Chamber Music at Grangegorman
Date of Event: Tuesday 30th September, 2025
Chamber Music at Grangegorman returns! Our opening concert features Mozart's charming Violin Sonata, K. 378, followed by Schumann's magnificent and ever-popular Piano Quartet.
🗓️ Tuesday, 30th September
🕠 13:00 – 14:00
📍 Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman D07 XFF2
🎫 €10 / €5 Concession - Free for all TU Dublin staff and students!
🔗 Chamber Music at Grangegorman: September
Keith Pascoe, violin
David O'Doherty, viola
Arun Rao, cello
Andreas Ioannides, piano
Keith Pascoe
Keith's professional career began after prize winning studies at the Royal College of Music, London where he studied violin with Jaroslav Vanecek, piano with Eileen Reynolds, and conducting with Norman del Mar.
His professional life began in 1981, when he became a founding member (and leader) of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Subsequent full-time positions included sub-leader of the London Philharmonic at the age of twenty-three, assistant director of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the Fields (with whom he has appeared as soloist), and ten years with exclusive EMI artists, the Britten Quartet.
From 1998- 2017, he was a member of the Vanbrugh Quartet, artists-in-residence to University College Cork and RTE. He is currently (2019) Conductor of the Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra.
His teaching and coaching commitments have taken him across the world, including to such major institutions as Royal College of Music, London; Royal Academy of Music, London; Chethams School of Music, Manchester; Edsberg Institute, Stockholm; Hong Kong University, Kiev Conservatory, University of Southern California, Liverpool University, Birmingham Conservatoire, Yehudi Menuhin School, inter alia.
He lives in Cork city, Ireland.
David O'Doherty
David O’Doherty began his studies at the R.I.A.M. at the age of 7 with Maeve Broderick and later Geraldine O'Grady. From the age of 13 to 17 he travelled weekly to Cork to study with Adrian Petcu at the School of Music. He continued his studies at Y.E.S. with Ronald Masin before enrolling in his class at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, now TU Dublin Conservatoire, where he graduated in 1996 with B.Mus. Honours Degree in performance.
With an award from the Arts Council of Ireland, David travelled to the Conservatoire of Lausanne, Switzerland where he studied with Pierre Amoyal and Jean Jaquerod.
At the Lausanne Conservatoire, David received a First Prize Diploma of Virtuosity; the highest musical qualification in Switzerland. During his studies he had the opportunity to perform in chamber recitals with his professor Pierre Amoyal and as soloist with the conservatory orchestra playing on a Giuseppe Guarneri, del Gesù violin. In 1997 David made his American debut live on the Boston Radio show "Morning pro Musica" and a year later made his soloist's debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.
Upon graduation, David's passion for chamber music brought him to the conservatory in Geneva where he enrolled in the class of Gui-Michel Caillat for a two year specialization in sonata work in collaboration with the international prize-winning pianist Catherina Lemoni. During that time, David founded the Byron Quartet with whom he later enrolled in the class of Gabor Takacs Nagy for a further two years of intensive specialization. The quartet graduated with honours before a panel including Martin Lovett of the Amadeus Quartet and continued their studies at the C.N.R in Paris with the Ysaye Quartet. In that time the quartet was nurtured by the Pro Quartet scheme; a scheme for the development and promotion of professional ensembles.
Throughout his studies David has had Master classes with György Kurtág, Simon Kuhn, David Dolan, Dimitri Yaplonski, Barthold Kuijken, Eduard Schmieder, Christophe Coin, Simon Kuhn, Raphael Oleg, Yair Kless, Jean Pierre Vallez, Pavel Berman, Giuliano Carmignola, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Bruno Pasquier and members of the Amadeus, Alban Berg, Bartok, Sine Nomine, Vanbrugh, Cleveland, Vermeer, and Italiano Quartets.
Currently a lecturer at the TUDublin Conservatoire of Music and Drama, David is a regular recitalist, concert soloist, conductor and enthusiastic chamber musician. He has given performances throughout Europe, most notably at the Paderewski Hall in Lausanne, the Salle Gabriel Fauré, Paris, the Zürcher Kammerorchester Haus in Zurich, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and at the Chopin Hall of the Chopin University in Warsaw with a recital broadcast on Polish national radio.
As a chamberist, David is regularly invited to prestigious festivals throughout the world. He has enjoyed collaborations at the Espace 2 Schubertiade (Switzerland), Kalomiris Festival (Greece), Ravenna Festival (Italy), Castiglione del Lago Festival (Italy), Aureo Herrero Festival (Spain), West Cork Festival (Ireland) and the New World Music Festival (Venezuela).
