Hailing from Dublin, Sinéad Walsh recently completed her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she was awarded a DipRAM and Exam Board Award for her final recital.
Sinéad was a Southbank Centre Future Artist for the 2024/25 season, and made her solo debut at Wigmore Hall in 2025 as a finalist in the Irish Heritage Bursary. Her accolades include First Prize, the McCullough Cup, and the RTÉ Lyric FM Bursary at Feis Ceoil, Ireland’s premier classical music competition.
A passionate advocate for equity in the arts, she is the founder of EMPOWER: Women Changing Music, a platform celebrating female composers and emerging artists, with 2025 performances at venues including Kings Place and the Royal Albert Hall, with collaborators including Errollyn Wallen CBE and Jess Gilliam MBE.
Sinéad has performed with major orchestras across the UK and Ireland, with recent engagements with the Ulster Orchestra, Knussen Chamber Orchestra, Irish National Opera, and English Symphony Orchestra. She holds a first-class honours degree from the Royal Northern College of Music, where she was awarded the college’s top award, the Sir John Manduell Prize, upon graduation. In 2025/26, she begins a new role as an Open Academy Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music.