• Midwest Record

    “A thoroughly engaging and out of the ordinary listening experience.”

    Midwest Record
  • Cinemusical

    “Interesting, striking, and quite engaging”

    Cinemusical
  • Gapplegate

    “If you are like me, you welcome the rightness and musicality of the hybrid, and are glad for Dave Flynn’s imaginative music.”

    Gapplegate
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Biography

Celebrated by the New York Times for the “power and grittiness” of his music, composer, conductor and guitarist Dave Flynn is a musician to take note of.

Hailing from Dublin, Ireland, he redefined orchestral music by creating the cross-genre Irish Memory Orchestra: a “formidable collective of musicians” (The Irish Times)—and the first and only orchestra in the Western world to perform exclusively by memory.

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2022 Review: 2023 Preview

As 2022 draws to a close I’d like to thank everyone for supporting my work and the Irish Memory Orchestra during the year. Here is a summary of what I got up to in 2022 with the orchestra and with other proj…

Music

Dave Flynn’s compositions are divided between classical works and new traditional Irish tunes.

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Dave Flynn’s discography is available in the Shop