Fiona Linnane

Fiona Linnane is a composer and pianist based in the west of Ireland. She is director of Limerick New Music Ensemble and represented by the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin. Linnane’s current compositional practice centres around use of text and includes opera, art song and featuring spoken word.

Commissions include: Metamorphosis – composing music for a multi- disciplinary spectacle at the Longford Lights Festival 2025; Banned – an opera exploring the censorship of Irish writer Kate O’Brien in the mid 20th century (Opera Workshop, funded by Arts Council of Ireland Opera Projects Strand 1); Cogarnach – A Building as Witness project at Crawford Art Gallery Cork with soprano Triona Walsh and the Youth ensembles of the Cork ETB School of Music; Mrs Cousins (née Gillespie) – Commissioned by Roscommon County Council for the King House Piano Commission 2023 and Would Be Poetess – Commissioned by violinist Larissa O’Grady funded by ACI Commissions Award. She has been awarded Arts Council of Ireland Bursaries in 2020, 2022 and 2024 and an Agility Award in 2021.

Linnane is widely sought after for her work in arts in education and the community. Her work has three times been a recipient of the Arts in Education Documentation Award, and she has undertaken training at a European level through participation in the International Teacher Artist Partnership Professional Development (I-TAP-PD). She is a member of the Design team for the
Teacher Artist Partnership programme (Department of Education), was on the panel of Heritage Experts for the Heritage Council’s Heritage in Schools Scheme (2020-2023) and