Singing...

Michelle is a singer who engages fully with the creative spaces she enters. She is a passionate about music, and has commissioned, premiered and recorded many new works by living composers. She loves the challenge of finding her voice in more traditional classical music, through collaboration, arrangement or simply dissolving the edges of traditional performance practices.

Currently Michelle is working on an album of her own songs, to follow on from her recent release These Rules Around Us May Alter, an EP of songs on the Ergodos Label. Forthcoming also is her recording of Andrew Hamilton’s phenomenal solo song set O’ROURKE.

2026 will see the premiere of a substantial new solo work for Michelle by lauded Irish composer Ed Bennett, a record of vocal music by Garrett Sholdice, performances of music by Nick Roth, Jane Deasy and Alma Mahler.

Michelle is equally comfortable working alone as in collaborative environments. She is in demand as a collaborator, a vocal coach and music consultant in interdisciplinary work spaces.

Michelle is ever fascinated by the seemingly endless expressive facility of the human voice; how singers have been centric to ritual performance for centuries, and how we continue as performers to evolve the interpretative and performative role of voice.

“O’Rourke’s contributions dazzle with unaffected clarity." (The Guardian)