Joan O'Malley

Joan O’Malley graduated with Distinction from the MA in Voice Pedagogy at the Voice Study Centre/University of Wales Trinity St David in July 2023, and has just enrolled as a PhD candidate at the TU Dublin Conservatoire under the supervisorship of Dr Rachel Talbot and Dr Helen Lawlor.

She is also am honours (1:1) graduate of the BMus in Vocal Performance at the former DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, where she received the McNamara Gold Medal for Excellence in Performance.

Her opera roles to date include Susanna (Mozart/Le Nozze di Figaro), Nedda (Leoncavallo/I Pagliacci) and Susanna (Wolf-Ferrari/Il Segreto di Susanna). She has also performed widely as a soprano soloist in oratorio, in venues including St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna (Mozart/Coronation Mass) and Westminster Cathedral, London (Mozart/Spatzenmesse).

A committed singing teacher since 2008, her research interests include voice classification and vocal onset pedagogy.