Irish broadcaster RTÉ today announced that Gavin Maloney has been reappointed as Associate Principal Conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for the next three years, following his initial 2022–2025 tenure.

Maloney is one of Ireland’s foremost musicians, equally at home in the worlds of classical, contemporary and popular music.

He trained at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Mozarteum, Salzburg. At the age of 21 he successfully competed for the position of Assistant Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (now National Symphony Orchestra Ireland). He was the inaugural beneficiary of the Bryden Thomson Trust, through whose support he studied at the Danish National Opera and the Lucerne Festival Academy of Pierre Boulez. He has conducted all the leading orchestras and ensembles in Ireland as well as conducting in Germany, France, Italy, and the UK.