Finghin Collins
piano

One of Ireland's most successful musicians, Finghin Collins was born in Dublin in 1977 and studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O'Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. He took first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Since then he has continued to enjoy a flourishing international career that takes him all over Europe and the United States, as well to the Far East and Australia.

Finghin Collins is very active as a programmer, commissioner and concert presenter in Ireland. He is Artistic Director of the New Ross Piano Festival, Music for Galway and the Dublin International Piano Competition. He is the Chairman of the Jury of the Clara Haskil Competition in Switzerland in 2023 and 2025. He records regularly for Claves Records in Switzerland. In October 2017, the National University of Ireland conferred on him an honorary Degree of Doctor of Music, in recognition of his outstanding achievements.