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Mary Dullea is from Cork, Ireland and studied at the Royal College of Music, London on the Edith Best Scholarship. Her Masters degree in Contemporary Music Studies is from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has performed throughout Ireland, England, Europe, USA, Hong Kong, China and South Africa as soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared at Brighton, Huddersfield, Corsham, Aldeburgh, Petworth, Chichester, Fuse Leeds and Sound Scotland Festivals as well as Belfast Festival at Queens, West Cork Music, Reggello International Festival, Lodi Festival and Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice (Italy), Casa da Musica (Porto), Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, London’s Wigmore Hall and National Arts Festival (South Africa). Her many broadcasts include BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, RTHK, RTE Lyric FM, WNYC, Radio New Zealand and Sky Arts, Irish, French, Austrian and Italian television. She was the Irish pianist at EU 12 and 15 piano extravaganza concerts in Paris, Brussels and Luxembourg.
A sought-after interpreter of new music, Mary’s expansive repertoire covers the standard piano literature as well as an ever-increasing amount of 20th- and 21st- century compositions, many of which are dedicated to her.
She has commissioned and premiered works from composers as varied as Toshio Hosokawa, Edison Denisov, Salvatore Sciarrino, Michael Nyman, Donnacha Dennehy and Michael Finnissy – notably with the Fidelio Trio. In 2004, she was piano lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and multiple performances throughout South Africa included a concerto appearance with the KZNPO.
Mary’s CD releases with Darragh Morgan (violin) include Opera NMC D108, thirty-nine pages by Paul Whitty on Divine Art, a Simon Mawhinney portrait disc for Altarus and soon to be released, the complete music for violin and piano by Michael Finnissy for Mode Records. Fidelio Trio releases include Metamorphoses, the chamber music of Haflidi Hallgrimsson and The Piano Tuner (Scottish piano trios) on Delphian Records, a Robert Keeley portrait CD on Convivium, Bulb (Irish piano trios), My Broken Machines (Ed Bennett) and Bartlebooth (Joe Cutler) which also features Mary as soloist on NMC. Forthcoming are the complete Michael Nyman trios for MN Records, From Vienna (Schoenberg and Korngold) for Naxos and a Piers Hellawell portrait CD.
Mary is currently researching, commissioning, performing and recording works for the piano that incorporate the use of the inside and the outside of the instrument and completing a PhD in Performance at the University of Ulster. Recent Fidelio Trio concert tours include the USA and South Africa and she has been invited as soloist for the BBC commissioned piano concerto by Robert Keeley. She has been the curator of Soundings (annual new music festival) at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London since 2008.
Mary acknowledges the support of The Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, The Arts Council and Music Network through the Music Capital Scheme 2010.
She is on the teaching staff of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is Director of Performance at the University of Sheffield.
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