Finghin Collins, piano

Saturday,

November 2, 2013

8:00 PM 

Free

(donations welcome)

Westmoreland Congregational

UCC Church

1 Westmoreland Cir.

Bethesda, MD 20816

Directions

Program

Sonata in D Major, K. 284....Mozart

Estampes....Debussy

Rhapsodies, Op. 79....Brahms

Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946....Schubert

Piano Master Class

Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 3 pm

Free and open to the public

with Washington Conservatory piano students

Johnna Lee, Benjamin Cashin, Brad Adelman

Washington Conservatory at Glen Echo Park

7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, MD

 Directions

Widely regarded as one of Ireland's finest classical musicians, Finghin Collins (pronounced Fineen) has just completed a fascinating project as the first ever Associate Artist of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. As part of this three-year tenure, he performed the complete Mozart and Beethoven piano concertos with the orchestra, having directed most of them from the keyboard.

Since taking first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey, Switzerland in 1999, pianist Finghin Collins enjoys a flourishing career that embraces Ireland, Europe, the United States and Asia. He makes a major contribution to musical life in his native Ireland, where he is Artistic Director of the New Ross Piano Festival and Music for Galway and on the Board of Directors of the Dublin International Piano Competition.

Collins was born in Dublin and studied with John O'Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and with Dominique Merlet at the Geneva Conservatoire. He has performed with leading orchestras such as the Chicago, London and Houston Symphony Orchestras and the Seoul, London, Rotterdam and Royal Philharmonic orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Myung-Whun Chung, Hans Graf, Emmanuel Krivine, Sakari Oramo, Heinrich Schiff, Vassily Sinaisky, and Frans Bruggen.