Michael McHale
Michael McHale is one of the most versatile pianists in the British Isles. He has found success internationally without losing focus on the music of his native Ireland, on both the British and Irish sides of its internal border.
McHale was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1983. He took up the piano at age seven, motivated at first by sibling rivalry with an older sister, but soon he was making great strides and was traveling by train, leaving on Friday afternoon after regular school classes, to study with John O'Conor and Réamonn Keary at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. McHale's university years also saw him commuting as he took an academic music course at Cambridge University but also traveled to London for lessons with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music. McHale won a series of prizes in the 2000s decade, beginning with the 2004 Camerata Ireland Musician of the Year Competition, and he began to find bookings in Ireland, the UK, and beyond. McHale has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony, and various major orchestras in Ireland and Britain. He has given solo recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, New York's Lincoln Center, and Pesti Vigado in Budapest, as well as the Tanglewood Festival in the U.S. and the Tokyo Spring Festival. Among McHale's collaborators are flutist James Galway and soprano Felicity Lott, and in 2014 he co-founded the McGill-McHale Trio in the U.S. McHale has recorded with that group for the Cedille label, and he has joined other players for chamber music on the Chandos label. The year 2020 saw him release The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3, with clarinetist Michael Collins, on Chandos. Some of McHale's solo recordings have been devoted to Irish music; in 2017, he released a recording of Simon O'Connor's What Is Living and What Is Dead on the Ergodos label.
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Discography
19 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Bennett: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
John Wilson, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Michael McHale
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on 1 May 2020
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Cliff Eidelman: Symphony No. 2
Cliff Eidelman, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jessie Shulman, Michael McHale
Symphonic Music - Released by Tempest Music, Inc. on 19 Apr 2024
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The Lyrical Clarinet
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Feb 2011
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The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Feb 2020
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Michael Collins Plays British Clarinet Sonatas, Vol. 1
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Mar 2012
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The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 2
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Jun 2016
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Michael Collins Plays British Clarinet Sonatas, Vol. 2
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Mar 2013
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The Virtuoso Clarinet, Vol. 2
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Feb 2014
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Hammond: Miniatures & Modulations
Classical - Released by Grand Piano on 5 Jan 2015
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Brahms & Reinecke: Works for Clarinet & Piano
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Jan 2015
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The Irish Piano
Classical - Released by RTÉ Lyric FM on 12 Oct 2012
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Reger: Clarinet Sonatas
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 Jul 2017
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Reger: Clarinet Sonatas
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Jul 2017
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Fauré & Saint-Saëns: Works for Cello & Piano
Chamber Music - Released by Champs Hill Records on 31 Mar 2017
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Schubert: Four Impromptus
Classical - Released by Ergodos on 27 Jan 2016
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Solitude
Stefan Hoskuldsson, Michael McHale
Chamber Music - Released by Delos on 9 Jun 2015
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Cliff Eidelman: The Five Tales
Classical - Released by Tempest Music, Inc. on 15 May 2020
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Piano Music by Philip Hammond
Michael McHale, Cathal Breslin, David Quigley
Classical - Released by Lorelt on 1 Jul 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo