Niamh Kearney

Niamh Kearney is an Irish Mezzo Soprano. Her love of choral singing was sparked when she joined her local church choir at the age of 10. Over the years, under the tutelage of her singing teacher and mentor, Mary McManus, Niamh went on to become a member and soloist with numerous choirs, including principal soloist with the South Down Choral Society.

Niamh's passion for singing led her to move to London, where she is currently studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, under the tutelage of Yolanda Grant Thompson and Helen Yorke. Niamh is a Choral Scholar at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel in Greenwich, under the direction of Ralph Allwood MBE. With the choir she performs a wide range of repertoire twice weekly and also performs several large scale orchestral concerts every year.

Highlights have included alto soloist in St John's Passion, with Tiffin Boy's Choir, Northampton Bach choir and the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir, accompanied by the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists and Purcell's 'Come ye sons of art' with The Royal Hospital Chelsea. She has taken part in recordings for BBC Songs of Praise and BBC Radio 4 Choral Evensong, where she was the cantor soloist.

Niamh is also a 'Next Gen Young Artist' with the new vocal ensemble 'Vox Urbane,' directed by Dan Ludford Thomas and Helen Mayerhoff. She has enjoyed a string of successful performances and collaborations as a Next Gen artist, singing as a soloist in Handel's Dixit Dominus and Purcell's Funeral Sentences, in the Lewisham Choral Society's concert at St John's Smith Square. She was a soloist in the Hackney Singers' performance of Monteverdi Vespers, accompanied by His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts.

She is also a member of the CCI Studio, Chamber Choir Ireland’s programme for emerging choral singers, directed by Eamonn Dougan.

Whilst she has a love of early music and baroque, Niamh has a wide musical repertoire from lieder to contemporary and folk. She loves the centuries old melismatic Irish singing style of Sean-nos, and she was the main soloist on a live broadcast Mass, sung in Irish for Irish National Radio.

She looks forward to commencing her Masters in Vocal Studies with Historical Performance at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in September.