Music Network is delighted to present Finghin Collins on Saturday 5 July at Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire at 8pm performing works by Haydn, Schumann, Chopin and Jane O’Leary.

One of Ireland’s most successful musicians, Dubliner Finghin Collins was born in 1977 and studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O’Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. Winner of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition in 1994 and the Classical Category at the National Entertainment Awards in 1998, he went on to achieve major international success by taking first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Since then he has developed a flourishing international career that takes him all over Europe, the United States and the Far East.

Programme:

Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata No. 59 in E flat Major, Hob. XVI: 49
Allegro
Adagio e cantabile
Finale: Tempo di Menuet

Robert Schumann
Faschingsschwank aus Wien - Carnival Jest from Vienna, Op. 26
Allegro: Sehr lebhaft
Romanze: Ziemlich langsam
Scherzino
Intermezzo: Mit Größter Energie
Finale: Höchst Lebhaft

Jane O’Leary
Five Bagatelles
1. gently
2. light, sparkling
3. as if in a dream…softly
4. curious, hesitant
5. gently, as if muted…

Frédéric Chopin
Four Mazurkas, Op.17
1. Vivo e risoluto
2. Lento, ma non troppo
3. Legato assai
4. Lento, ma non troppo

Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat Major, Op. 61

“Of Finghin Collins as soloist, little needs to be said that has not been said before: he is exceptionally fluent, exceptionally intelligent, exceptionally sensitive, responding to every possible nuance that Stanford prescribes.” International Record Review  

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