Music for Wexford presents Katie Tertell, Sinead Farrell and Fiachra Garvey

Programme:

J.S. Bach: Sonata in E major BWV 1035

Gaubert: Three Watercolours for flute, cello and piano

Martinu: Trio for flute, cello and piano

Louise Farrenc: Trio for flute, cello and piano

 

Sinead Farrell

Dublin born flautist, Sinéad Farrell, combines a busy career as an orchestral musician, teacher, soloist and chamber musician.

She studied flute with Doris Keogh and William Dowdall, and piccolo with Patricia Morris and Catriona Ryan. Sinéad is a former degree student at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She also received a licenciate diploma in piano, having studied piano with Hugh Tinney and Darina Gibson.

In 2008, Sinéad was appointed principal piccolo/sub principal flute at the National Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with many leading orchestras including the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Ireland, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera.

As a soloist, Sinéad has performed concerti with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Dublin Orchestral Players, Hibernian Chamber Orchestra and the RIAM symphony orchestra. She has given many recitals around Ireland with acclaimed Irish pianists, Hugh Tinney and Darina Gibson.

Sinéad has a keen interest in chamber music, is a founding member of the Ficino Ensemble, and has performed all over Ireland, Europe and Northern America as a chamber musician. She has featured on many albums and soundtracks.

She currently teaches flute and piccolo at the RIAM and in St Louis School of Music in Rathmines. She has given several masterclasses in piccolo performance and strongly believes in making the piccolo more approachable and accessible to flute players

Katie Tertell

Award-winning American cellist Katie Tertell is a performer and artistic curator, innovating how classical music is digested in modern times. Katie is the Executive Artistic Director and Founder of the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival, headquartered in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA. She is a core member of Musici Ireland , member of critically-acclaimed band Howay the Lasses, artistic lead and co-founder of the “Lost in Plain Sight” research project, and founding member of her duo, Cello Power. Formerly a member of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, she enjoys a rich and varied experience as an artist in Europe, America and globally.

Katie also performs and records regularly with celebrated European symphony and chamber orchestras including in various leadership roles at major venues and festivals like the Barbican and Southbank Centre in London, BBC Proms and the National Concert Hall of Ireland. She can be heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and RTÈ Lyric FM in recorded and live performances of both chamber and orchestral works. Katie teaches cello at Durham University and Newcastle University (UK).

Katie grew up outside of Washington D.C. in McLean, Virginia. She holds degrees with honors in performance from Indiana University, Cleveland Institute of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, as well as a Second Masters degree in Suzuki Pedagogy from the Sato Center at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her teachers and mentors include among many Janos Starker, Emilio Colón, Joely Koos, Peter Dixon and Ralph Kirschbaum. She plays on an 1888 Colin-Mezin cello.

Fiachra Garvey

Fiachra Garvey has also been a prizewinner at AXA Dublin International Piano Competition (Brennan Prize and McCullough Bursary), EU Piano Competition Prague (concerto finalist), 3rd Soirees-Concours Internationales de Piano a Collioure, France (Audience award) and Feis Ceoil Dublin (Morris Grant Bursary and Mabel Swainson award). The National Concert Hall Dublin awarded Fiachra the “Rising Star” prize in 2011 which led to a number of solo and concerto debuts.

Fiachra graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, London in 2013 with 1st class honours and distinction in the M.A. in Music Performance. This follows a 1st class honours B.A. in Music Performance from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 2011 and a 1st class honours DipMus (performance and teaching) from the RIAM in 2008.

Concerto appearances include the Janáček Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTE Concert Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra, RIAM Symphony Orchestra, Hibernian Orchestra and UCD Symphony Orchestra working with eminent conductors including John Wilson, Duncan Ward, Theodore Kuchar, Stephen Bell and Mihhail Gerts.