In addition to being named by Musical America as “New Artists of the Month” in May 2016, the group has garnered worldwide recognition by winning top prizes at international competitions across four continents including the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition (London), the 8th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (Japan), and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (Australia), in addition to its CAG victory in 2015. Past projects have included a performance art installation with visual artist Ana Prvacki, artistic exchange with traditional Emirati poets in the UAE, and collaborative work with dancers from Brooklyn’s Dance Heginbotham.Īmong its many accolades, the Verona Quartet have been D’Addario Artists since 2017 and can be seen regularly on The Violin Channel as Violin Channel Artists. Its progressive approach to collaboration and programming includes numerous cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary enterprises. Since winning the 2015 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Verona Quartet has established itself as one of the most sought-after string quartets of its generation, delighting audiences at venues worldwide including Wigmore Hall (London, UK), Izumi Hall (Osaka, Japan), the National Theatre (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Melbourne Recital Hall (Melbourne, Australia), and, in New York City, at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. The Quartet’s members represent four different nations (United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, and Canada), but their singular approach and unanimity of purpose in both musical and cultural cooperation has quickly earned the group a reputation for its “interpretive strength… robust characterization commanding resonance” ( Calgary Herald). Hailed by The New York Times as an “outstanding ensemble,” the Verona Quartet is dedicated to showcasing the art form of the string quartet and to elevating their music making to convey the poetic narrative of storytelling. Jonathan Ong & Dorothy Ro, violins Abigail Rojansky, viola Jonathan Dormand, cello She recently realized a 30-year dream of owning a grand piano-which she’s named “Black Beauty”-is fluent in two languages, working on two more, and says her “love of music can be extrapolated to all forms of art,” including film, literature, visual art, and knitting.
She was a self-described “newbie” to the world of amateur competitions in 2016 when she participated in the last Cliburn Amateur she had an amazing experience, and the 2022 edition marks only her second competition appearance. in engineering management and has built a career as a professor, currently Program Chair at the University of Houston Clear Lake. She moved to the United States to pursue a master’s and then Ph.D. Her piano teachers, Elif and Bedii Aran, with whom she studied in Ankara for 15 years (and continues to this day), were themselves Juilliard students under Mme. Ipek Bozkurt grew up on Van Cliburn stories. Outside of all of these accomplishments, she also spent nine years in the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir.ĪGE 42 I SEABROOK, TEXAS I TURKEY / UNITED STATES A chartered accountant with almost 30 years of experience, Deirbhile currently serves as head of internal audit for an Irish government agency. Petersburg, Boston, Chicago, and Île-de-France and has performed across four continents (including at Carnegie Hall with New York Concerti Sinfonietta and at the Gasteig in Munich).
That recommitment has led her to a flourishing amateur piano life: she completed her master’s in piano performance (part-time while working full-time) in 2013 has recently won competitions in St. That’s where she started her music studies when she was 5, and, in 2009, she returned to the school and to the piano, this time simultaneously maintaining a busy career in accounting and raising four small children. Just over a decade ago, Deirbhile Brennan found herself back where it all began: the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
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