Josquin Collective

Eoin Conway: Superius
Francesco Giusti: Altus
Keith Matthews: Tenor
Francesco Ghirxi: Quintus
Brian Hennessey: Bassus

We are a group of musicians who have collaborated often with one another over the last eight years and who are now coming together to offer you this concert of rarely heard music at the first edition of Dorlindon Festival. We feature a combination of voices rarely heard in Ireland, including two countertenors.

We are:

Eoin Conway - Superius
Eoin is a singer, conductor, pianist and arranger/composer and is currently organist in St Fintan’s Church, Sutton.
He earned his master’s degree in vocal performance from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 2016, studying with Lynda Lee, and his bachelor’s degree from NUI Maynooth, majoring in composition.
As a choral singer, Eoin works with Ireland’s professional choral ensembles including Chamber Choir Ireland, Sestina, Lassus and Resurgam.
He has conducted the award–winning choir Cór Fingal since 2018 and is the musical director of ‘4 in a Bar’, a multi award–winning professional male voice quartet.
Eoin has much experience in church music having been a member of Christ Church Cathedral choir for six years and a singer with the Palestrina Choir for three years prior to that.
His arrangements have been commissioned and recorded by several of Ireland’s leading choirs, including the UCD Choral Scholars, New Dublin Voices, and the Irish Youth Choir.

Francesco Giusti - Altus
Francesco Giusti was born in Bologna, Italy. After studies of pianoforte, organ, composition and musicology he started singing as a countertenor and has performed in many concerts in Europe, Japan and the USA. After achieving BMus in singing at London Guildhall he studied at HMT Leipzig and Amsterdam Conservatoire, where he obtained a MMus.
Since 2017 he has lived in Ireland, of which recently became a citizen, where he collaborates with ensembles such as Sestina, Resurgam, Opera Collective Ireland and Irish Baroque Orchestra. Opera roles include the Cheshire Cat in Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Tamerlano in Vivaldi’s Bajazet and title roles in Scarlatti/Martini’s La Dirindina, Greg Caffrey’s Pamplemousse, and Handel’s Fernando, Re di Castiglia at Händel-Festspiele Halle.
Francesco specialises in sacred music of the Renaissance and the Baroque.

Keith Matthews - Tenor
Keith Matthews is a young Tenor from Dublin, currently studying with American teacher Douglas Suso-Mago. He is a recent honours graduate in vocal performance from TU Dublin Conservatoire where he studied under Dr Robert Alderson.
He recently made his operatic role debut as Prince Yamadori in Lyric Opera Productions’ Madama Butterfly in February of 2023. He has performed regularly throughout Ireland with Irish National Opera (William Tell, Tosca, Carmen, Fidelio), Lyric Opera Productions (La Bohème, Pirates of Penzance, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly), Blackwater Valley Festival Opera (Orfeo) and Wexford Festival Opera/TU Dublin Conservatoire (The Veiled Prophet). In February this year, Keith took a step out of his comfort zone and made his musical theatre debut as Joseph in a concert performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with Dublin County Choir.
Keith enjoys a busy career as an oratorio and sacred music soloist. He most recently performed as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Culwick Choral Society in May 2025.
Other soloist repertoire includes J.S Bach’s St John’ Passion, Magnificat and Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme, Puccini’s Messe di Gloria, Franck’s Messe Solennelle in A, Mendelssohn’s Christus, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in D Major and Stainer’s Crucifixion.
Having performed extensively as a professional choral singer and soloist, Keith has toured worldwide and has been involved in national radio and television broadcasts, as well as multiple large-scale concerts. He has also featured on a number of film and television soundtrack recordings.
Keith recently made his solo recital debuts in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick and St Ann’s parish church, Dawson Street in the summer of 2024 and he plans to return to both venues as well as others to give solo recitals in 2025. In the Autumn of 2024, he had the great privilege to perform for two charitable organisations, firstly, at the Irish Sepsis Foundation ball in September, followed by performing and recording César Franck’s Panis Angelicus from Messe Solennelle in A for the Irish Kidney Association’s 39th annual service of remembrance & Thanksgiving which was broadcast on RTÉ one in November 2024.
Upcoming engagements for Keith include a return to perform once again for the Irish Kidney Association at their upcoming annual remembrance service this September.

Francesco Ghirxi - Quintus
Francesco is an organist, composer and singer, and is a regular accompanist and recitalist based in Dublin having performed in festivals such as ‘Pipeworks’ and being the resident organist at St.Columba’s church, Drumcondra, in Dublin. He is also a music teacher, repetiteur and deputy conductor for community choirs. He also performed priorly in Malta and the UK where he was nominal organist at Liberton Kirk in South East Edinburgh, amongst other engagements. He participated in masterclasses at Manchester cathedral and studied at St. Giles cathedral in Edinburgh after having been awarded a scholarship in 2007.
Francesco’s main highlights include playing the organ in Malta's prestigious cathedrals, including St. John's co-cathedral and St. Paul's Anglican pro-cathedral in Valletta for events such as recitals, worship services and knightly investitures.
In October 2022 Francesco Ghirxi accompanied the renowned 'Unser Lieben Frauen' boys' choir from Bremen on a concert tour in Malta. He also had some liturgical compositions performed by world class organist and conductor Wayne Marshall OBE. Francesco Ghirxi also trained in choral singing by virtue of his university programmes and involvement with various choirs. He also owes his musical initiation in Dublin to Thomas Charles Marshall, organist and resident conductor at St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street. Francesco Ghirxi's distinctives are harmonising, arranging, improvising and composing. To date he holds undergraduate qualifications, namely a diploma and degree (B.Mus Hons) from Edinburgh Napier University and the University of Malta in organ performance and composition.

Brian Hennessey - Bassus
Brian is an eclectic musician, being able to sing all vocal ranges and being an oboist, saxophonist and a composer.
His professional choral experience is vast, in Trinity College Chapel Choir, The Lassus Scholars, Christchurch Cathedral Choir, The Palestrina Choir and St Patrick's Cathedral Choir, as well as RTE's Cór na nÓg, Enchiriadis, Trinity Singers, University of Dublin Choral Society, Campanile Consort Mornington Singers, Habemus, and New Dublin Voices. Brian’s opera performances include Street urchin chorus in Puccini's La Bohème, chorus in Peter Maxwell Davies' Cinderella, Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Peter in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, and le Baron du Pictordu in Viardot's Cendrillon.
Brian has performed to Popes, Princesses, Presidents and Ministers of State. He has sung to audiences in four continents. He has performed and recorded for numerous television and radio broadcasts for RTE, BBC, and UTV including performing one of his own compositions - a setting of the Christmas Matins responsory O Magnum Mysterium - performed by Trinity College Chapel Choir on RTE 1's Sunday Mass.

We are thrilled about being able to share this gorgeous programme with you and we hope you will enjoy listening to our concert as much as we have enjoyed preparing it!