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O'Toole studied for many years with John Feeley at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin [1] and also spent two years studying with the renowned Cuban virtuoso Ricardo Iznaola in Denver, Colorado. [2]
He holds a master's degree in performance from University College Cork and a PhD from the DIT Conservatory.[ citation needed ]
O'Toole has performed extensively throughout Ireland, America and the United Kingdom, and has performed several times on national radio and television. [2]
He has worked with Irish composers Eric Sweeney, Jerome de Bromhead, David Fennessy and Ian Wilson, and has performed in ensemble with the Opera Theatre Company, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Dublin Guitar Quartet and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. [2]
He is/was[ when? ] artistic director of The Waltons International Guitar Festival and the "Chord" Ennis International Music Festival, and was also on the board of directors of the prestigious Kilkenny Arts Festival. O'Toole was on the faculty of The Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Music Department at Waterford Institute of Technology. [2]
Dublin Institute of Technology was a major third-level institution in Dublin, Ireland. On 1 January 2019 DIT was dissolved and its functions were transferred to the Technological University Dublin, as TU Dublin City Campus. The institution began with the establishment of the first technical education institution in Ireland, in 1887, and progressed through various legal and governance models, culminating in autonomy under a statute of 1992.
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