Diarmuid Lally is an Award-Winning bassist and composer from Ireland. Growing up in a musical country, but a non-musician family, it was quite some time before he found the bass. Originally pursuing being an Art major when leaving school, By the time college applications had to be handed in he noticed how much time was spent on learning music, the prospect of being a musician seemed much more obvious.
Wanting more time to develop musically, and to pursue another passion, he studied Sound Engineering. This not only provided an understanding on how to control every aspect of making music, but also provided a strong knowledge on how the physics of music work and how that can be applied to playing an instrument, thus allowing him to create new techniques on the instrument.
After only 4 years or so playing music, applied to Berklee and was awarded a large scholarship to study. "The college was an eye-opener," During his time there, he was highly praised and because of this was given many great opportunities. Performing live with Livingston Taylor and John Blackwell, Several meetings with Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith in these situations serving as an ambassador for the college
In 2015, moved to Amsterdam and entered the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and graduated from the program in 2 years, and also the masters program at University of Southern California.
Currently living in Los Angeles playing with several projects and touring all over Europe and the USA. One of the groups in which Lally writes and arranges much of the material entered and won the world renowned 2017 International Bucharest Jazz competition, including high level competition from all over the world, including (New England Conservatory, Berklee, Royal Academy of Music London, McGill University, Sienna Jazz, Perth Australia)
Having learned from, worked with and performed with a wide range of musicians in many styles, including Livingston Taylor, Peter Erskine, John Riley, Bob Mintzer, Russel Ferrante, Vince Mendoza, John Scofield, John Blackwell, Kenwood Dennard, John Clayton, Robin Nolan, Carles Benevent, Domonique Di Piazza, Jay Anderson, Ben van Gelder, Rob van Bavel, Joris Roelofs, Dick Oates, Peter Bernstein, Seamus Blake, Dennis Makrel, Gary Willis, Ed Lucie, Lincoln Goines, Richard Evans, Abel Marcel, Eric van Lier, Johan Plomp,