One of Ireland’s most individual and brilliant concert pianists, Peter Maurice Tuite has performed in Ireland, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Israel and the United States and has broadcast on both radio and television, nationally and internationally. Highlights of recent seasons include a highly lauded series of concerts performing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations throughout Germany, Austria and Italy, numerous performances with the National Symphony of Ireland and a sixteen-city tour of the United States performing Beethoven’s Third Concerto and Shostakovich’s Second Concerto, all to great critical acclaim. Upcoming seasons will include concerts in Europe, a fourteen city tour of the United States, a six city tour of South America and a joint project to perform all 51 of Haydn’s Piano Sonatas over twelve concerts in total.
Educated at Trinity College Dublin and later at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where as a student he was awarded nearly every prize in classical performance in Ireland. During this time, he also received numerous awards and scholarships for further study in Israel, Germany and Switzerland. Following these successes, he enrolled as a Fulbright Scholar at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University in the United States where he completed a doctorate in music, specialising in the works of Olivier Messiaen. On graduation, he was nominated for election to Pi Kappa Lambda. Formerly a student of Anthony Glavin and John O’Conor, Peter studied with Benjamin Pasternak and Leon Fleisher whilst at Peabody. In addition to this he made a special study of Franz Liszt with Lazar Berman in 2000 and of J.S. Bach with Alexis Weissenberg in 2001.
Deeply committed to music education, he returned in 2007 to the Royal Irish Academy of Music where he is now both Head of the Keyboard Faculty and Dean of the Senior School and where many of his students have achieved distinction at both national and international level. Peter is also involved in interdisciplinary research at Oxford University where he is focusing on the relationship between history, literature, philosophy and the visual arts. For more see www.petertuite.net