Award winning producer, engineer, teacher, digital artist and pianist. Over 35 years in music Cormac has worked on many high profile projects including:

Engineer - Ed Sheeran single “Eyes Closed”
Musical Director - Ireland’s Got Talent
Broadcast Sound Supervisor - TG4 Fleadh TV
Co-founder - Scott’s Jazz Club

Producer- BBC radio series ‘Live at Scott’s Jazz Club’

Record Producer -Dom Martin ‘From Spain to Italy’ album

Director- BBC TV documentary ‘Legends of harper’

Mastering Horslips, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, John Martyn boxsets

and many more

Television and concert performances

• Musical director/composer — “P.K.Tonight”, BBC1 Northern Ireland

• Musical director/composer — “The Hole in the wall gang”, BBC1 N.I.

• Musical Director/composer — “Anderson on the road”, BBC1 N.I.

• Musical director — “Children in Need”, BBC1

• Musical director — “Last chance Lottery”, Channel 4

• Musical director — “the John Daly show”, BBC 1 NI

• Musical director — ” Brian Kennedy on song”, BBC1 NI

• Musical director — “The lyrics board”, RTÉ

• Musical director — ” the lyrics board”, BBC Wales

• Musical director — “Jools Holland at the drapers hall”, DMP

• Musical director — “2 days later with Jools Holland in Edinburgh”, DMP

• Musical director — “Noel’s House party Christmas special”, BBC1

• Musical director — “Let me Entertain you”, BBC1/RTÉ1

• Musical director/composer — “Millennium broadcast”, RTÉ1

• Project Director — ” The Frankie Miller songwriting Project”,

• MD of Band — “The Special Olympics March in China”,

• MD Sky TV’ live at the waterfront ‘

• MD Ireland’s Got Talent Virgin TV

Composer of tv themes including

• BBC — PK tonight

• BBC — The big crash

• BBC — John daly show theme

• BBC — 2 Facing the truth

• BBC — Friday night live with hole in the wall gang

• BBC — Across the line band competition

• BBC — Ulsterfly

• BBC — Getaways

• BBC — world and PBS American Election special

• TV3 — The Brendan Courtney show

• RTÉ — The Dinner party

• RTÉ — The Afternoon show

• RTÉ — The afternoon cooks

• RTÉ — It’s not the answer

• BBC — Queer life for the straight guy

• BBC — Secret gardens

• BBC — Brian Kennedy on song

• BBC — Brian kennedy New York special

• BBC — Big Six (RTS award for programme)

• BBC — Anderson in

• RTÉ — DIY dads

• RTÉ — It’s a family affair

• Living TV — 2nd chance honeymoon

• C4 — Redbull soapbox challenge

• C4 — Last chance lottery

• Sky — “Sky live!”

• BBC — Blueprint

• BBC — You’re not the man I married

• BBC — Panic attack

• BBC — Thinking Big

• Nickelodeon — Staraoke

Performed and recorded with

• Marianne Faithful

• Jools Holland

• Paul Young

• Squeeze

• Suggs

• Right Said Fred

• The Corrs

• Bob Geldof

• Space

• Tony Hadley

• Michael Ball

• Jimmy Somerville

• D.Ream

• The Divine comedy

• Ash

• Bonnie Tyler

• Paul Carrack (Mike and the Mechanics)

• Ruby Turner

• Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)

• Cathy Dennis

• Alvin Stardust

• Colm Wilkinson (Les Miserables)

• Terrorvision

• The Visual ministry gospel choir

• Rod Hull

• Basil Brush

• Daniel O’Donnell

• Lionel Blair

• Oliver Reed

• Freddie Starr

• Roger Moore

• Sasha Distelle

• The Three Degrees

• Sinead Quinn

• Brian Kennedy

• Sinead O’ Connor

• The Original brothers

• Paul Brady

• Juliet Turner

• Liam Clancy

• Finbar Fury

• Arnold Schwarzenegger (tour of China)

• Alexander O’Neil

• Linda Gail lewis

• Roseanne Cash

• Samantha Mumba

• The Adventures

• Janet Holmes

• Patrick Moore (the astronomer, yes the xylophone)

• Christie Hennessey

• Adrian Dunbar

• Marie Wilson

• Heather Nova

• Mark Little

• Patrick Kielty

• Mastering / Remastering / audio restoration

  A selection of projects listed below

• Pentangle ‘The time has come’ 4cd remastered/ audio restored box set/ Sanctuary records

• Pentangle ‘One more road’ remastered/audio restored live album/ Hux records

• John Martyn ‘The Battle of Medway’ Live 1973 mastered/Hux records

• Vincent Crane ‘Close your eyes Anthology’ 2 cd box set/remeastered/Sanctuary

• Robin Dransfield ‘A lighter touch’ 2 cd box set/ remastered/Hux records

• Janet Holmes ‘Wonder why’ produced/mixed/mastered

• RIcky Graham ‘rain down fire’

