Patrick McBeth, pianist

Birmingham Conservatoire

Irish pianist Patrick McBeth began his studies with Gerard Bradley and in 1996 left Strabane to study Piano and Cornet at the University of Huddersfield. There he graduated with a first class Honours degree and won the Universities Rodwell Prize for Piano. Subsequently he spent two summers at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Colorado on the "Deans- Scholarship" studying solo piano with French pianist Jean-David Coen and chamber music with American Rita Sloan; continuing his studies throughout the year with Ireland's Foremost Piano pedagogue Mabel Swainson at the Leinster School of Music, Dublin. Patrick continued his studies with Malcolm Wilson and Irish Composer/Pianist Phillip Martin at Birmingham Conservatoire. There he completed the Conservatoire's Post-graduate Diploma in Performance course with Distinction and also won the Renna Kellaway Prize and Dennis Matthews Piano Scholarship. In 2002 Patrick was awarded the prestigious Joseph Weingarten Scholarship to study at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with the Hungarian pianist Nemithy Attila.

Past engagements include recitals at The Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Belfast's Harty Room, Dukes Hall (Royal Academy of Music, London) Wheeler Opera House, Benedict Music Tent, (Colorado, U.S.A.), C.B.S.O. Centre (Birmingham), Hereford International Summer School Recital Series, Calne Classical Music Series (Wiltshire) in Ireland and recently a performance of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra. As 2003's recipient of the Birmingham Music Sound Foundation Scholarship Patrick is completing Birmingham Conservatoires premiere Performers Diploma, the Advanced Professional Performers Diploma and the Conservatoires MMus course.

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