Deirbhile Brennan

Deirbhile is a chartered accountant, currently working as a Head of Compliance in Ireland. Deirbhile holds a degree in music from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Music Performance degree from the Royal Irish Academy of Music (gained more recently following a lengthy break from her piano studies). Studying in recent years with Dr. Hugh Tinney, Deirbhile has won first prize at a number of international amateur piano competitions: Ile-de-France, Chicago, Boston and St. Petersburg and has been a laureate at the Washington and Cliburn Competitions. Deirbhile has given recitals in Dublin, Paris, New York (at Carnegie Hall and other venues presented by New York Concerti Sinfonietta), Munich (at the Gasteig), Bayreuth, Washington DC, Boston, Tangiers (Morocco) and Shanghai (China). Deirbhile has performed concerti with orchestras in Ireland and the USA and her performances have also been broadcast on radio in Ireland, the USA and also on the internet.