Musician Team

Conor McGowan

Keyboard

Hi my name is Conor McGowan I am a keyboardist with Music Generation I completed grade 8 with the Royal Irish Academy when I was 16. In 1997 I completed a full year with the Dublin Music College Rathmines to go on to the Cork School of Music to which I studied piano for two years. I have written and composed a lot of music the past 3 years in my home studio and have released 3 singles.

I have also played keys on RTE Projects. I am also the keyboardist with The No Commitments choir in Firhouse and my sister is the musical director so we invite anyone to join for plenty of fun.

Having lost all work due to covid I wrote a song for all the frontliners which I released a few weeks ago, now working with Music Generation South Dublin is a great experience in the new world of zoom.

Hannah Lee

Hannah Lee

Early Years

Hannah has been teaching the Early Years programme with Music Generation for the past four years. She began her music studies on the cello at Cork School of Music, furthered her studies at the Conservatoire de Versailles and has recently been awarded both ARSM and DipABRSM performance diplomas.

As well as playing with conservatoire orchestras, Hannah has been a member of the Dublin Orchestral Players for twelve years, performing in a wide variety of venues including the National Concert Hall. She is on the DOP committee as librarian and venues organiser. She has also enjoyed singing with the University of Dublin Choral Society and the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir.

Hannah attended the Kodály Society of Ireland Summer Course 2021. An advocate of the Kodály concept, she has been involved in children’s musical education for many years, facilitating ensembles and holding Early Years workshops for Cruinniú na nÓg.

The CPD training opportunities provided by Music Generation, including the Orff approach, playing the ukulele and a multisensory music workshop, enhance Hannah’s enjoyable Early Years classes.

Orla Dwyer

Guitar - Ukulele - Recorder

Orla is a musician and educator from Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. She has been working as a session musician and music teacher for over 10 years. She graduated from Maynooth University in 2012 with a Bachelors of Music, specialising in Composition and Piano Performance. In 2015, she graduated top of her class with a Higher Diploma in Music Education from Griffith College Dublin and studied at Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain.

She has given performances in many establishments including the National Concert Hall and Cork Opera House.
Orla has been a member of the Music Generation South Dublin team since 2018, working as part of the Ready Steady Play program. She has been teaching in primary school classrooms, delivering lessons in Ukulele, Guitar, and Recorder.

'Giving everyone an equal opportunity and access to education is very important to me so I am delighted to be working with Music Generation. Music is a massive part of my life; I love being able to share it and pass my skills onto the next generation.'

Stephen Fagan

Guitar - Ukulele

Stephen Fagan has over 40 years of playing experience.

A native of Clondalkin his love of Irish music was fostered by sessions with Muintir Chronan, later to evolve into Áras Chronan. Regular trips to the west, and Doolin in particular, where he was encouraged and helped by fellow Clondalkinite Eoin O Neill cemented that love. Back in Dublin, he studied guitar with Mark Kelly (Altan).

Alternative Entertainments in Tallaght provided a wonderful opportunity to study with the great Guitarist Jimmy Faulkner (rip) which broadened his musical horizons and from which he went on to play with The Talafornian Mandolin Band. He continues to play, sing and present often at concerts, both at home and abroad with the Irish House Party, and the Musical Pub Crawl .

Stephen has been teaching Guitar and Ukulele since 2005 in schools in South Dublin and with Music Generation SD since its inception. He is delighted to see so many of these young Musicians go on to have careers in music themselves.

Bryan Fleming

Musician - Producer - Sound Engineer

Bryan works as a Music Producer, Sound Engineer & Guitar Tutor and is primarily active in his project studio in Rathfarnham, South Dublin. He’s currently a Music Educator for Music Generation and the Des Carty School of Music with over 16 years teaching experience.

He has recently completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Creative Music Production in IADT Dún Laoghaire & in the Sound Training Centre Temple Bar receiving a First Class Honours 2020.

Awarded Creative Music Production Student of the Year.

As a Lead Guitar player and Sound Engineer for the Irish Band TouchWood (2007-2015), Bryan has toured Ireland playing top venues and the biggest music festivals, from Dingle's Other Voices trail to Kildare's Oxegen, supporting acts like Kodaline, Aslan, Walking on Cars and The Coronas. He has over 14 years of Sound Engineering experience having worked with artists and acts such as Finbar Fury, James Nelson, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Paddy Casey, Kirkos Ensemble & Ishii Shuho.

Graduated from the Contemporary Music Performance course in the Ballyfermot Rock School in 2009.

Karl McCrone

Guitar - Ukulele - Bass

Kingswood Hub, Clondalkin Hub, and Suburban Sounds

Karl is a session musician that specialises in modern popular music. Gaining experience in pit orchestras for musicals as a teenager, he has spent the last 10 years performing in some of Ireland's and the UK's top venues and festivals. (Electric Picnic, RTE's Saturday Night Show, and the O2 Forum Kentish Town London). Karl graduated from BIMM Dublin in 2015 where he studied electric guitar. He teaches guitar, ukulele, bass and is also a Suburban Sounds mentor.

Lara Jardim Fleming

Lara Jardim Fleming

Based in South Dublin, Lara began her musical journey as a child with singing, ukulele, guitar, and songwriting. Lara has been teaching for the last five years with different music schools teaching all of these instruments. She was once a participant in the SubSounds programme and is now a mentor. She has also been working as a session musician recording vocals and harmonies for other musicians.

She joined the Music Generation team in 2021 and is currently working as the lead vocal instructor with 'The Hangout Sessions', teaching guitar and ukulele for 'Ready Steady Play' and as a songwriting and vocals mentor for 'SubSounds'.

James Mahon

James Mahon - Ukulele, Percussion, Bodhran, Traditional Music

James Mahon is an award-winning musician and composer who has performed globally as a solo artist and with internationally recognised bands such as Afro Celt Sound System and Kíla. His work as a composer has recently been recognised with an IFTA award for the score of the Irish film Arracht and with an Oscar Nomination for his work on the score of Cartoon Saloon’s Wolfwalkers. He is in high demand as a tutor doing master classes globally.

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