Bernie Sherlock is a leading choral conductor. She is founder-conductor of New Dublin Voices, Artistic Director of the Irish Youth Choirs, a former co-conductor of EuroChoir, and a guest conductor with Chamber Choir Ireland. She has won international conducting prizes in Finland, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Wales, Poland and Ireland. Her work as an adjudicator and presenting workshops takes her around Europe and to the US, Canada and China.

 Bernie’s chamber choir New Dublin Voices enjoys wide acclaim for its innovative programming. She takes special pleasure in exploring music by living composers and has given more than 90 world premieres. New Dublin Voices has won multiple prizes and Grand Prix in France, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Spain, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Latvia, Wales and Bulgaria, most recently winning the Grand Prix at the International Krakow Choir Festival (2024).

 For twelve years Bernie directed the International Choral Conducting Summer School run by Sing Ireland. She is a founding Board-member of the World Choral Conducting Network, and a representative for Ireland on the World Choir Council. Bernie lectures at the TU Dublin Conservatoire where she directs the Masters programme in choral conducting. After her music degree in Trinity College Dublin, Bernie studied conducting for two years in Hungary with Ildikó Herboly-Kocsár and Péter Erdei, followed by Masters and Doctorate degrees in conducting in Dublin.