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Our Journey Through Sixty years
1964-1965 Fr Oliver O’Brien
The LCU journey began under the baton of Fr Oliver O’Brien, son of Vincent O'Brien, Radio Eireann's first director of music and founder of the Palestrina Choir in 1902, Oliver was music teacher at Carysfort College for most of his career.
Organist and director of the Palestrina Choir from 1946 to 1978, he was also chorus master of Our Lady's Choral Society from 1948 to 1979
Fr Oliver O'Brien's work with the Palestrina Choir was rather less in the public eye, the tradition of 16th-century polyphony within the Catholic liturgy being maintained in spite of the emerging popular challenge of contemporary music in the form of folk masses. He was made a Papal Knight of St Gregory in 1976. He retired from the Palestrina Choir in 1978 and from Our Lady's Choral Society in 1979, just missing the opportunity of being directly involved in the Mass in the Phoenix Park during the visit of Pope John Paul II. Like his father, he married late, and met his wife, Elizabeth, who survives him, when she was one of his pupils. He was a quiet, unassuming, gentlemanly presence, whose absorption with music appeared to be complete. Fr Oliver O’Brien died, September 2001.
1966-1972 Musical Director Kieran O’Gorman
1973-1974 Musical Director Coleman Pearce
Born in Dublin, Pearce was educated at University College Dublin and studied conducting in Hilversum and Vienna. He became a conductor for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in the late 1960s as well as being musical director for the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest and then conducting the 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975 Irish entries
1975-1982 Musical Director Dr Hans W.Rosen
Rosen, Hans Waldemar (1904–94), music teacher and choral conductor, was born 15 July 1904 in Dresden, Germany. Moving to Dublin in 1948, he lived for some time in the Salvation Army hostel on York Street before setting up as a physiological voice teacher.A sometime conductor of the RÉ Symphony Orchestra, in 1965 he was appointed vocal director of what had become Radio (later Raidió) Telefís Éireann (RTÉ). He frequently conducted the choir of Dublin's Goethe Institute, and was founder and for many years secretary of the Irish branch of the Heinrich Schütz Society, which spearheaded the mid-twentieth-century revival of interest in baroque music; he was also on its international council.
A guest conductor with the BBC, London, and the Dutch broadcasting service, NVCR, Hilversum, Rosen belonged to numerous Irish and continental European music societies, and was a Knight of the White Rose of Finland and an Officiale d'Italia. Long resident in Dublin at 55 Strand Road, Sandymount, on retirement from RTÉ he moved to Sneem, Co. Kerry, where he formed a local choir and commuted to conduct the Limerick Choral Union.
1983-Musical Director Clem Garvey
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1984-Musical Director Dr Hans W.Rosen Asst. Clem Garvey
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1985-Musical Director Clem Garvey
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1986-1987-Musical Director Dr Hans W.Rosen Asst. Clem Garvey
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1988-1994-Musical Director Clem Garvey
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1995-Musical Director Andrew Robinson
ANDREW ROBINSON has been playing viols since his first summer school in 1967, taught by Nathalie Dolmetsch. He later studied baroque chamber music with John Beckett, and viola da gamba with José Vázquez. In the 1970s he co-directed (with Barra Boydell) the Renaissance vocal/instrumental band The Consort of St Sepulchre which performed throughout Ireland and recorded two albums with EMI. In the eighties he made instruments along with Anthony OBrien, winning first prize in the RDS Crafts Competition for a bass viol. When John Beckett left Ireland Andrew took over his RIAM viol consort class, whose successor class he still hosts. He conducted one of the Dublin Youth Orchestras, for whom he composed and made arrangements. In the nineties he was the founding Director of the music school Maoin Cheoil an Chláir in Ennis. While there he conducted the Limerick Choral Union, and also formed and sang in a barbershop quartet, Ceol Miners, which won gold medals from The Irish Association of Barbershop Singers. In the noughties he taught in José Vázquez's viol summer schools in the Czech Republic. He has performed on viola da gamba with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Baroque Orchestra of Ireland and The Irish Chamber Orchestra, as well as many smaller groups including The Dublin Viols and The Dublin Consort. He currently teaches Renaissance theory in the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, and teaches viola da gamba and ukulele privately. As Smoot Scoring he edits and typeset.