Brian Dungan

Brian studied at Trinity College, Royal Irish Academy of Music and Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy in Budapest. As an orchestral percussionist he works with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, and the Ulster Orchestra. He is also timpanist and a founding member of Fishamble Sinfonia as well as assistant to the RIAM Percussion Ensemble.

Brian loves to perform new music. For Northern Ireland Opera in Belfast Brian played the frenetic percussion part – with its massive instrumental array extending to fishing reels and bags of broken crockery – in the Irish premiere (2017) of Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face. He played more Adés (the Irish premiere of Totentanz with the RTÉ NSO) as well as John Cage (Living Room Music) with Bangers and Crash at the 2017 New Music Dublin Festival, and Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians in a joint performance with Crash Ensemble, Bang on a Can Allstars and Sō Percussion in 2014.

He is assistant to Richard O’Donnell, Director of the RIAM Percussion Ensemble, with whom he has toured to New York many times since 2010.