Daryl Irvine

Helen Daryl Irvine (born August 25, 1932 in Toronto ) is a Canadian pianist and music teacher.

Irvine studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Earle Moss (1948–1951) and Eric Rollinson (1949–1953). She won a fellowship from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and was a student of Norman Greenward and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London from 1954 to 1957 . She gave successful concerts in London and Berlin and took part in Pablo Casals ' masterclasses for chamber music in Switzerland from 1958 to 1959 . As a Canada Council scholarship holder , she took lessons with Karl Engel in England and Germany between 1958 and 1960 .

She won the Dannreuther Concerto Prize and the Marie Curtis Prize at the Royal College of Music, and first and second prizes in the field of chamber music at the music competition in Hanover in 1960. Works by Canadian composers are an integral part of their repertoire. Walter Buczynski composed his piano sonata for her in 1967, and in 1970 she premiered his Four Movements for Piano and Strings . She has performed with the Boyd Neel Orchestra , the Hart House Orchestra , the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the orchestras of the CBC (under the direction of Gary Bertini and Lukas Foss, among others ) as solo pianist and chamber musician, and has given concerts in London at Wigmore Hall and in New York at Carnegie Hall .

Irvine has been teaching piano and organ at the Royal Conservatory of Music since 1960 , of which she headed the examination board from 1986 to 1990. She is a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association , which she recognized with an award in 2002. She co-authored How to Prepare for and Take a Practical Music Examination (1984) with her husband RG Condie .

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• Daryl Irvine ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .