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Ukrainian Wednesday 30th April, 8pm
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.
Los aspectos más destacados del concierto incluyen actuaciones con la Orquesta Sinfónica de Londres en los BBC Proms y el Festival de Lucerna bajo la dirección de Sir Simon Rattle, la Orquesta del Siglo de las Luces en el Royal Festival Hall bajo la dirección de Sir Mark Elder y la Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio de Munich en el Prinzregententheater bajo la dirección de Keri Lynn. Wilson. El trabajo de recitales incluye transmisiones regulares en BBC Radio 3 y RTÉ Lyric FM, además de apariciones en Wigmore Hall, el Oxford Lieder Festival y el Ludlow English Song Festival, colaborando con pianistas como Simon Lepper, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Sholto Kynoch e Iain Burnside. Los aspectos más destacados de la ópera incluyen papeles protagónicos en Cork Opera House, Garsington Opera, Glyndebourne, Irish National Opera, La Monnaie De Munt, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opera Holland Park, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera y Wexford Festival Opera.
La discografía incluye 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 2018), Gilbert and Sullivan : HMS Pinafore (Linn Records 2016), Offenbach: Fantasio (Opera Rara 2014) y 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.
