Peter Tuite ( Irish: ''Peadar de Tiúit'') is a classical concert

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Early studies

Born in

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, Tuite was first educated at

Belvedere College SJ Belvedere College S.J. (sometimes St Francis Xavier's College) is a voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland. The school has numerous alumni in the arts, politics, sports, science, and business. History Belvedere owes its origin ...

. He studied under Anthony Glavin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and later at the

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in the

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. Tuite earned degrees at

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, and the

Royal Irish Academy of Music The Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) in Dublin, Ireland, is one of Europe's oldest music conservatoires, specialising in classical music and the Irish harp. It is located in a Georgian building on Westland Row in Dublin. An institution whic ...

before, in 2002, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a Bank or Ireland Millennium Scholarship for further study in the United States, whereupon he enrolled at the Peabody Institute of

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. After completing his graduate studies at Peabody, he earned a Masters in Literature and Arts from the

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. Whilst a student, Tuite won several awards for classical performance, including the Millennium Young Musician of the Future competition, and the Chopin Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition.

Career

A number of Tuite's performances have been broadcast on both radio and television. In 2008, he was appointed head of the keyboard faculty at the

, whilst between 2015 and 2018, he served as "Head of Piano and Keyboard Instruments" at

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has ...

in London. As of May 2020 he was a member of faculty at both the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tuite, Peter 1976 births Living people Irish classical pianists Irish classical musicians Alumni of the Royal Irish Academy of Music Musicians from Dublin (city) 21st-century classical pianists People educated at Belvedere College