American classical pianist, David Syme, has played to audiences of 10,000 at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Centre, in New York, and the Kennedy Centre, in Washington DC.

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American pianist David Syme has become a familiar figure on the Irish concert circuit in recent years.