Mary Dullea - Piano

MARY DULLEA is from Cork, Southern Ireland and came to London in 1991 to study with Yonty Solomon at the Royal College of Music on the Edith Best Scholarship. While there she won many prizes and awards including the Kendall Taylor Beethoven Sonata Prize and she performed Symanowski's "Symphonie Concertante" with the RCM Symphony Orchestra. Since graduating in 1995 Mary has performed throughout Ireland and the UK, Hong Kong, Cyprus, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Brussels as soloist and chamber musician. She was the Irish representative at 12 and 15 piano EU concerts in Paris, Brussels and Luxembourg.

A prizewinner at the Brant Piano Competition in 1997 and a recipient of a Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award, in 2000 Mary was awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Centre - Cork County Council Regional Bursary at Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan and in November was a finalist in the British Contemporary Piano Competition.

A keen chamber musician, her piano trio (the Fidelio Trio) were the ensemble class winners of the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition in 1997 and made their South Bank debut giving the UK premiere of Takemitsu's "Between Tides". Since then they have performed widely, recorded for the BBC and RTHK and commissioned and given numerous premieres of trios by composers including Deirdre Gribbin, Edison Denisov and John Woolrich.