Oisín Walsh-Peelo
Oisín has toured extensively since completing his BMusComp in 2016 (First Class Honours & High Achievement Award). As a session musician (piano, guitars, harp, low-whistles and vocalist) he has played throughout the USA, Europe, Ireland and the UK. In 2022 he toured primarily with Villagers throughout their acoustic tour as well as with the full band. Highlights from 2022/23 include performances and recordings with Flyte (UK), Bombay Bicycle Club (UK), LOAH and Aoife Nessa Francis (IRE). He is currently an ensemble member for Michael Gallen’s upcoming Opera The Curing Line (Piano, Saxophone, Harp, Voice). Other notable artists he has played and recorded with over the years include Hudson Taylor, Gabrielle Aplin, Hannah-Grace, Gemma Hayes, Sorcha Richardson, Amber Run, SASO, Sibéal and Blossom Caldarone. Oisín continues to record and collaborate with bands Sun Collective and I Have a Tribe.
In 2018 he released his first, self-produced solo-EP under the name O Deer and supported Hozier in the Roseland Theatre in Portland, Oregon with this act. He also supported Joseph on their European leg of their world-tour and Departure Lounge (UK-Tour 2019). His debut solo-album was recorded in 2020 in Coningbeg Studios, Ashford and is scheduled for release in Autumn 2023.
As orchestral arranger and conductor he has worked on albums with the above mentioned artists, and also Maria Greenan and The Whileaways. He arranged for and conducted a string octet, brass section, harp and percussion ensemble on the Hudson Taylor album Loving Everywhere I Go. He has written orchestrations for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and wrote 20 minutes of orchestral music for RTÉ 2FM’s Classical Collision at Body and Soul Festival 2019.
As a choral singer Oisín was the Irish representative at the international choir academy Choracademie Lübeck in 2016. During this period he was also directing and conducting the MicrosoX and ICON choirs in Dublin. Oisín has sung with New Dublin Voices, Anúna, DIT Chamber Choir and as soloist with the Dún Laoighre Choral Society under David Brophy. He was also a member of RTÉ Concert Orchestra Chorus. He is now the director of the Ireland Unlimited (ladies choir).
In 2021 Oisín was part of the House Band for South Wind Blows production The Heart of Saturday Night. For the TV show he wrote arrangements for The Crash Ensemble and accompanied such artists as John Sheehan and Mary Black. Oisín’s current collaborative projects include an EP of ambient-folk with his brother and actor Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street) and a series of spoken word/sound-design pieces with writer/painter Alan Robinson. Oisín’s main focus at present is on expanding as a pianist and songwriter.