Gary O'Shea

Pianist
Teaching
  • Russian Music of the Twentieth Century (University of Sheffield)
  • Solo Performance (University of Sheffield)
  • Piano Accompaniment (University of Sheffield)
  • Piano/Ensemble Tutor (University of Sheffield/Bangor University)
Articles
  • '“A Permanent Influence”: How Beethoven Had an Impact on Prokofiev’s Piano Writing’, The Musical Times, Autumn 2015, pp. 49–62
  • 'The Path to Originality in Prokofiev’s Early Piano Works’, Three Oranges: the Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, 24, November 2012, pp. 23–29
  • Review of Tomoff, Kirill: Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition During the Early Cold War, 1945–1958 (New York: Cornell, 2015) in The Musical Times, Summer 2016, pp. 119–120
  • Review of Fairclough, Pauline: Classics for the masses: shaping Soviet musical identity under Lenin and Stalin in The Musical Times, Spring 2017
  • Review of Frolova-Walker, Marina: Stalin’s music prize: Soviet culture and politics in The Musical Times, Spring 2017
Conferences/Talks
  • November 2008 – University of London, Goldsmiths conference, Exploring National Identity in Musical Culture: ‘Investigating the Effect of Prokofiev’s Move to the West on his Piano Works’
  • November 2009 – American Musicological Society, Philadelphia: ‘Exploring the Effect of Prokofiev’s Move to America on his Piano Writing’
  • January 2010 – Sheffield Gramophone Society: ‘Prokofiev the Performer’
  • September 2013 – Music Since 1900 Conference, Liverpool Hope University: ‘A ‘Dictionary of Idioms’: The Path to Originality in Prokofiev’s Early Piano Works’
  • February 2015 – London International Piano Symposium: ‘A Permanent Influence’: How Beethoven Had an Impact on Prokofiev’s Piano Writing