Bernie Sherlock

The chamber choir New Dublin Voices was founded by conductor Bernie Sherlock in October 2005.

Since then we have gained a reputation for performing an interesting range of music - from sixteenth century madrigals to ink-wet commissions - and are proud to have represented Ireland at international choral festivals this year.

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The Conductor

Bernie Sherlock is the conductor of New Dublin Voices which she founded in October 2005, and of the Culwick Choral Society, established 1898. She received her training in choral conducting during two years of study at the Kodály Intézet in Hungary where her teachers were Peter Erdei and Ildikó Herboly Kocsár. She subsequently continued her studies with Gerhard Markson and earned a Masters in Musicology and Performance (Conducting) from NUI Maynooth.

Bernie has extensive experience directing a wide range of choirs. She was for ten years the Choral Director at the DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama, during which time she led the DIT Chamber Choir to several first prizes as well as awards for individual works at the Cork International Choral Festival, and she won Feis Ceoil's Culwick Cup for chamber choirs seven times in nine years. Under Bernie's direction the choir was the first ensemble at the DIT Conservatory to record a CD when Carols for Christmas was released to great acclaim in December 2000. She also conducted the larger DIT Choral Society which performed much of the mainstream oratorio repertoire in concerts at the NCH and other leading venues in Dublin, Waterford and Galway, accompanied by the Orchestra of St Cecilia among other orchestras.

Bernie is a Lecturer in Music at the DIT Conservatory and an honours music graduate of Trinity College, Dublin where she lectures in the School of Music and was Conductor of the University of Dublin Choral Society from 1999-2008. Under Bernie's direction the choir released its first CD, a recording of Under No Circumstances by the late Brian Boydell. In another first in April 2006, Bernie was the first conductor to bring the UDCS to the National Concert Hall where it performed to a full house. In August 2007 Bernie was appointed Musical Director of the Culwick Choral Society.

Bernie founded the Kodály Society of Ireland (KSI) in 1993 and was Director of the KSI International Music Course from 1993-1998. She is in demand as an adjudicator and as a teacher of conducting, and is Artistic Director of the annual Choral Conducting Summer School run by the Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC). She was recently appointed Artistic Director of Educational Programmes for the AOIC.