Eamonn Dougan

Conductor

Current Positions:

  • Associate Conductor of The Sixteen
  • Founder and Director of Britten Sinfonia Voices
  • Music Director of the Thomas Tallis Society
  • Chief Conductor for Jersey Chamber Orchestra
  • Visiting Professor to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
  • Co-leader of the Genesis Sixteen Programme

Eamonn Dougan is an inspirational communicator with a wideranging repertoire and is a renowned vocal coach and baritone. Eamonn is Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, founding Director of Britten Sinfonia Voices, Music Director of the Thomas Tallis Society, and Chief Conductor for Jersey Chamber Orchestra.

Alongside Eamonn’s regular conducting, recent and upcoming projects include conducting the Royal Festival Hall’s annual Messiah with Philharmonia Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducting BBC Scottish Symphony for the Scottish Premiere of Taylor Scott Davis’ Magnificat at the Cumnock Tryst; directing Chamber Choir Ireland alongside leadership of its CCI Studio training programme; and a third recording in his Morales series with De Profundis on CORO. Eamonn programmed and directed The Song Company for its May/June ’25 Australian tour, ’another very imaginative program… the brainchild of visiting Program Director Eamonn Dougan… performed to great emotional effect, and executed brilliantly.’ (Limelight). Eamonn returns twice to Orquesta Ciudad de Granada in coming seasons and will conduct the inaugural concert of the In Tune European Choir – a new pan-European choral project conceived with the Conservatoire de Paris.

Eamonn’s orchestral and opera experience has included repertoire from Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Mozart La finta giardiniera, and Cosi fan tutte to Zingari and Puccini Le Villi with London Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Rara. He has conducted ensembles around the world including the likes of: English National Opera (Haydn), Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Accentus, Cappella Amsterdam, Britten Sinfonia, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Narodowe Forum Muzyki Choir, Irish Baroque Orchestra, BBC Singers, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Trondheim Baroque.

World Premieres include: Errolyn Wallen Triple Concerto, James MacMillan All the Hills and Vales Along with Ian Bostridge, Sir John Tavener Flood of Beauty, Ēriks Ešenvalds Aqua, Nico Muhly Looking Forward and Jóhann Jóhannsson Orphée at the Barbican.

As a passionate chamber musician, Eamonn enjoys play/direct repertoire as well as collaborating with artists such as: Nicola Benedetti, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Roman Simovic, Chloë Hanslip, Natalie Clien, Peter Donoghoe.

Eamonn is consultant coach for the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. As Associate Director of The Sixteen, Eamonn also leads the Genesis Sixteen courses as tutor and mentor. Eamonn Dougan is managed worldwide by Percius.

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Eamonn Dougan

Conductor

Current Positions:

  • Associate Conductor of The Sixteen
  • Founder and Director of Britten Sinfonia Voices
  • Music Director of the Thomas Tallis Society
  • Chief Conductor for Jersey Chamber Orchestra
  • Visiting Professor to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
  • Co-leader of the Genesis Sixteen Programme

Eamonn Dougan is an inspirational communicator with a wideranging repertoire and is a renowned vocal coach and baritone. Eamonn is Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, founding Director of Britten Sinfonia Voices, Music Director of the Thomas Tallis Society, and Chief Conductor for Jersey Chamber Orchestra.

Alongside Eamonn’s regular conducting, recent and upcoming projects include conducting the Royal Festival Hall’s annual Messiah with Philharmonia Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducting BBC Scottish Symphony for the Scottish Premiere of Taylor Scott Davis’ Magnificat at the Cumnock Tryst; directing Chamber Choir Ireland alongside leadership of its CCI Studio training programme; and a third recording in his Morales series with De Profundis on CORO. Eamonn programmed and directed The Song Company for its May/June ’25 Australian tour, ’another very imaginative program… the brainchild of visiting Program Director Eamonn Dougan… performed to great emotional effect, and executed brilliantly.’ (Limelight). Eamonn returns twice to Orquesta Ciudad de Granada in coming seasons and will conduct the inaugural concert of the In Tune European Choir – a new pan-European choral project conceived with the Conservatoire de Paris.

Eamonn’s orchestral and opera experience has included repertoire from Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Mozart La finta giardiniera, and Cosi fan tutte to Zingari and Puccini Le Villi with London Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Rara. He has conducted ensembles around the world including the likes of: English National Opera (Haydn), Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Accentus, Cappella Amsterdam, Britten Sinfonia, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Narodowe Forum Muzyki Choir, Irish Baroque Orchestra, BBC Singers, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Trondheim Baroque.

World Premieres include: Errolyn Wallen Triple Concerto, James MacMillan All the Hills and Vales Along with Ian Bostridge, Sir John Tavener Flood of Beauty, Ēriks Ešenvalds Aqua, Nico Muhly Looking Forward and Jóhann Jóhannsson Orphée at the Barbican.

As a passionate chamber musician, Eamonn enjoys play/direct repertoire as well as collaborating with artists such as: Nicola Benedetti, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Roman Simovic, Chloë Hanslip, Natalie Clien, Peter Donoghoe.

Eamonn is consultant coach for the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. As Associate Director of The Sixteen, Eamonn also leads the Genesis Sixteen courses as tutor and mentor. Eamonn Dougan is managed worldwide by Percius.

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Eamonn Dougan with Royal Academy of Music - Henry Purcell - O sing unto the Lord

Eamonn Dougan with Chamber Choir Ireland - Eoghan Desmond - Nothing in vain

Eamonn Dougan with Ars Nova Copenhagen - Eamonn Dougan with Ars Nova Copenhagen

Eamonn Dougan with Genesis16 - Cecilia McDowall - The Skies in Their Magnificence

Eamonn Dougan - Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs' from G.F. Handel - Messiah

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