June 25: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Matthew Wood / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Lighthouse, Poole [more details] [read review]
June 28: Solo recital in Wigmore Hall, London featuring works by Mozart, Ian Wilson, Liszt, Brahms and Rachmaninov [more details] [read review]
July 2: Charity concert, Buckden, Cambridgeshire
July 3: Solo recital, Clare College, Cambridge
July 25-30: Duo recitals with Stefan Hoskuldsson, Davide Formisano and Sir James Galway, Weggis, Switzerland
September 2: Recording session for Lorelt label, Philip Hammond solo piano music
September 22: Solo lunchtime recital, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester [more details]
September 24: Private concert with Ensemble Avalon, Trinity College, Dublin
September 28: Solo lunchtime recital, Chichester Cathedral
October 9: Rachmaninov Concerto No.1 with Studio Symphony Orchestra, St. Bride's Hall, Belfast
October 17: Duo recital with Michael Collins for BBC Radio 3, City Halls, Glasgow [more details]
Music Network concert tour of Ireland with the Cappa Ensemble [tour details]
November 1: Cloughjordan, Tipperary
November 2: The Coach House, Dublin Castle [book tickets]
November 3: City Hall, Waterford
November 4: Killorglin, Kerry
November 5: Newbridge, Kildare
November 6: Navan, Meath
November 7: Clifden, Galway
November 8: Castlebar, Mayo
November 11: Duo recital with Michael Collins, Peebles Music Society
November 12: Duo recital with Michael Collins, Kelso Music Society [more details]
November 13: Duo recital with Michael Collins, Dundee Chamber Music Society [more details]
November 26: Mozart Concerto No.23 in A major K.488 with Hallé Orchestra / Eduardo Patel, King George's Hall, Blackburn [more details]
November 27: Duo recital with Michael Collins, Alnwick Music Club
December 3-5: Ensemble Avalon Winter Chamber Festival, Wexford
December 3: Opening concert, 8pm with Michael d'Arcy (violin) and Ensemble Avalon in works by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Schubert
December 4: Lunchtime recital, 1pm with Patrcia Rozario (soprano) and Michael McHale (piano)
December 4: Evening concert, 8pm with Patricia Rozario, Michael d'Arcy and Ensemble Avalon in works by Bach, Ravel, Shostakovich and a world premiere of Benedict Schlepper-Connolly's new piano trio
December 5: Final concert, 3pm with Ensemble Avalon and Michael d'Arcy featuring works by Mozart, Schubert, Liszt and Shostakovich
Recent engagements
January 14: Trio concert with Ensemble Avalon in Sligo "Con Brio" series [more details]
January 15: Trio concert with Ensemble Avalon in Navan, Co. Meath [more details]
January 17: Solo recital in Stranraer, Scotland [more details]
February 10: Schumann's Introduction and Allegro appassionato with Carlos Kalmar / Ulster Orchestra in the Ulster Hall, Belfast [more details]
February 20: Trio concert with Michael Collins (clarinet) and Jonathan Morton (violin) in Portici, Italy
March 7: Duo recital with Michael Collins in Harrogate Festival [more details]
March 13: Schumann's Introduction and Allegro appassionato with Ciaran Crilly / Dublin Orchestral Players [more details]
April 17: Solo piano music by Chopin at a special memorial service for the Polish Prime Minister, Goverment Buildings, Stormont
April 18: Masterclass with four local pianists, Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
April 21-25: Moving on Music solo recital tour of Northern Ireland [more details]
April 21: Solo recital in QUB Harty Room, Belfast
April 22: Solo recital in Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
April 23: Solo recital in Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
April 24: Solo recital in Market Place Theatre, Armagh [more details]
April 25: Solo recital in Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick [read review]
April 30: Charity concert in Castlecoole, Fermanagh
May 12: Duo recital with Sir James Galway, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester [read review] [more details]
May 16: Duo recital with Sir James Galway, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow [more details]
May 17: Duo recital with Sir James Galway, Music Hall, Aberdeen [more details]
May 19: Duo recital with Sir James Galway in Southend
May 22: Duo recital with Sir James Galway, Symphony Hall, Birmingham [read review] [more details]
May 23: Duo recital with Sir James Galway in Milton Keynes
May 27: Charity concert, Langham Hotel, London
June 9: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Shostakovich Concerto No.2 with John Finucane / Hibernian Orchestra, National Concert Hall, Dublin [more details]
June 10-12: Recording session with Michael Collins (clarinet) for Chandos Records, Potton Hall, Suffolk
June 20: Solo recital at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin in their 'Sundays@Noon' series
(2009)
January 11: Concert in the ‘Sundays at Noon’ series, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
January 18: Concert in the ‘Sundays at Noon’ series, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin [read review]
January 27: Drogheda International Concert Series with Ensemble Avalon
January 30: Music Network trio recital in Anaverna House, Co. Louth
February 22: Concert in the ‘Sundays at Noon’ series, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
February 28: Lunchtime recital in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
March 1-3: Recording session for Louth Contemporary Music Society