David has released seven albums and featured on many more. His latest recording "David O'Doherty in Recital" is a collection of the most virtuosic masterpieces from the repertoire.
David is a member of the harp trio "Reflecting Strings" with Moya O'Grady and Geraldine O'Doherty. Since 2003, together with his wife pianist Catherina Lemoni and Francesco Bartoletti - cello Professor at the Geneva Conservatory- David is cofounder of the Paderewski Trio; the name awarded by the Paderewski foundation in Morges, Switzerland. The group has performed internationally to critical acclaim, including a concert at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin which was hailed by critic Dick O'Riordan (Sunday Business Post) as 'a sublime concert...undoubtedly at the very peak of chamber music offerings'.
Arun Rao
Born in 1969, French-Indian cellist Arun Rao is one of Ireland’s leading and most versatile musicians. A noted performer of repertoire for unaccompanied cello, Rao’s performances of the complete Suites by J.S. Bach earned him considerable acclaim in the late 1990s. He performed complete sets of works by Reger, Piatti, Gabrielli, as well as Bach’s Suites, on three consecutive days in three different Dublin churches in April 2004 and has championed the solo sonatas of Hungarian composers Kodaly and Ligeti in recitals throughout Ireland. His solo performances with orchestras include live broadcasts (RTE Lunchtimes series) of works by Darius Milhaud, Ottorino Respighi and Tchaikovsky, as well as works for Violin, Cello & Orchestra by Brahms, Delius and the Sinfonia Concertante by Mozart for violin, viola & orchestra playing the viola part unchanged, with his life-long partner, Irish violinist Gillian Williams. He also performed the viola part from Mozart’s two String Duets K. 423 & 424, and Schumann’s neglected Märchenerzählungen.
Rao gave many premieres over the course of a thirty-year career of works by Rhona Clarke (In Umbra, 2001; Jagged Edge, 2001), Raymond Deane (The Wall of Cloud,1999; Pentacle, 2000; String Quartet No.1, 2013), Gerard Barry (Triorchic Blues- cello version, 2009), Colman Pearce and Stephen Gardner, some of them composed expressly for DUO CHAGALL, the string duet he founded with Ms Williams.The duo also gave maiden Irish performances of Christian Sinding’s Piano Trio No.1 (2014), Ludomir Różycki’s Rhapsody (2016), Matyas Seiber’s Sonata da camera (2017), Erik Satie’s Sonatine bureaucratique (in Rao’s transcription), Henriette Renié’s Harp Trio and Guy Ropartz’s Piano Trio, the last three as part of the series French Chamber Music, 1914-18 which he directed and curated (The Hugh Lane, 2015-16).
Cello Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire (formerly DIT) since 1994, Rao contributed to a number of significant teaching programs (DIT Cello Scalebook, 2014; DIT Cello Class for students in continuous education; string arrangements for the DIT Sinfonietta) and is the only member of staff doubling as piano accompanist. His article ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’ on tutoring left-handed cello students was published by the magazine ARCO in 2009. Rao’s 2013 Masters dissertation ‘Pierrots fâchés avec la lune’: Debussy, Fauré & Ravel during WWI was critically acclaimed; he is currently preparing a doctorate on the contributions of Camille Saint-Saëns to the philhellenism of the Belle-Epoque.
Andres Ioannides
"An outstanding pianist of the highest artistic standards." – Menahem Pressler
Cypriot pianist Andreas Ioannides leads a dynamic international career devoted to performance, interpretation, and teaching of the piano.
Andreas has made concert appearances throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America. Highlights include performances at Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Seoul Arts Center, the Temppeliaukio Kirkko in Helsinki and the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. As soloist, he has performed under such maestros as Neil Varon, David Effron, Paul Nadler and Roberto Tibiriçá. A devoted chamber musician, he has collaborated with esteemed artists including John Sharp, Joseph Swensen, Atar Arad, Mark Kaplan, Peter Stumpf, the Fry Street and Ariel quartets.
Andreas has received enthusiastic reviews by the Boston Globe and his performances have been broadcast on television and radio across three continents. Having been a prize winner in the BNDES International Piano Competition in Rio de Janeiro and the Hastings International Piano Competition in the UK, he more recently turned his attention to recording projects, including a 2-disc album released by NAXOS in 2020 in honor of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Ioannides is currently a Lecturer in Piano and Chamber Music at the Technological University of Dublin and has previously served as Lecturer at both Munster Technological University in Cork and Indiana State University in the USA. He is also co-founder and Artistic Director of ChamberFest Brown County, a chamber music festival that seeks to inspire audiences in rural America through classical music performance and education of the highest caliber.
Ioannides holds a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University, mentored by legendary pianist Menahem Pressler.
www.chamberfestbrowncounty.com