Lecturer, BA Popular Music | BA Musical Theatre | MA
DAVID HAYES
David studied piano, violin, viola, clarinet, chamber music, orchestra, choir, theory and harmony at the Royal Irish Academy of Music for over 18 years and was awarded the Coulson scholarship and A.R.I.A.M, before plunging into a busy career that to date has included work as M.D., orchestrator, keyboard player and producer in Theatre, Radio, Music Tech, TV, Studio and Higher Education.
He spent 3 years with Riverdance - The Show as Musical Director and subsequently Production Director with responsibility for the artistic well-being of all three touring productions worldwide. In addition, he produced the soundtrack for the multi-million selling DVD - Riverdance – Live at Radio City Music Hall N.Y.
Recording credits include work with Irish luminaries such as Donal Lunny,
Davy Spillane, Sinead O Connor, Phil Coulter, Brian Kennedy,
Declan Masterson, Van Morrison, Kate Bush, Sharon Shannon, Brendan Power, Liam O Connor , Noel Eccles, Tommy Fleming, Gavin James, Danny O Reilly,
Ryan Sheridan, Paul Walsh (Royseven) and Bressie.
Film credits include Circle Of Friends, Some Mother’s Son and co-composer for
The Sun, Moon and Stars (Blue Light Productions) and Up The Country (Asylum Productions). Additionally he has provided soundtracks for several award winning documentaries by Kairos Productions and was responsible for the production music and opening sequences of two Eurovision Song Contests – 1994 & 1995 with live viewerships in excess of 200 million each.
Theatre credits include a commission to score the Abbey Theatre’s production of
The Hostage and he conducted two chamber operas by Michael Scott based on Yeats’ plays – Purgatory and The Dreaming of the Bones.
David is a multi-award winning MD in musical theatre and has also scored the orchestrations for nine original musical dramas – the latest being
Find Your Way Home - which premiered at Symphony Hall, NY, in July 2017
and Angela’s Ashes – Ireland & UK Tour
He was Musical Director and Supervisor for all five series of RTE’s The Voice and Series 1 of Dancing With The Stars – for Screentime Shinawil and RTE and has also worked with and for BBC NI, UTV and TG4 including several joint OB broadcasts for BBC/TG4.
He has held MD/ Supervisor positions at most of the major theatres in Ireland including Cork Opera House, The Olympia, The Gaiety Theatre,
The Abbey Theatre, National Concert Hall, Wexford Opera House,
Belfast Opera House, Millenium Forum, (Derry) and The 3 Arena,
He was MD and Producer for singer Tommy Fleming for 20 years, touring internationally and arranging and producing 15 albums including the now 20 times platinum Voice of Hope, and four live DVD’s, including several with the RTECO and for Universal Music Ireland. In fact, David has played with and orchestrated for both the RTECO and the National Symphony Orchestra.
He has also engaged by international stars such as Josh Groban, Gary Barlow, Paul Potts and Frankie Valli for their Irish tours, in addition to production work for Kelly Clarkson (X-Factor UK) and Prodijig (both Footstorm and Revolution ).
Way back in 2006, he collaborated as co-composer of the soundtrack for the cartoon Zombie Hotel, a 28 episode cartoon series for French company Alphanim - which was broadcast worldwide, including - UK (BBC), Australia (ABC2), Canada (Tele-Quebec), France (France3), Russia (REN TV), Europe (Disney Channel) and USA (HBO).
David has now been MD for over 50 musicals having played his first, aged 12 and been MD at age 15 and now, 45 years later, he is recognized as one of Ireland’s foremost MD’s with particular regard to his specialization in song interpretation and he has also played with many of the UK touring shows at BGET, including Dirty Dancing, Grease, Sound of Music, Oliver and The Lion King.
In 2012 he was engaged by The Abbey Theatre as Music Supervisor for their critically acclaimed world premiere of Alice In Funderland, which was nominated for Best Production at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013.
In 2017 he was Musical Director for two musicals in Ireland, both of which were nominated for Best Overall Musical and which came first and second respectively – Parade and Legally Blonde and in 2018, he was again nominated twice for
Best Musical Director – for both JCS and West Side Story !!!
He has seen all sides of the Musical Theatre world having also been a producer for Goldenboy Productions Limited, for their three full scale, professional productions in Ireland – Singin In The Rain, The Full Monty and The King & I
Also in 2017, David was delighted to have been awarded a first class honours
M.A. in Music, from CIT CSM.
He was previously awarded a distinction by both U.C.L.A. and Screen Training Ireland for the first two modules of the U.C.L.A. film scoring programme and was also awarded the inaugural IMRO Copyright Scholarship on their Specialist Copyright programme at Griffith College, Dublin.
