Cathal Breslin Piano Recital

Published on Jan 16, 2015

Rating:

Genre: NCPA

Dates: Saturday, March 14, 2015

Venue: Multi-functional Theatre of NCPA

Prices: 120, 160, 200

Features: Cathal Breslin is a concert pianist originally from Northern Ireland and has performed as soloist with many orchestras. On March 14th, Cathal Breslin will hold a piano recital at Multi-functional Theatre of NCPA.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Cathal Breslin is a concert pianist originally from Derry, Northern Ireland, now living in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States. In 2008 he founded the Walled City Music Festival with his wife, American flautist Sabrina Hu. In 2014, their Festival is in its sixth year, and it has featured artists such as the Kronos Quartet,Sir James Galway, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Augustin Dumay, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Jan Vogler, Raphael Wallfisch, Jeffrey Zeigler, Jonathan Lemalu, Brodsky Quartet, Fitzwilliam Quartet, Houston Winds, Svetozar Ivanov, Kirill Troussov, Ye-Eun Choi among many others.

He has performed as soloist with many orchestras, including the Turin Philharmonic in Italy, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Ulster Orchestra, Camerata Ireland, RTE Concert Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, and with conductors such as Vladimir Altschuler, Barry Douglas, Christian Gansch,Giovanni Battista Rigon, Niklas Willén, Stephen Bell, David Brophy, Gearoid Grant, Courtney Lewis and Matthew Coorey.

His competition wins have included at the 2007 Viotti International Piano Competition in Vercelli/ Milan, Italy, at the 2007 Iowa International Piano Competition in the U.S., at the 2004 Carlet International Piano Competition in Valencia, Spain, and at the 2004 Grand Konzerteum International Piano Competition in Athens, Greece, and the 2003 AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, at which he won the Brennan prize and the John Field prize.

His live performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (including on "In Tune" and "Recital"), BBC Radio Ulster, RTE Ireland, RTHK Hong Kong, RTVE Spain, and on television in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Spain and Ireland. He recorded extensively for the European Broadcasting Union, solo sonatas for the Mozart Project 2006 and a Takemitsu Piano Concerto with the RTE Concert Orchestra for the Poets and Literature Series 2010. These recordings have been broadcast worldwide throughout the EBU network.