Claire Keville

{{short description|Irish concertina and harpsichord player}}

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Claire Keville is an Irish concertina and harpsichord player from Galway. She attended University College Cork to study music. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in arts, a B.Mus. and completed a H. Dip. Keville then went to the University of Limerick where she completed her master's degree. While at UCC she trained at the Cork School of Music with Spanish pianist Angel Climent. Keville works as a musician and has recorded Irish traditional music. She has albums called Irish Music on the Clavichord, Irish Music on the Harpsichord and The Daisy Field.{{cite web | title=Claire Keville | website=The Journal of Music: Irish Music News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities | url=https://journalofmusic.com/focus/claire-keville | access-date=2020-05-12}}{{cite web | last=Andrews | first=Kernan | title=Claire Keville to play for Cúirt | website=Galway Advertiser | date=2010-04-22 | url=http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/25172/claire-keville-to-play-for-c%C3%BAirt | access-date=2020-05-12}}{{cite news | title=Claire Keville: Irish Music on the Clavichord {{!}} Album Review | newspaper=The Irish Times | date=7 August 2015 | first=Siobhan | last=Long | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/claire-keville-irish-music-on-the-clavichord-album-review-1.2308856 | access-date=22 June 2020}}{{cite web | title=The Rolling Wave Sunday 3 March 2019 - The Rolling Wave | website=The Rolling Wave | date=2019-03-03 | url=https://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-rolling-wave/programmes/2019/0303/1034082-the-rolling-wave-sunday-3-march-2019/ | access-date=2020-05-12}}{{cite web | title=Irish Traditional Music Archive | website=ITMA | date=2020-05-10 | url=https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/image/claire-keville-orla-henihan | access-date=2020-05-12}}{{cite web | title=Biography | website=Maoin Cheoil na Gaillimhe | date=2015-08-07 | url=http://www.mcng.ie/registration/biography.php?tid=15 | access-date=2020-05-12}}

Keville teaches music in workshops and at the Willie Clancy Summer School in County Clare. She also works as a broadcaster on Clare FM radio. She has appeared on TG4 both as a guest and presenter.{{cite book | last=hAllmhuráin | first=G.Ó. | title=Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2016 | isbn=978-0-19-062916-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5xHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT260 | access-date=2020-05-12 | page=260}}{{cite web | title=Seinnteoir | website=TG4 | date=2019-01-07 | url=https://tg4.ie/ga/brandai-eile/gradam-ceoil/cartlann/seinnteoir/ | language=Irish | access-date=2020-05-12}}{{cite book | last=Bours | first=É. | title=La musique irlandaise | publisher=Fayard | year=2015 | isbn=978-2-213-67511-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-eeBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT235 | language=fr | access-date=2020-05-12 | page=235}}