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 Born
in Dublin, Hugh Tinney first came to international recognition
by winning first-prize in the 1983 Pozzoli Competition in Italy
and the 1984 Paloma O'Shea Competition in Spain. Since then he
has performed throughout Europe, the United States, South America
and the Far East. He has also broadcast on radio or TV in more
than 15 countries.
In 1989, he made his debut at the Proms with the BBC Welsh Symphony
Orchestra, and he has had a busy career in the U.K., performing
with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia,
the Royal Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Royal
Scottish Orchestra and the London Mozart Players. He has also
been a regular soloist for more than twenty years with the RTE
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, touring with them in the
U.K. in 1993 and performing with them at the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam in 1998. Conductors he has worked with include Simon
Rattle, Norman del Mar, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Libor Pesek.
Hugh Tinney's contribution to Irish concert life over the past
20 years has been significant. Highlights include his 1991 “Chopin
Plus” recital series at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
in Dublin, later repeated in Cork; a second major recital series
at IMMA in 1995, focussing on the late sonatas of Schubert; and
in 1998, he completed a project to perform the complete 21 original
Mozart solo piano concertos at Dublin's National Concert Hall
with the Orchestra of St. Cecilia. A complete cycle of the Beethoven
concertos followed in 1999. All of these series received the highest
plaudits from Irish critics and audiences.
Chamber music partners have included the Borodin, Tokyo, Vanbrugh
and Vogler Quartets, Steven Isserlis, Bernadette Greevy, Catherine
Leonard, John Finucane, Carol McGonnell, Finghin Collins and John
O'Conor. He played every year from 1997 to 2000 and again in 2003
and 2007 at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry. His
interest in contemporary Irish music has led to new works commissioned
from Raymond Deane and Ian Wilson, and he was awarded a 2-year
bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland to research, perform and
record Irish and international contemporary piano music in 2006
and 2007.
Hugh Tinney's discography includes a Liszt recital for Decca,
Liszt's Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses on Meridian,
the Mendelssohn Concertos for 2 pianos on the Naxos label and
Raymond Deane's After-Pieces for solo piano for a CD of
Deane's works on Black Box. His CD of the solo and (with Catherine
Leonard) violin/piano duo music of Ian Wilson was released by
Riverrun in 2004 to excellent reviews, and Catherine and Hugh’s
Beethoven CD for the RTE Lyric FM label has been widely praised.
From 2000 to 2006, Hugh Tinney was Artistic Director of the Music
Festival in Great Irish Houses. He teaches at the Royal Irish
Academy of Music, and he has been a jury member at several international
piano competitions. In September 2007, Hugh was awarded an Honorary
Doctorate in Music by the National University of Ireland.
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