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Rising Stars Concert: Fiachra de hOra / Claudia Fernández Parrondo

Viola / Piano

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Rising Stars Concert
Rising Stars Concert
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Date & Time
Saturday 15th November 2025, 11.30am
Venue
The Manor House, Tulfarris
Ticket Info
Tickets €15 / €10 student concession
(+ booking fee)

For group bookings or for those having any issues booking, please contact westwicklowfestival@gmail.com
Artists
Fiachra de hOra viola
Claudia Fernández Parrondo piano
Programme
R. Schumann Märchenbilder, Op. 113
Garth Knox Fuga Libre
R. Clarke Sonata for viola and piano

This concert will also feature the winning work from the West Wicklow Festival / Contemporary Music Centre’s Composition Competition for Emerging Composers.

The festival's Rising Star this November is violist Fiachra de hOra, a leading talent of his generation, who will be joined by his duo partner, Spanish pianist Claudia Fernández Parrondo for a magical Saturday morning coffee concert on 15th November.

This exciting duo present a programme featuring Schumann’s evocative Märchenbilder (Fairytales), Garth Knox’s experimental Fuga Libre for solo viola and Rebecca Clarke’s much celebrated Sonata, a work which has become a true staple of the viola/piano repertoire. This concert will also feature the winning work from the festival’s Composition Competition in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre.

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O. Nedbal: Romantic piece Op. 18

Fiachra de hOra (Nedbal Competition)

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Fiachra de hOra received his bachelor degree from the Conservatory of Amsterdam in
2023 studying with Nobuko Imai and Marjolein Dispa. He continues his studies at the Musik Akademie Basel with Silvia Simionescu, and joins the Sinfonieorchester Basel as an Academist for the 2025-2026 season.
He has appeared at the Westport and Ortús Chamber Music Festivals, and was invited to take part in the
Clandeboye Festival in 2021. He has taken part in the Prussia Cove Masterclasses and Open Chamber Music
sessions in recent years.

He has performed solo with the Ulster Orchestra, Camerata Ireland, CvA Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra of the AKSS Music Academy in Greece, and gave a sold-out recital at Ireland’s National Concert Hall.
He won 3rd prize and the audience prize at the 5th National Dutch Viola Competition. He was also awarded a
special prize at the Irish Heritage Music Bursary in 2024.

Claudia Fernández Parrondo is a Spanish pianist born in 1997 in Manzanares (CiudadReal), whose musical career includes concerts in halls such as Zaragoza’s Auditorium, “Palau de la Música” in Valencia, “Fundación Juan March” in Madrid, “Rathauslaube” in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) and “Schloss Wildon” (Austria). She is a prizewinner of several piano competitions, and she has been invited to participate in Aurora Music Festival 2018 (Stockholm), in the International Festival “Piano Meeting 2019” (Ourense) and in the Festival Arte Classica (Austria).

Claudia began her music education at the age of 2. She studied her Bachelor at “Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón” in Zaragoza, Spain, with professor Miguel Ángel Ortega Chavaldas, finishing in June of 2019 with first class honours. She subsequently studied a Master in piano performance and a Master in Pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik Basel under the tutelage of Tobias Schabenberger and Zoltán
Fejérvári. She further took part in a specialisation course in chamber music with Professors Anton Kernjak and Anna Gebert in 2024-2025.

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