| Biography | Irish baritone Dr Gavan Ring comes from Cahersiveen in County Kerry and studied at the Schola Cantorum St Finians College in Mullingar before reading Education and Music at Dublin City University. A first-class honours Master of Music in Performance graduate from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Gavan also holds the double distinction of being the first opera singer and the youngest candidate to graduate from the Royal Irish Academy of Music as a Doctor of Music in Performance. Gavan is also an alumnus of the National Opera Studio in London, the Glyndebourne Jerwood Young Artist Programme and the Opera Theatre Company Young Associate Artist Programme. Gavan is currently an Artistic Partner of the newly founded Irish National Opera.
A multiple national and international prizewinner, awards include the 2015 Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino in Italy, the 2013 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition, the Southbank Sinfonia Award for Orchestral Song, the National Concert Hall Dr Bernadette Greevy Bursary and the Cuisine de France John Count McCormack Bursary.
Concert appearances include performances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and the Scottish Opera Orchestra with recent highlights including Offenbachs Fantasio under the baton of Sir Mark Elder, Brittens War Requiem with Mark Padmore and Gilbert & Sullivans HMS Pinafore for the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival under the baton of Richard Egarr. Recitals include collaborations with pianists Eugene Asti, Graham Johnson and Simon Lepper at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival, BBC Radio 3 NI Festival of Voice and the Dublin Song Series. |