Colm Ó Foghlú
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From a young age Colm studied dance with the world renowned Ó Sé School of Irish Dance. He also studied voice and various instruments at both the Royal Irish Academy of Music
Royal Irish Academy of Music
The Royal Irish Academy of Music is a linked college of Dublin City University located in Dublin, Ireland.It was founded in 1848 by a group of music enthusiasts and moved to its present address in Westland Row in 1871. The following year it was granted the right to use the title "Royal"...
and The College of Music, Dublin, before joining the Bachelor of Music Programme in University College Cork. There he studied composition and piano with Dr. Micheál Ó Suilleabháin.
His solo album, Echoing, was released in 1997. Since then Colm has written/directed numerous show including Gaelforce Dance, a dance theatre show, which opened in New Zealand in 1997 then toured throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and North America reaching a total audience of 4 million people in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
, London. Other shows include Irish Thunder for Busch Gardens and for television, the soundtrack for The Land of Sex and Sinners. Colm has also worked as a TV presenter with TG4
TG4
TG4 is a public service broadcaster for Irish language speakers. The channel has been on-air since 31 October 1996 in the Republic of Ireland and since April 2005 in Northern Ireland....
on Tóin le Gaoith, and also regularly works as a voice artist on their cartoons.
More recently, he was Musical Director for Riverdance
Riverdance
Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting of traditional Irish stepdancing, notable for its rapid leg movements while body and arms are kept largely stationary. It originated as an interval performance during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, a moment that is still considered a significant...
at the Gaiety Theatre and in 2006 wrote and directed a modernised dramatisation of the great Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cuailgne. The musical was staged by the Transition Years of Coláiste Eoin
Coláiste Eoin
Coláiste Eoin is an Irish language Catholic voluntary secondary Gaelscoil for boys, under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust located in Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland. It prides itself in the Irish culture, having successful hurling and football teams, traditional music bands,...
and Coláiste Íosagáin
Coláiste Íosagáin
Coláiste Íosagáin is an all girls secondary gaelscoil in Dublin, Ireland. It was established two years after Coláiste Eoin, a school for boys on the same campus, in 1971. In 2008 100% of students went on to third level education...
. The production was met with huge acclaim. Colm Ó Foghlú is about to complete an M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
in Modern Drama in University College Dublin
University College Dublin
University College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
.