Elaine Nolan
Based in Co Laois Elaine Nolan is an award winning Irish author and recipient of the Cecil Day Lewis Literature award and composer of Contemporary Celtic classical music with a techno twist. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the Open University, Elaine returned to composition in 2010, and performed her debut work "Non Nobis", a 3-part Soprano work in April 2011, followed by her debut concert September 2012 and more recently "A Rebel's Heart", a 1916 Commemoration concert as part of...See more
Based in Co Laois Elaine Nolan is an award winning Irish author and recipient of the Cecil Day Lewis Literature award and composer of Contemporary Celtic classical music with a techno twist. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the Open University, Elaine returned to composition in 2010, and performed her debut work "Non Nobis", a 3-part Soprano work in April 2011, followed by her debut concert September 2012 and more recently "A Rebel's Heart", a 1916 Commemoration concert as part of Kildare County Council's Commemoration Programme. A choral singing veteran Elaine has leant her voice, both as a soprano and tenor, to such choirs as the Carlow Choral society, Wexford Festival Singers, Celtic Philharmonic Choir, and as a member of the Irish Philharmonic Choir recorded four albums (Faith of our Fathers I & II, Ireland's voices for Peace, and the 1798 Commemoration album Who Fears to Speak (of '98)), also performing in Carnegie Hall, New York, New Jersey's Performing Arts Centre, and the Point Depot (now the 3Arena). Elaine also had a featured part in the opera Shelter Me from the Rain, a commissioned project by Carlow County Council, in 2010) An accomplished instrumentalist, Elaine is currently prima cellist in the Celbridge Concert Orchestra, having also been a member in the Carlow Youth Orchestra and Kildare County Orchestra. The piano remains her first love, but she's also dabbled in classical guitar, and is currently learning the viola. See less