Jane Hackett
INSTRUMENT
VIOLIN
MUSICI IRELAND SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Having completed her BA at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and recently MA in Classical String Performance at the University of Limerick, Jane has performed regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra and Wexford Festival Opera. She has studied abroad at the University of Graz, Austria and Bloomington, Indiana and has taken masterclasses with leading pedagogues, including Maxim Vengerov in the National Concert Hall.
Jane is an Irish professional violinist based between Dublin and Vienna. She performs regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, Irish National Opera and with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna. She has appeared as soloist with the RTE Concert Orchestra on a number of occasions and at the Carthage International World Music Festival Tunisia, is an RDS Rising Star and is a recipient of numerous Awards including Individual Artist and Creative Ireland Awards, Agility and Lyric FM Bursaries and is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council and Culture Ireland. Jane enjoys a diverse mix of repertoire, spanning from solo, chamber and orchestral, to experimental performance art and contemporary music.
She is a long standing violinist of the contemporary music group, Kirkos Ensemble, performing and composing works for ‘New Music Dublin’ and a member of the Contemporary Music Centre’s ‘Artist Network of Colleagues Programme’ hosting discussions and working with Irish composers. Jane is interested in cross art collaborations and has recently been commissioned to work in the field of improvisation with artists from India, Italy. She is a proud member and recently appointed Co-Director of the chamber ensemble, Musici Ireland with whom she performs chamber works and co curates multidisciplinary performances around Ireland
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