• Kyron and the strangels ‘If we were Kings’

• Michael O’Hanlon ‘Lovesick’ mastered Fevercabin records

• Horslips ‘more than you can chew’ Boxset

  John Thorpe - ‘All Alone Together’- produced/mixed/mastered

• Ursula Burns - The Secret Life of trees - mastered

• Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin - Seven daughters of the Sea- mastered

Project direction

large scale productions for the Drake Music Project including at the Edinburgh festival

Arts IT consultancy

Delivered presentations at conferences in Reykjavik, Chicago, Ferrara and Cambridge on Music technology applications.

Designed strategy report on use of Arts infrastructure for East Belfast

Broadcast

worked in Television and radio since 1994

Musical direction for television series on BBC, RTE, SKY and C4.

Broadcast sound supervision for TG4 and BBC

Radio producer for BBC NI ’ Live from Scott’s Jazz Club’

Director- BBC television documentary ‘Legends of Harper’

DÓNAL O’CONNOR

Producer · Engineer · Multi-instrumentalist · Composer · TV & Radio Presenter

Son of the celebrated fiddler Gerry O’Connor (Skylark, Kinvara) and renowned singer Eithne Ní Uallacháin (Lá Lugh), Dónal O’Connor has inherited a great musical legacy of at least five generations of fiddle playing. Highly regarded as a fiddle player, he was asked, at the tender age of twenty one, to take part in the prestigious ‘Music Network Tour of Ireland’ alongside Scottish Guitarist Tony McManus, Fermanagh purveyor of song Gabriel McArdle and Belfast Piper John McSherry (Lúnasa, Coolfin, Tamalin).

“O’Connor’s winning blend of pace and lyricism transmits his enthusiasm for the music directly to the listener with irresistible impact” – Herald Scotland

Dónal’s playing was described recently by The Irish Times as “immaculate”, “electrifying” and “…borne out of naked talent and consummate professionalism…”, and by The Scotsman as “exquisite”. He has toured Europe and the USA extensively from a young age as both a lead and backing instrumentalist with a number of bands including Lá Lugh.

Regarded as “one of the outstanding players of his generation” by J.B. Vallely, recent collaborations have included tours with Lúnasa, Guidewires, Buille and Cathal McConnell, television performances with The West Ocean String Quartet and the legendary Sligo Flute player Séamus Tansey, recording with Brian Kennedy and Moya Brennan of Clannad and festival appearances with Liam Ó Maonlaí and the Steve Cooney Big Band.

Despite a hectic touring schedule, Dónal found time to produce Gerry O’Connor’s long awaited solo album ‘Journeyman’, which was released in the Autumn of 2004 to great critical acclaim.

“rhythmic, trance-inducing fiddle work” – popmatters.com

Dónal has also presented a number of music programmes on BBC Radio Ulster and was the presenter of BBC Northern Ireland’s excellent 10-part music series ‘An Stuif Ceart’. Described as a rare musical treat, the series incorporated an eclectic mix of talent with such luminaries as John Prine and Henry McCullough alongside the cream of Irish talent. More recently Dónal recorded ‘Tripswitch’ with John McSherry. Described as ‘Acoustic Perfection’ by Living Tradition and ‘Medicine for the soul’ by The Irish Music Magazine, Folk Roots said “There’s probably not been such an innovative album released on the green island since Lúnasa’s The Merry Sisters of Fate and Tripswitch probably shatters more boundaries.”

Currently a member of the much acclaimed At First Light, Dónal collaborated with John McSherry and the legendary American slide guitarist Bob Brozman, to release ‘Six Days in Down’ in October 2010. Influential BBC broadcaster DJ Ritu, has described the album as: “One of the most impressive CDs to fly through my letter-box this year”, while Ian Kearney of fRoots Magazine has deemed the album “a joyous fusion whilst”, Siobhan Long of The Irish Times giving the album a four-star rating, heralding it as a “Strapping collection of tunes”.

“O’Connor’s bowing is beautifully economical, a pleasure to watch as well as to listen to,” – Journal of Music

A founding RedBox member, Dónal is much in demand as an engineer and producer and has recently worked on Barry Kerr’s ‘Boy in a Boat’, Grainne Holland’s ‘Gaelré’, John McSherry’s solo album ‘Soma’, The Olllam, Gráinne Holland’s debut album  ‘Teanga na nGael’,  At First Light’s ‘Idir’, Stevie Dunne’s ‘About Time’ and Oirialla’s eponyomous debut album, amongst others.