A highly talented Cork musician is set to tour the world with a string quartet over the next three years after a 'crazy' trial with the musicians. It's been a meteoric rise for Sinéad O'Halloran, 26, from Blackrock, Cork, who within weeks of getting a trial for the quartet has just performed at the legendary BBC proms and is now set to travel the world. Sinéad got a trial as a cellist just six weeks ago with the famous Marmen Quartet, which was formed in 2013 at the Royal College of Music in London. Sinead O'Halloran from Blackrock with her celloSinéad will now tour the world with the Marmen Quartet, who in 2019 won the Grand Prize of the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition as well as the First Prize of the Banff International String Quartet Competition. It's just amazing, the quartet have dates all over the world for the next three years.

Source: Irish Examiner August 17, 2021 19:30 UTC