Liam was a member of the Artane Boys Band from the age of 9. He studied French Horn with Victor
Malirish at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra,
National Wind Ensemble and National Youth Choir. Liam studied at the Waterford Institute of
technology where he obtained a Diploma in Advanced Music Studies, an LTCL Performance Diploma
on French Horn and a BA Mus. 

Liam has worked extensively with youth bands and wind ensembles in Ireland and was Music
Director of the Barrack Street Concert Band Waterford, Carlow Choral Society, Mayfield Brass Band,
Dungarvan Brass Band, Athlone and Fermoy Musical Societies as well conducting the Ruckert
Orchestra and the Cork Symphony Orchestra.  Liam took up a commission with the Irish Defence
Forces in 1989 and served 14 years where he was Office Commanding and Music Director of the
Band of the Western Brigade Athlone and the Band of the Southern Brigade Cork. 

In 2004 he took up a commission the Australian Defence Forces where he was Second in
Command/Deputy Music Director of the Australian Army Band Melbourne, Officer
Commanding/Music Director of the Australian Army Bands Darwin and Perth. While in Darwin he
worked at Darwin University teaching at a youth orchestral music programme. He also directed the
Darwin Symphony Orchestra. 

Since settling back in Ireland in 2008, Liam has taught Brass and Theory at the Instrumental Music
Programme in Saint Canice’s Co-Ed National School in Kilkenny and at Coolcotts National School in
Wexford. He taught Brass at the Redemptorist Centre of Music in Limerick and is now full time at the
Limerick School of Music where he teaches Brass. 

In 2017, Liam was guest conductor with the Irish Symphonic Wind Orchestra at the World
Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Utrecht, Holland. He was conductor of the
University of Limerick Orchestra from 2011 to 2019. Liam is currently on the Board of Directors of
the Irish Association of Youth Orchestras and has been an associate member of the Cross Border
Orchestra of Ireland for 10 years.