Máiréad Nesbitt

Máiréad Nesbitt
Máiréad Nesbitt at Macquarie Shopping Centre, Sydney, in August 2012
Máiréad Nesbitt at Macquarie Shopping Centre, Sydney, in August 2012
Background information
BornLoughmore, County Tipperary, Ireland[1]
Genres
OccupationMusician
Instruments
Years active1996–present
Labels
Websitewww.maireadnesbittviolin.com

Máiréad Nesbitt (/ˈmɔːreɪd/ MOR-ayd,[citation needed] Irish: [ˈmˠaːɾʲeːd̪ˠ]) is an Irish musician. She is known for performing Celtic and classical music and being the former fiddler for Celtic Woman. She was also one of the two original fiddlers in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance in the mid to late 1990s, along with its extended version Feet of Flames in the early 2000s. [2]

Background

Nesbitt was born to John and Kathleen Nesbitt, both music teachers in County Tipperary, Ireland. She has a sister, Frances, and four brothers, Seán, Michael, Noel and Karl, all of whom are musicians. She has been a piano player since the age of four, and began playing the violin at age six.

Her formal musical studies began at The Ursuline Convent in Thurles, County Tipperary and progressed through the Waterford Institute of Technology and the Cork School of Music, during which time she participated in the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. Nesbitt completed postgraduate studies at Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music in London under Emanuel Hurwitz.[3]

Besides her family, Nesbitt has stated that her influences range from Itzhak Perlman and Michael Coleman to bluegrass artist Alison Krauss and rock's David Bowie and Sting.[4]

Personal life

Nesbitt has been married to Jim Mustapha Jr., Celtic Woman's then-lighting director, since 2011.[5]

Discography

Solo
With Celtic Woman
With The Dhol Foundation
  • Drum-Believable (2005)
Other contributions

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Máiréad Nesbitt at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance (17 November 2020). "Michael Flatley, Cora Smyth & Máiréad Nesbitt, Behind-the-Scenes with Feet of Flames: Celtic Fire". YouTube. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  3. ^ Fennell, Hilary (2007). "How I got here: Playing it cool". LoadzaJobs.ie. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2007.
  4. ^ "Biography, Paragraph 1". MaireadNesbitt.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2010.
  5. ^ "The Sibling in Tune with One Another". Independent.ie.
  6. ^ a b "Recordings". MaireadNesbitt.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2010.