David Mooney Author & Illustrator

David Mooney joined the staff of TUDublin Conservatoire in 1988 where he has lectured in piano and academic studies at graduate and post-graduate level. He has been Head of Keyboard Studies at the Conservatoire since 2001.

Dr Mooney’s research interests focus principally on performance practice issues relating to French music in the period 1870–1930. He is an international authority on the life and works of Poldowski (Lady Irene Dean Paul). Other interests include musico-textual issues in French art song and the development of piano pedagogy. He has contributed to the latest edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Encyclopedia ofIreland and the Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland.

Dr Mooney is also a successful choral arranger whose works are performed throughout the US and Europe. The highly-acclaimed David Mooney Irish Choral Series is published by ECSchirmer in Boston and Stainer and Bell in the UK.