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For over one hundred years the Royal Irish Academy of Music has examined and inspired countless numbers of musicians through its highly successful Local Centre Examination System.

In 2000, as part of the Academy's ongoing commitment to music education in Ireland, the permanent tsb High Achiever Awards were established to recognise outstanding students of this successful and long-standing examination system throughout the country. Each year over 40,000 students of music and drama are eligible to compete for these special awards.

To date over 4,000 students of the system have received a High Achiever Award. Auditions, followed by award ceremonies and concerts are held throughout the country each autumn culminating in a Gala Concert in Dublin in December before a distinguished audience.

The High Achiever Awards were sponsored by permanent tsb for ten years (2000 to 2009).

Gala Ceremony 2005 Íomhar Fitzpatrick, Leixlip, reciting Toad of Toad Hall by A A Milne, at the Royal Irish Academy of Music	High Achiever Awards 2009 If you are unable to attend the regional concert to be presented with your award please ask your teacher to send a request in writing to have the award posted out.
Gala Ceremony 2004 Harpists, Christiane O'Mahoney and Niall Murphy, performing in the Katherine Brennan Hall, RIAM	High Achievers Members of the Quaid family from Enniscorthy have featured in several of the Gala events over the past seven years