Finghin Collins, Piano
"Finghin Collins has long been the most successful Irish pianist of his generation...In Schumann's carnivalesque Faschingsschwank aus Wien, he enabled the music to burst with explosive energy and to linger languishingly in pools of tenderness. This was definitely a carnival to celebrate."
Michael Dervan, The Irish Times
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. Winner of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition in 1994 and the Classical Category at the National Entertainment Awards in 1998, he went on to achieve major international success by taking first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Since then he has developed a flourishing international career that takes him all over Europe, the United States and the Far East.
Programme:
Johannes Brahms
Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Franz Schubert
Drei Klavierstücke D. 946
No. 1 in E-flat minor
No. 2 in E-flat major
No. 3 in C major
John Kinsella
Reflection II
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 14
1. Allegro, ma non troppo - Più mosso - Tempo primo
2. Scherzo. Allegro marcato
3. Andante
4. Vivace - Moderato – Vivace
Tour Dates
Wednesday 27 Jun, Dundrum Town Centre, Dundrum, Dublin 16
- Mill Theatre
- 8pm, €20 / €18
- 01 2969340
- www.milltheatre.ie/
