David (Dave) Flynn, born in Dublin in 1977, is an Irish composer, guitarist and conductor whose music fuses contemporary classical, jazz and traditional Irish idioms. He studied at the DIT Conservatory and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, later earning a doctorate on traditional Irish music as a path to new composition. In 2012 he founded the orchestra now known as the Irish Memory Orchestra, the only Western orchestra performing entirely from memory, for which he has written three symphonies and concertos including the fiddle concerto “Aontacht.” His award-winning string quartet “The Cranning” took the 2004 Huddersfield prize. Flynn became the first Composer-in-Residence at Farmleigh, Ireland’s state guest house, and continues to tour internationally as a guitarist, including an extensive 2025 New Zealand tour, while releasing recordings through Frisbee Records.