Finally, David was Production Director at Raglan Road in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida for five years, responsible for 18 hours of live music, 365 days a year, with 20
Irish musicians in residence on six month tours - an incredible opportunity for young Irish artists covering folk, trad, toots, bluegrass, celtic rock and orchestral styles.
He is delighted to have used his many industry connections to create and facilitate positions for many BAPM and BAMT students already – both in Ireland, UK and USA, in theatre, TV, studio and live work and also, to now be able to bring established musicians in the other direction, ie. back to CSM to study.
2023 awarded Best Musical Director - with industry colleague Fintan Cleary – for WLOS Hunchback of Notre Dame at National Opera House, Wexford. May 2023.
2024 awarded Best Musical Director - for WLOS The Phantom of The Opera at National Opera House, Wexford. May 2024.
2025 awarded Best Musical Director - for WLOS Young Frankenstein at National Opera House, Wexford. May 2025.
2025 Musical Director for first professional Irish Musical Theatre production at BGET by BGET (Bord Gais Energy Theatre) – Little Shop of Horrors. July / Aug 2025.
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Recent INDUSTRY work includes:
2020: 2020:
Keys: RTE Concert Orchestra
Producer: RTE Concert Orchestra
2021: 2021:
Orchestrations: RTE Concert Orchestra
Conductor/MD: West Side Story in Concert at BGET, Dublin.
(BGET’s first in-house production).
MD & Re-Orchestrations: Angela’s Ashes (National & UK Tour & USA Livestream)
Conductor/MD: Songbook at NCH, Dublin - A Musical Theatre Livestream
Conductor: RTE Concert Orchestra @ NCH, Dublin.
A Night at The Musicals
2022: 2022:
Orchestrations: RTE Concert Orchestra
MD/Keys BBC NI / TG4: St Patricks Day (Joint OB Broadcast)
Piano/Keys National Symphony Orchestra: Evita – Symphonic Concert
Conductor: John Rigby
Piano/Keys National Symphony Orchestra : Swingin’ On Broadway Conductor: Brian Byrne
MD Inaugural Sondheim Festival, Kilkenny: Choral Workshop
Piano In Good Company with Liz Callaway
Inaugural Sondheim Festival : Closing Gala Concert
Keys RTE Concert Orchestra:
Hot August Night 50th Anniversary, NCH, Dublin.
Director July 2022: Appointed to Board of Directors of
Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork.
2023: 2023:
Orchestrations: RTE Concert Orchestra – Jan / Feb 2023
Producer: RTE Concert Orchestra – Jan / Feb 2023
MD / Conductor: Hunchback of Notre Dame
WLOS @ National Opera House, Wexford
April 2023. Awarded Best Musical Director Jun23
Director / MD: Sing A Song of Docklands
BGET May 2023 – for Dublin City Arts Office and SING Ireland
Musical Director: Fun Home at Gate Theatre, Dublin
July / Aug 2023
Musical Director: The Boy With The Green Hair - Workshop 3.
An Original Musical Drama – Gate Theatre, Dublin.
Aug 2023
Musical Director: Sondheim Festival 2023, Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny :
MT Choral Workshop
Piano Now You Know with Fra Fee & Denice Doyle
Sondheim Festival 2023 : Closing Gala Concert
Musical Director: The Wizard And I: Liz Callaway sings Stephen Schwartz
A bespoke concert at MTU CSM.
Keys: Rebecca Storm Irish Tour
Musical Director: Sing Out Loud 23 – National Opera House, Wexford.
Choral Ensemble for Primary Schools.
13 nights featuring 2500 Primary Students!
Keys Cork Youth Orchestra @ City Hall, Cork.
In Concert with Killian Donnelly.
2024: 2024:
Director / MD: Brigid Sings: Six month project for Co. Kildare Arts Service,
Music Generation Kildare and Sing Ireland.
Dec 23 – June 24.
Masterclasses: Presents national series of MT Workshops for AIMS.
Jan – Sept 2024
Attendee: Music Generation Training Day with
Dublin South County Council Arts Office
Feb2024
Music Supervisor/ Stage Left Events Ltd at 3 Arena, Dublin.
MD/Conductor/ Ibiza Orchestral Feb24
Orchestrator: 80’s Orchestral Apr 24
Queen Orchestral Nov 24
MD / Conductor: The Phantom of The Opera
WLOS @ National Opera House, Wexford
April 2024. Awarded Best Musical Director Jun24
Voice Coach: The Pull of The Stars:
Gate Theatre Dublin
Director: Louise Lowe
Mar 2024.
MD: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2024:
Opening ceremony - with WLOS
Aug 2024
MD / Producer: Culture Night Sept 20th.
