| Biography | Hugh Tinney is an Irish pianist, born in 1958.
Tinney was a pupil at Gonzaga College, Dublin through the 1970s where he showed strong ability in mathematics and music. He also studied cello under Betty Barrett. He studied physics at Trinity College Dublin. As a young musician, in 1983 he won the first prize of the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition that takes place in Seregno, Italy. In 1984, he won the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition. Since he debuted in 1987 Proms, performing Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto along with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales he has developed an intense concert career throughout the United Kingdom, having collaborated with orchestras such as the London's Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and Mozart players, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Dublin's Orchestra of St. Cecilia - with whom he performed Mozart's 21 Mozart piano concertos among 1995-98. Dublinese highlights of Tinney's solo career include two major recital series in the at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1991, 1995) and six recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas at the Royal Dublin Society (200002). Furthermore, he has extensively performed at an international level, having acted in Spanish, Czech, Belgian, Finnish, French, Japanese and American festivals.
Throughout his career Tinney has cultivated chamber music, collaborating with the Borodin, Tokyo, Vanbrugh and Vogler String Quartets, as well as musicians such as Finghin Collins, John O'Conor, John Finucane, Carol McGonnell, Bernadette Greevy, Steven Isserlis and Catherine Leonard. As a concert pianist, his major achievements were a 5th prize in the 9th Leeds Int. Competition and winning the 8th Santander Int. Competition.
Tinney is a professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and has served as the Music Festival in Great Irish Houses' Artistic Director between 2000-06. His older sister Eithne Tinney is also a concert pianist, as well as an RTÉ producer, and a director of the Educational Building Society |