7 June 2026 at 20:00

Judit Máté

New Dublin Voices (Bernie Sherlock, conductor)

Judit Máté is a Hungarian-born organist, church musician, and choral conductor currently based in Ireland. She began studying the organ at the age of fourteen under the guidance of local organist Edit Sabján. In 2006, she earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Church Music in Hungary, and later completed a Master’s Degree in Organ Performance at TU Conservatoire, Dublin, in 2016. Her organ studies in Ireland were mentored by Simon Harden, Siobhán Kilkelly, Colm Carey, and David Adams. In 2011, Judit founded the St Jude’s Chamber Orchestra and Concert Choir, a project-based amateur ensemble that performed a diverse repertoire, including works by Hungarian composers as well as Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Mozart, and Rheinberger. Since 2022, she has been musical director of the Trim-based Credo Vocal Ensemble. Judit is currently the organist at St Michael’s Church in Dún Laoghaire and also serves as the artistic director of the Dún Laoghaire Summer Organ Concerts. In addition, she is the organist at the Church of the Divine Word, Marley Grange. As a recital organist, she has performed in Hungary, Ireland, and France.

New Dublin Voices is a leading Irish chamber choir founded in 2005 by international award-winning conductor Bernie Sherlock. Renowned for imaginative programming, the choir is particularly committed to the music of living composers and has given over 90 world premieres. It leads the way in commissioning, performing and promoting choral music by Irish composers at home and abroad, while also introducing international repertoire to Irish audiences, including commissions by Ēriks Ešenvalds, Paweł Łukaszewski, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Vytautas Miškinis, Roxanna Panufnik and Joan Szymko. New Dublin Voices has won numerous international competition prizes, most recently the Grand Prix at the 2024 International Krakow Choir Festival, with previous overall Grand Prix wins in Belgium, Hungary, Italy and Latvia. The choir performs regularly at major international festivals and tours throughout Europe, the UK and the US, and in 2017 became the first Irish choir invited to perform at the World Symposium on Choral Music. In 2025 it released Snow Dance for the Dead on VOCES8 Records to critical acclaim.

Bernie Sherlock founded New Dublin Voices in 2005, was artistic director of the Irish Youth Choirs from 2020-2025, was co-conductor of EuroChoir 2021, and is a guest conductor with Chamber Choir Ireland. She has won prizes for her conducting in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, Wales, and Ireland. Her work adjudicating at international conducting and choral competitions and directing choral workshops has taken her around Europe and to the US, Canada and China. She directs the MMus in Conducting at the TU Dublin Conservatoire where she is also conductor of the award-winning TU Chamber Choir. Bernie studied conducting for two years in Hungary with Ildikó Herboly-Kocsár and Péter Erdei, followed by Masters and Doctorate degrees in Dublin. She is co-director of the Dublin Choral Masterclasses with composer Seán Doherty and has represented Ireland on the World Choir Council since 2012. Bernie has conducted over one hundred world premieres.