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Briona Mannion
Briona is a communicative musician with a strong sense of integrity and her assured technique allows her to express her very innovative musical ideas.
Solo - String
Instrumentation
- Briona Mannion - Violin
- TBC - Piano
Repertoire
Johannes Brahms - Violin Sonata No.1 in G Major, Op.78 (28')
Leoš Janáček - Violin Sonata JW VII/7 (17')
Béla Bartók - Rhapsody for Violin and Piano Sz. 87, No.1 (10')
W.A.Mozart - Violin Sonata No.32 in B-flat Major, K.454 (22')
Rebecca Clarke - 'Midsummer Moon' (6')
Eugène Ysaÿe - Poème élégiaque, Op. 12 (16')
Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.1 WoO1 (3')
Maurice Ravel - Violin Sonata No. 2 M.77 ‘Blues’ (19')
Edvard Grieg - Violin Sonata No.2 in G major, Op.13 (21’)
Antonín Dvořák - Mazurka Op.49 (7')
L.v.Beethoven - Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major Op.47 ‘Kreutzer’ (40')
Eleanor Alberga - 'No Man's Land Lullaby' (10')
Traditional Scottish/Irish set (5’)
Biography
Scottish-Irish violinist, Bríona Mannion is a passionate chamber musician and soloist and has performed at prestigious festivals and venues such as the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Dublin National Concert Hall and the Queen’s Hall Edinburgh.
As a chamber musician, Bríona has performed chamber works with the Chilingirian and Edinburgh Quartets, Frans Helmerson and Mihaela Martin. She has given chamber music and solo performances at festivals such as the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, Edinburgh Festival, Dublin HandelFest, Virtuoso and Belcanto Festival, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Fribourg Irish Festival, Perth Festival of the Arts as Cross Trust Young Artist of the Year and the Romsey Chamber Music Festival.
Bríona has appeared as a soloist with the London Conservatoire’s String Ensemble, Caledonian Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Youth Baroque Orchestra, Master Orchestra di Brescia, and I Musici di Parma in Italy. She has enjoyed participating in masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Renaud Capuçon, Tasmin Little, Stephan Picard, Pavel Vernikov, Régis Pasquier and Felix Andrievsky. She was a prizewinner in the Wilfrid Parry Prize and the Bach Prize at the Royal Academy of Music as well as in the Global Musical Arts Concerto Competition and Haslemere International String Competition.
Bríona graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with First Class Honours and the LRAM Diploma in 2022, where she held a full scholarship for four years. She recently completed her Master of Arts degree at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne, Switzerland, studying with Svetlana Makarova. Bríona is currently on the Artist Diploma programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with a scholarship. In 2011, she was awarded a government-aided place at St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh where she studied with Andrea Gajic and Francis Cummings until 2018.
Bríona’s love of music and the violin began at the age of 6 when she was introduced to Irish and Scottish traditional music. She continues to play folk music with London-based band ‘Stroma’ which she was a founding member of in 2018.
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