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Education and Outreach with Fiachra Garvey

Join us for the first MGS Masterclass of the season!

September 27, 11am

Check back soon for the Fun Facts and Behind the Melodies!

MGS presents Fiachra Garvey, piano

MGS opens the season with Irish pianist Fiachra Garvey. Ireland's Tricolour Flag

Prizewinner at mulitple competitions including AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, EU Piano Competition Prague, 3rd Soirees-Concours Internationales de Piano a Collioure, France, and Feis Ceoil Dublin, Fiachra graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, London in 2013 with 1st class honours and distinction in the M.A. in Music Performance.

Fiachra’s debut CD “For the Piano”, under the Lyric FM label, was released in 2012 and his second CD, a live performance from Wigmore Hall was released in 2014.  Fiachra is the founder and artistic director of the West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival.

Read Fiachra's full bio here!

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Fiachra Garvey, piano

Friday, September 26, 2025 - 7:30 pm
Christ United Methodist Church

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Program

  • Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109 (20 min) Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827

    Vivace ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo
    Prestissimo
    Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo
  • SaoirdhrĂ©acht Gaedhealach (Gaelic Fantasy) (5 min) Rhoda Coghill 1903-2000
  • Rhapsody in Blue (16 min) George Gershwin 1898-1937

INTERMISSION

  • The Phantom Tells His Tale Of Longing, Op. 66 No. 3 (5 min) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912
  • Sonata No, 1 in D minor, Op. 28 (35 min) Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943

    Allegro moderato
    Lento
    Allegro molto

Program subject to change at the discretion of the artist(s).

This concert and related outreach events are made possible by:

Derek Krueger and Gene Rogers
Bill and Alicia Allred
Lyn Boyd
David McDonald
Woodson Faulkner and John Sopper

Piano tuning donated by Noteworthy Piano Service.