St Nicholas Church, Church Street, Chiswick, W4 2PJ
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Tickets £10 on the door, Students £5. Stay afterwards for Tea and Cake – £5.
All payments by cash or card on the door or Eventbrite.
Queries: stnicksconcerts@gmail.com.
All Profits to support emerging local young musicians at St Nicholas Church.
Fiachra Garvey is a pianist “possessed of a maturity and profound understanding of his art”, which when combined with his “infectious enthusiasm for music-making”, has already captivated audiences in concert halls across Europe and beyond.
First prize-winner at the 2012 Jaques Samuel Competition, London, he has performed in venues from the Fazioli Auditorium to Wigmore Hall. He has also been a prize-winner at AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, EU Prague and the Soirees-Concours Internationales de Piano a Collioure, France. The National Concert Hall awarded Fiachra the “Rising Star” prize in 2011, which subsequently led to a series of concerto and solo debuts.
Concerto appearances include the Janáček Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, National Youth orchestra of Ireland, Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, UCD Symphony Orchestra, RIAM Symphony Orchestra and the Hibernian Orchestra.
Fiachra has recorded and broadcast for the BBC, RTÉ (Irish Radio) and the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and has released two solo albums, “For the Piano” (RTE Lyric fm label) and a Live from Wigmore Hall disc. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of both the West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival and Classical Vauxhall.
Fiachra was awarded an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London (ARAM) in 2018, served on the Board of Directors of the Dublin International Piano Competition from 2016-2022 and was made a Feeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 2021 and a Freeman of the City of London in 2022.
On holiday he loves to return home to help on the family farm with the yearly lambing, dipping, shearing, harvesting and all the other refined activities on the farm, and this he feels makes him a more inspired and fulfilled musician.
www.fiachragarvey.com
www.westwicklowfestival.com
Fiachra Garvey presents a programme inspired by Cities. Beginning with the mythical city of Y’s in Debussy’s La Cathédrale Engloutie, we move to the Isle of Cythera for the Romantic L’isle Joyeuse. Next to the authentic district of Triana in Seville, before heading east to the Gates of Kiev in Mussorgsky’s gargantuan Pictures at an Exhibition.
