Chamber Music at Grangegorman: October 21st
Date of Event: Tuesday, 21st October 2025
Lecturer Aoife O'Sullivan teams up with some of TU Dublin's finest vocal students in a colourful and varied programme of Lieder, featuring songs by Schubert, Schumann, R. Strauss, and more!
📅 Tuesday, 21st October
🕐 1:00 – 2:00 PM
📍 TU Dublin Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman, D07 XFF2
🎟️ €10 / €5 Concession – Free for all TU Dublin staff and students!
Ciara Smith, soprano
Diana Salop, mezzo-soprano
Yasmin O'Reilly, mezzo-soprano
Aoife O'Sullivan, piano
Ciara Smith
Soprano Ciara Smith has completed a BMus and is currently in the first year of her Master’s degree at TU Dublin Conservatoire. Most recently, Ciara performed the role of Mercedes in Dublin City Council’s Opera in the Open and at the Loughcrew Opera Festival. In August, she appeared as a soloist at the National Concert Hall as part of the Another Lunchtime at the Opera series.
Diana Salop
Diana Salop is a mezzo-soprano in her fourth year of a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance, under the tutelage of Mairéad Buicke and Aoife O’Sullivan. She was a participant in the programme ‘Celebrating the Voice 2025’, at the National Concert Hall led by international mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught.
Diana has performed widely in concerts and festivals. This year, she sang in the John Field room in the ‘A lunchtime at the Opera’ series. Also, a former member of the RTÉ Cór Linn Choir. Most recently, she sang the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte as part of ‘Opera in the Open’, organised by Dublin City Council.
Yasmin O'Reilly
Yasmin O’Reilly is an Irish-Iranian Mezzo-Soprano based in Dublin, Ireland, she completed her undergraduate degree in the TU Dublin Conservatoire in 2024 and is currently working on her Masters degree with teacher Mairead Buicke. Yasmin has placed in several Feis Ceoil competitions, winning first place with her colleagues for her portrail of ‘Carmen’ in the Veronica Dunne Operatic ensemble competition in 2024. Due to her success in the Feis Yasmin was invited to perform a solo with the Orlando Chamber Orchestra and conductor Dr.Ite O’Donovan in the National Concert Hall as a part of Dublin Choral Foundations annual Christmas concert.
In 2025 Yasmin travelled Italy twice, first in January to Rome with the Lassus Scholars choir where she performed the Soprano solo from Mozart's ‘Coronation Mass’ in St.Paul's Basilica with the Rome Opera Orchestra. Second in June to Novafeltria where she studied Bel Canto with Prof. Ubaldo Fabbri in a summer programme for aspiring opera singers concluding in a performance in the local theatre.
Aoife O'Sullivan
Aoife O’Sullivan was born in Dublin and studied at the College of Music with Frank Heneghan and later at the RIAM with Dr John O’Conor. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an honours degree in music. During the summers of 1996-1998, she studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Andrezj Jasinski and Sergio Perticaroli. In August 1999 she studied with Mikael Eliasen at Centro Studi Italiani and then with Wolfram Rieger at the Max Reger Tage in Germany.
In September 1999 she began her studies as a Fulbright scholar at the Curtis Institute of Music with Mikael Eliasen, Head of Vocal and Opera Studies and in 2001 she joined the staff there for her final two years.
She has played for masterclasses including those given by Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray DBE, Sir Thomas Allen, Thomas Hampson, and Anna Moffo. Aoife worked on Zaide at the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme in June 2004 and then on Turn of the Screw for the Cheltenham Festival with Paul Kildea. She has appeared at the Wigmore Hall in concerts with Ann Murray (chamber versions of Mahler and Berg), Gweneth Ann Jeffers and Wendy Dawn Thompson and with Sinead Campbell Wallace.
She was awarded the Geoffrey Parsons Trust Award in March 2005 for accompaniment of singers.
She has worked on the music staff at Wexford Festival Opera in 2005 and 2006, on Orlando (2007) Xerxes (2009) and Alcina (2009/2010) for OTC and ‘Dead Man Walking’ and ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ for Opera Ireland in 2007 and 2008.
Aoife also worked at the National Opera Studio in London from 2006 to 2008 and was on the deputy coach list for the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Aoife is now based in Dublin and was on staff as repetiteur at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin in 2008/2009.
Since January 2010, Aoife is an Assistant Lecturer in Repetiteur and Accompaniment at the TU Dublin Conservatoire.