Background
Anthony Byrne was born in meadowbrook.
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In 1980 Anthony Byrne studied in the University of Western Ontario, Canada with the British pianist Peter Katin. In 1981 and 1982 he studied in New York with Adele Marcus whilst also studying conducting with Vincent Louisiana Selva at the Juilliard School.
Career
Anthony Byrne"s final studies were with Alexander Kelly in London, England. Anthony Byrne has given many recitals and broadcasts both RTÉ and the British Broadcasting Corporation including his Dublin debut, National Concert Hall 1985, London debut, Purcell Room 1986 and Wigmore Hall 1989. He has performed extensively with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra including the Irish premiere of Leroy Anderson"s Piano Concerto in 1997.
He has also performed in the United States of America, Canada and Japan.
As a Chamber musician, he has worked with many of Ireland"s leading musicians and singers. He performed the complete sonatas for piano and violin by Beethoven with Alan Smale, the leader of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.
Anthony"s Byrne most important work has been in the promotion and performing of Irish Contemporary Piano Music. He has performed and broadcast more than 50 works including 17 first performances.
Irish works performed:
First performances marked (1st)
Elain Agnew:
Seagull (1st)
Gerald Barry:
Piano Quartet Number.
2
Brian Beckett:
Fastasy Variations
Seóirse Bodley:
Aislingí
The Tightrope Walker Presents a Rose
Brian Boydell:
Sarabande
Sleeping Leprechaun
Dance
John Buckley:
Three Preludes
The Cloths of Heaven (written for Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Like Ghosts from an Enchanter Fleeing (written for Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Jim Singing;
And wake the purple year
Three Lullabies for Deirdre
The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun
Winter Music (commissioned by Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Oileáin
Toccata (written for Anthony Byrne) (1st) A Thin Halo of Blue (1st)
Rhona Clarke:
Gleann Da Lough (written for Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Béal Dearg (commissioned by Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Piano Trio Number. 2
Jerome de Bromhead:
Three Fresh Pieces (commissioned by Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Raymond Deane:
Linos 1 and 2
Quaterternion for Piano, Celeste and Orchestra (1st)
Compact for Piano and Orchestra (1st)
Benjamin Dwyer:
Three Pieces for Piano (commissioned by Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Tiento
Hormoz Farhat (Persian composer living in Ireland):
4 Etudes
John Gibson
Nocturne 1977
Moladh go Deo le Dia
Fergus Johnston:
Three piano pieces
John Kinsella:
Sonata no 1
Reflection no 2
Reflection no 3
Eibhlis Farrell:
Time Drops
Philip Flood:
December Preludes
Bernard Geary:
Scherzo (written for Anthony Byrne)
Two Cameos (1st)
And lastly came cold February (1st)
Sonatina (1st)
Prelude and Interlude
Two Poems for Violin and Piano
Marion Ingoldsby:
Undulations 2
Philip Martin:
Soundings (commissioned by Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Colman Pearce:
Prelude and Ludus (written for Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Toccata Festiva (written for Anthony Byrne) (1st)
Eric Sweeney:
5 inventions
James Wilson:
Five Preludes (1st)
Ostinato (written for Anthony Byrne)
He has also been listed in the Encyclopedia of Ireland 2003 and Who"s Who in Ireland 2006. Anthony Byrne has been a Lecturer in Piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music since 1991.