Culture i Chroí for
South Dublin Co.Council &
Music Generation :
Masterclass: Presented Youth MT Workshop for AIMS South East Region
Wexford: Sept 24.
Music Supervisor: The Borrowers: The Gate Theatre, Dublin
Oct / Nov 24
Musical Director Sing Out Loud 24 – National Opera House, Wexford.
Choral Ensemble for Primary Schools.
13 nights featuring 3250 Primary Students!
Nov 2024.
2025: 2025:
Musical Director: Sondheim Festival 2025, Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny :
MT Choral Workshop
Piano An Audience with Rachel Tucker
Sondheim Festival 2025 : Closing Gala Concert
Music Supervisor/ Stage Left Events Ltd at 3 Arena, Dublin.
MD/Conductor/ Abba Orchestral Feb25
Orchestrator: Ibiza Orchestral Feb25
MD / Conductor: Legally Blonde
KMS @ Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny
April 2025
MD / Conductor: Young Frankenstein
WLOS @ National Opera House, Wexford
May 2025 Awarded Best Musical Director Jun25
Musical Director: Bloomberg Philanthropies
TCA Awards 2025, Convention Centre, Dublin
June 2025
Musical Director: Little Shop Of Horrors
BGET, Dublin
July/Aug 2025
Music Supervisor / Celtic Tenors, PBS Canada
Vocal Arrangements: August 2025
Orchestrator / 1588 Song Cycle
Music Supervisor / Whyte Recital Hall, RIAM, Dublin
Musical Director: (A performance of songs from a new Irish musical,
currently in development) Sept 2025
Musical Director / My Fair Lady
Conductor: NCH, Dublin
Nov 2025
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Recent MTU CSM work includes:
2020 MTU CSM Coaching in Higher Education (MTU TLU Course)
2021 MTU CSM National Forum Digital Badge in RPL
(Recognition of Prior Learning) with WIT/UCC.
Producer/MD The BAMT Performance Project :
5 Week Production Rehsl period and
Location Performance Shoot @ Longyard Studios, Cork.
with BAMT Students and live BAPM band.
BA Musical Theatre Joint Course Coordinator with colleague Irene O Mara.
Curator: BAMT @ BGET An educational/industry workshop event for our full BAMT Programme and Faculty.
2022 MTU CSM:
Mature Student : Completed BA Popular Music (Hons) degree at CSM.
Producer/MD: BAMT Performance at Finding A Voice Festival 2022
Producer/MD: BAMT Performance Steppin’Out at Cork Opera House.
5 Week Production period and
Location Performance Shoot
with all 58 BAMT Students and live BAPM band.
Curator / MD: New MT Writings Workshop Series –
MTU Innovation Month.
MTU CSM Lead: EMTN (European MT Network) College Collaboration
Attended Showcase Performance in Amsterdam.
2023 MTU CSM:
Musical Director : The Addams Family at Everyman Palace Theatre:
BAMT - Feb 2023
Curator: Jammy Creatives UK Audition and Workshop Day -
Feb 2023 - resulting in 5 commercial contracts
to 4thYear BAMT students.
Curator: Mike Dixon (UK Music Supervisor / MD / Conductor)
Mar 2023 – 5 Day Visit to MTU CSM
MD / Founder: Page to Stage MTU Learning Community
(for Industry to workshop new writing)
MD / Production Mgr: Artemis Fowl BAMT Workshops with
Author: Eoin Colfer
Composer : Liam Bates
Producer: Breda Cashe
MD / Production Mgr: Artemis Fowl Industry Showcase –
Mar 2023 – Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
Curator / Partner EDI Project : Waterford Meets MTU CSM
30 Students from Waterford on 1 Day Sharing Workshop
April 23 (moved to pilot programme status 2024)
MTU CSM Lead Led BAMT Student Exchange for 6 days in Amsterdam with EMTN and was also part of the creative and pre-production team for the event on behalf of EMTN.
April 2023
BAMT 4th Year Final Year BAMT Showcase Series
May 23
Musical Director / Steppin’ Up at Rory Gallagher Theatre
Production Manager BAMT 2nd Year
May 23
Learning Communities: Sept 2023: Leading Three Learning Communities.
- Page to Stage
- Claddagh Project (Waterford-CSM Outreach EDI)
- BAPM Keyboards
2023/2024 MTU CSM:
Lecturer: BAMT / BAPM / MA
Course Coordinator : BAMT – curated full year of weekly Industry Workshops
Erasmus Exchange: Erasmus Teaching Mobility Week at
Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts,
Amsterdam and Groningen: Feb 4th – 9th 2024.
