Pianist Finghin Collins celebrates 20 years with major national tour

Embarking on a major 17 venue tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of receiving first prize in the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland, Irish pianist Finghin Collins will perform the programme with which he won the competition and established him as an international pianist at Solstice Arts Centre on Thursday 10th October. Collins will perform Mozart’s ‘Alla Turca’ sonata and Schubert’s A major Sonata D.959, as well as a selection from the Ros Tapestry, a New Ross Piano Festival commission of a number of Irish composers.

Finghin Collins is the outstanding Irish pianist of his generation enjoying a flourishing worldwide career and is a regular guest at festivals and concert seasons all year round. He studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Geneva Conservatoire before winning the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition in 1994 and the Classical Category at the National Entertainment Awards in Ireland in 1998. Since winning the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition he has continued to advance in a career that takes him all over Europe and the United States, as well to the Far East and Australia.  In October 2017, the National University of Ireland conferred on him an honorary Degree of Doctor of Music. Collins has been Artistic Director of Music for Galway since 2013 and is also the founding Artistic Director of the New Ross Piano Festival.

Tickets priced €18 / €16 are available from Solstice Box Office on 046 909 2300 or on www.solsticeartscentre.ie.