Veronica McSwiney

Irish classical pianist.VERONICA MC SWINEY was born in Dublin, Ireland, where she commenced her studies with D.J.J. O'Reilly at the Municipal School of music when she was seven years old. She gave her recital debut in Dublin at the age of sixteen, and came to the attention of Sir Robert and Lady Dorothy Mayer, great entrepreneurs from London, who assisted her further studies at the Mozarteum Academy in Saltzburg under Bruno Seidlhofer, and in London with the eminent Hungarian teacher, Ilona Kabas. By the time she was nineteen years old she had already played 6 different piano concertos with Ireland's National Symphony Orchestra, then known as the RTESO. After her Wigmore Hall debut in London, her reputation spread far beyond her native Ireland. As a direct result of her highly acclaimed recording of the John Field Nocturnes, she was the first Irish pianist to be invited to do an extensive recital tour of the USSR in 1975, and was invited back for three subsequent tours, and played concertos with many of their finest orchestras. She has played extensively throughout Europe and the USA, and has also played with many orchestras in the UK,including the LSO, the CBSO and the BBC Philharmonic. Her repertoire of concertos included all 5 Beethoven, 5 Mozart, Grieg, Schumann, Rach. No2, Dohnanyi Variations, Two Mendelssohn, Two Liszt, Saint-Saens No2, Chopin E Minor, and John Field No2.