The Avoca Duet

The Avoca Duet is a music group based in Dublin, Ireland, and comprises singer Ingrid Magee and pianist/organist/uilleann piper John Manners. They peform in a wide variety of styles, everything from church music to jazz to traditional Irish, and have a large repertoire covering all of these genres. The versatility of Ingrid's voice lends itself well to any sort of music - whether it is a Mozart aria, a traditional Irish ballad, or a Beatles standard.

Ingrid Magee

Ingrid has been classically trained by Dr Veronica Dunne of The Leinster School of Music, Dublin. She has performed in many large productions including Joseph and His Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat, Slice of Saturday Night and has had the title role of Cinderella in The Gaiety Panto to name a few.

Ingrid was the solo vocalist on Michael Flatley's American & Canadian tour of Lord of the Dance in 2010. Ingrid has also toured with many gigging bands around Ireland including ABBAesque and Boogie Nights. She has also sang on many successful dance tracks as a guest vocalist.

A native of Dublin, she has released her own album "Sweet Child of Mine" and has performed guest vocals on other relative artists' albums. Most recently, Ingrid has performed as a demo vocalist for a very reputable songwriter.

 

 

John Manners

John Manners, pianist, organist and uilleann piper, began his musical education in the College of Music, Chatham Row, Dublin 2, now known as the DIT Conservatory of Music, at the age of 7, where he studied piano, uilleann pipes and music theory. Having completed the standard ABRSM Grade 8 at the College of Music under the tutelage of Eithne Russell and Maeve McSweeney, John went on to study music at University College Dublin and graduated with an honours arts degree in 1999. Whilst in college, John began to perform as church organist in the Holy Cross Church, Dundrum, Dublin, and also worked with the UCD choir for a number of performances.

Since leaving college, John has performed extensively, both in Ireland and abroad, and has made a number of recordings, including commissions from Guinness (Diageo Ireland). In recent years working for the professional music groups, the Kinvara Trio and the Avoca Duet, has been the mainstay of John's music career, with whom he has travelled the length and breadth of Ireland for a wide variety of performances, on organ, piano and uileann pipes - be it for a corporate engagement, concert, television, wedding ceremony or otherwise. John has an extensive repertoire, covering all sorts of music - classical, contemporary, Irish traditional and jazz - and also performs a church organ repertoire.