Reamonn Keary Ireland 2009 Jury Member A native of Galway, Réamonn Keary began his piano studies in Limerick with Gerard Shanahan. While reading music at Trinity College Dublin he studied piano with John O`Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. On receipt of an Austrian Government Scholarship in 1984 he continued his piano studies with Leonid Brumberg in Vienna. In 1995 he was awarded a first class honours Masters Degree in Performance and Interpretation at St. Patrick`s College Maynooth.

Réamonn performs regularly as a chamber musician and accompanist and has worked with Ireland`s most distinguished instrumentalists and singers. He is a frequent broadcaster and lecturer on the topics of piano teaching and interpretation and was for many years John O`Conor`s teaching assistant at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He is a highly valued teacher at the RIAM and a number of Réamonn`s students are enjoying international success. He served as the Chairman of the Senior Examiners at the RIAM for seven years and from 1997 to 2004 was a member of the Cultural Relations Committee of the Department of Foreign Affairs. He is in constant demand as an adjudicator and was a jury member of the 7th Axa Dublin International Piano Competition in 1996.