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Martin Moriarty

Viola

Violist Martin Moriarty is one of Ireland’s foremost musicians and enjoys and active career as a soloist and as a chamber musician both at home and abroad. Martin has received multiple awards and prizes including the Amsterdam Viola Festival Competition, the Flax Trust Award at the Clandeboye Chamber Music Festival and the Peter Pirazzi Stiftung. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras including the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra and Amsterdam Sinfonietta under Pavel Baleff and Ed Spanjaard. He gave the Czech premier of James MacMillan’s Viola Concerto with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra under Marc Kissoczy in April 2022.

Martin has performed in venues including the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Tonhalle, Zürich, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Kings Place and St John's Smith Square, London, Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Brussels and Ishibashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo. Festival invitations include IMS Prussia Cove, Krzyzowa Music, West Cork, GAIA, Zürcher Kammermusik Gesellschaft, Eggenfelden Klassisch, Dovos, Schiermonnikoog, Grachtenfestival, Tsinandali, Pablo Casals, Virtuoso & Belcanto, Holland Music Sessions and NEO Festival Novi Sad Chamber Music Festivals. 

Martin has collaborated with artists including Vladim Gluzman, Viviane Hagner, Eckart Runge, Stephen Waarts, Alexey Stadler, Gareth Lubbe, Barry Douglas, François Guye, Kirill Troussov, Boris Garlitsky, Philippe Graffin, Daniel Rowland, Nabil Shehata, Alexander Sitkovstsky, Andreas Janke, István Várdai, Finghin Collins, Miklós Lukács, Diamanda Dramm, Julien Hervé, the Vogler, Vanbrugh, Jerusalem, Kelemen, Meta4, Quiroga and Michelangelo String Quartets.

Martin regularly plays with orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra and guest principal viola for CHAARTS Chamber Artists, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Camerata Freden.

Martin has a great passion for contemporary music, Martin has worked alongside and premiered works by Garth Knox, Gabriel Prokofiev, Helena Winkelman, Sam Perkin, Seán Doherty, Raymond Dean, John Kinsella, Oene Van Geel, Sebastian Fagerlund and Thomas Beijer.

Martin has assisted this teachers in Dublin, Amsterdam and Detmold. He has given solo and chamber music masterclasses at the Bards College in New York and Ortús Chamber Music Festival in Cork, Ireland. For the past three years Martin was invited by the NCH, Dublin to assist in their International Master Course that takes place every summer. He has given viola and chamber music lessons and has assisted Mihaela Martin, Lars Anders Tomter, Frans Helmerson, Mark Gothoni, Máté Szücs, Adrian Brendel, Silke Avenhaus, Hyeyoon Park, Hartmut Rohde, Ulrich Witteler and Hisako Kawamura.

Martin was the first Irish musician to be accepted into the Verbier Festival Academy as a soloist in 2018 and 2019. Here he worked with world renowned musicians including Tabea Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit, Ferenc Rados, Gábor Takács-Nagy, András Keller and Pamela Frank. From 2021-2024 he was the first Irish musician to be a Stipendiat of the Villa Musica Foundation in Germany.

Martin began his studies at the Young European String School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin before following further studies in Amsterdam, Detmold and Zurich with Nobuko Imai, Marjolein Dispa, Veit Hertenstein and Lawrence Power.

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