BIOGRAPHY

Peter Regan is an Irish pianist. His playing has taken him from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Dublin’s National Concert Hall and the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. His performances have been broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM and RTÉ Radio One. Described as “a major talent” and as “the most individual and developed young Irish pianist I’ve heard in years” by Michael Dervan in the Irish Times, Peter earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the Glenn Gould School of Music, Toronto studying under John O’Conor in May 2018, and his M.Mus from the Royal College of Music having studied with Gordon Fergus-Thompson.

As a concerto soloist, Peter has performed Mozart, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff concertos with Camerata Ireland, the Hibernian Orchestra and the Dublin Orchestral Players. He looks forward to performing Grieg’s piano concerto with Artematica Orchestra in Brescia this spring. As a soloist and chamber musician he has played at the Clandeboye Festival, the West Wicklow Festival, Summer Music at Semley, the Pallant House Proms in Chichester, St. James’s Church Piccadilly, the Boyle Arts Festival, Stoller Hall Manchester, Winterval Festival and the Westport Festival of Chamber Music, and in venues throughout Ireland including the National Concert Hall, the National Gallery of Ireland, Cork School of Music, Backstage Theatre Longford and the Examinations Hall of Trinity College Dublin at the invitation of the Goethe Institute Choir. While at the Glenn Gould School he presented and performed in “Kinaesthesia”, a multidisciplinary collaboration between students of the Glenn Gould School of Music and the Ballet Jörgen of Canada. As a past member of St. Finian’s Schola Cantorum, he performed for President Mary McAleese in the Chapel of St. Patrick’s College Maynooth in their 40th anniversary concert.

Last summer, Peter founded and directed the first Fulham Fest Chamber Music Festival. More information about the first and future editions can be found at www.fulhamfest.com. Recently, Peter has performed at Kaunas Piano Festival, the Royal College of Music’s Keyboard Festival, gave solo recitals in London, Liverpool, Madrid and the Town Hall Theatre Galway and has performed chamber music concerts in London at St. Mary-at-Hill, New Malden Church and Charlton House, in Castillo de Locubín (Spain) and in Christchurch Cathedral Waterford. In August 2019 he took part in the inaugural NCH International Master Course performing Clara Schumann’s piano trio in the National Concert Hall where he also performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Hibernian Orchestra that spring.

Peter has won several national prizes and bursaries including the Huban, Heneghan, Harty, Benson, Nordell and Esposito Cups, the Morris Grant Cup and Bursary and the Mabel Swainson Pianoforte Award at Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil. At the Royal Irish Academy of Music he was a recipient of the Lucien and Maura Teissier Scholarship for Piano which enabled him to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Peter looks forward to touring with the European Union Youth Orchestra as its keyboard player for 2022 as well performing chamber music as part of their Music Gallery series, and launching the first Roscommon Chamber Music Festival.

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