New Ross Piano Festival

2011 ARTISTS

Katya Apekisheva

KATYA APEKISHEVA
Katya Apekisheva is one of Europe's foremost pianists, in demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, and has been described by Gramophone magazine as 'a profoundly gifted artist' who has 'already achieved artistic greatness'.  
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Finghin Collins

FINGHIN COLLINS
One of Ireland's most successful musicians, Dubliner Finghin Collins was born in 1977 and studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O'Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet.
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Fiachra Garvey FIACHRA GARVEY
Fiachra Garvey is currently in fourth year of the BA degree in Music Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, studying under Thérèse Fahy. He completed his third year at the CNSMD Paris in the class of Jacques Rouvier and chamber music in the classes of Itamar Golan and Theodor Paraschivesco.
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Noriko Ogawa

NORIKO OGAWA
Noriko Ogawa has achieved considerable renown throughout the world since her success at the 1987 Leeds International Piano Competition. Ogawa’s ‘ravishingly poetic playing’ (Telegraph) sets her apart from her contemporaries and acclaim for her complete Debussy series with BIS Records confirms her as a fine Debussy specialist.
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Charles Owen

 

CHARLES OWEN
Charles Owen began his musical studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Seta Tanyel and continued at the Royal College of Music under the guidance of Irina Zaritskaya. While at the college he won all the major piano prizes before completing his studies with Imogen Cooper.
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Enrico Pace

ENRICO PACE
Enrico Pace was born in Rimini, Italy. He studied piano with Franco Scala, first at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro and later at the Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola. He also studied conducting and composition. The first prize at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht in 1989 proved to be a decisive turning point in his early career.
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Igor Roma

IGOR ROMA
The Italian pianist Igor Roma was born in Baden (German Switzerland) and began to take piano lessons at the age of eleven. In 1984 he moved to Italy and settled in Schio, where he attended classes at the Music School and later at the Conservatoire of Music of Vicenza with Carlo Mazzoli until 1991, the year in which he received his diploma.
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Kathryn Stott

KATHRYN STOTT
Kathryn Stott is recognised internationally as one of Britain’s most versatile and imaginative musicians and among today's most engaging pianists. She is in demand for a wide variety of chamber music alliances, playing with some of the world’s leading instrumentalists, as well as appearing on major international concert platforms in recitals and concerto performances.
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Barry McGovern

BARRY MCGOVERN
Barry McGovern is recognised by many as one of the leading interpreters of the work of Samuel Beckett, has given many readings of Beckett's prose and poetry and has lectured on Beckett. His recording of the complete Beckett novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable is available. Barry McGovern's one-man show I'll Go On first produced by the Gate over 25 years ago has played worldwide.
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KATYA APEKISHEVA FINGHIN COLLINS FIACHRA GARVEY NORIKO OGAWA CHARLES OWEN ENRICO PACE IGOR ROM KATHRYN STOTT


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