From his home base in Ireland, Finghin is kept equally busy, playing with all the Irish orchestras and at
major festivals throughout the country, and performing on a regular basis with the RTE
National Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra. Chamber music plays an increasingly
important role in his musical life and he has collaborated with ensembles such as London
Winds and the Aviv, Shanghai, Skampa, St. Petersburg, Vanbrugh, Vertavo, and Vogler String
Quartets. Instrumentalists with whom he has collaborated include violinists Isabelle van
Keulen, Miriam Fried, Anthony Marwood and Raphaël Oleg, cellists Alban Gerhardt, Daniel
Müller-Schott and Marc Coppey, and clarinettists Michael Collins and Sharon Kam.
In February 2006 Finghin made his début at New York's Lincoln Center, performing a
recital at the Walter Reade Theater as part of the Great Performer Series. The music of
Mozart featured prominently in his concert schedule for 2006, the 250th anniversary year
of Mozart's birth. He performed concertos with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra
of Ireland, the Ulster Orchestra, the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, and
the Orchestra of St. Cecilia. He also marked the centenary of Shostakovitch's birth by a
performance of the composer's Second Piano Concerto with London's Royal Philharmonic
under Leonard Slatkin at Cadogan Hall in April 2006, and Shostakovitch's
First Piano Concerto with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta conducted by Yip Wing-Sie in June 2006.
Engagements in the 2006-07 season include performances with the RTE National Symphony
Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Cecilia, the Chilingirian Quartet, the ConTempo Quartet,
the Callino Quartet as well as two trips to South Korea. This is in
addition to an Irish tour with Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten and many other concerts in
Ireland and Europe.
In May 2005 Lyric fm released Finghin's debut solo CD album. Entitled Impromptu, it
features 19 sparkling piano classics. In May 2006 Claves Records in Switzerland released a
double CD set featuring the piano music of Schumann; these recordings have received glowing
reviews in the international press, including "Editor's Choice" in the October 2006 issue of
Gramophone Magazine, four stars in BBC Music Magazine and five
Diapasons in France's Diapason Magazine.
