Piano Faculty: Deirdre O'Donahue
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Dr. Deirdre O'Donohue is a member of the piano faculty in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at New York University and is also on the college and preparatory faculty of Manhattan School of Music. She has performed solo and chamber recitals in Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada and the United States. Active as an adjudicator in the United States and Canada, she has also given numerous masterclasses and lecture/demonstrations at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, the Shanghai Conservatory, the Poona Music Society in Poona, India, the Rotterdam Conservatory, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference and at various other institutions throughout the United States and Canada.
In 1998 and 1999, Dr. O'Donohue was invited by the Gijon Conservatory in Asturias, Spain to give intensive week-long courses in piano technique and interpretation. She has received the Sparrendam Medal for performance in the Netherlands, and the Roger Phelps Award from New York University for her dissertation entitled "The Concept of Unity and Uniqueness in the Multi-Movement Works of Beethoven."
Recent engagements have included masterclasses at New York University and Queen's College, a lecture/demonstration for the NY Associated Music Teachers' League, the adjudications of the Royal Irish Academy of Music's week-long Piano Festival March 2000) and the National Feis Ceoil (March 2002) in Dublin, Ireland, solo recitals in Connecticut, Vermont and at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire, performances of Stravinsky's Concerto for Two Pianos, with Rosemary Caviglia, in New York and Vermont, and in 2002 she was the Convention Clinician for the South Carolina MTA.
Deirdre O'Donohue is Past-President of the New York State Music Teacher's Association and is the Chairperson of the NYSMTA Empire State Performance Competition. In the summers of 1999 and 2000, Dr. O'Donohue taught piano and chamber music at the Columbia University's High School Chamber Music, Strings and Piano Program. Since the summer of 2001, she has been on the Faculty of the Adamant Music School in Adamant, Vermont and, since the summer of 2003 she has been the Coordinator for the Menahem Pressler Master classes at Adamant.
Dr. O'Donohue holds degrees from New York University, The Hochschule fur Music und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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