A working list of the studios, schools, funders, orchestras and organisations that surround the work Kolo does. Every link was checked on 21 July 2026, and the list is pruned as things close or move.
Studios, engineers and audio services
- Windmill Lane Recording Studios — Recording studio complex in Ringsend, Dublin, with tracking, mixing and orchestral rooms.
- Grouse Lodge Studios — Residential recording studio in Co. Westmeath with on-site accommodation for album projects.
- Hellfire Studio — Recording and mastering studio in the Dublin Mountains.
- Masterlabs — Dublin mastering house for analogue and digital mastering, vinyl cutting and restoration.
- Ergodos — Dublin music production company and label recording contemporary classical and baroque projects.
- Floating Earth — London location-recording company specialising in orchestral and acoustic recording.
- Big Bear Sound — Dublin pro-audio consultancy doing studio and system design, supply and installation.
- Audio Warehouse — Pro-audio supplier to the Irish broadcast, recording, education and installation sectors.
- Musicmaker — Dublin instrument and studio equipment shop, in-store and online.
- Fixtronix — Irish repair centre for professional audio equipment.
- Session Hire — Dublin sound, lighting and AV hire for events and production.
- Yellow Door Music Studios — Dublin rehearsal facility with 24/7 monthly-contract rooms.
Learning and training
- Sound Training College — Temple Bar college running courses in sound engineering, production and live sound.
- BIMM Music Institute Dublin — Music college offering degrees in performance, production and music business.
- Pulse College — College at Windmill Lane teaching music production and technology, film and games audio.
- Royal Irish Academy of Music — Ireland’s national conservatoire, teaching from junior level to postgraduate.
- Music Generation — National music education programme giving subsidised tuition to young people in 29 local areas.
- Trinity College Dublin, Music and Media Technologies — Postgraduate music and media technologies programme.
- University of Limerick, Music, Media and Performance Technology — Undergraduate degree combining audio technology, media and performance.
- Maynooth University Department of Music — University department with a BA in Music Technology and an MA in Creative Music Technologies.
Funding and supports
- The Arts Council — Ireland’s national agency for funding and developing the arts, including music bursaries and commissions.
- Music Network — National music touring and development organisation; runs the Music Capital Scheme, which funds instruments and equipment.
- Creative Ireland Programme — Government programme funding culture and community creativity, including local Creative Communities grants.
- Culture Ireland — State agency funding the presentation of Irish arts abroad, including touring grants for musicians.
- First Music Contact — State-funded resource organisation for musicians; runs advice clinics and Ireland Music Week.
- Dublin City Arts Office — Dublin City Council’s arts office, providing grants, bursaries and creation space.
- dlr Arts — Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s arts office, running grants and bursaries.
- Business to Arts — Brokers sponsorship and funding partnerships between businesses and the arts.
Orchestras, ensembles and choirs
- National Symphony Orchestra Ireland — Ireland’s national symphony orchestra, resident at the National Concert Hall.
- RTÉ Concert Orchestra — Dublin professional orchestra performing classical, film and broadcast repertoire.
- Irish Chamber Orchestra — Chamber orchestra based at the University of Limerick, touring nationally and internationally.
- Crash Ensemble — Dublin contemporary music ensemble commissioning and performing new work.
- Irish Baroque Orchestra — Period-instrument orchestra based in Dublin.
- Chamber Choir Ireland — Ireland’s national chamber choir.
- Ulster Orchestra — Northern Ireland’s professional symphony orchestra, based in Belfast.
- London Symphony Orchestra — London orchestra resident at the Barbican.
- Philharmonia Orchestra — London symphony orchestra resident at the Royal Festival Hall.
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra — Birmingham symphony orchestra resident at Symphony Hall.
Arrangers and composers
- Cormac McCarthy — Cork pianist, composer and arranger working across jazz, classical and traditional music.
- Brian Byrne — Irish composer, conductor and arranger for film, television and concert music.
- Matt Dunkley — UK orchestrator, arranger and conductor credited on more than 250 film scores.
- Jules Buckley — UK conductor, arranger and producer known for orchestral crossover projects.
- Contemporary Music Centre — National archive and resource centre for new music by Irish composers.
- Screen Composers Guild of Ireland — Representative body for composers for screen in Ireland.
Organisations and press
- IMRO — Collects and distributes performance royalties for songwriters, composers and publishers.
- The Journal of Music — Irish publication carrying music news, reviews and opportunity listings.
- RTÉ lyric fm — RTÉ’s national classical music and arts radio station.
- Association of Irish Musical Societies — Umbrella body for amateur musical theatre societies in Ireland.
Kolo projects
- Thunderclap Murphy — Kolo’s live performance project: ambient sets improvised and looped live in libraries, galleries and retreats.