🌟 [ 12 ]   NSO RIAM Concerto Competition 2023 - Kalle Peura - Rachmaninovs Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini [ @Royal Irish Academy of Music ]

The National Symphony Orchestra and Royal Irish Academy of Music Concerto Project 2023 saw four of RIAM’s most exciting, emerging student-artists making their concerto debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gavin Maloney, in Dublin’s National Concert Hall on Wednesday 31 May. Soprano Lauren McCann, mezzo-soprano Emma Power, pianist Kalle Peura and Rachel Nolan on flute performed cornerstone works of the repertoire, all virtuosic showpieces for the soloist: Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, and Nielsen’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra. The NSO Concerto Project provides RIAM students at an advanced level of study – from final-year Bachelor of Music to Master in Music Performance and Recital Artist Diploma level – with an opportunity to perform in a professional setting with an orchestra. For this inaugural NSO Concerto Project concert, performers were selected following two competitive rounds of auditions before a panel that included NSO General Manager Anthony Long, RIAM Director Deborah Kelleher and all four Heads of the Keyboard, Strings, Vocal Studies, and Wind, Brass and Percussion Faculties. Anthony Long, General Manager, National Symphony Orchestra u0026 Chorus: “The National Symphony Orchestra is delighted to partner with the Royal Irish Academy of Music on the NSO Concerto Project. Supporting emerging artists and providing opportunities for them to work at a professional level on the stage of the National Concert Hall is an important part of the orchestra’s work. We are proud to add it to our programme which also includes support for winners of the Maura Dowdall Concerto Competition, the RDS Music Bursary and the Irish Freemasons’ Young Musician of the Year”. Deborah Kelleher, Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music: “The NSO Concerto Project provides RIAM third level students with the unrivalled opportunity to perform as a soloist with .

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