Meadhbh O’Rourke is a graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music where she was an 1848 scholarship student studying for her master’s degree with Professor William Dowdall and piccolo with Sinéad Farrell. She currently balances a busy freelance career, featuring regularly as a guest Flute and Piccolo player with many of Ireland's leading orchestras and ensembles, such as the National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Irish National Opera, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Musici Ireland and Crash Ensemble.

Meadhbh made her National Concert Hall solo debut in 2018 performing the Poulenc Sonata arranged for flute and orchestra by Lennox Berkeley with the Orlando Chamber Orchestra as part of the ESB Great Christmas Concert. She was awarded First Prize in the Maura Dowdall Concerto Competition, as well as the Brian Dunning Memorial Prize for best woodwind performance in 2022, which meant she had the opportunity to perform as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland in the National Concert Hall in 2023.

Meadhbh is passionate about the piccolo and currently works as Guest Lecturer in TU Dublin Conservatoire as a member of Ireland’s leading contemporary ensemble, Concorde Ensemble.

She will be performing at the Low Clarinet Festival in Arizona in January 2025, with her husband, Patrick Burke, a newly commissioned piece for Bass Clarinet and Piccolo by Jane O’Leary, which will be funded by Culture Ireland. As well as teaching in TU Dublin, Meadhbh works as Flute Tutor at Clongowes Wood College and Dublin City University (DCU).

Meadhbh completed her undergraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and spent time afterwards studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She is currently developing her studies in the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerp, Belgium, with renowned piccolo specialist, Peter Verhoyen.

In 2019 and 2022, Meadhbh was a recipient of the Music Capital Scheme Award and is grateful for the support of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Music Network and The Arts council, an award which helped fund both of her instruments.