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Welcome to Our New Member Barry Hannigan Barry Hannigan is known for his performances throughout the United States and in Europe. He has appeared as guest artist at a host of American universities, such as UCLA, Yale, Cornell, and the Universities of Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, Arizona State, and Texas. He is the recipient of many awards and prizes, including those from the Ford, Belin, Surdna and Presser Foundations. He has received a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, an award intended to recognize “the nation’s outstanding recitalists.” Hannigan has recorded for Opus One, SEAMUS, SCI, and Radio Telefis Eireann in Dublin, Ireland and has released four CDs for Black Canyon Records. He has performed in England, China, Russia, Ireland, Norway and New Zealand. Hannigan recently retired as the Ellen Williams Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA., where he received the Class of ‘56 Lectureship for inspirational teaching. His students have earned graduate performance degrees in piano performance at schools such as Peabody, Eastman, and the New England Conservatory. With his wife, Mary (a professional flutist) Barry has performed many benefit recitals for various organizations, such as the tenth and twentieth anniversaries of the Estes Valley land Trust. They have played eight or so benefits concerts for The Old Gallery in Allenspark. And if Rotary should be interested they would be happy to offer a concert for us. |