Music Network Artist Residency in partnership with The National Opera House and Wexford County Council

Redmond O’Toole is recognised as one of the most distinctive and original guitarists of his generation. He is an important ambassador for the classical guitar in Ireland and has given concerts the length and breadth of his country. He has performed for two Irish Presidents and was part of the televised concert for Queen Elizabeth’s historic visit to Ireland in 2011. He is a member of the critically acclaimed Dublin Guitar Quartet.

Adam Levin has been praised by renowned American guitarist, Eliot Fisk, as a virtuoso guitarist and a true 21st century renaissance man with the élan, intelligence, charm, tenacity and conviction to change the world.

South African guitarist Derek Gripper released his ninth album, One Night on Earth: Music from the Strings of Mali, late in 2012. Recorded at an all-night session the album magically conjures a new a centuries-old ancient African musical heritage.

Rosa Maria Robinson, originally from Mexico, was an artist in residence at The Banff Centre, Canada 2009 & 2012. Ms Robinson has performed Toward the Sea by Toru Takemitsu at the Festival Suoni Inauditi at Livorno, Italy and Manuel M. Ponce’s Sonata III at the Coole Park Galway, Irlend. In 2008, she was a finalist at the XV International Guitar festival ANEMOS Rome, Italy