Hugh Tinney (born 1958) is an Irish pianist.
Biography
Tinney was a pupil at
Gonzaga College
Gonzaga College SJ is a voluntary Catholic boys' secondary school in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1950, Gonzaga College is under the trusteeship of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), one of five Jesuit secondary schools in Ir ...
, Dublin through the 1970s, and studied physics at Trinity College Dublin. In 1983 he won the first prize of the
International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition in
Seregno
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It is served by Seregno railway station ...
,
Italy
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, and in 1984, the
Paloma O'Shea Santander International Competition in Spain, to which he would return in 1990 as a jury member. He is also a laureate of the 9th
Leeds Int. Competition.
He debuted in the 1987
Proms, performing Beethoven's
5th Piano Concerto along with the
BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In the course of his UK concert career, he has performed with London's
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable recording contracts and important engagemen ...
,
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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,
Philharmonia
The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, ...
,
London Mozart Players
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History Begin ...
, the
City of Birmingham Symphony, the
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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, the
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Dublin's Orchestra of St. Cecilia, with whom he performed Mozart's 21 piano concertos over the years 1995 – 1998. Dublinese highlights of Tinney's solo career include two major recital series at the
Irish Museum of Modern Art
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History
Irish art collector Gordon Lam ...
(1991, 1995) and six recitals on Beethoven's
piano sonatas Piano sonatas may refer to:
* Piano sonatas (Beethoven)
* Piano sonatas (Boulez)
* Piano sonatas (Chopin)
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at the
Royal Dublin Society
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(2000–02). His international career includes appearances at Spanish, Czech, Belgian, Finnish, French, Japanese and American festivals.
Throughout his career Tinney has cultivated chamber music, collaborating with the
Borodin,
Tokyo
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,
Vanbrugh and Vogler String Quartets, as well as musicians such as
Finghin Collins,
John O'Conor, John Finucane, Carol McGonnell,
Bernadette Greevy,
Steven Isserlis
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and Catherine Leonard.
Tinney is 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. In 2007, he was awarded a Doctor of Music (honoris causa) degree by the
National University of Ireland
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.
Personal life
His older sister Eithne Tinney is also a concert pianist, as well as an
RTÉ
(; ; RTÉThe É in RTÉ is pronounced as an English E () and not an Irish É ()) is an Irish public service broadcaster. It both produces and broadcasts programmes on television, radio and online. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, ...
producer, and a director of the
Educational Building Society. His mother was the mathematical physicist
Sheila Tinney.
Discography
*
Ludwig van Beethoven
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-
5th and
9th Violin Sonatas + Catherine Leonard.
RTÉ lyric fm
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label, 2007.
*
Raymond Deane
Raymond Deane (born 27 January 1953) is an Irish composer.
Biography
Deane was born in Tuam, County Galway and brought up on Achill Island, County Mayo. From 1963 he lived in Dublin, where initially he studied the piano at the then College of ...
- After-pieces. Black Box.
*
Aloys Fleischmann - Piano Quintet +
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
*
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...
- Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude,
Après une lecture du Dante,
Chasse-neige, Valses oubliées.
Decca
Decca may refer to:
Music
* Decca Records or Decca Music Group, record label
* Decca Gold, classical music record label owned by Universal Music Group
* Decca Broadway, musical theater record label
* Decca Studios, recording facility in West ...
, 1985.
* Franz Liszt -
Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses.
Meridian Records.
*
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions inc ...
- Concertos for two pianos +
Benjamin Frith; RTÉ Sinfonietta - Proinnsias O'Duinn.
Naxos Records
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*
Ian Wilson - Music por violin and piano: BIG, Drive, From the book of longing, A haunted heart, Spilliaert's beach. Riverrun Records.
References
External links
Hugh Tinney's website The New York Times
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- 24 November 1985
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1958 births
21st-century Irish classical pianists
Living people
Prize-winners of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
Prize-winners of the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition
International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition prize-winners
People educated at Gonzaga College
Pupils of Maria Curcio
1980s in Irish music
1990s in Irish music
2000s in Irish music
2010s in Irish music
2020s in Irish music