Hugh Tinney
Hugh Tinney is an Irish pianist. Since he debuted in 1987 Proms, performing Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto along with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales he has developed an intense concert career throughout the United Kingdom, having collaborated with orchestras such as the London's Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and Mozart players, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Dublin's Orchestra of St. Cecilia - with whom he performed Mozart's 21 Mozart piano concertos among 1995-98. Dublinese highlights of his solo career include two major recital series in the at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1991, 1995) and six recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas at the Royal Dublin Society (2000-02). Furthermore, he has extensevely performed at an international level, having acted in Spanish, Czech, Belgian, Finnish, French, Japanese and American festivals.
Throughout his career he has cultivated chamber music, collaborating with the Borodin, Tokyo, Vanbrugh and Vogler String Quartets, as well as musicians such as Finghin Collins, John O'Conor, John Finucane, Carol McGonnell, Bernadette Greevy, Steven Isserlis and Catherine Leonard. As a concert pianist, his major achievements were a 5th prize in the 9th Leeds Int. Competition and winning the 8th Santander Int. Competition.[1]
He's a professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and has served as the Music Festival in Great Irish Houses' Artistic Director between 2000-06.
Discography
- Ludwig van Beethoven - 5th and 9th Violin Sonatas + Catherine Leonard. RTE lyric fm label, 2007.
- Raymond Deane - After-pieces. Black Box.
- Aloys Fleischmann - Piano Quintet + RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
- Ferenc Liszt monographic - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, Après une lecture du Dante, Chasse-neige, Valses oubliées. DECCA, 1985.
- Ferenc Liszt - Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses. Meridian Records.
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Concertos for two pianos + Benjamin Frith; RTE Sinfonietta - Proinnsias O'Duinn. Naxos Records
- Ian Wilson - Music por violin and piano: BIG, Drive, From the book of longing, A haunted heart, Spilliaert's beach. Riverrun Records.
References
- ^ "El irlandés Hugh Tinney gana el concurso de piano Paloma O'Shea". El País. August 6, 1984.
External links
- Hugh Tinney's biography
- Tinney's American debut review; The New York Times - November 24, 1985
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