Sarah Murphy
Artistic Director and co-founder of Wall2Wall Music Sarah designs Wall2Wall Music’s projects and leads on their training. Sarah studied at the Royal College of Music as a junior exhibitioner and continued her studies at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama. She has a portfolio career working as an international performer, Flute tutor, workshop facilitator, music consultant and increasingly as a commissioned composer.
Well known for her love of music from different cultures Sarah regularly juxtaposes different genre and styles in her compositions. Sarah’s composition ‘Taiko Love’ ( 2017) and ‘The Swan and The Crane’ (2018) were commissioned by Foyle O-Bon Japanese Festival www.japanesefestivalsireland.
As a performer Sarah has a varied career playing classical flute as a chamber musician and freelance orchestral flautist and in addition has played a variety of ethnic flutes as part of contemporary and world music groups. Some of Sarah’s personal career highlights are Festive Flutes performance at the Canadian flute convention in Toronto, performing all flute parts on the award winning children’s animation Whistleless, sell out performances with Juan Martin at London’s Southbank Centre and National Concert Hall, Dublin and performing with Orbestra at the Istanbul International Festival.
Sarah has a small private flute teaching practise in Derry Northern Ireland with local students and older diploma students travelling widely to study with her. In addition she teaches flute students at the University of Ulster and teaches and performs annually on the Flutes in Tuscany summer academy. www.flutesintuscany.co.uk
As a music facilitator and consultant Sarah has delivered training for classroom music teachers, instrumental tutors and community music facilitators on behalf of Wall2Wall Music, Musical Futures, Music Generation music services, music organisations, and at conferences across Ireland and the UK. Sarah also works with Arts Council Ireland as a Creative Associate Artist for their Creative Schools programme
Seamus Devenny 
At first working on Wall2Wall performances, Seamus was taken with the emphasis on creativity and the ethos of the organization and joined the team.
Donegal native, Seamus attended NUI Maynooth in Co. Kildare and embraced the music scene in Dublin, performing and recording with many different acts in many genres from classical to metal for over a decade before returning to Donegal where he took up the post of modern drum set tutor and violin tutor for the ETB. He has performed in many festivals and venues in Europe and the US, from Polish cathedrals to the underground folk clubs of Boston, Glastonbury to electric Picnic. As well as countless live radio appear and tv including The Nolan Show and the Late Late Show.
Feargus Murphy
Feargus graduated from the Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) course, University of Surrey. He is a freelance french horn and bass guitar player and currently performs with Susie-Blue; including at Electric Picnic and Glastonbury Festival 2017. He has worked as a facilitator for Wall2Wall Music across Ireland, as well as with Barbican Creative Learning in London. He regularly incorporates sound engineering and technology into his workshops and particularly enjoys getting the participants to record little sound clips, and then manipulating them into a soundscape. He records and produces for bands and ensembles as well as coordinating live sound at festivals.
Cheylene Murphy
Cheylene Murphy is a songwriter, musician and creative who has toured the globe with her songs. As a teenager she started writing songs with her indie-pop band Wonder Villains, performing synths and vocals which led to releasing a record, gaining a publishing deal and performing across Europe, in America and Africa. In the last few years Cheylene has found her voice in her most recent project Beauty Sleep. Merging lush synths with groovy guitar lines and catchy vocals, 2019 has seen Beauty Sleep release their debut album ‘Be Kind’ via Quiet Arch Records, a record Cheylene co-wrote and co-produced with Ryan McGroarty. Be Kind has seen them gain critical acclaim from The Irish Times, Clash Magazine and BBC Radio 6 and Radio One.
Cheylene has also worked as a session musician and songwriter on many projects outside her two main bands, performing bass and violin on records and on tours and co-writing for pitches including as a songwriter on Christmas movie ‘A Christmas Star.’ Alongside her artistic practice, Cheylene has been involved in starting up collectives and communities to support the NI music scene. This has seen her put on events, produce, shoot and edit videos and photos and promote and champion local artists. With a passion for supporting and encouraging up and coming musicians, Cheylene often brings these skills to panels and workshops for young musicians, including projects across Ireland with Wall2Wall Music.
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We also work with a range of locally and internationally renowned music facilitators, producers, performers, composers, artists, poets, film makers and arts organisations which have included among others Detta Danford, Marie Barrett, Olivia Bradbury, Paul Griffiths, Jacob Sam La Rose, Lauren Monaghan-Pisano, Catherine McGrotty, Sigrun Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths, Robert Wells, Mark Mc Cauley, Billy Robinson, Rocky O Reilly, Ryan McGroarty, Orri Mc Brearty, Joe McCallion, Tom Byrne, Paul Harrigan, Declan Mc Clafferty, Sarah Cullan, Sean McTaggart, Eoin O’Callaghan, Ruth McGinley, Chris Rawlence, Orlando Gough, Musical Futures, Donegal Music Education Partnership, North-55, Verbal Arts Centre, Rosetta life, LSO discovery, Post Primary Music Teachers Association, Barbican creative learning and Music Generation.
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