Fiachra Garvey / Soo-Jung Ann, piano 4 hands

C. Debussy: Petite Suite L 65
A. Beach: Summer Dreams op 47
M. Bonis: Suite en forme de valses
F. Schubert: Fantasia in f minor D 940

Pianist Fiachra Garvey leads a series of chamber music concerts drawing on music of dreams and dreaming.

Debussy’s Petite Suite is one of the composers’ most popular and frequently played works, completed at the end of his student life as he embarked on his career. Beach’s Summer Dreams are jewels in the 4 hands repertoire with incredible variety and contrast in emotion and character. Bonis’ Suite induces an oriental flavour, nonchalant and cheerful. Schubert’s Fantasy is arguably the pinnacle of the 4 hands repertoire, a masterwork and one of the composer’s finest offerings.

1st prizewinner at the 2012 Jaques Samuel Competition, London, Fiachra Garvey, ARAM, has performed in venues from the Fazioli Auditorium in Italy to London’s Wigmore Hall. The National Concert Hall Dublin awarded Fiachra the “Rising Star” prize in 2011, which subsequently led to a series of concerto and solo debuts.

Recent highlights include the first classical recital at Google Dublin, a series of solo and two piano recitals in Japan, a tour of China including giving masterclasses at the Beijing Conservatory of Music, as well as appearances at Spoleto Festival Italy, Wexford Opera, Brighton Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Bridgewater Hall Manchester and The Geneva Festival, Switzerland. Fiachra’s debut CD “For the Piano”, under the Lyric FM label “brings a deep and infectious enthusiasm, combined with insight and technical comfort.” (Sunday Times). His second CD is a live performance from Wigmore Hall.

Praised by the German music critic Marie-Louise Funk as “an inspiration beyond excellence, beyond time and space” (Die Rheinpfalz), Soo-Jung Ann has been crossing, expanding and recreating the boundaries of music. A multi-award winning South Korean pianist based in Europe, she has since been a leading force of 21st-century classical music internationally, performing widely across Germany, Italy, Austria, France and Ireland and with major orchestras.

Since winning first prize at the Beethoven Competition in Bonn, Ann has been acclaimed as the next Beethoven specialist following the legendary pianist Prof. John O’Conor. Her ability to transport the audience into an emotionally engaging world of music, one that transcends borders of all kinds.