Dylan Tierney
Graduate Conducting Assistant Intern
Dylan Tierney is an Irish conductor currently in his second year of a Master’s degree in Conducting at Oklahoma City University, where he holds a Graduate Teaching Assistantship with the OCU Orchestras and serves as Graduate Conducting Assistant Intern with Oklahoma Youth Orchestras. He also works with OCU Operations, a student-led opera organisation, gaining experience across orchestral, choral, and operatic repertoire.
Dylan graduated with a BMus in Conducting and Percussion from the MTU Cork School of Music, where he was awarded the Alan Cutts Memorial Conducting Award. His conducting experience spans orchestral and choral repertoire across Ireland, the UK, Europe, and the United States.
In June 2026, Dylan conducted the Chetham’s School of Music Orchestra in Manchester in the world premiere of a work by acclaimed Welsh composer Huw Watkins. He was also selected as an inaugural Conducting Fellow with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, having first conducted with NYOI as a student in 2018.
Dylan has received advanced conducting training from leading conductors including Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Natalia Luis-Bassa, Robert Houlihan, and Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl. Alongside his conducting career, he has served as a percussionist with the Band of the 1st Brigade, Irish Defence Forces, since 2018.