FIACHRA GARVEY
1st prize winner at the Jaques Samuel Competition, London, Fiachra Garvey, ARAM, has performed in venues from the Fazioli Auditorium in Italy to London’s Wigmore Hall. He has also been a prizewinner at AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, EU Piano Competition Prague, and Soirees-Concours Internationales de Piano a Collioure, France. The National Concert Hall Dublin awarded Fiachra the “Rising Star” prize, leading to a series of solo debuts.
Concerto appearances include Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini with the Janáček Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky No 1 and Poulenc with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra and Cambridge SO, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Grieg with the RTE Concert Orchestra, Prokofiev no 3 with the RIAM, Shostakovich No 1 with Irish Chamber Orchestra and Grieg with the Hibernian Orchestra; working with eminent conductors including John Wilson, Duncan Ward, Theodore Kuchar, Stephen Bell and Mihhail Gerts.
Recent highlights include the first classical recital at Google Dublin, a series of solo and two piano recitals in Japan, a tour of China – including giving masterclasses at the Beijing Conservatory of Music, as well as appearances at Spoleto Festival Italy, Wexford Opera, Brighton Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Bridgewater Hall Manchester and The Geneva Festival, Switzerland.
Fiachra’s debut CD “For the Piano”, under the Lyric FM label “brings a deep and infectious enthusiasm, combined with insight and technical comfort.” (Sunday Times). His second CD is a live performance from Wigmore Hall.
Fiachra is the Founder and Artistic Director of the West Wicklow Festival, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Classical Vauxhall and sits on the board of the Dublin International Piano Competition.
When not performing, Fiachra loves nothing more than returning home to the family farm to help with the yearly lambing, dipping, shearing, harvesting, and all the other elegant and refined activities on the farm! Fiachra feels this makes him a more inspired and fulfilled musician.