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O’Conor Performs Beethoven’s ‘Choral Fantasy’ in Ireland with Goethe Choir

Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, Chair of Keyboard Division and Professor of Piano John O’Conor, Mus.D., returned to Ireland this month for a rare performance of Beethoven’s Fantasia in C Minor, op. 80 (“Choral Fantasia”) for piano, chorus and orchestra with the Goethe Choir. At the end of June, he will present his annual masterclasses at the Adamant Piano Camp in Vermont and then travel to Japan for his annual residency at the Showa University of Music in the outskirts of Tokyo where he has been a visiting professor of piano for almost 20 years.

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