About Geraldine Cotter...

Geraldine Cotter grew up in Ennis in a very musical family. Her mother was her first teacher and many of her family are professionally involved in music including her brother Eamonn, a leading flute player and maker. Geraldine is a well-known teacher and performer on both the tin whistle and piano. She has written two best selling tutors for traditional Irish music - Geraldine Cotter’s Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor and Seinn an Piano, the first such publication for the playing of traditional Irish music on the piano.

She is a music graduate of both University College Cork and the University of Limerick. In the 70’s she studied music in UCC. Her Irish music lecturer at the time was Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. Since leaving Cork she has written two tutors, one in 1983 ‘Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor’ which was published by Ossian Publications. In 1995 she wrote the first tutor for traditional Irish piano ‘Seinn an Piano’ also published by Ossian Publications. She also contributed to ‘The Companion to Irish Traditional Music’ edited by Fintan Vallely and published by Cork University Press 1999.

She spent time in the late 70’s collecting music and songs in North Co. Kerry for an archive that is kept in Muckross House in Killarney. She has been involved in many albums as an accompanist with her brother Eamon, Mary Mac Namara, Andrew Mac Namara, Jonn Canny and Kevin Carey, Kate Purcell and other Clare women in 'Ceol na mBan', a number of recordings with Shaskeen, Isao and Masako Moriyasu. She has recently recorded with Peadar O Loughlin, Ronan Brown, Maeve Donnelly and Tom Cussen . She is a member of Shaskeen and has also performed with Moving Cloud, the Lahawns, and the Tulla and Kilfenora Céilí Bands. She features regularly on television, radio and concert performances in Ireland and abroad. 

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