She has wide experience as a Choral Director, adjudicator and Choral Consultant. She has been Choral Director of the RTE Children’s Choir Cór na nÓg and the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. Blánaid has been Director of The Palestrina Choir, St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, since 2002 and she is currently Musical Director of Dublin Bach Singers, Carlow Choral Society and the Royal Irish Academy of Music Chorale.
In May 2009, Blánaid was instrumental in the formation
of St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Girls’ Choir.
Her many recordings have included the record-breaking Faith of Our Fathers CD and Cór, arrangements of Irish melodies on the ARSIS label and many CDs with the Palestrina Choir.
At the prestigious invitation of the Sistine Chapel
Choir, she recently took the Palestrina Choir to sing at a Papal Mass in St
Peter’s Basilica.
Recent performances have included the Bach Masses and
Vaughan-Williams Serenade to Music and she will soon be conducting Bach St
John Passion and Handel Israel
in Egypt
She has recently returned from a tour to Rome
Blánaid is delighted to be involved with this exciting
project with Culture Cavan.