Saturday 22 August 1997 at 12.30 pm

Annemarie Duggan

Annemarie Duggan began her musical education at the age of eight when she took up piano lessons locally in Derbyshire, England. She later, at the age of twelve, began to take clarinet lessons which were offered free of charge by a peripetetic teacher in school. On returning to Ireland in 1987 she obtained a scholarship to study clarinet under Tim Hanafin at the College of Music in Dublin.

Her musical achievements include three clarinet and two piano scholarships to study at the College of Music; while there, she was a prizewinner at the junior and senior levels in the Feis Ceoil and Feis Maithiú. While still in school, she performed annually with the Patrician and Galway Musical Societies for shows including The Grand Duchess, Showboat and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

On finishing secondary school whe went to St Patrick's College, Maynooth (now NUI Maynooth) to pursue a BA with music; while there, she gave a solo recital on clarinet, played in the Haydn Maria Theresa Mass with the Maynooth College Choral Society and RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, and recorded in RTÉ wth Tim Hanafin's fifteen-member clarinet choir.

Annemarie has been working and teaching in Galway for ten years now. She teaches with the Galway VEC, and was a founder member of the Galway Concert Orchestra where she is currently principal clarinettist and PRO.