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Royal Irish Academy of Music
Noted violinist Geraldine O’Grady dies at age of 93
Former leader of the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra had a long career as a recitalist and soloist
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Róis: ‘Moving away from Ireland shook me. Going away is essential’
The Fermanagh musician on her love-hate affair with trad music, the importance of living abroad for a spell, and why screaming in the car is helpful
‘That I wore a dress for all those years boggles my mind. I was afraid to be queer’
The clarinetist and National Concert Hall artist-in-residence on navigating conservatoire culture and what ‘holding space’ means to her
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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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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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