Our Teachers
Brian Davies - Guitar, Songwriting, Music Technology.
Brian Davies is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, composer and arranger, based in Clare.
After graduating with a BA (Hons) in Popular Music at Cork School of Music in 2016 he set up a music company called Tower Street Music to promote and showcase some of the finest upcoming talents of Cork City.
As a singer/ songwriter he has composed and arranged over 100 original works and has over 10 years of experience performing at festivals and venues throughout Ireland and Denmark. After headlining the Doolin Folk Festival in 2019 with his band "The Davies Brothers", he has been working on their first album (due for release in 2022).
Emma Karran - Piano, Flute.
Emma has been teaching flute and piano for sixteen years. She is classically trained and came over from the UK to Clare with her family nine years ago. Although her teaching is classically based, she finds the rich culture of trad music in Clare influences and inspires her own teaching and playing. She has a facilitative style and is keen to help each pupil explore the music that most interests them. A composer herself, Emma loves encouraging her pupils to create their own compositions.
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Séverine Pigot- Violin, Viola, String Quartet
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Séverine Pigot studied the violin from an early age in France. After being awarded a First Prize in violin in 2009 and studying Musicology for three years at Bordeaux University, she then completed a Master's Degree of Research in Sciences of Education in 2012, specializing in music teaching. In parallel with her academic studies, she played in several symphonic orchestras and chamber music groups as a violist and violinist, and in 2009 she started teaching the violin, viola and music theory in music schools near Bordeaux.
She moved to County Clare in 2015, where she now teaches the violin, writes her own music and songs, and plays the viola (acoustic and electric) in local bands such as Violvetine and The Secret Chord Wedding Band.
Joanne Ward - Fiddle, Violin
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Joanne is a traditional musician and educator. Born in the UK of Irish parentage, she
travelled to her father’s birthplace of Limerick in 2003 where she completed an MA in Traditional Music Performance at the Irish World Music Academy. She has since settled in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare. Joanne was introduced to the fiddle by her father, Joseph, whose family are from Caherline in East Limerick. She cites her paternal grandfather, a well-loved local musician 'The Bevan Ward', as a great inspiration and influence on her musical career. The inspiration Joanne found in Limerick coupled with master classes from Dublin Fiddler Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh encouraged her to study the hidden areas of style and form in traditional music and to look at music in a completely new
way.
Joanne works with renowned Sean-nos Dancer Maldon Meehan in the duo ‘Kick the Fiddle’.
www.Seannosdance.com and was the founder of ‘Limerick Fiddle Workshop’.
Aine O'Donoghue - Concertina
Áine O’Donoghue
A musician from Kilfenora. Growing up surrounded by music, she began playing concertina at the age of 6. Áine Participated in many fleadh cheoils growing up and has previous experience teaching traditional music. She plays regularly in the north Clare area.