Ciaran Nagle

Ciaran was born in Dublin in 1970. His first real interest in singing was when he was 10. It was thanks to Fr. Dowling in Willow Park School who first encouraged him and gave him his first leading role at the age of 12 in a production of the Gipsy Baron.

From then on singing and music was always his fist love. It wasn't until he was 20 that he decided to take it anyway seriously and only at that stage decided to get voice training. He started in the College of Music Dublin in 1990 under the tuition of Edith Forrest FTCL and studied with her for seven years and then with Dr. Veronica Dunne for another two years. During that time he performed many roles including Tamino, The Magic Flute, Tom, The Rakes Progress, Rodolfo, La Boheme, Bepe, "Rita" for TV and many more. In 1995 Ciaran became a member of the National Chamber Choir, which is Irelands only full time professional choir and stayed there until 1998. During that time he also had the experience of performing in Carnegie Hall under the baton of Robert Shaw in productions of Haydn's Creation and Seasons. Ciaran also performed with Opera Ireland in productions of La Cenerentola, Faust, The Magic Flute, La Boheme, L'elisir D'amor, Eugene Onegin, Macbeth, Falstaff and The Tales of Hoffman.

Ciaran has always enjoyed music theatre and operetta and in that field has performed the roles of Gaylord Ravenal in Showboat, Ralph in HMS pinafore, Cascada in the Merry Widow and Tony in Westside Story.

In 1998 he was given the opportunity to perform with Riverdance The Show. Ciaran toured with the show for two years travelling all over Europe and Japan - "The time of my life" - until The Three Irish Tenors.

"The Three Irish Tenors has been pretty much my life in recent years " says Ciaran."This project that was to be a bit of fun for three friends. To our delight, it has grown into a major international success - long may it last!"

Kenneth O'Regan

Kenneth O’Regan was born in Cork, the southern most city in Ireland. From a very young age it was evident that music was his passion so it was no surprise to his family and friends when he eventually embarked on a career in musical theatre.

Kenneth has travelled the world with Riverdance and is widely regarded as one of the most dynamic vocalists in Irish musical theatre. His list of theatre credits include: “Beadle Bamford” in Sweeney Todd, “Freddie Trumper” in Chess, “The Scarlet Pimpernel” in The Scarlet Pimpernel, “Lt. Joe Cable” in South Pacific, “Tony” in West Side Story, “Bill Sikes” in Oliver ,“The King” in The King and I, “Lun Tha” in The King and I , “Lancelot” in Camelot, “Judas” in Jesus Christ Superstar, “Billy” in Carousel, “Che” in Evita, Riverdance (World Tour), “Curley” in Oklahoma and “Anatoly” in Chess.

Although musical theatre is where his heart lies, Kenneth regularly performs with his own soul band and swing band throughout Ireland. He is also an accomplished song-writer and is currently writing his own album which he hopes to finish very soon.

P.J. Hurley

County Clare born tenor P.J. Hurley recently represented Ireland in the 2006 Belvedere International Singing Competition Vienna. Last year P.J. made his New York debut in Carnegie Hall performing in A Tribute to Frank Patterson and his UK operatic debut in the lead role of Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Boheme.
P.J. began his vocal studies with Olive Cowper in Limerick. In The DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin he studied with Mary Brennan and is currently training with renowned vocal coach Robert Alderson. P.J. has had much success in vocal competitions winning The Tenor Solo (Feis Maithiu Cork), the O’ Mara Cup (Feis Ceoil Dublin), The Thomas Moore Cup and The McDonagh Cup and Bursary (Feis Limerick). P.J. frequently performs with RTE radio and television. In The National Concert Hall he has sung Handel’s Messiah, Tamino (The Magic Flute), Fenton (Falstaff), Rodolfo (La Boheme), Alfredo (La Traviata), The Duke (Rigoletto) and the title role in Don Carlo as well as singing in tributes to Count John McCormack, Franz Lehr, Sigmund Romberg and Mario Lanza. With Opera Ireland P.J. has sung in productions of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Madam Butterfly, Tosca, Jenufa, Rigoletto (Borsa) and La Boheme (Parpignol) and in Gluck’s Orfeo which toured to Wiesbaden, Germany. With Anna Livia Opera P.J. has sung in performances of Faust and Il Tabarro. Recently P.J. sung Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Vespers in Vienna and Mozart’s Requiem Mass with The Galway Choral Association. P.J. has also performed Schubert’s opera Claudine and The Mass in G in Trinity College Dublin.

David Wray, Musical Director

David Wray trained at Lancaster University and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. He has since worked as pianist and musical director in Opera and Music Theatre.

David was assistant to the director of The English Bach Festival for three years with whom he appeared at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and throughout Europe. For this company he was musical director for two productions: Dido and Aeneas (London) and Acis and Galatea(London and Barcelona).

David has lived in Ireland since 1991 and has worked with major opera company (D.G.O.S. and Wexford Festival Opera). He formed the Leinster Opera Studio with Dr. Veronica Dunne with whom he has toured extensively in Ireland. David works regularly for RTE in both television and radio and has worked extensively in Irish theatre.

As a keyboard player credits include Follies in Concert (National Concert Hall), The Risen People (Gaiety), Carmen (National Concert Hall) with Bernadette Greevy, Don Pasquale (RTE), The Marriage of Figaro (D.G.O.S.), La Rencontre Imprevue (Wexford Festival Opera), The Pirates of Penzance, The King & I and Me and My Girl (Olympia Theatre), Letters to Felice (Pavilion Theatre), The Musicals That Matter (a series for RTE at the National Concert Hall).

David was Musical Associate for the production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love (Olympia Theatre / Cork Opera House), Tarry Flynn (Abbey Theatre) and two Christmas Pantomimes at the Olympia Theatre Rockinson Crusoe and Puss in Boots.

He was Musical Director of The Rocky Horror Show (Tivoli / Olympia), Side by Side by Sondheim (Temple Bar Music Centre), Just Bodies for Irish Modern Dance Theatre for which he also devised the music, The Hot Mikado (Olympia Theatre), Rockin’ Hood (Olympia Theatre), A Chelsea Affair (Theatre Space, Dublin) a new musical play based on the life of Oscar Wilde, Red Hot & Cole and Kander and Ebbs The World Goes Round for Music Theatre Ireland at the National Concert Hall, a traditional Irish show, Shamrock and Shillelaghs, on tour in the USA and L’Egisto (Cavalli), Rita (Donizetti), Cox and Box (Sullivan) for the R.I.A.M. at the NCH, Opera in the Open 2000/2001 a new project promoted by Dublin Corporation.

David has been Musical Director for a series of programmes for RTE's Theatre Nights including the music of George Gershwin, Rodegers & Hart, Irving Berlin & Jerome Kern and a special centenary concert celebrating the music of Noel Coward. Most recently he was musical director for the third season of Opera in the Open, a new project being promoted by Dublin Corporation and was musical director of The Great American Songwriters Series 2002 for Music Theatre Ireland at the National Concert Hall.