Anthony Kearns

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Anthony Kearns (born 17 August 1971, Kiltealy, County Wexford, Ireland) is a founding member of the Irish Tenors, along with Ronan Tynan and John McDermott.

Contents 1 Early career 2 Irish Tenors 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Early career

He was one of six children in a musical family, played the accordion and sang traditional Irish songs with his family. He attended F.C.J. Secondary School Bunclody, then studied catering and hotel management.^[1]. He achieved success at the age of 21 in 1993 after entering a national radio competition "Ireland's Search for a Tenor" on the Gay Byrne programme. This was run to celebrate the issuing of a new ten pound note. The only competitor not to have had formal training, he won the event, singing The Impossible Dream and Danny Boy on a city street in Dublin. One of his prizes was an appearance on Gay Byrne's Late Late Show on TV. He began training with vocal coach Veronica Dunne who had been a judge on the show. After that he relinquished his various day jobs to pursue a full-time career in music.^[2]

Anthony is rapidly making is name in the world of opera, a genre for which he has a great love. He sang Fenton in an Italian production of Falstaff, sang Faust for Opera Ireland, and will sing Don Jose in Carmen in Ireland in June 2010.

[edit] Irish Tenors

Kearns, Tynan and John McDermott were brought together for a concert at the Royal Dublin Society in 1998. The concert was broadcast on the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1999 and the group found itself in huge demand for concerts across the Atlantic. After only a few months of international prominence, McDermott had left the group, to be replaced by Finbar Wright. In 2006 Ronan Tynan left and was replaced by another Irish tenor Karl Scully. The group now: Kearns, Wright and Scully, continues to tour and record and each member also continues with solo projects.^[2]

[edit] References

http://anthonykearns.net/AJKBIO.html

http://www.theirishtenors.com/anthony.html

http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608003200/The-Irish-Tenors.html

[edit] External links

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• Anthony Kearns official website
• http://anthonykearns.net/
• http://www.theirishtenors.com/anthony.html