March 6: Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody with Ulster Orchestra and Kenneth Montgomery, Ulster Hall, Belfast [read review]
May 30, 31 Duo recitals with Sir James Galway in Barnstaple, Devon [read review] and Truro, Cornwall
June 13, 14: Performances of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Wexford Sinfonia
July 1: Chamber concert in Sheffield City Hall, with members of the Hallé orchestra featuring Brahms’ Horn Trio and Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds
July 8: Duo recital with Lynda O’Connor (violin) in Wexford
July 16: David Walter Hall’s Cross Road Blues at the Hackney Empire: first public performance with Michael’s newly-commissioned score for choir and six-piece ensemble
July 19,20: Recitals with Sir James Galway and Michael Cox, Lucerne, Switzerland
August 1: Solo performance at Tanglewood Festival, Massachusetts
September 2: BBC studio recording with Ulster Orchestra
September 4: Franck's Symphonic Variations with Ulster Orchestra in Ulster Hall, Belfast. click here for information and booking details
September 6: Afternoon recital at the 2009 King’s Place Festival with Michael Collins (clarinet) featuring works by Schumann, Matthews and Britten. click here for more information and booking details [read review]
September 15: Solo recital in Chichester Cathedral
September 17: Private concert in Dublin
September 20: Afternoon concert at Camerata Ireland’s Castletown Festival, Co. Kildare with Ensemble Avalon featuring trios by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich [read review]
October 3: Mozart “Jeunehomme” Concerto K.271 with Studio Symphony Orchestra, Elmwood Hall, Belfast
October 13: 20 minute solo set at 100 Club, Oxford St, London. visit London Limelight for more information
October 15: Duo recital with Michael Collins, Eaton Square, London. click here for more information and booking details
October 17: Duo recital with Michael Collins, Banstead Arts Festival Society, Surrey
October 18: Duo recital with Eimear McGeown, flute at the Ulster Hall, Belfast for BBC Radio. click here for information and booking details
October 29: Duo recital with Michael Collins in Aberdeen for BBC Radio 3 [read review]
November 12: Live performance and interview on BBC Radio 3 "In Tune" programme
November 15: Mozart “Jeunehomme” Concerto K.271 with Hallé / Rory MacDonald in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester click here for information and booking details [read review]
November 16: Duo recital with Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin) of contemporary Irish music at King’s Place, London. click here for information and booking details [read review]
November 18: Mozart “Jeunehomme” Concerto K.271 with Hallé / Rory MacDonald in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester click here for information and booking details
November 19: Mozart “Jeunehomme” Concerto K.271 with Hallé / Rory MacDonald in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester click here for information and booking details
November 28: Andante from Mozart Concerto No.21 with David Brophy / RTE Concert Orchestra at Sir James Galway's 70th birthday concert in Dublin
November 30: Live performance on Radio 3 "In Tune" programme
December 1: Andante from Mozart Concerto No.21 with the London Mozart Players at Sir James Galway's 70th birthday concert at the Anvil, Basingstoke
December 2: Andante from Mozart Concerto No.21 with the London Mozart Players at Sir James Galway's 70th birthday concert at Fairfield Halls, Croydon
December 5,6: The 2nd Ensemble Avalon Winter Chamber Festival in Wexford
December 14: Recording session, Potton Hall, Suffolk
December 15: Christmas charity concert in Chelsea, London
(2008)
November 28-30: Ensemble Avalon Winter Chamber Festival in association with Music for Wexford
November 11: Duo recital with Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin) in Bantry House, Co.Cork
October 18: Performance at BBC Radio 3’s ‘Pianothon’ event at Victoria Square, Belfast
October 18: Duo recital with Eimear McGeown (flute) in the Belfast Festival at Queen’s for BBC Radio Ulster
October 13: Duo recital with Ciaran McCabe (violin) for Newtonabbey Music Club
September 11: Chamber music in CSM Curtis Auditorium, Cork with Ensemble Avalon and Cian O’Duill (viola)
September 9: Brahms chamber music concert in Limerick with Ensemble Avalon and Cian O'Duill (viola)
August 22: Clandeboye Festival gala concert, performing Saint-Saëns' Carnaval des Animaux with Camerata Ireland and David Quigley (piano)
August 18: Evening concert at the Clandeboye Festival; performances with Barry Douglas, Richard Watkins and Michael Collins, as well as the première of 'Midnight Shadows' for solo piano, written for Michael by Belfast composer Philip Hammond
August: Concert tour with Takuo Yuasa and the Ulster Youth Orchestra performing Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini including dates in Derry (7), Belfast (8), Berlin (12) and Kassel (14)
July 23: Lunchtime piano trio recital, Rosemary St Church, Belfast
July 23: Fauré piano trio with Ensemble Avalon in National Concert Hall, Dublin
July 13, 15: Chichester and King’s Lynn Festivals with Sir James Galway
July 4: Special concert for the 'Friends of the Belfast Music Society', performing a selection of works by Chopin, Field and Liszt on an antique Pleyel piano
July 1: Début concerto performance with the RTE NSO in the National Concert Hall, Dublin performing Franck’s Symphonic Variations
June 12: Solo recital in Leighton House, London