Head of Vocal, Opera and Drama Studies

Email: Rachel.Talbot@tudublin.ie

Dr Rachel Talbot

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1393-7882

Rachel Talbot is an Assistant Lecturer in the Vocal, Opera and Drama department and also teaches in the Academic and Orchestral departments at Technological University Dublin. She is an honours graduate of Trinity College Dublin and holds a PhD from TU Dublin. Other professional qualifications include ALCM (vocal) and LTCL (recorder and piano). She has participated in masterclasses with Emma Kirkby, Ian Partridge, Jill Feldman, Bernadette Greevy and Rudolf Piernay and has given recitals at Dún Laoghaire International Organ Festival, Richmond Recital Series London, Limerick Recital Series, Sligo Early Music Festival and Galway Early Music Festival.She has performed as soprano soloist in oratorio and with chamber ensembles including the Douglas Gunn Ensemble, the Consort of St Sepulchre and Seanma. She is a former member of Chamber Choir Ireland, Opera Ireland Chorus and Christ Church Cathedral Choir and was vocal tutor to the choristers of St Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin for thirteen years.

Her research interests include eighteenth-century Irish opera and French Art Song in the early twentieth century. She is a member of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and has published articles in the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and the Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland.  She has directed student opera productions of works by Maurice Greene, Thomas Arne and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre for Rathdown Opera Ensemble and of works by Kane O’Hara and Maurice Ravel for TU Dublin.