The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Mary Dullea

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Department of Music
The University of Sheffield
Jessop Building
34 Leavygreave Road
Sheffield
S3 7RD

Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0461
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 0469

email : m.dullea@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

Pianist Mary Dullea has been Director of Performance since September 2011 and is originally from Cork, Ireland. She studied at the Royal College of Music, London on the Edith Best Scholarship and her Masters degree in Contemporary Music Studies is from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has performed throughout Ireland, England, Europe, USA, Hong Kong, China and South Africa as soloist and chamber musician at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Symphony Space, New York City, Casa da Musica, Porto and Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice. Festival appearances include Brighton, Huddersfield, Corsham, Aldeburgh, Petworth, Chichester, Fuse Leeds and Sound Scotland Festivals as well as Belfast Festival at Queens, West Cork Music, Reggello International Festival, Lodi Festival and National Arts Festival (South Africa). Her many broadcasts include BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, RTHK, RTE Lyric FM, WNYC, Radio New Zealand and Sky Arts, Irish, French, Austrian and Italian television. She was the Irish pianist at EU 12 and 15 piano extravaganza concerts in Paris, Brussels and Luxembourg.
A sought-after interpreter of new music, Mary’s expansive repertoire covers the standard piano literature as well as an ever-increasing amount of 20th- and 21st- century compositions, many of which are dedicated to her. She has commissioned and premiered works from composers as varied as Michael Nyman, Donnacha Dennehy and Michael Finnissy – notably with her piano trio, The Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan – violin and Robin Michael - cello).
Her PhD in Performance at the University of Ulster has involved researching, commissioning, performing and recording works for the piano that incorporate the use of the inside and the outside of the instrument. She has been the curator of Soundings (annual new music festival) at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London since 2008. Mary acknowledges the support of The Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, The Arts Council and Music Network through the Music Capital Scheme 2010.

www.marydullea.com
www.fideliotrio.com

Research Interests

Current Projects

Recordings

Bartlebooth Joe Cutler
Buckley's Hot Licks and Clavinova Music for solo piano
Archie: Fidelio Trio
Bartlebooth: with Andrew Sparling – clarinet and Robin Michael – cello
NMC D134

Simon Mawhinney
Hunshigo for violin and piano (Darragh Morgan – violin)
Batu for solo piano
Altarus Records AIR-CD-9027

The Piano Tuner
Fidelio Trio
with Alexander McCall Smith – narrator
Premiere recordings of trios by Sally Beamish, Nigel Osborne and Judith Weir
Delphian Records DCD34084

Bulb
Irish piano trios by Donnacha Dennehy, Ed Bennett, Deirdre Gribbin and Kevin Volans
Fidelio Trio
NMC D147

Metamorphoses
Chamber Music by Haflidi Hallgrímsson
Fidelio Trio
Matthew Jones viola
Delphian Records DCD34059

My Broken Machines Ed Bennett
Slow Down Fidelio Trio
NMC D169

Rob Keeley Chamber Music
Piano Trio Fidelio Trio
Sonata for Violin and Piano with Darragh Morgan – violin
Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano with Rowland Sutherland – flute and Robin Michael – cello
Convivium Records CR 008

Opera
New works for violin and piano by Richard Causton, Joe Cutler, Bryn Harrison, Morgan Hayes, Joseph Phibbs and Jonathan Powell,
Darragh Morgan – violin
Mary Dullea - piano
NMC D108

thirty-nine pages Paul Whitty
Darragh Morgan – violin
Mary Dullea - piano
Divine Art MSV28509

Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume 7
Honk: Greg Caffrey
with Gerard McChrystal, soprano saxophone
CMC CD07

Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume 8
Bluescape Martin O’Leary
Fidelio Trio
CMC CD08