Liam Furey Piano Recital

The next concert in the popular Globe Sunday Matinee series is a piano recital by Wellington musician Liam Furey, who is clearly a young pianist to watch. Furey started lessons in Wellington with Gillian Bibby at thirteen, learning piano and the basics of composition. Thanks to Bibby’s teachings, Furey frequently won prizes at local IRMT piano competitions and won the Senior Composition Prize for Chamber Music NZ’s 2016 Secondary School Contest.

Furey received the LTCL (Distinction) and LMusNZ Piano Diplomas in 2017 before studying at the New Zealand School of Music in 2018, under the piano tutorage of Jian Liu and the composition tutorage of Michael Norris.
In 2019, he co-founded the Sounds of Te Kōkī concert series, solely premiering works from New Zealand School of Music composition students and alumni.

Before graduating with a Bachelor of Music with First-class Honours in 2022, Furey performed for a number of internationally acclaimed pianists in master-classes. In 2021, Furey was the New Zealand School of Music Orchestra Composer-in-residence and a Todd Awards finalist.

The programme for his Globe recital has a title of Lineages. Furey performs music by Chopin, Mozart, Schonberg, Bach and Franck, in a journey of musical connections. Each item presented connects in some stylistic way to each succeeding piece. Furey’s performance makes clear the ways in which the quite different styles presented in the programme are all part of a lineage.

The Globe Sunday Matinee concert begins at 2.30pm. Admission is by donation, recommended from $5.