Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Musical artist

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is an Irish musician. As a pianist, composer, recording artist and academic, he holds the Professorship of Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance which he founded at the University of Limerick. His sons are known as Irish pop group size2shoes and his former wife is Irish chant singer Nóirín Ní Riain, with whom he has collaborated. He was awarded an honorary D.Mus from the National University of Ireland at his alma mater University College Cork in 2004. He has recorded extensively with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1950
Birth place
Republic of Ireland , Tipperary

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Musical artist

Career started1976
associated musical artist
Size2shoes
Nóirín Ní Riain
BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Folk music
Classical music
Folk music of Ireland
instrument
Piano
record label
Atlantic Records
Sony BMG

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.folkworld.de/4/micheal.html
  2. http://www.mosmusic.ie