What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Having a lifetime supply of cheese...
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Don Quixote.
Which living person do you most admire?
Adam from The Late Late Toy Show! What a legend.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Being very able to procrastinate no matter how much work I have to do...
What is your greatest extravagance?
Definitely my cello.
What is your favourite journey?
I’m not a big fan of Journey, although 'Don’t Stop Believin’' is a great song.
On what occasion do you lie?
When I go to sleep.
Which living person do you most despise?
Piers Morgan.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Piers Morgan. Wait no...
When and where were you happiest?
Spending Christmas at the Inagh Valley in Connemara.
Which talent would you most like to have?
To have a natural affinity for languages.
What is your current state of mind?
Pondering over what I shall make for lunch.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Becoming fluent(ish ) in French.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
One of those inflatable advertising wobbly-limbed tube-men things.
What is your most treasured possession?
A ring my mother gave me.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
When you’re about to fall asleep and you remember you left the immersion on.
What is your favourite occupation?
A Guinness quality-control taste tester.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
I’m not sure.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
How to answer these two questions?
Who are your favourite writers?
Malcolm Gladwell and Enid Blyton.
What is your motto?
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.” – Brian O’Driscoll
Hailed as “a rapidly rising cello star” by The Irish Times, Christopher Ellis performs in the opening of Music for Galway and Galway 2020's CELLISSIMO - Music for the Senses festival at Kylemore Abbey. The concert is streamed live on Thursday March 25 at 7.30pm. Booking is via https://musicforgalway.ie/cellissimo-events
