Yvonne has worked as accompanist to many choirs including Carlow Choral Scoiety, Wexford Festival Singers, Kilkenny Arts Festival Choir, Gorey Choral Group and Vocare vocal group, Wexford who were invited to premier Carol Barnett’s Bluegrass Mass in Carnegie Hall, New York in March 2013. It was with a performance of this concerto that she won the Hamilton Harty Concerto competition in the Feis Ceoil in Dublin. Other concerto appearances include a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto in Bb with the Wexford Sinfonia under the baton of conductor Fergus Sheil. At the Academy she won the prestigious Birmingham International Piano Academy Concerto Competition and was invited to perform the Mozart Piano Concerto in A Major No, 23, KV 488 with the Queens Park Sinfonia in Birmingham. In July 2006 Yvonne was invited to participate in the Birmingham International Piano Academy in the UK under scholarship. Since then Yvonne has performed across Ireland and the UK and also in Hungary, Germany, USA and Canada. In 2000, she was invited to give the inaugural performance on the new model D Steinway in Kilkenny where she shared a concert with Irish soprano, Cara O’Sullivan. She is Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a Professor of London University.)Ī highlight has been the invitation to perform the Grieg Piano Concerto at the Proms in Cork with the Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra in 1999. Joanna MacGregor ( Joanna MacGregor OBE (born 16 July 1959) is a British concert pianist, conductor, composer, and festival curator.
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