Sharon Lyons

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Sharon Lyons is church wedding funeral singer & violinist from Dublin. Sharon completed her A.R.I.A.M for Singing Teaching in 2004 and graduated with Bachelor of Music Education Honours Degree from Trinity College and R.I.A.M, Dublin in 2006. Continuing her studies, she achieved First Class Honours in her Master of Arts in Chant and Ritual Song in University of Limerick 2007. Sharon is currently a doctoral student on the PhD Arts Practice programme at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick. Her doctoral investigation is entitled What is the relationship between Ritual, Repertoire and the Singing Voice in contemporary Irish Catholic worship? She will be entering her final year of studies in September 2013. Music has always been part of her life and has now become her life. Primarily a performer, she also teaches music in primary and secondary schools, as well as giving violin & singing tuition. She is also lecturer for the cantor module on the Irish Church Music Diploma, Maynooth. Sharon is director of Pro Nuova, a contemporary liturgical music group, which provides music for 6:30pm Mass each Sunday in St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. She is also resident cantor in Newman University Church, St. Stephens’s Green, Dublin. She is a member of Fuaimloai, a choir directed by composer and organist Ronán Mc Donagh, which are based in St. Teresa’s Church, Clarendon Street, Dublin and in University of Limerick, she is also a member of Cantoral, an all female chant ensemble, speci