Eramsus Coordinator: Appointed Erasmus Coordinator for BAMT: April 2024
Musical Director: Our House at Everyman Palace Theatre
BAMT - Feb 2024
Curator / MD: New MT Writings Workshopping Series x 3:
Industry & BAMT Students Collaborations:
- “Republic of Pork”
An Original Theatre work.
BAMT Page to Stage Project & 4th Year4 BAMT with:
Everyman Palace Theatre & Irish Theatre Institute.
Mar 2024
- “800 Voices”
An Original Theatre work based on the life of Danny Ellis:
BAMT Page to Stage Project with:
Spotlight Productions & Pat Egan
Feb – May 2024
- “The Boy With The Green Hair” Workshops #4 & #5
An Original Theatre work (based on the original film)
BAMT Page to Stage Project with:
Jody Trehy, Mick Gordon, Paul Higgs supported by
The Gate Theatre, Dublin.
May 2024 (CSM) & August 2024 (Gate)
Curator / MD: MTU CSM / Waterford EDI /Educational Project:
The Claddagh Project:
Leading and Delivering this project involving eight students from each of three Second Level Deis Schools in Waterford, with the BAPM MD2 Class from CSM.
Jan – June 2024.
Musical Director : Steppin’ Time at Rory Gallagher Theatre
BAMT 1st/2nd/3rd Year Performance
May 24
Industry: Leading CSM BAMT Industry Collaboration with TagLive Ltd.
Feb – Nov 24
MTU Collaboration: Leading a Fitness Testing / Well-Being Project for
BAMT Students in collaboration with
MTU Dept of Sport, Leisure and Childhood Studies
to be rolled out in Sept 2024.
Learning Communities: Secured continued TLU support and funding for two
Learning Communities:
Keys LC: BA Popular Music students and faculty
and
Page To Stage LC: BA Musical Theatre students, faculty
and industry creatives.
2024/2025 MTU CSM:
Lecturer: BAMT / BAPM / MA
Course Coordinator : BAMT
Erasmus Coordinator: BAMT: Incoming (Germany & Netherlands) &
Outgoing Students (Spain and Netherlands)
Learning Communities: Sept 2024: Leading Two MTU Funded Learning Communities.
- Page to Stage (BAMT)
- BAPM Keyboards
Musical Director: Movies and Musicals for Lyric FM
Live O/B from Cork for national broadcaster Lyric FM.
Movies and Musicals with Aedin Gormley and featuring
MTU CSM’s BA Musical Theatre students providing the
entire musical content. Nov24
Musical Director: BAMT’s production of 9to5 at Everyman Palace Theatre
Feb/Mar 2025.
Curator: Mike Dixon (UK Music Supervisor / MD / Conductor)
Mar 2025: Five Day Visit to MTU CSM
BAMT: i) Faculty CAO Webinar.
- Internationalisation Report
April 2025
Musical Director: BAMT Vocal Apex Performance Series
May 2025
External Examiner: TUD / BIMM Programme Review
May 2025
2025/2026 MTU CSM:s
Lecturer: BAMT / BAPM / MA
Course Coordinator: BAMT
Erasmus Coordinator: BAMT
Learning Communities: Oct 2025: Leading Two MTU Funded Learning Communities.
- Page to Stage (BAMT)
- BAPM Keyboards
Orchestrator: MTU CSM Creative Partnership with UK alternative
rock band EMF - Sept 2025.
Musical Director: Movies and Musicals for Lyric FM
Live O/B from the Curtis Auditorium, MTU Cork School of Music
for national broadcaster Lyric FM.
Movies and Musicals with Aedin Gormley and featuring
MTU CSM’s BA Musical Theatre students providing the
entire musical content. 8th Nov 2025 !!
Musical Director: BAMT’s production of Come From Away at
Everyman Palace Theatre, Feb 2026!!
Erasmus Exchange: Invited to Erasmus Teaching Mobility Week at
Lucia Marthas Institute for Performing Arts,
Amsterdam and Groningen: Jan 5-9th 2026.
David has worked with the following Irish, international and corporates:
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Pat O Connor (Director) Circle of Friends
Terry George (Director) Some Mother’s Son
Gerry Stembridge (Director) Guiltrip
Alan Parker (Director) Evita
Howard Blake (Composer) The Snowman
Roisin Mc Brinn (Director) Gate Theatre
Folens Publishers St Pat’s College, Drumcondra MCD Peter Aitken RTE PBS (USA)
Universal Music Ireland EMI Dara Records
UK Music Supervisors: Mike Dixon John Rigby Duncan Waugh
Corporates: The Irish Times ESB Music Generation Renault Phillips Irish Ferries O2 Mack USA Budweiser The EU Comission The Irish Government The President of Ireland Killian Donnelly Liz Callaway Fra Fee Rachel Tucker
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