Michael McCartan grew up in Northern Ireland and began his musical studies at St.Colman’s College, Newry. He went on to study music at Trinity College Dublin, where he was a choral scholar with the chapel choir and a conductor of the music department’s chamber choir. Alongside teaching music performance and theory, he sings with Mornington Singers and is a Lay Vicar Choral with Christ Church Cathedral. Michael is classically trained in voice, piano, violin and flute. He is also trained in traditional Irish whistle and fiddle.