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John O'Brien is a conductor, composer and director from Cork. He has worked on over eighty different productions of opera and music theatre in Ireland, UK and Canada, and has toured across Europe, Japan and China. John conducts the Cork Opera House Concert Orchestra – performing 14 different operas since 2016, as well as a recent double bill of two Beethoven Symphonies (III and V), and numerous other concerts.

John composed and directed the operas Morrígan – at Cork Opera House in 2022; and The Nightingale and the Rose – which premiered with an Irish tour in 2018. He is acclaimed for directing & conducting the operas Faust, Der Vampyr, Orpheus, and Pagliacci at the Everyman.

Other compositions include Ecclesiastes – premiered by the Carducci String Quartet and Derbhle Crotty; Lullaby for the City (In a Time of Pandemic) for chamber orchestra – premiered at Cork Midsummer Festival; Easter 1916 – premiered by Fiona Shaw and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra; scores for the feature films Tree Keeper and Shem the Penman Sings Again – premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh; as well as music for plays, short films, choral works, piano pieces and numerous operatic, choral and orchestral arrangements. He is currently writing music for the new feature film Stupid August; and will record his music for a new documentary by Bob Jackson with the CSMSO in May 2024.

John has been guest conductor with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. He initiated and led the 'Big Sing' at Cork International Choral Festival from 2011 to 2016.