Australian-born performer and musician Breandáin O'Shea came to Deutsche Welle in the 1990s as producer and host of the weekly arts program Arts on the Air and the radio feature, Inspired Minds.

Jessye Norman, Armistead Maupin, Karlheinz Stockhausen -- these are just a few of the world renowned artists that Breandáin O'Shea has interviewed in his career as an arts journalist.

Breandáin's expertise in the arts stems from the fact that he himself is a performer and studied singing with some of Europe's leading teachers. He has also worked professionally as an orchestral flautist and jazz pianist.