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Máire Keary Scanlon
& The County Limerick Youth Choir

A native of Galway, Máire Keary Scanlon began studying piano at a very early age, moving on to the organ and voice and studying in the Limerick School of Music, the Dublin College of Music, UCD and Cork School of Music.

She is passionate about choral music and was a founder member of Binneas Chamber Choir. She also established a children's choir Cantette in 1998, a choir which has gone from strength to strength and has won many awards and performed all over the country and abroad. She is also founder and director of the multi-award winning women's choir, Seoda, conducts the newly-founded ICO Chorus and is musical director of the award winning Limerick Musical Society.

She was invited by Limerick County Council Arts Office in 2006 to direct the County Limerick Youth Choir which was established under the auspices of the Arts Office. The choir is comprised of 26 to 30 young people ranging in age from 16 to 23 years who enjoy singing classical and contemporary song. Their weekly practice sessions are held in Limerick County Hall and they have performed at a number of choral festivals in Ireland and abroad. They recently performed at the Nice Choral Festival where they proved wonderful singing ambassadors for Limerick and Ireland. The County Limerick Youth Choir was awarded the title National Youth Choir of the Year at the Navan Choral Festival in May 2010 and Best Youth Choir from the Limerick Festival of Church Music 2010.

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