Anthony Kearns and
Patrick
Healy, Accompanist
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©Anthony Kearns, 2010
Photo by Tom Fitzsimmons
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Mr. Kearns and Mr. Healy
Anthony Kearns, Ireland's foremost tenor,
is
a great ambassador for Ireland.
... The Honorable Michael Collins,
Ireland's Ambassador to
the United States.
I have never heard a better Irish tenor
voice
... Jean Kennedy Smith, at a memorial in County Wexford
for
her brother, the late President John F Kennedy
Anthony Kearns, considered
Ireland’s Finest Tenor, is a founding member
of The Irish Tenors, one of Ireland’s most celebrated and longest running
touring groups. Performing for over a decade in the world’s most prestigious
venues, The Irish Tenors have produced ten best-selling CDs. Mr. Kearns tours
three times annually with The Irish Tenors, and has a thriving solo career, performing
concert tours, oratorio, and opera.
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Anthony’s opera credits include the
following roles in Ireland: the lead in Faust, Don
José in Carmen ,
Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Alfredo in La Traviata,
Hardress in Lily of Killarney, Macduff in Macbeth.
He sang the role of Fenton in an Italian production of Falstaff,
performed lead tenor in The Irish Ring (a trilogy
of Ireland’s three operas) in Carnegie Hall, and Romeo for the Naples [Florida] Opera Company.
Mr. Kearns has sung with some of the finest orchestras in
the world including the Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival
in California with the San Bernardino Symphony, the Chicagoland
Pops, the Boston Pops, Ireland’s National Orchestra,
and the Czech National Orchestra in Prague where he taped
Hallelujah Broadway, a new PBS special released
on U.S. public television stations during summer of 2010.
For more biographical
and touring information about Anthony Kearns, visit his website
at: http://www.anthonykearns.net
Patrick Healy was born in Dublin, beginning his piano studies
at the age of three. He studied at the Royal Irish Academy
of Music and University College Dublin, as well as studying
in Rome. Mr. Healy spent years with the English National
Opera in London as a repetiteur (an opera rehearsal pianist
and voice coach) and has appeared often on the BBC and RTE.
Healy is considered an expert in Gilbert & Sullivan,
and often finds himself directing and advising various productions
from that library.
Over the past 50 years, Patrick has toured the world as
an accompanist to great artists, including the last 14 years
with Mr. Kearns. Patrick has written a beautiful ballad,
Hills of Home and a lovely lullaby, A Father’s Prayer for Anthony to perform, along with a comic duet for the duo
to sing together; it is titled Friendship.
Patrick often performs on Musical Festivals at Sea such
as cruising up the Amazon to the beautiful Manaus Opera House
in Brazil and sailing the Baltic, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean,
during which he directs ship-board and Opera House performances.
For more biographical and touring information about Patrick
Healy,
visit his website at: http://www.patrickhealy.net
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