Eoghan Desmond began to sing at the age of 9, when he joined St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral Choir under Colin Nicholls. He made his solo debut with East Cork Choral Society as the ‘Youth’ in Mendelssohn’s Elijah in 2003. Since moving to Dublin to study Music in Trinity College, Dublin, and sing in Christ Church Cathedral, he has been given the opportunity to expand his solo experience by among others, Dublin University Choral Society, with whom he has performed Bach’s Magni*icat, Handel’s Messiah, and a concert of Vaughan Williams’ music, including Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Hodie, and the Irish première of Willow- Wood, a cantata for Baritone. He has also performed Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Haydn’s Creation, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs. He frequents Dorset Opera as a chorus mentor, and his voice is to be heard on the award-winning soundtrack of Diablo III. Next March he will be returning to DUCS to fulUil his dream of singing baritone solo in Verdi’s Requiem. A pioneer of new music, he has performed the Irish première of Satie’s Vexations, an 18-hour piano piece, and the world première of David Lawrence’s song cycles, Nonsense Songs of Edward Lear and He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, composed especially for him. Next, he hopes to be the second person ever to perform Sorabji’s epic Trois Poémes de Gulistan de Sa’di, last performed in 1988. As an active member of the Irish Composer’s Collective, his compositions have been widely performed in Ireland, by groups such as Chamber Choir Ireland, Ensemble Avalon and the RTE ConTempo String Quartet, and are more recently in demand in the UK, the US and Australia. He is currently Lay Vicar of the Prebend of Newcastle in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, a regular deputy with Chamber Choir Ireland, principle guest conductor of Téada String Orchestra, and has recently been made assistant Musical Director of Dún Laoghaire Choral Society.