MEET THE ARTISTS 2024

Described as a “major talent” and “the most inidvidual and developed young Irish pianist I’ve heard in years” in the Irish Times, Peter Regan is the founder of Roscommon Chamber Music Festival.

His playing has brought him to Carnegie Hall, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Toronto, the National Concert Hall Dublin, Stoller Hall Manchester, St. James’s Picadilly and several other venues throughout Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe and the U.S.A. His performances have been broadcast (both live and recorded) on RTÉ Radio One and RTÉ Lyric FM.

As a concerto soloist he has performed Mozart, Prokofiev, Grieg and Rachmaninoff concertos with Camerata Ireland, the Hibernian Orchestra, Artematica Orchestra and Dublin Orchestral Players.

He has played solo and chamber music concerts at the Clandeboye Festival, Westport Festival of Chamber Music, the West Wicklow Festival, Summer Music at Semley, Winterval Festival, Kaunas Piano Fest, the Royal College of Music Keyboard Festival and at the inaugural NCH International Mastercourse.

Peter graduated with a B.Mus from the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto studying under John O’Conor. He earned his M.Mus from the Royal College of Music London studying under Gordon Fergus-Thompson. In addition to his solo and chamber music activities, Peter was the keyboard player for the European Union Youth Orchestra in 2022.

The Treske Quartet is an emerging ensemble based in Manchester, UK. Our identity as a quartet lies in our commitment to championing repertoire by 20th & 21st century composers. Our goal is to curate and perform programmes that include a variety of musical styles by established and emerging composers, and to give audiences radical experiences with new sound worlds. We are interested in concept-based programming, and aspire to deliver concerts where we accompany the audience through a range of composers and eras, worlds and universes, finding new connections between pieces that do not depend on the audience’s prior experience of chamber concerts. We feel that a central tenet of this work will be working with living composers, acting as a platform for their work to be presented and in doing so, contributing to the growing pool of modern string quartet music.

The Quartet was formed in 2017 for a chamber music course in North Yorkshire, and we still play an active role in delivering high quality chamber music in the area. Over the past two years the quartet has given recitals in the UK and abroad, notably the Rydale Festival, Llandeilo International Music Festival, Buxton Recital Series and the New Generation Festival. The Quartet’s members consist of Oliver Baily, Mollie Wrafter, Abigail Hammett and Robert Wheatley, all of whom studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. Collectively we have amassed a wealth of experience as soloists, orchestral and chamber musicians, and as freelancers we regularly appear with professional ensembles and orchestras across the British Isles.

Through the Harrison Frank Family Foundation we are very fortunate to be playing on a set of instruments made from the same tree from the W.E. Hill & Sons workshop.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1997. Known as one of the emerging violinists of her country, she graduated with Mauricio Fuks at the JSoM Indiana University, and she currently studies at the Berlin University of Arts with Latica Honda-Rosenberg. She has been awarded the RDS Music Bursary, the Collins Memorial Award, Aileen Gore Prize, the Youth Music Award of the National Concert Hall, the Maura Dowdall Prize, and the Flax Trust Scholarship. As soloist, she has performed with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, and the Irish National Youth Orchestra. Additionally, she has been part of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the West Wicklow and the Clandeboye. She is an academist at the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra.

From Dublin, Lauren is a graduate of the Master of Music in Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music & Trinity College Dublin, where she trained with mezzo Imelda Drumm, and répétiteurs Dr Andrew Synott and Dr Dearbhla Collins. She has worked with many distinguished artists including the late Dr Veronica Dunne, Ann Murray DBE, Iain Burnside, Sir Thomas Allen, and the late Kathryn Harries OBE. She now studies in London with Scottish soprano and voice teacher Linda Esther Gray.

