“O’Reilly’s voice ranges from tenderly introspective to utterly beautiful in a disc which offers a commendably refreshing debut” HMV CHOICE REVIEW
Róisín is probably best known to Irish audiences for her solo performances and recordings with Liam Lawton with her beautiful unique interpretation of his “Ave Maria”. Between 2004 and 2007 Róisín toured extensively with Liam nationwide and in the USA performing at live concerts and recording DVD’s (including “Song of a Celtic Soul”).
Before touring with Liam Lawton Róisín had performed in countries worldwide including Scandinavia, Norway, the UK, Canada, Sweden, Italy, France, Morocco, and the US including the acclaimed venue Carnegie Hall, New York. She has performed at events such as the International festival of Spiritual Music in Fez, Morocco and the Strawberry Moon festival in Ontario, Canada.
She joined the choral group Anuna in 1996 and toured with the group for six years throughout the globe and in 2001 she was signed to Universal Music, London and released her debut album “Love so Kindly” in 2003.
Róisín has featured on six successful Universal Music compilation collections including ; Celtic Dreams (2007), A Classic Christmas (2006), Summer Classics (2004), The No 1 Classical Album (2004), which sold over 400,000 copies, Songbird (2004) and Over the Rainbow (2005).
Róisín also features on 5 platinum selling albums; Another World (2004), Time (2005), Anthem (2000) , Cynara and Deep Dead Blue (1999) and has recorded several shows for US airplay including a show with the traditional Irish group Dervish.
While touring in the UK she had the privilege of performing with Aled Jones, Paco Pena, Julian Lloyd Weber, and Catherine Finch and was invited by George Martin, musical arranger and producer to the Beatles, on a number of occasions to represent Irish music at the annual Concert held at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London.
“Here I had the opportunity to sing with The Oxford Boys Choir and sang the beautiful traditional Irish lullaby "Suantrai” by F O’Carroll with them. They later added this piece to their standard Christmas repertoire, something I was delighted to hear!”
Róisín’s passion for music began when she was very young and music has always been an inherent part of her life. She was born the fourth girl in a family of six and lived with her family in Cavan until the age of 16 years when she went to study music in the College of Music, Dublin. There she studied voice and musicianship.
