Berginald Rash awarded Arts Council of Ireland bursary

Huge congratulations to Chineke! clarinetist Berginald Rash who has been awarded the prestigious Arts Council Ireland Music Bursary Award.

The bursary’s purpose is “to support professional artists at any stage of their career to develop their art practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.”

Hailed for his ‘especially stylish’ playing (The Guardian), acclaimed American clarinetist Berginald Rash is an exciting international artist having performed at the Boyne Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Lake Tahoe Music Festival, and having won the Great Music in Irish Houses 2015 Support Act Residency with the Mondrian Trio. Based in Dublin, Berginald was awarded the Recital Artist Diploma from Royal Irish Academy of Music where he was an 1848 Scholar.

He has served on the PRIZM Music Camp & International Chamber Music Festival faculty and has given a masterclass at Truman State University. He has been heard with such orchestras as RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, and the London-based Chineke! Orchestra with whom he has performed on BBC 3’s In Tune with Sean Rafferty and made his BBC Proms debut among others.

He has collaborated with members of such orchestras as London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt hr-Sinfonieorchester, Atlanta Symphony and with the RTÉ ConTempo Quartet. He has been a featured concerto soloist at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. Berginald is an exclusive Devon & Burgani Artist on the Fluency series.

Berginald has been performing with Chineke! since the inaugural concert at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. Watch his interview with Zen Grisdale as he talks about the Chineke! project on the eve of that historic concert.