Hailing from Cahersiveen in County Kerry, Irish tenor Dr Gavan Ring studied at the Schola Cantorum at St Finian’s College Mullingar before reading education and music at Dublin City University.

An alumnus of the National Opera Studio in London, Gavan is also the first opera singer and the youngest graduate to complete doctoral studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Gavan’s ground-breaking doctoral research on Robert O’Dwyer’s Irish language opera Eithne led to the work’s first performance in 107 years.

Gavan is the Artistic Administrator of Drogheda Classical Music, an Artistic Partner with Irish National Opera and was a member of the inaugural Cara O’Sullivan Associate Artist Programme at Cork Opera House. Gavan is also a multiple prizewinner at competitions such as the Wigmore Hall Song Competition and the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino.

Gavan is kindly supported by Howard Gatiss, the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the Skellig Six 18 Distillery, Andrew and Lucy Penny, Hugh and Adah Sachs-Simpson, Dominic and Corina Buckwell and Michael and Giancarla Alen-Buckley.