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Máire Breatnach (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmˠɑːɾʲə ˈbʲɾʲan̪ˠəx]) is an Irish fiddle, violin and viola player. She also sings in Irish on some of her albums. Since the early 1990s, she has recorded five solo albums, participated in many collaborations, and developed didactic material for children, mostly in Irish.
Souvenirs trémaësques, version for violin (2000, rev. 2009) Ri-Tratto, for violin (2011) Drei kleine Szenen, für Violine solo (2014) Arthur Honegger. Sonata for solo violin (1940) Peter Hristoskov. Suite for Solo Violin No. 1, Op. 7 -dedicated to Igor Bezrodny-Suite for Solo Violin No. 2, Op. 13 -dedicated to Vladimir Avramov-Jenő Hubay
Kevin Burke (born 1950) is an Irish master fiddler considered one of the finest living Irish fiddlers. [1] [2] [3] For nearly five decades he has been at the forefront of Irish traditional music and Celtic music, [4] performing and recording with the groups The Bothy Band, Patrick Street, and the Celtic Fiddle Festival. [1]
Solo. Up and Away (1995) Frankie Gavin (1997) Frankie Goes to Town (1999) Shamrocks & Holly: An Irish Christmas Celebration (1999) Fierce Traditional (2001) Port Eireann (2022) With Alec Finn. Frankie Gavin & Alec Finn (1977) Traditional Irish Music on Fiddle and Bouzouki, Volume II (2018) With Andy Irvine. Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams (1980 ...
Horan was born in New York City [4] to Irish parents [5] and studied piano (taught by her father, a carpenter and musician) [6] and Irish fiddle playing at a young age. [7] She attended and graduated from the New England Conservatory [8] in Boston, Massachusetts, where she studied classical violin, [7] [9] and the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, Colorado. [5]
From a violin player in the neighboring town of Glin, he learned the rudiments of the fiddle and how to read and write music; from his mother he learned the Irish traditional style. [1] His early repertoire was learned both from written sources such as the Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music, Ker, and O'Neill's 1001, and from local ...
At the age of 16, he won first place in the Fiddler of the Year competition [1] and recorded his first album, a fiddle duet with his brother John, titled John & James Kelly: Irish Traditional Fiddle Music. [9] [10] During that time, he joined the group Ceoltóirí Laigheann, that included his father John, Paddy O'Brien, Mary Bergin, and Paddy ...
Conway has released 2 solo albums [10] [11] and 2 albums with her husband John with whom she also organises the Féile na Tána traditional music festival. [12] In 2019 she was awarded the Best Folk Instrumentalist prize at the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards. [13]