The  Composers Society of Singapore is excited to be hosting an upcoming workshop with Darragh Morgan & Mary Dullea of The Fidelio Trio.

📅 Date: 13 November 2025, 4:00PM – 7:00PM
📍 Venue: 38 Malcolm Road, St. Joseph’s Institution, Indoor Sports Hall Training Room

The session will consist of a score reading of works by CSS composers for solo violin, solo piano, or violin and piano, followed by a talk and performance of new music from Ireland. The workshop is a rare opportunity to hear from leading musicians, Dr Morgan and Professor Dullea, about composition techniques, ideas, and styles for the violin, piano, electronics, and more. We invite everyone interested in composition to sit in on the workshop to observe for learning and exposure.

Entry is free for CSS student members, SGD 5 for full and associate members, SGD 12 for student non-members, and SGD 25 for adult non-members.

 If interested, please RSVP via our sign-up form.

About Darragh Morgan

 “The leading Irish violinist of his generation.” – Journal of Music
“Hugely impressive, he plays with seemingly effortless control.” — Stradt Magazine

Irish violinist Darragh Morgan is a renowned exponent of contemporary music. Darragh has appeared as a soloist at Aldeburgh Festival, Philips Collection Washington DC, Wiener Konzerthaus, Osterfestival Tirol, New Music Gathering USA and BBC Proms Chamber Music. His numerous concerto appearances with The Ulster Orchestra include the World Premiere of ‘Hymn of Dawn’ by Sir John Tavener which he also performed with Istanbul Symphony Orchestra. With National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, he has toured Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, recorded ‘Elastic Harmonic’ by Donnacha Dennehy for NMC Recordings and premiered Brian Irvine’s ‘A Mon Seul Desir’. With RTÉ Concert Orchestra and London Musici/Rambert Dance Company he has given over 40 performances of ‘Tabula Rasa’ by Arvo Pärt (including in the presence of the composer). Darragh gave the South African premiere of Barber’s Violin Concerto with the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra. Other concerto appearances have included Kölner Kammerorchester and Johannesburg Philharmonic. He has collaborated closely with such distinguished musicians as Mary Dullea, Thomas Adès, Emmanuel Pahud, Joanna MacGregor, Julian Bliss, Nicholas Daniel, John Tilbury, Mícheál Ò Súilleabháin and Sacconi Quartet.

Darragh is founder member of ‘the virtuosic Fidelio Trio’ (Sunday Times). They were shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards Ensemble Prize and have appeared at prestigious venues including Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room Southbank Centre, Casa da Musica Porto, National Sawdust New York, Morrison Artist Series San Francisco, Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, National Centre for Performing Arts Mumbai, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Les Jardins Musicaux Switzerland and Cheltenham Festival. Their collaborations include with actor Adrian Dunbar, writer Alexander McCall-Smith and poet Sinead Morrissey.

Darragh has been invited as Leader of London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, BCMG, Aurora Orchestra, Oxford Philharmonic, English Symphony Orchestra, Macau Orchestra, Les Siecles and is a current Director of European Union Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded over 75 chamber music and solo albums many of which have received Gramophone Album of the Year Award and the coveted Diapason D’or.

About Mary Dullea

“Le Vieux Sourd is a piano piece of Ivesian wildness, brilliantly played here by Dullea.” — The Guardian

As soloist and chamber musician, Irish pianist Mary Dullea leads a diverse performance career internationally. She has appeared at prestigious venues around the globe such as: Wigmore Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Hong Kong Chamber Music Society; cities including Singapore, Bangkok, Porto, Paris, Venice, Florence, Johannesburg, Harare, New York City, San Francisco and Boston; and at festivals including Beijing Modern Music Festival, Spitalfields, Cheltenham, St. Magnus, Huddersfield and TRANSIT (Leuven). Recent appearances include Dark Music Days Iceland, an extensive USA tour including National Sawdust Brooklyn and Music on the Edge Pittsburgh, Cayman International Arts Festival and Little Missenden Festival. She is broadcast frequently on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM and WQXR. Concerto appearances include RTÉ Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and KZN Philharmonic Orchestra. Mary’s CD releases feature on labels NMC, Delphian Records, Resonus Classics, Altarus, Col Legno, MNR, Naxos, Lorelt and Divine Art. Recent collaborations include premiere recordings of Philip Glass for Orange Mountain Music, a double CD release of John McLachlan’s solo piano output on Farpoint Recordings and with her piano trio, Fidelio Trio, a Gerald Barry portrait CD of premiere recordings on Mode Records and Chamber Music by Ernest Moeran on Resonus Classics which was Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s and Critics’ Choice for 2022. 

Fidelio Trio are passionate advocates for piano trio repertoire around the world. They were shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards Ensemble Prize and have been awarded Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice for several of their recordings. Constantly commissioning new works, composers with whom the Trio have worked closely include Anna Clyne, Donnacha Dennehy, Joe Cutler, Judith Weir, Piers Hellawell, Ann Cleare, Richard Causton, Kevin Volans, Linda Buckley and Gerald Barry to name but a few.

Mary is the curator of Soundings (an annual UK/Austrian collaborative music festival) at the Austrian Cultural Forum London since 2008. She has served on the jury of ‘Schubert und die Musik der Moderne’ International Chamber Music Competition in Graz, Austria. In 2014 she founded ‘Chamber Music on Valentia’ an annual chamber music festival in Co. Kerry, Ireland. She has given masterclasses at Peabody Conservatory, Curtis Institute, NYU, Central Conservatory Beijing, and Stellenbosch Conservatorium South Africa. She has been artist-in-residence at University of Iowa, St. Patrick’s College Dublin City University, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the State University of New York and Tufts University, Boston. 

Mary was on the piano faculty of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for 9 years. She has previously held the position of Director of Performance at University of Sheffield and since 2015 she has held this position at Royal Holloway, University of London where she is also a Professor in Music.