Category: Directors

Yvonne McDonald

Yvonne McDonald has over 38 years’ experience working in the media and education industries.  Her long career has involved co-ordinating Irish and international feature films, directing RTE television series, researching and producing live TV a & radio as well as producing and directing documentaries for RTE and TG4.  Yvonne has also been involved in education and training for over 25 years working on up-skilling courses for the media industry and has been lecturing on film and TV production on the BA in Media with Maynooth University since 2001.

With her partnership venture CÓRus, Yvonne has combined her love of teaching and entertainment & returned to her musical theatre roots to bring the joy of mass singing to the Irish market.  Yvonne truly believes in power of music to lift spirits and bring people together which is what CÓRus does in so many ways.

Mary Lowe

Mary Lowe has over 35 years experience in media and music both as a performer and presenter. Her debut album, titled ‘Mary Lowe – Jazz Diva’, was released in 2006 to great acclaim. Mary arranges and records all harmonies in the CÓRus term songs and along with Yvonne, has developed a unique teaching methodology, which is exclusive to CÓRus. Mary’s greatest passion is teaching and over the last 10 years she has taught hundreds of women and men harmony skills, breathing techniques, range development, pitch correction, articulation and performance of an eclectic range of songs and loves every minute of her time with such enthusiastic and committed singers!