Kiltra School Of Music, Wexford – Team Bio’s

Angela Mahon

Angela Mahon is an honours Bmus graduate of NUI Maynooth. During this time she continued to study violin and piano and was also awarded a Diploma in Church Music specialising in singing and conducting.  The following year she received a Higher Diploma in Education. After graduation, Angela quickly established herself as a successful private music teacher in the Kildare area and also gained valuable experience in her time as a secondary school Music teacher.

Having returned to the part of Wexford that her family come from, along with her husband Robert, she began a private music practice before establishing the Kiltra School of Music in September 2009.

Angela has always had a desire to bring a high standard of music education to people who live outside of large centres and is delighted that the Kiltra School of Music can be of benefit to those living in rural Wexford, and the surrounding areas.

Robert Mahon

Robert Mahon is a first class honours Bmus and MA graduate of the Cork School of Music where he studied Violin and also Piano. On graduating, Robert worked in Dublin for 6 years as a professional violinst, playing mostly with the RTE Symphony Orchestra, but also with the RTE Concert Orchestra, the Orchestra of Saint Cecilia, Camerata Ireland and many other orchestra.

Robert is currently a member of the Wexford Opera Festival Orchestra, and when his teaching commitments allow he still commutes to Dublin to work with the RTE Orchestras.

Along with his wife Angela, Robert is proud to run the Kiltra School of Music and is passionate about offering a high standard of music tuition and education in a rural part of the County.

Michael Martin

Michael, a guitarist of twenty years, began his studies on the classical guitar and before long had taken in the techniques & styles of acoustic and electric guitar. At the centre of his guitar playing experience was being a member of a well established music group, performing widely and recording frequently as both a guitarist and singer.

Alongside his guitar playing, Michael is also a trained pianist and teacher of music theory, progressing through the ABRSM system.

He believes firmly in the importance of young students receiving the highest standard of tuition right from the beginning and this is achieved by organised and structured one to one lessons, with strong support and encouragement for home practice. Equally, adult students have benefited greatly from this approach to teaching.

Philippa Callery

Philippa first began music lessons at the Wexford School of Music. There she learned piano with Sue Furlong and recorder and clarinet with Geraldine Mahon.

She stayed with Sue and Geraldine until she went to college to do a degree in Music Education at D.I.T Conservatory of Music and Drama and Trinity College Dublin. Philippa studied clarinet and saxophone with Tim Hanafin and piano with Margaret O’Sullivan-Farrell. She played clarinet with the D.I.T Wind Band and D.I.T Clarinet Choir. She majored in performance on the clarinet in her final year and graduated with an honours degree in 2007.

While living in Dublin she taught at Walton’s New School of Music. Philippa has been teaching woodwind and piano at Kiltra School of Music since February 2010.