Frank McNamara (musician)

Francis Anthony McNamara is an Irish arranger, conductor, composer, and pianist. Early life McNamara’s career began at the age of 11, when he first appeared on Irish national television. Peter Katin also instructed McNamara in piano in London and Canada. Music Irish audiences are well familiar with McNamara’s work as music director of RTÉ’s The Late Late Show for 20 years. In 1994 and 1995 he signed up with the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV) and rearranged Iceland’s Eurovision Song Contest entries. He conducted the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra on the final night for the live performances of these entries during the Eurovision Song Contest which was hosted in Ireland in both these years. He was also the musical director of the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Dublin. In 1998, he helped found The Irish Tenors, which group has been highly successful. He was their music director in five of their albums and three PBS specials and toured with them throughout the United States, New Zealand and Australia. Their album Ellis Island rose to number one on Billboards World Music listing. McNamara is the composer of a four-part movement classical work entitled Beatlesymphony, which