website associated_acts years_active notable_instruments birth_place label background birth_date genre article_title name occupation
-lsb- http://www.mosmusic.ie official site -rsb- nóirín ní riain , size2shoes 1976 -- present piano tipperary , ireland sony bmg atlantic records non_vocal_instrumentalist 1950 classical irish traditional folk mícheál Ó súilleabháin
 mícheál Ó súilleabháin composer pianist
mícheál Ó súilleabháin

mícheál Ó súilleabháin is an irish musician .
as a pianist , composer , recording artist and academic , he holds the professorship of music at the irish world academy of music and dance which he founded at the university of limerick .
his sons are known as irish pop group size2shoes and his former wife is irish chant singer nóirín ní riain , with whom he has collaborated .
he was awarded an honorary d.mus from the national university of ireland at his alma mater university college cork in 2004 .
he has recorded extensively with the irish chamber orchestra .
