Composer · Musical Director · Performer
Eamon O'Malley
Eamonn O'Máille — Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Taking music and people and turning them into something greater than the sum of their parts.
Photo: John D Kelly
Composer · Musical Director · Performer
Eamonn O'Máille — Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Taking music and people and turning them into something greater than the sum of their parts.
Photo: John D Kelly
Directing the Junction Festival Choir alongside co-director Marina Moskalyk — Karl Jenkins' Adiemus and Greg Gilpin's Why We Sing, with a town-centre flash mob on 11 July and the festival finale at Old St Mary's on 12 July. Also co-curating the festival's Youth Council Performance Trail, and composer of the original score for the Clonmel Exchanges Podcast — twenty-three cues of themes, ambient beds and stingers.
Recording 24:09 at Treehouse Studios, Co. Wicklow, with producer Brian Crosby, on a 1920s Blüthner grand piano. Supported by the Tipperary Artists Award 2026.
UpRoar Choir competes at the InterKultur International Choir Competition in Blackpool, 10–14 September, following a third-place debut at the Cork International Choral Festival 2026.
A practice spanning spectral and algorithmic composition, live electronics, multimedia installation and commissioned score work.
A 24-minute, 9-second work for piano, live electronics and film — timed, to the second, to Sean Kelly's legendary time trial at the 1985 Nissan Classic. Film by John O'Dwyer.
Premiered at Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2025 to standing ovations. The studio recording — captured on a 1920s Blüthner grand at Treehouse Studios with producer Brian Crosby — arrives in 2026.
A twenty-three-cue original score commissioned by Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2026 — three themes, four ambient beds and sixteen stingers, written and produced for the festival's podcast series.
Original soundtrack and score for the short film Reborning.
Building choirs and communities across Tipperary — from competition stages to carers' workshops.
Director
Performed Belles & Strings with the Libra String Quartet at Old St Mary's, May 2026.
◆ 2nd — Upper Voice Category, Cork International Choral Festival 2026Director
Competing at the InterKultur International Choir Competition, Blackpool, September 2026.
◆ 3rd — Light Touch Category, Cork International Choral Festival 2026 (debut)Co-director, 2026
Directing the festival's community choir with Marina Moskalyk for Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2026.
Director
Thurles' community choir — newly renamed, open to all, and singing everything from folk to pop.
Workshop leader
Delivered a workshop series for family carers — inclusive, pressure-free singing built around two-part harmony.
Co-founder
Co-founded with Ann O'Malley — community music-making rooted in Clonmel.
Musical theatre: Chorusmaster, Carrick-on-Suir Musical Society. Musical Director, We Will Rock You (Mitchelstown Musical Society, 2026) — musical direction commended in the AIMS adjudication.
Tutor at Clonmel Community Training Centre (Tipperary ETB), delivering QQI Level 4 IT Skills and Digital Media Technology to small groups using Universal Design for Learning, individual learning plans, and creative digital tools — including a learner-led podcast initiative.
Registered with the Teaching Council of Ireland (Further Education). Commencing the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching in Further Education at South East Technological University in September 2026.
Short biography
Eamon O'Malley is a Clonmel-based composer, sound artist and choral director with over 25 years of professional experience across concert music, community arts and music education. His multimedia composition 24:09 — inspired by Sean Kelly's legendary 1985 Nissan Classic time trial — premiered at Clonmel Junction Arts Festival 2025 to standing ovations, and is being recorded for release in 2026. He directs Belle Voci Women's Choir, UpRoar Choir and the Suir Tones, both of his competition choirs placing at the Cork International Choral Festival 2026. He is a registered Further Education tutor, scored the short film Reborning, and composed the original score for the Clonmel Exchanges Podcast, commissioned by Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.
Commissions, choral direction, performance bookings, workshops and collaborations. Based in Clonmel, working nationally and internationally.
+353 87 923 3799
Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
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