Keyboard Studies

Lecturer

Email: shirin.goudarzi-tobin@TUDublin.ie

MA in Performance and Musicology (NUI Maynooth) 

MA in Performance (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna)

BA in Music Education (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna) 

 

Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin was born in Tehran where she began her musical studies at the Tehran Conservatory of Music.  

After receiving an Iranian government scholarship at the age of fourteen, she entered the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and began her studies with Prof. Walther Fleischmann. 

After four years, she was awarded a BA in Music Education (Piano). 

Thereafter, she continued her studies in Vienna with Prof. Noel Flores and Prof. Leonid Brumberg and completed her MA in Performance (Piano). 

She came to live in Dublin in 1985 and began teaching in the College of Music, now TU Dublin Conservatoire.  

Apart from teaching, she had a very busy performance schedule and performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Ireland.  As a soloist she performed with the National Symphony Orchestra under Gearoid Grant and gave many piano recitals at different venues throughout Ireland. 

In chamber music, she collaborated with the contemporary chamber ensemble Nua Nos and her piano duo partner Reamonn Keary. She has also performed at many concerts with her violinist son David Tobin.  

In 2001, she completed her MA in Performance and Musicology in NUI Maynooth.  The subject of her final thesis was The Piano Music of Karol Szymanowski.  

She has been an adjudicator and accompanist at many national music competitions in Ireland.  In recent years, her main focus has been on teaching particularly young advanced students.  As a result of her students’ success at national and international competitions, she has been asked to give talks about different aspects of piano teaching at European Piano Teachers Association and TU Dublin.