Sydney Rime:
Born in France within a family of musicians, Sydney Rime started her journey as a professional pianist and piano teacher when she was in her late teens, while studying at the Conservatory and the University in Paris. After graduating with multiple academic and performance degrees (music history, literature, piano, music theory, accompaniment), she specialised in early music and historically informed performance.
Having a Breton heritage, she was always eager to find connections between traditional and classical music. In 2022, she moved to Ireland and started a Ph.D. in musicology at Maynooth University. Her thesis explores the legacy of the Celtic Revival folksong collections published at the turn of the twentieth century. Outside her doctoral research, Sydney runs her own music teaching business, plays the organ for church services, and works on a debut album of piano pieces inspired by Breton folklore.