Connor Heraghty – piano

The Programme

Connor Heraghty – piano

Standchen
(transcribed Liszt)

Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
17. Regard du silence (‘Contemplation of silence’)

Dante Sonata

Five Bagatelles
5. Threnody

Toccata in D minor, Op 11

The Artist

Connor Heraghty was awarded a place to study piano performance at the Purcell School of Music sponsored by scholarships from the government’s Music and Dance Scheme and the Mackintosh Foundation. He went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he completed the BMus (Hons), MMus and MPerf postgraduate degrees followed by the Artist Diploma (2019-21).

Concerts have included recitals at the Fazioli Concert Hall in Venice, in London at the Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the Fields, St James’s Church Piccadilly, Milton Court Barbican, Drapers’ Hall and Buckingham Palace in the presence of Prince Charles.

During his studies at the Guildhall Connor studied with Senior Professor of Piano, Joan Havill and he has also enjoyed participation in masterclasses given by such artists as Sa Chen, Peter Frankl and Stephen Hough.

His studies all through have been supported by scholarships from the Guildhall Trust, Leverhulme Arts Trust, Countess of Munster and the Alec Beecheno Bursary Award and he is on the artist roster of Talent Unlimited. During 2021/22 Connor is the Fellow of the keyboard department under the guidance of Lucy Parham and Ronan O’Hora.