Romance on the menu from renowned pianist

Renowned Dublin pianist John O’Conor will perform a programme of music from the late Classical/early Romantic repertoire when he returns to Galway on Friday next, March 28 to take part in the Music for Galway concert series.

John, who has specialised in music from that repertoire, has been major force in Irish musical life for the past four decades.A regular visitor to Galway, for next week’s concert he will pay tribute to one of Ireland’s greatest composers, John Field, by performing three of Field’s Nocturnes.
The programme, which is designed to appeal to piano enthusiasts, will also include one of Beethoven’s most well-loved sonatas, the Waldstein as well as a beautiful and lyrical sonata by Schubert. There will also be a piece by Czerny, a Russian composer who is better known for his technical exercises than actual works for performance.
John O’Conor is widely recognised as one of Ireland’s most active musical ambassadors. His career was launched when he was unanimously awarded first prize at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna in 1973. Since then, he has given concerts in many of the world’s most famous venues including Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Dvorak Hall in Prague and the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo.