Lecturer

Email: eoin.tierney@tudublin.ie

A native of Dublin, Eoin graduated from NUI Maynooth with an honours Master’s degree in Musicology and holds Licentiate Diplomas in both Piano and Organ. He studied piano with Leonora Carney, organ with Peter Sweeney in the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, and later Prof Gerard Gillen. He was the first organ scholar of Adam and Eve’s Church, Dublin where he studied with Dr Paul McKeever. He has taken part in several masterclasses for organ and improvisation, and has given solo concerts in Dublin and in the USA, predominantly on organ.

Eoin has lectured at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama since 2003, teaching at all levels from Junior Conservatoire groups to third level, including thesis supervision. Current research interests include Irish church history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, encompassing church architecture, liturgical music practice, organ builders of Ireland and England, and Catholic Church history up to Vatican II. He has presented several papers at SMI conferences (Society for Musicology in Ireland) over the past eleven years. Another area of interest is music pedagogy, both instrumental and classroom based. He is a member of several organisations, and attends their conferences, most notably the SMEI (Society for Music Education in Ireland), EPTA Ireland, Pipeworks, and the Irish Church Music Association.

Working regularly as an accompanist and repetiteur, Eoin works with CDETB Kylemore Music Centre, and DCU Music department alongside other choral groups and soloists around Dublin. He has been a School Inspector for DCU Institute of Education (second level music) for many years and enjoys travelling to different parts of the country to work with their students during their teaching practice.

He was a Council member and Organ tutor at the Irish Church Music Association, and helped organise their popular annual summer-school in Maynooth for twelve years. He was also organist and accompanist for Amnesty International’s ‘Carols for Freedom’ held in Christ Church Cathedral for several years. He has been resident organist and musical director at St. Columba’s church on Iona Road, Glasnevin and oversaw the recent restoration of the church’s Telford & Telford organ.