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Royal Irish Academy of Music
RIAM’s inaugural Wigmore Hall Festival has drawn to a close. How did the new venue perform?
Review: The academy’s 300-seat Whyte Recital Hall could be a boon for the kind of events now held in the National Concert Hall’s John Field Room
Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss: A thoughtful, extraordinarily detailed performance of Schubert piano duets
Whyte Recital Hall, the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s new venue, has a puzzling acoustic on its opening night
Stephen Hough: ‘So many concert halls are built and don’t sound good, and they’ve had millions spent on them’
The mesmerising English pianist, who plays this month at Dublin’s new Whyte Recital Hall, on the importance of a venue
John Gilhooly: ‘I stand in the foyer every night. You learn a lot by just chatting to your public’
The Irishman who runs Wigmore Hall, one of the world’s great concert venues, is bringing a roster of classical stars to Dublin’s new recital hall
Living with Leo Varadkar: Ukrainian musician on how she fled home and ended up in the Taoiseach’s house
Having spent several weeks of living in hotels, Olesia Borsuk was asked if she wanted to move in with a gay couple. She knew nothing about her new housemates
First Look: Royal Irish Academy of Music unveils €25m addition to its Georgian Dublin home
The seven-year redesign ‘packs a lot into a city-centre site and gears us up for the future’, says the national conservatoire’s director
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From nursing to engineering and environmental studies, there’s plenty of choice
Irish-born director of Wigmore Hall awarded CBE in honours list
John Gilhooly’s ‘immense contribution to classical music’ marked by Queen Elizabeth
Veronica Dunne’s Dublin home on the market for €2.3m
Late soprano held legendary dinner parties at Victorian four-bed on Bushy Park Road in Rathgar
Veronica Dunne ‘radiated’ light into lives of others, funeral Mass hears
Dunne leaves ‘indomitable legacy’ which ensures ‘future generations will continue to hear your voice’
Irish opera singer Veronica Dunne dies aged 93
Operatic community loses highly respected figure and ever-present artist for over 60 years
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