Ronan O’Reilly holds a Masters Degree in Conducting. Over the past thirty years, he has been one of Ireland’s leading music educators working with ensembles of all ages in both Concert Band and Orchestra mediums. His musical career is now principally that of a conductor but also includes teaching, performing, recording, composing, arranging, adjudicating and examining. As an instrumentalist, Ronan holds an LTCL in oboe teaching as well as an ALCM in piano performance. He has performed in some of the most world-renowned venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall and Chicago Symphony Centre. In his earlier years as an oboist and piano/keyboard player, he worked frequently with many ensembles, including the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Lyric Opera and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. He has regularly performed on live National TV shows over the years. As the Director of Artane School of Music he is responsible for the day to day running of the school and for the activities within the Artane Band, Artane Senior Band and the school’s programmes. He also co-ordinates, conducts, composes and arranges music for the various ensembles incorporated within the school. The Artane Band itself performs at many corporate engagements as well as performing for thousands at the annual GAA football and hurling championship matches in Croke Park annually. The Artane Band has toured extensively across the USA, Russia and the UK. More recently they have travelled and performed in Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool Tattoos, Nice Carnival Parade in the Cote d’Azur, South of France, as well as a UK Tour in 2023 and regular performances in the National Concert Hall and O’Mahony Hall in the Helix. Ronan has also been Principal Conductor/Artistic Director of the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, Ireland’s premiere wind ensemble since 2007. During his tenure as Artistic Director, Ronan has brought IYWE on international tours and expanded the repertoire of the ensemble, conducting many Irish premieres of US and European literature written especially for the Wind Band medium. Throughout 2025 IYWE celebrated its 40th anniversary. To mark this milestone year, the ensemble took part in the IAYO Festival of Youth Orchestras last February 2025 at the National Concert Hall, as well as performing at the Mid-Europe Festival in Schladming, Austria in July 2025. Throughout Ronan’s career he has held conducting positions with Dublin Youth Orchestras, Greystones Orchestra and the University of Limerick Orchestra, amongst others. He has guest conducted various other ensembles, including the Irish Philharmonic Orchestra, Dublin Institute of Technology (TUD) Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Irish Symphonic Wind Orchestra, Royal Irish Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra and Notre Dame Symphonic Wind Bands in the USA. He regularly collaborates with international wind ensembles as guest conductor and workshop facilitator on their visits to Ireland, including the University of Massachusetts Wind Ensemble, the Shorecrest High School Band, Shoreline WA, and more recently the Texas Woman's University Band. Ronan was appointed Musical Director of the award winning Ardee Concert Band in 2019, whom he has brought to National Championship winning level. He has been the wind, brass and percussion tutor to the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland for over a decade, as well as holding the role of NYOI rehearsal conductor for the past few years, most recently for their 2024 Summer residential course. For his most recent artistic endeavours, Ronan was invited to conduct the Irish Symphonic Wind Orchestra to celebrate their 10th Anniversary year, this includes a two year tenure for 2024/2026. He also returned to his post as Principal Conductor of the Adult Youth Orchestra of Ireland for their annual concert in June 2025 at the SETU Arena Waterford. Ronan’s conducting engagements have brought him across Europe, the UK and the USA. No stranger to the concert hall platform, he has made a name for himself as an orchestral and wind ensemble conductor whose musical experience comfortably strides the worlds of classical, opera, jazz, pop and musicals.