Gavanův prsten

Hailing from Cahersiveen in County Kerry, Irish tenor Dr Gavan Ring studied at the Schola Cantorum at St Finian’s College Mullingar before reading education and music at Dublin City University. An alumnus of the National Opera Studio in London, Gavan is also the first opera singer and the youngest graduate to complete doctoral studies at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Gavan’s ground-breaking doctoral research on Robert O’Dwyer’s Irish language opera Eithne led to the work's first performance in 107 years. A member of the inaugural Cara O'Sullivan Associate Artist Programme at Cork Opera House, Gavan is also a multiple prize-winner at competitions such as the Wigmore Hall Song Competition and the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino. Gavan lectures in voice at Munster Technological University Cork School of Music. Gavan is also the Artistic Director of Drogheda Classical Music.

K vrcholům koncertu patří vystoupení s London Symphony Orchestra na BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival pod vedením Sira Simona Rattlea, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment v Royal Festival Hall pod vedením Sira Marka Eldera a Mnichovským rozhlasovým symfonickým orchestrem v Prinzregententheater pod vedením Keri Lynn- Wilson. Recitální práce zahrnují pravidelné vysílání na BBC Radio 3 a RTÉ Lyric FM plus vystoupení ve Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival a Ludlow English Song Festival ve spolupráci s klavíristy jako Simon Lepper, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Sholto Kynoch a Iain Burnside. Mezi nejvýznamnější operní události patří hlavní role v Cork Opera House, Garsington Opera, Glyndebourne, Irská národní opera, La Monnaie De Munt, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opera Holland Park, Opera North, Skotská opera, Waleská národní opera a Wexford Festival Opera.

Diskografie zahrnuje Barry: Alice's Adventures Underground (Signum Classics 2021), Larchet: The Complete Songs and Airs (Champs Hill 2020), Rossini: Sigismondo (Bayerischen Rundfunks 2019), O'Dwyer: Eithne (RTÉ Lyric FM a Sullivan 2018), Gilbert : HMS Pinafore (Linn Records 2016), Offenbach: Fantasio (Opera Rara 2014) a Fleischmann: Orchestral Works (RTÉ Lyric FM 2010).

Gavan is kindly supported by Howard Gatiss, the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the Skellig Six 18 Distillery, Andrew and Lucy Penny, Dominic and Corina Buckwell, Hugh and Adah Sachs-Simpson and Michael and Giancarla Alen-Buckley.