Finghin Collins in Recital

One of Ireland’s most successful musicians, Finghin Collins studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O’Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. Winner of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition in 1994 and the Classical Category at the National Entertainment Awards in Ireland in 1998, he went on to take first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Since then he has continued to enjoy a flourishing international career that takes him all over Europe and the United States, as well to the Far East and Australia, performing with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors.

Collins has just been appointed Artistic Director of the prestigious Dublin International Piano Competition and will also chair the jury of the Clara Haskil Piano Competition in Switzerland in 2023.

Over the past two decades Collins has developed a close relationship with Claves Records in Switzerland, who have released recordings of music by Schumann, Stanford, Mozart and Chopin.

Finghin Collins is also Artistic Director of Music for Galway since 2013.
We look forward to his solo performance at Castletown when he will perform works by Haydn, Mozart, Schumann & Chopin.