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Acclaimed Irish pianist and Beethoven interpreter offers insights into the composer’s music ahead of his February 3rd performance in Aiken.

County Roscommon pianist Peter Regan has just returned from the International Talent Master Classes competition in Brescia, in the province of Lombardy in…

℘℘℘ The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig is located in lush and lovely countryside populated by more cows than people and rather inconveniently located 75 miles from Dublin and Belfast on what the lady in the airport car rental office called “the far side Monaghan near the County Cavan line.” The nearest village, five miles to the east, is Newbliss, settled way back by Scotch Presbyterians whose descendants seem to keep the even tenor of their heritage. Pubs are scarce and open...

On the morning of the All-Ireland semi-finals weekend, there was a notable comment on Morning Ireland. One of the presenters said something like "God, its all so exciting, and were looking forward to it… well, I know not everyones interested in sport, but even people who arent, have been following this..." I felt like throwing a brick through the radio. The only reason I even knew matches were being played was because there was incessant wall-to-wall coverage on RTÉ. Later the same morning,...

Carlingford based tenor Gavan Ring and pianist Gary Beecher get together for the final concert in the Drogheda Classical Music 2020 autumn series will streamed be on Friday December 11 at 7.30pm. The concert from the beautiful setting of St Peters Church of Ireland features a selection of well-known operatic arias and songs by the great operatic composers Puccini, Mozart and Verdi as well as favourites such Schuberts Ave Maria, and Italian songs made famous by the legendary tenor Pavarotti. Al...