Ronan O'Hora
Ronan O’Hora studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Ryszard Bakst. He won many awards as a student at the RNCM including the Dayas Gold Medal, the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and the Concerto Prize. He has performed extensively throughout the world, playing concertos with such orchestras as the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Zurich Tonhalle, Indianapolis Symphony, Florida Philharmonic, Philharmonia Hungarica, and Queensland Philharmonic. He has performed in every major country in Europe as well as across the USA, Canada, Australasia, and South Africa, and appeared at many of the most prestigious music festivals including Salzburg, Gstaad, Ravinia, Montpelier, and Brno.
He has given many performances on television and radio throughout the world including a televised recital at the Chopin Society in Warsaw, a televised performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Netherlands Radio Symphony, two concerts of Mozart chamber music on BBC TV, as well as over one hundred concerts on BBC Radio 3.
Ronan O’Hora has recorded more than 30 CDs for the EMI, Virgin Classics, Tring International, Dinemic, and Fone labels. These include concertos by Mozart, Grieg, and Tschaikowsky with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, solo CDs of Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Satie, and chamber music by Fauré, Brahms, Dvořák, Mozart, and Britten.
Ronan O’Hora has been a piano professor at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chethams School of Music. He regularly gives master classes and sits on competition juries throughout the world.
Ronan O’Hora has been head of keyboard studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London since 1999, and in 2008 also became head of advanced performance studies.
