Pianist Rosemary Tuck was born in Sydney and studied with John Winther in Canberra, before pursuing advanced studies with Walter Hautzig at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and Andrzej Esterházy (a pupil of Neuhaus) in Moscow. She represented Australia in a series of recitals in the United States under the auspices of the American-Australian Bicentennial Foundation, including a recital at Carnegie Hall. She has given recitals in the Sydney Opera House, at the South Bank Centre in London and St. John’s, Smith Square. She appeared at the Aarhus Festival in Denmark in the presence of Queen Margrethe II. Rosemary also gave the first official concert performance in the new William Vincent Wallace Millennium Plaza in Waterford, Ireland, during 2001. Concerto engagements include the ABC Sinfonia in Australia, the Aarhus Sinfonietta in Denmark and the Orchestra of the City in London (the last of these performing William Vincent Wallace's "La Cracovienne" during 2004, in a specially reconstructed version conducted by Richard Bonynge).
Her recordings include piano music by Lyadov (Concert Artists CACD-9001-2). Rosemary Tuck was featured in a BBC programme on the life and music of
Albert Ketèlbey, while her two CDs of his music on the Marco Polo label have received high critical acclaim. She has received awards from the Lynn Foundation, the Australian-Irish Heritage Foundation and from the Tait Memorial Trust to record William Vincent Wallace's original music for piano with Cala Records. William Vincent Wallace was a gifted musician and composer who left an indelible mark on the many cities around the world in which he lived and to which he travelled - perhaps, in part, because of a somewhat complex and controversial personal life!
"It (The Meeting of the Waters) gave me intense pleasure. The works are quite enchanting and played with great sensitivity and verve by Rosemary Tuck. She really understands the style of the period. I was so excited I dug out all my Wallace scores thinking to find copies of many of the pieces: barely one!!"
"Her splendid performance of thse Celtic Fantasies demonstrate the composer's pianistic virtuosity and in so doing reveal something of a debt to Mendelssohn and possibly Schumann and Chopin, weaving styistically predictable yet impressive variations around familiar Irish tunes."
"To all these challenges and more the talented Rosemary Tuck is fully equipped. She relishes the demands, and is stylistically apt and full of colour, vivacity and lyricism. How appropriate that, in a pleasing acoustic in the Large Room at City Hall, one of Waterford’s most quixotic, far travelled, and talented sons has come home at last".
"Light and elegant, full of passion, brilliant, devoted and totally loyal to the composition, this is Rosemary Tuck."
"Rosemary Tuck played Ginastera's 'Argentine Dances' with a sparkling intensity and rhythmic drive; while in the two works by Chopin she revealed the most delicate timbres, like pearls of dew passing through her fine touch."
Marco Polo 8.223699 Marco Polo 8.223700 Cala Records CACD88042 Cala Records CACD88044
(RICHARD BONYNGE, MBE)
(MUSIC & VISION, July 2003)
(JONATHAN WOOLF - MUSICWEB, September 2002, on "The Meeting of the Waters")
(HORSENS FOLKEBLAD - Denmark)
(JYLLANDS POSTEN - Denmark)
