Niamh Crowley
B Mus(Hons), PGDip, ARCM, LGSMD, LTCL
Niamh, a native of Rosses Point, began her musical training at the age of four and attended the Royal Irish Academy of Music continuing her studies at the Royal College of Music, London with the celebrated Israeli violinist Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky.
Niamh has been involved in musicals throughout the country from a very early age and has worked as musical director for many shows since 1999. In 2000 Niamh founded the Sligo Academy of Music to create opportunities for instrumental tuition in the classical genre in the Northwest. She is now very busy as the director of music at SAM which now boasts 34 teachers and over 450 students. Niamh conducts the Sligo Academy of Music Junior and Sinfonietta orchestras who she has brought to perform in the National Concert Hall and on tour to the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Holland, Poland and the USA.