Lauren has won prizes for various competitions in her native Ireland including Sligo Feis Ceoil and Newpark Music Festivals. She has been a finalist in the Hazelwood House Vocal Bursary, was awarded the Liz Pink Memorial Prize at the Irené Sanford Competition, and was a finalist in Northern Ireland Opera’s Glenarm Festival of Voice. In 2019 and 2021 respectively, Lauren advanced to the final rounds of the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Austria and the Premio Fausto Ricci Competition in Rome. In 2021 she was the recipient of the Irish Arts Council's prestigious Agility Award. Lauren was also a finalist in the 2022 Bernadette Greevy Competition and last year she was announced as one of Help Musician's Supported Artists in the UK, who awarded her with a career development grant.

In concert she has performed in the summer recital series for Northern Ireland Opera, the Summer Festival of Opera for the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, the Newry Chamber Music Festival, and as soprano soloist in Bach’s St John Passion and Fauré’s Requiem. She also featured as a guest artist in Dublin's Bord Gáis Theatre, in concert with Irish soprano Celine Byrne under conductor David Brophy.

Lauren was a member of the Northern Ireland Opera Studio for the 2017-18 season, where she made her debut with the company in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte. In the same year she also made her role debut as Edith, in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance for Lyric Opera, and joined the chorus of Irish National Opera for Verdi’s Aida at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. She subsequently featured in their Young Artist Showcase with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. She has gone on to perform frequently with INO in recordings and productions such as Puccini's La Bohème, Strauss' Elektra & Bizet's Carmen. Last summer, Lauren joined the prestigious Opernfest Prague as a young artist, where she made her debut at the Vinohrady Theatre under the baton of Czech conductor Jaroslav Kyzlink. This past month, Lauren made her UK, company, and role debut as the title role in Verdi's Aida with Guildford Opera conducted by Lewis Gaston. Lauren looks forward to making another debut this coming August with Opera Greenwich.

Killian White is the first cellist to be awarded the RDS Music Bursary, the most prestigious classical music award in Ireland. Prior to this, Killian was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the National Concert Hall Young Musician Award in Dublin.

His teacher from 2010 until 2018 was Christopher Marwood at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Killian recently completed his bachelor’s degree at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin with Frans Helmerson. During his studies he enjoyed a busy concert schedule, performing in various venues throughout Germany, England, and Ireland.

Killian has performed as soloist with many orchestras, including Camerata Ireland, RTE Concert Orchestra, RTE Symphony Orchestra, the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the New York Concerti Sinfonietta at Carnegie Hall.

He plays on a 2020 Gruszow-Baumblatt cello, supported by Music Network’s Music Capital Scheme and funded by the Irish Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

Born in Liverpool, Anna is a recent Masters graduate of the Royal College of Music, having studied with Richard Hosford, Janet Hilton, Tim Lines, Peter Sparks and Barnaby Robson.

Anna’s musical journey began as a chorister in the Liverpool Metropolitan Girls’ Choir, later joining the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral as a choral scholar. Having played the clarinet in the Liverpool Youth Orchestra and Ensembles and learned with Janet Crossley, at the age of 15 Anna went on to study clarinet at the Junior RNCM with Anne McNaught. Anna was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra before enrolling at the Royal College of Music.

During her studies at the RCM, Anna was a Wilkins-Mackerras scholar, winner of the RCM Solo Woodwind Competition and RCM Clarinet Prize and has been a runner-up in the RCM Concerto Competition. As a member of the RCM Symphony Orchestra, Anna has had the opportunity to work with conductors Vladimir Jurowski, Rafaele de Payere and Sir Antonio Pappano.

Since graduating Anna has performed with the Hallé Orchestra and in chamber festivals and series around the UK. In 2020, she worked with musicians of the London Song Festival performing Argento’s To Be Sung Upon the Water and performing on BBC Radio 3.

Anna has participated in festivals both at home and abroad including Voksenaasen Summer Festival, British Isles Music Festival and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestral Institute. In 2019, Anna was a fellow at the Music Academy of the West working with artists such as Claire Chase, Marin Alsop, Thomas Ades, Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra.