Culture That Made Me: Cork violinist Mairéad Hickey on Attenborough, Schubert and Basil Fawlty

The co-founder of the Ortús festival also includes Mozart, Grease and Sylvia Plath among her selections 
Culture That Made Me: Cork violinist Mairéad Hickey on Attenborough, Schubert and Basil Fawlty

Mairéad Hickey is involved in the Ortús  Chamber Music Festival in Cork city and county. 

Born in 1996, Mairéad Hickey grew up in Bermuda until moving to The Lough in Cork aged seven. She studied violin at CIT Cork School of Music. 

She has won international prizes and performed in the world’s major concert halls, including London’s Royal Festival Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

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