William Dowdall

William Dowdall was born in Dublin and is today one of Ireland’s leading and busiest musicians as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. After training in Cleveland, he returned to Ireland aged 21 and was appointed principal flute of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. He has given over 50 solo performances with major Irish orchestras and has given solo and chamber performances around Europe and in the USA, China, Australia and New Zealand; he has given several world premieres and made a number of acclaimed recordings. William plays a platinum flute by Brannen, a wooden flute by Abell, a Louis Lot dated 1891 and an alto flute by Eva Kingma.