Event Details
In collaboration with Camerata Ireland Academy, we are pleased to present a short evening concert featuring Rachel Nolan (flute) & Tristan Russcher (piano).
Programme:
RACHEL NOLAN flute
Rachel has a Bachelor in Music Education from Trinity College Dublin where she graduated with first class honours and was awarded a gold medal for outstanding results. She went on to obtain a Recital Artist Diploma from the RIAM where she studied flute with Ríona O’Duinnín and William Dowdall. She is now studying for a Masters in flute performance in HKU, Utrecht with Aldo Baerten. Rachel has appeared as concerto soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Trinity College Orchestra, and the Dublin Youth Orchestra. She was the Feis Ceoil McCullough Cup & RTÉ lyric fm €1,500 award winner in 2021, and the Feis Ceoil Senior Flute Cup winner in 2019. She was a finalist in the Maura Dowdall Concerto Competition in 2022 & 2023 and was the winner of the Brian Dunning award for the highest placed woodwind player in the 2023 competition. She was a RIAM NSO concerto competition winner in 2023, a finalist in the 2024 Hibernian Concerto competition and a semi-finalist in the 2023 Freemasons Young Musician of the Year award. Rachel was a Camerata Ireland Academist in 2022 and 2024 and was the 2024 Flax Trust Bursary winner. Rachel has performed with various orchestras around Ireland and the Netherlands. She was awarded a place in the RIAM Philharmonia side-by-side with Camerata Ireland and Barry Douglas, and with the Irish Baroque Orchestra. Rachel is also a keen chamber musician and is a member of The Claddagh Trio and Sióga Duo.
TRUSTAN RUSSCHER piano
Tristan is one of the leading keyboard musicians on the island of Ireland. Born in Australia, he moved to England to read music as organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford. He moved to Dublin in 2003 as organ scholar at Christ Church and St Patrick’s Cathedral’s. Now living in Belfast, he enjoys a freelance career working with the best musical ensembles on the island.
Tristan is in high demand as a collaborative pianist, having worked with the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra, Sestina and the Ulster Orchestra. He has performed as piano soloist in major concerti by Bach, Beethoven, Gershwin, Grieg, Mozart and Shostakovich. He is fortunate to work closely with both NI Opera and the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin as a regular accompanist, répétiteur and vocal coach.
As an organist Tristan has worked extensively in the Anglican cathedrals in Dublin and Belfast and was Assistant Director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin from 2007 to 2010. He has performed as organ soloist in major orchestral works by Duruflé, Handel, Leighton, Poulenc, Rheinberger, Saint-Saens and Widor. In 2012 he became only the seventh person to perform Francis Pott’s epic two-hour organ symphony Christus, considered by many to be the ‘Everest’ of the organ repertoire, and gave the Northern Ireland premiere on the Mulholland organ in the Ulster Hall in the presence of the composer. He was Director of Music at Saint Bartholomew’s Church, Dublin from 2011 to 2021, leading a choir of over fifty singers at services and concerts and on national and international tours. He has broadcast with RTÉ Lyric FM and BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 and recorded with numerous CD labels including Hyperion, Oxrecs, Priory and Signum.