Peter Tuite is a classical concert

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Early studies

Born in

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, Tuite was first educated at Belvedere College SJ. He studied under Anthony Glavin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and later at the

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in the

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. Tuite earned degrees at

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, and the

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before, in 2002, he was awarded a

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and a Bank or Ireland Millennium Scholarship for further study in the United States, whereupon he enrolled at the Peabody Institute of

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. After completing his graduate studies at Peabody, he earned a Masters in Literature and Arts from the

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. Whilst a student, Tuite won several awards for classical performance, including the Millennium Young Musician of the Future competition, and the Chopin Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition.

Career

A number of Tuite's performances have been broadcast on both radio and television. In 2008, he was appointed head of the keyboard faculty at the

, whilst between 2015 and 2018, he served as "Head of Piano and Keyboard Instruments" at

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in London. As of May 2020 he was a member of faculty at both the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. In April 2024, Tuite was appointed as Head of Keyboard at the Royal Irish Academy of Music for a further four years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tuite, Peter 1976 births Living people 21st-century Irish classical pianists Irish classical musicians Alumni of the Royal Irish Academy of Music Musicians from Dublin (city) People educated at Belvedere College