The Tuite Family 
21st Century
Peter Tuite
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One of Ireland’s most individual and brilliant
concert pianists, Peter Maurice Tuite has performed in Ireland, the UK,
Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Israel and the USA and has
broadcast on both radio and television. In 2006, after a much praised
main–series debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (NSOI)
performing Beethoven’s first concerto, he went on to complete a series of
concerts throughout Germany, Austria and Italy performing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg
Variations along with late works by Beethoven and Haydn. Highlights over
subsequent seasons have included performances and lectures in Ireland, the UK
and the United States and in particular a highly successful sixteen city tour
of the United States performing Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3 and
Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No. 2 to great critical acclaim. As one reviewer
wrote:
[There] was the astonishing technical facility
of Peter Tuite. He fashioned triphammer articulation,
singing line, and rippling arpeggios in a trice of brilliant music making. His
coda for the first movement brought a pin-drop hush to Mechanics Hall, as did
his supple interplay with the woodwinds in the second movement largo, [whilst]
the final rondo clearly delighted the audience.
Dublin–born Peter Maurice Tuite was educated
at Trinity College Dublin and later at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. During
this time, he was awarded nearly every prize for Classical Performance in
Ireland along with numerous others. Most notably: the Millennium Musician of
the Future, the Lisney Award, the Chopin Prize
presented by the Polish ambassador at the Axa Dublin
International Piano Competition and a Bank Of Ireland Millennium Scholarship.
He also received awards for further study in Israel, Germany and Switzerland.
These successes led to debuts in Europe and in Ireland including a performance
of Cesar Franck’s Symphonic Variations with the NSOI as part of their lunchtime
series. For his then subsequent debut at the Royal Dublin Society’s concert
series the Irish Times wrote:
[The piano] thundered, it whispered,
it cooed, it was stentorian, caressing – there seemed no end to its many
voices. Like an orchestra it had many colours: strings, woodwind, brass and
their combinations. As the Brahms sonata is a long one, such a variety of tone
colour helps to make the piece dramatically exciting, but even more impressive
was the way the pianist conveyed his sense of the profundity underlying the
music.
Following these successes, he enrolled as a
Fulbright Scholar at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in the
United States where he completed a doctorate in music, specialising in the
works of Olivier Messiaen. On graduation, he was
nominated for election to Pi Kappa Lambda. Formerly a student of Anthony Glavin and John O’Conor at the
RIAM, Peter studied piano under Benjamin Pasternak and spent two years in Leon
Fleisher’s special Master Class whilst at Peabody. In addition to this, he made
a special study of Liszt with Lazar Berman in 2000 and of Bach with Alexis Weissenberg in 2001. Through his various concerto
appearances, Peter has also worked with numerous conductors including Andrey Bareko (principal guest of
the Russian National Orchestra) and Gerhard Markson
(principal conductor of the NSOI), amongst others.
Deeply committed to music education himself,
Peter returned to the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Ireland where he was
appointed Head of the Keyboard Faculty in 2008–-the youngest ever in the
institution’s history, whilst in 2011, he was appointed Senior Dean of the
Royal Irish Academy of Music. Many of his students have subsequently achieved
distinction in competitions, examinations and festivals at national and
international level. Peter has also strong interests in interdisciplinary
studies and has recently enrolled in a new cutting edge programme of research
at Oxford University where he is focusing on the interaction between the visual
arts, literature, philosophy and political culture of the Victorian period.
Gabrielle Tuite
Born: December 3, 1977 in Brooklyn, New York,
USA
Gabrielle is an actress (Iron Man, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo), model and TV personality (The Price Is
Right).
Gabrielle Tuite began her acting and modelling
career at the young age of eleven and can be seen in several movies as well as
national magazines, commercials, and world-wide advertising campaigns.
Daniel Tuite
Frederick P. Tuite
Born: June 30, 1884 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Died: April 23, 1963 (age 78) in Hollywood, California,
USA
Meg Tuite
Meg Tuite is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe
Literary Review and Connotation Press: An Online Artifact.
She has a monthly column, “Exquisite Quartet,” at Used Furniture Review.
Her novel, "Domestic Apparition" is now
available through www.megtuite.com or www.SanFranciscoBayPress.com
Patrick Tuite
Theatre of Crisis: The Performance of Power in the
Kingdom of Ireland, 1662-1692 (Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture)
Tom Tuite
Minor Offences, Irelands Cradle of Crime
Quinn and Tuite’s
Irish Pub - Grand Rapids, MI
Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary
Canon (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) (Hardcover)
By: Clara Tuite (Author)
US Naval Officers: Their Swords and Dirks [Hardcover]
Peter Tuite (Author)
