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Ronan
O’Hora studied at the Royal Northern
College of Music with Ryszard Bakst. He won
many awards as a student at the RNCM including
the Dayas Gold Medal, the Silver Medal of the
Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Concerto
Prize. He has performed extensively throughout
the world, playing concertos with such orchestras
as the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC
Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy
of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Zurich Tonhalle,
Indianapolis Symphony, Florida Philharmonic,
Philharmonia Hungarica and Queensland Philharmonic. |
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He
has performed in every major country in Europe
as well as across the USA, Canada, Australasia
and South Africa and appeared at many of the
most prestigious music festivals including
Salzburg, Gstaad, Ravinia, Montpelier and
Brno.
He
has given many performances on television
and radio throughout the world including a
televised recital at the Chopin Society in
Warsaw, a televised performance of Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No 4 with the Netherlands Radio
Symphony, two concerts of Mozart chamber music
on BBC TV, as well as over one hundred concerts
on BBC Radio 3.
Ronan O'Hora has recorded more than thirty
CDs for the EMI, Virgin Classics, Tring International,
Dinemic and Fone labels. These include concertos
by Mozart, Grieg and Tschaikowsky with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, solo CDs of
Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Mozart,
Debussy, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Satie, and
chamber music by Faure, Brahms, Dvorak, Mozart
and Britten.
Ronan O'Hora has been a piano professor at
the Royal Northern College of Music and Chethams
School of Music. He regularly gives masterclasses
and sits on competition juries throughout
the world.
Ronan O'Hora has been Head of Keyboard Studies
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
in London since 1999.
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