Roy Holmes
One of Ireland's foremost pianists and piano teachers, Roy Holmes holds qualifications from Queen's University Belfast, Royal College of Music, London, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Temple University, Philadelphia. He has considerable experience as a soloist and chamber musician and is a lecturer in the Keyboard Department at Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama. Born in Carrickfergus Co. Antrim, he has a particular interest in piano music by Irish composers, and has recorded the two-piano music of Joan Trimble with Una Hunt on the Naxos Marco Polo label. His preoccupation with technique was first inspired by his studies with the renowned Dieter Weber at the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna, where he spent three years after graduating from Queen's University Belfast. As a pianist and teacher Weber had an open mind and was constantly thinking and rethinking his approach to piano technique. This apprenticeship prepared Roy for his studies with the legendary Gyorgy Sebok at Indiana University.
