ARTIST PROFILE:
Cahal Masterson

Award winning Armagh pianist Cahal Masterson has developed an impressive performing profile in Ireland and internationally, with recent performances at the Centre Culture Irlandais, the National Concert Hall Dublin, Belfast International Arts Festival, and Cork Orchestral Society. In addition to soloist, vocal repetiteur and chamber work that has taken him throughout Europe, North America, and Suzhou, China, Cahal is dedicated to championing exciting new works by Irish composers. He has collaborated on the premiere of  solo piano, chamber works, song cycles, and even a new ballet commission with composers Anselm McDonnell, Stephen Gardner, and Amelia Clarkson.

In 2021 Cahal recorded to great critical acclaim, the piano suite Ceaselessly Into The Past by current Séan Ó Rioda competition winner Anselm Mc Donnell. Also that year he designed and delivered a comprehensive programme geared towards the upper-primary level with Music for Galway. This culminated in a combined performance of iconic childhood themed music inter-twinned with kids’ responses to music via art and poetry. In April 2024 he gave the world premiere of The Brahmdel Variations for solo piano by CMC composer Stephen Gardner, and he collaborated on the release of album Kraina by McDonnell. Cahal regularly collaborates with soprano Rebecca Murphy and they recently recorded for the upcoming release of Rebecca’s debut album Traverser la Blancheur.

Upcoming performances include with Rebecca at Queen’s University, recitals with violinist Rachael Masterson in the cities of Belfast and Armagh, as well as solo piano recitals and masterclasses at Music in Fermanagh.