In concert, Racette has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, and she recorded Zemlinsky's Der Traumgorge with James Conlon and the Cologne Philharmonic.

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Ferris, 25, had been charged with causing actual bodily harm to Colm Conlon and one of common assault on James McGinley on 27 September 2009.

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