Kildare pianist wins RDS music bursary

Young pianist Aidan Chan, from Kilcock, has won the 2023 RDS Music Bursary Award of €15,000.

The Bursary is the single largest annual classical music award in Ireland and one of the largest in Europe, and also comes with two performance opportunities: a solo engagement with the National Symphony Orchestra and a solo recital in the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.

Aidan, 24, graduated with a First Class Honours degree at the Royal College of Music in London in 2021, and is now completing his Master of Music degree at the same college.