Teaching Fellow in Piano Accompaniment
Musikreife Piano, Musikreife Chamber Music and Song Accompaniment (Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium), BMus(Hons) (Canterbury)
Joined the staff in 2004
Tel +64 3 479 8416
Email tom.mcgrath@otago.ac.nz
Research expertise
- Solo piano
- Chamber Music
- Vocal accompaniment
Other musical and community activities
- Official accompanist, New Zealand National Singing School, Hawkes Bay 2011
- Official accompanist, Adam International Cello Festival, Christchurch 2009
- Official accompanist, Queenstown Violin Summer School 2004-2010
- Piano tutor and Chamber Music tutor, Otago University Chamber Music Summer School since 2008-2012
- Piano Masterclass, NZ Institute of Registered Music Teachers (IRMTNZ) National Conference, Dunedin 2011
- Piano Masterclass, Southland IRMTNZ, Invercargill 2006
- Adjudicator, Dunedin Junior Instrumental Competitions 2006
- Adjudicator, Southland IRMT Scholarship 2006
- Adjudicator, Otago IRMT Scholarship 2011
- Regional adjudicator, Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ) National Contest 2013
- Associate Member, IRMTNZ
Publications
McGrath, T. (2023). Paul Schramm's second opera, Die grosse Nummer. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Musicological Society (NZMS): Music and Liveness. Retrieved from https://www.nzmusicology.org/otago-2023.html
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 21 October). Dunedin Arts Festival: St Paul's at One: The Light in the Dark, with the Tākiri Ensemble, featuring Mahler, Brahms, Poulenc, Quilter and Lauridsen, St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 28 August). City Choir Dunedin: Petite Messe Solennelle, by Gioachino Rossini, Knox Church, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Manghi, L. (flute), Romano, T. (voice), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 7 September). Music Programme Showcase: La Flute Invisible, music for flute, voice, and piano, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 16 October). Dunedin Arts Festival: Olveston at Six: Songs of lost love, war and exile, works by Korngold, Butterworth, Eisler and Schramm, Olveston Historic Home, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Dennis, T. (piano), Petersen, T. (violin), Du Plessis, H. (cello), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 11 May). Music Programme Showcase: Concert Celebrating New Zealand/Aotearoa Music Month, works by Young, Adams, Schramm and Monteath, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Manghi, L. (flute), Romano, T. (voice), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 7 September). Music Programme Showcase: La Flute Invisible, music for flute, voice, and piano, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 16 October). Dunedin Arts Festival: Olveston at Six: Songs of lost love, war and exile, works by Korngold, Butterworth, Eisler and Schramm, Olveston Historic Home, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 21 October). Dunedin Arts Festival: St Paul's at One: The Light in the Dark, with the Tākiri Ensemble, featuring Mahler, Brahms, Poulenc, Quilter and Lauridsen, St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano) (2022, 28 August). City Choir Dunedin: Petite Messe Solennelle, by Gioachino Rossini, Knox Church, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Dennis, T. (performer), McGrath, T. (performer), Romano, T. (performer), & Ritchie, A. (performer) (2021, 1 December). John Ritchie at 100: A memorial concert, music by alumnus, John Ritchie and musical decidations by Philip Norman, Ken Young, Anthony Ritchie, Julie Johnson and William Green, Marama Hall, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
du Plessis, H. (cellist), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2021, 19 April). Dunedin Arts Festival: Olveston at Six: Cello Favourites, works by Beethoven, Schramm, Martinu, and Bruch, Olveston Historic Home, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
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Kapohe, D. W. (soprano), Romano, T. (mezzo-soprano), McCormick, A. (vocalist), Thompson-Holloway, H. (vocalist), du Plessis, H. (cello), Dennis, T. (piano), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2021, 11 August). Music Programme Showcase: From Bach to Broadway, with classical and contemporary staff of the School of Performing Arts, works by Bach, Buchanan, Délibes, Bizet-Hammerstein, Mitchell, Bareilles, Brown, Wright/Frankel/Korie, and Sondheim, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Romano, T. (mezzo-soprano), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2021, 17th April). Dunedin Arts Festival: Olveston at Six: Fanny and Felix, works by Mendelssohn-Hensel and Mendelssohn, Olveston Historic Home, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Dennis, T. (piano), McGrath, T. (piano), Petersen, T. (concertmaster, first violin), & du Plessis, H. (principal cello) (2019, 28 June). Dunedin Symphony Orchestra Internal Series: Tecwyn, Terence, and Tom: Celebrating Matariki, works by Adams, Poulenc, and Brahms, Dunedin Town Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Romano, T. (mezzo soprano), Ritchie, A. (piano), Petersen, T. (violin), du Plessis, H. (cello), Dennis, T. (piano), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2019, 29 September). Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music Concert, works by Lilburn, Ritchie, Adams, Buchanan, Holmes, Varaine, Mayall, and Newall, St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Dennis, T. (piano), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2018, 29 September). Arts Festival Dunedin: Olveston at Six: Schumann's Voices, works by Brahms and C. Schumann, Olveston, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
du Plessis, H. (cello), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2018, 30 September). Arts Festival Dunedin: Olveston at Six: Four's Company, works by Brahms, C. Schumann and R. Schumann, Olveston, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), & McGrath, T. (Music) (2018, 5 September). Music Programme Showcase Series: Dylan Lardelli (Mozart Fellow 2018) in conversation with Anthony Ritchie, works including Clearing for violin and piano, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), Dennis, T. (piano), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2018, 2 May). Music Programme Showcase Series: Debussy 100th: Late Masterworks, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Dennis, T. (piano), McGrath, T. (piano), & Petersen, T. (violin) (2017, 20 August). Department of Music Showcase Series: Finnish Focus, featuring works by Sibelius, Kilpinen, Glazunov, and Busoni, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Dennis, T. (piano), McGrath, T. (piano), & Van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2017, 22 March). Lunchtime Concerts: Schubert: Masterworks for four hands, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano) (2017, 1 March). Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Fauré and Scriabin, St Andrew's on the Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand. [Performance].
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McGrath, T. (piano) (2017, 12 July). Lunchtime Concerts: 19th Century German Piano Works, featuring works by Schumann and Beethoven, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano) (2017, 8 March). Lunchtime Concerts: Song recital of Schubert, Schumann, Fauré and de Falla, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano), Petersen, T. (violin), du Plessis, H. (cello), Adams, P. (clarinet), & Ritchie, A. (synthesizer) (2017, 17 May). Department of Music Showcase Series: Celebrating NZ Music Month: A programme of Student Compositions, featuring compositions by Campbell-Hunt, Dunn, Shatford, van Betuw and McIndoe, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano) (2016, 20 April). Chamber music for viola and piano, performing works by Brahms and Vaughan Williams, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
McGrath, T. (piano), & Petersen, T. (violin) (2016, 20 July). Department of Music Showcase Series: World Music Concert II: Scotland and China, with Min Lei (guzheng), Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), Van Buskirk, J. (piano), & McGrath, T. (piano) (2016, 3 October). Schubertiade, with Göknil Meryem Biner (soprano) and Stephen Cranefield (clarinet), Olveston Historic Home, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
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