Anello Gavan

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.

I concerti più importanti includono esibizioni con la London Symphony Orchestra ai BBC Proms e al Lucerne Festival sotto la direzione di Sir Simon Rattle, l'Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment alla Royal Festival Hall sotto la direzione di Sir Mark Elder e l'Orchestra Sinfonica della Radio di Monaco al Prinzregententheater sotto la direzione di Keri Lynn. Wilson. Il lavoro in recital include trasmissioni regolari su BBC Radio 3 e RTÉ Lyric FM oltre ad apparizioni alla Wigmore Hall, all'Oxford Lieder Festival e al Ludlow English Song Festival, collaborando con pianisti come Simon Lepper, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Sholto Kynoch e Iain Burnside. I momenti salienti dell'opera includono ruoli da protagonista alla 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 e Wexford Festival Opera.

La discografia include 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 e Sullivan : HMS Pinafore (Linn Records 2016), Offenbach: Fantasio (Opera Rara 2014) e 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.