Eamonn Nolan CPGS PGdip BA(Hons) LGSM

Assistant Lecturer in Trumpet at the Conservatoire of Music and Drama.

 

Eamonn began playing trumpet in his local wind band, the Rathfarnham Concert Band with Robert P. Chester.  After some further study with Killyan Bannister through the Leinster School of Music he then moved to Scotland to attend the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he had instruction from Peter Franks, John Gracie and Eddie Severn.  While in Glasgow he was a member of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.  Since graduating in 1998 with the Peter Morrison prize, the Conservatoire's highest award, and returning to Dublin he has been teaching trumpet in the TU Dublin Conservatoire of Music and Drama.  After a number of years working as a freelance player, in 2007 he won the 2nd Trumpet position with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.  Eamonn is also much in demand as a jobbing/session musician in all genres.