30.08.2011
New Assistant Director of Music at St Bartholomew’s Church
David Grealy has been appointed Assistant Director of Music at St Bartholomew’s Church. Ballsbridge, Dublin. A native of Galway city, he is a first–class honours music and history graduate of NUI Maynooth, where he studied organ performance under Professor Gerard Gillen. He is currently organist–in–residence at Westminster Cathedral, having been organ scholar there in 2008–09, where his responsibilities include accompanying the renowned cathedral choir and giving regular organ recitals.
From 2006 to 2008 he was organ scholar at St Mary’s Pro–Cathedral in Dublin, and assistant director of the choirs in 2009–10. In the Pro–Cathedral he worked closely with the Palestrina Choir, for whom he was organist on its tours to the UK in 2007 and 2009, Germany in 2008, and the USA in 2010. Prior to this he held the organ scholarship at Galway Cathedral for three years, where he featured on a number of occasions in the cathedral’s recital series. David is in regular demand as an accompanist. He has featured regularly on RTÉ broadcasts, including The Late Late Show in April 2008, and broadcast Easter and Christmas liturgies in 2007. He has won numerous prizes for organ including the Stanford Prize in 2003 and the advanced organ prize in 2005 at the Dublin Feis Ceoil.