble
Music & Singing 		i Capuleti e i Montecchi
Bergen National Opera
2015 Musical Director
Music & Singing 		Annie
Voiceworks

Education

Year Qualification Where
2019 MA Musical Theatre Guildford School of Acting
2017 GRNCM Classical Singing Royal Northern College of Music
2016 MusB University of Manchester University of Manchester

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About me

Cillian has recently finished studying a Masters in Musical Theatre with Guildford School of Acting. For his undergraduate Cillian was lucky to enough to study on the prestigious joint course between the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music where he received a Bachelors of Music and a Graduate Diploma in Classical Singing.

As musical director Cillian has enjoyed leading many different productions and workshops for organisations such as; Guildford School of Acting Summer School, Youth Music Theatre UK, Royal Northern College of Music Youth Perform, Voiceworks NI and South Manchester Amateur Operatic's Society. A recent credit is Tess of the D'urberville's which was an original score by Pippa Cleary that enjoy a live cast recording published on Spotify and a ten performance run at The Other Palace, London. During his undergraduate studies Cillian took a number of conducting modules and worked as choral and orchestral conductor for several community ensembles.

Cillian's tenor solo repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Bach's Christmas Oratorio Part One, Haydn's Creation Part One. Whilst based in Manchester Cillian also enjoyed varied choral work, including a number of concerts accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic and several performances on BBC Daily Service. A personal highlight was performing as part of the opera chorus for two production with Bergen National Opera and the Edvard Greig Kor.

In 2017 Cillian began his masters in Musical Theatre and from July 2018 was represented by Hilary Gagan Associates. He looks forward to any musical theatre performance opportunities along with continuing his classical performances.

Aside from his training Cillian is a self-taught Celtic Harpist. Mainly employed for background music Cillian has a wide variety of repertoire and has enjoyed performing in many difference settings and events.


Qualifications: MusB, GRNCM, LRSM, ATCL, DipLCM
www.cilliandonaghy.co.uk
Additional skills:
Musical Director, Musical Theatre & Classical Tenor, Répétiteur and Celtic Harpist; bases in London, N. Ireland and Manchester.

License & Passport

Driver's License: Yes

Skills

Secondary Job Title Musician
Job Titles Music Director, Music Producer, Composer, Teacher, Music Production
Years in industry 3 to 6 years
Organisations / Memberships ISM
Musical Skills Harp, Piano/Keyboards