RPS Music Awards Host

Sean Rafferty

Sean Rafferty was born in Belfast and brought up in Newcastle, Co Down. He studied law at Queen's University, Belfast and soon after began his career in broadcasting. He is a respected arts broadcaster, having presented a variety of radio and television programmes. He devised and presented Rafferty, one of the first radio chat shows for Radio Northern Ireland.

He presented the early evening television news on BBC Northern Ireland for several years and launched a news and current affairs programme on Radio Ulster, Evening Extra. Sean was the co-presenter with Denise Waterman of the BBC Northern Ireland series Room for Improvement about DIY and houses.

He is a keen amateur musician and regularly sang in a renaissance chamber choir. He is chairman of Opera Theatre Company, Dublin, which has toured all over Ireland and had great success with its production of Handel's Amadigi in New York, Paris, Prague and Portugal. He is a former board member of Opera Northern Ireland and of Artscare (the organisation for promoting art in hospitals) and is a board member of ABSA, the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts.

Sean Rafferty presents BBC Radio 3’s flagship early evening programme In Tune - every weekday at 5.00pm.