Andrew Synnott
Andrew graduated from TCD in 1992 and has been working ever since as a conductor, composer, arranger, repetiteur, vocal coach and accompanist at the highest level in Ireland and abroad. Opera productions conducted include Orfeo, Bastien and Bastienne, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata, Carmen, La Bohème, Die Fledermaus, Il Mondo della Luna, The Diary of Anne Frank, For a Look and a Touch, The Telephone, A Hand of Bridge, Sweeney Todd, Street Scene. Andrew has been writing music for two decades for professional dance and theatre companies in Ireland and England including the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His operatic-based score for Pan Pan Theatre’s Macbeth 7 focused his compositional effort on large-scale dramatic music. His opera Breakdown forms the core of his doctoral studies, supplemented by an in-depth analysis of the relationship in the opera between text and music.
Andrew is a former artistic director of the Crash Ensemble and as such has been an important figure in the development of new music in modern Ireland.
