Young Musician of the Year
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Jane Carty was born in Dublin, graduating with a B Mus.Degree and a BA degree in Music and Modern Languages, from University College, Dublin, as well as the Diploma in Music Teaching, receiving an Exhibition Award as a result of her B Mus. Degree examination, having studied in Paris, Strasbourg and Perugia, Italy. She started her career as a teacher of Piano, Theory and Composition at what is now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. A singer, pianist and cellist herself, she presented and produced documentary music programmes for Radio from the major European Music Festivals during her subsequent career as Executive Producer for Radio Telefis Eireann, Ireland’s national broadcasting organisation. She organised and directed national competitions for choirs, singers, instrumentalists and composers, and was the Founder/ Director of the RTE Musician of the Future Festival.
Her work as a singing, choral and instrumental Jury Member has taken her all over Europe, including, for many years, the Llangollen International Choral Eisteddfod in Wales, as well as further afield to Hong Kong and the West Indies.
For many years she has been a Member of the Media Jury of the International Hans Gabor
Belvedere Singing Competition, Vienna, as well as organising, and adjudicating at , the Dublin Qualifying Round of the Competition every year.
She is presently a Patron and Chairman of the Jury of the newly inaugurated Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year Competition, for 3rd level instrumental students at our Colleges of Music who are studying for Degrees in Music Performance.
She has been a Member of the Board of Governors of the RIAM since the year 2000 and
the regular Chairman of the Jury of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition since it’s inception.
Jane has been the Chairman of the Jury for the Irish Qualifying Round of the Dublin International Piano Competition since the Competition began, is the Irish member on the Board of Trustees of Europa Musicale, a former Director of the National Concert Hall of Ireland and the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and a former member of the Repertory Committee of the Wexford Festival.
She is a also recipient of a Jacobs Radio Award for her work in furthering and promoting the careers of Irish musicians, both in Ireland and abroad.
In June 2010 Jane was awarded the highest honour the Royal Irish Academy of Music can give – The Fellowship Honoris Causa (FRIAM ).
Dearbhla Collins is regarded as one of Ireland's finest and most versatile musicians. As well as being an accomplished and prize-winning solo pianist with a distinguished performing career nationally and internationally, she is respected equally as chamber musician and vocal coach.
In recent years Dearbhla has specialised in the song repertoire and appears regularly in concert with singers such as Regina Nathan, Franzita Whelan, Detlef Roth and Jean-Marc Salzmann. Dearbhla is the vocal coach at the RIAM and works with Opera Ireland, Opera Theatre Company and Welsh National Opera.
Dearbhla's recent engagements include song recitals with Robin Tritschler, Franzita Whelan, Buddug Verona James and Paul Austin Kelly and piano trio concerts with Gillian Williams and Arun Rao. In March/April 2007 she gave concerts and masterclasses in Shanghai and Beijing with John Molloy, bass and will make a return trip to China, this time to Wuhan Conservatory of Music for a week of master classes and a recital with Aylish Kerrigan, mezzo soprano, in October of that year.
Since January 2005 she has been the Artistic Administrator of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition.
She was the Director of the 2003 Dublin Hugo Wolf Festival, which took place in the Hugh Lane Gallery and showcased for the first time in Ireland the complete songbooks of the Austrian Lieder composer. In 2006 she coordinated, in association with the Austrian Embassy, all major events taking place in Ireland to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart.
Eamonn Lawlor - Before joining RTÉ lyric fm when the station opened in 1999, Eamonn was one of Ireland's leading news and current affairs broadcasters. He was RTÉ's European Correspondent for ten years and presented the 'Six One' news and 'Prime Time' on RTÉ One.
More recently he has become the most prestigious ‘voice of music’ on RTÉ lyric fm, presenting The Lyric Concert (Mon-Thurs, 8.30pm-11pm) as well as the regular Friday night RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra concerts live from the National Concert Hall.
Eamonn was born in Delvin, Co Westmeath and went to school at Rockwell College, Cashel. He holds an MA in Modern English and American Literature from University College Dublin. Since his schooldays he has been passionately interested in the Arts, particularly music and literature.
John N Rowden started playing piano at the age of eight, realising his ambition by transferring to organ at the age of 16. He studied under W S Grieg at St Patricks Cathedral, Dublin, and then later became a protege of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
He has been Grand Organist at The Grand Lodge of Ireland for over 20 years, playing at all ceremonial occasions at Freemasons' Hall. He has played at the National Concert Hall Dublin, The Ulster Hall Belfast, The Guildhall in Derry, and Liverpool Cathedral, England; not to speak of most of the Churches in and around Dublin.
He was accompanist to many Choral Societies including the Seafield Singers. John's remaining ambition is to play at Notre Dame, Paris!