{"id":4043,"date":"2025-07-29T08:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/teacher\/therese-fahy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:23:05","slug":"therese-fahy","status":"publish","type":"teacher","link":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/teacher\/therese-fahy\/","title":{"rendered":"Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Fahy"},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"instrument":[51],"class_list":["post-4043","teacher","type-teacher","status-publish","hentry","instrument-piano-en","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"name":"Fahy","first_name":"Th\u00e9r\u00e8se","photo":801,"instrument":[51],"teacher_biography":"Dublin-born The\u0301re\u0300se Fahy, one of Ireland\u2019s foremost pianists, enjoys an active performing and teaching career at home and abroad. Her regular recital and concerto appearances throughout Europe and the United States have met with critical acclaim, as have her numerous broadcasts for both RTE\u0301 and BBC.\r\n\r\nIn recent seasons, The\u0301re\u0300se has toured the east coast of the United States, with a recital- program of solo Irish contemporary piano music supported by Culture Ireland and the Fulbright Commission, and in 2012 with performances of the 24 Debussy Pre\u0301ludes, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer\u2019s birth. This program was toured extensively through Europe and Ireland.\r\n\r\nOther engagements over the last six years have included solo recitals, lecture-recitals and masterclasses in France, UK, Italy, Poland, Spain, USA, the Czech Republic, Holland, Israel, Ethiopia and Ireland. The\u0301re\u0300se has also served on the international juries of the Dublin International Piano Competition, the Manchester International Concerto Competition in Great Britain, the Baltic International Piano Competition and the Scriabin International Piano Competition, Italy.\r\n\r\nThe\u0301re\u0300se Fahy, as the only professional Irish pianist to specialize in the performance of French music, has performed the complete works for solo piano by Debussy at Dublin\u2019s Hugh Lane Gallery. She has also recorded a documentary, \u2018The Snow is Dancing\u2019, on his life and piano music for Ireland\u2019s national broadcasting station, RTE Lyric FM. She is particularly identified with the performance of Olivier Messiaen\u2019s piano music, having given the Irish premieres of Reveil des Oiseaux (2008) with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, under its Principal Conductor, Gerhard Markson, at Dublin\u2019s National Concert Hall, and, Visions de l\u2019Amen (1990) for two pianos. Her performances of the solo works of Messiaen have been described by The Irish Times as a \u201ctour de force\u201d.\r\n\r\nIn 2014, The\u0301re\u0300se received a major Music Project Award from the Arts Council for her especially commissioned collection of six solo piano pieces for small hands, entitled Handprint, from Irish composers Bill Whelan, Raymond Deane, Siobhan Cleary, Michael Holohan, Grainne Mulvey and Benjamin Dwyer. The world premie\u0300re recital of all six pieces was an acclaimed highlight of\u00a0the New Music Dublin Festival in March 2014, followed by a uniquely curated series (Handprint: Before and Beyond, incorporating each new piece into a non-contemporary recital setting) in Dublin\u2019s Hugh Lane Gallery. The Handprint Collection was recorded by RTE Lyric FM, and was broadcast over six weeks at the end of 2014.\r\n\r\nIn 2018, one hundred years after the death of Claude Debussy, The\u0301re\u0300se Fahy, with the support of another Music Project Award from the Arts Council, brought an exciting festival to the National Concert Hall, Dublin in May and June 2018, and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in\r\nOctober 2018. Entitled \u2018Ireland\u2019s Tombeau to Debussy\u2019, the series of three concerts in both cities included world-premie\u0300res of seven newly-commissioned Irish works inspired by Debussy, as well as performances of the original 1920 \u2018Tombeau de Debussy\u2019, interwoven with Debussy's own masterpieces. The\u0301re\u0300se also performed a solo recital at Debussy\u2019s birthplace, La Maison Natale de Claude Debussy, on March 25th 2018, the anniversary-day of the composer\u2019s death.\r\n\r\nA graduate of Trinity College Dublin, a Fulbright scholar and a French Government scholar, The\u0301re\u0300se Fahy is Professor of Piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Her students have been First Prizewinners and Finalists in many international competitions, including the Shanghai International Piano Competition, Hammamatsu International Piano Competition, EU International Piano Competition, the Hong Kong International Piano Competition, the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona (2012), the Beethoven Competition in Bonn (2013), Ce\u0301sar Franck Competition in Brussels (2016).","accomplishments":[{"text_accomplishments":"Professor of Piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music"},{"text_accomplishments":"Only professional Irish pianist specialized in the performance of French music"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher\/4043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/teacher"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"instrument","href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}