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Updated information for the 2010 Festival will go up over the following weeks. In the mean time please see below for information pertaining to the 2009 Festival.
Sunday 26th April, 7.30 pm
St. Mary's Dominican Church, Pope's Quay, Cork
St. Mary's Dominican Choir
Presents:
John Rutter's Requiem
Conductor: Sean Lehane
Featuring:
Cara O'Sullivan, Soprano
In a programme including some of Rutter's most beautiful anthems
Tickets: €15
Available at the Dominican Pastoral Centre, Pope's Quay, and on church door on the night
Friday 1st May 2009, 5.40am
St. Anne's (Shandon Bells)
'Shandon Sunrise'
Featuring:
Cathal O'Baoill (Co. Down) & Gothenburg Youth Choir (Sweden)
'Goldie fish to lead dawn chorus and herald in the summer'
At 5.50am, sunrise, on May morning (the 1st of May), the dawn will be sung from the tower of the iconic St. Anne's, Shandon (Shandon bells) to mark this ancient celebration of the first day of summer. This atmospheric project is being organised by the congregation and has now become an annual event. It is suggested that people wishing to attend arrive at 5.40am. |
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Admission: Unticketed and Free of charge*
*Please note that due to space constraints, public will not be admitted to the bell tower itself however the performance can be enjoyed from beneath Shandon.
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Friday 1st May 2009, 1.15pm
Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music
Lunchtime Concert
Children's Choir Cantilena
This 34 voice-strong girls' choir from Moscow, Russia, will present a lunchtime concert including 18th and 19th century music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovski, Mozart and Lasso as well as a selection of Russian and other Eastern European folk songs.
Tickets: €5 |
Friday 1st May 2009, 8pm
St. Michael's Church, Blackrock
Brigham Young University Singers, U.S.A.
PROGRAMME:
- On Jordan's Stormy Banks / When for Eternal Worlds We Steer: arr. Howard Helved (1900-1990)
- Brothers and Sisters; Zion's Walls: Aaron Copland
- Down to the River to Pray: Ladizinsky/Redford
- Ye Followers of the Lamb: arr. E.E. Ferguson
- Night's Shadows and Stirrings; Evening Wind: J.A.C. Redford (1953- )
- Sure on this Shining Night: Morten Lauridsen (1943- )
- Voice Dance: Greg Jasperse (1968- )
- Oread Farewell: Dan Forest (1978- )
- Whither Goest Thou, Pilogrim Stranger: arr. Ronald Staheli
- De Punta y Taco: Chilean Folk Song / arr. Ward Swingle
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Tickets: €10
Saturday, 2nd May 2009, 1.15pm
Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music
Madrigal'75 Vocal Ensemble
Director: James Taylor
Lunchtime Concert
PROGRAMME:
Un niňo llorando Francesco Guerrero (1528-1599)
Audivi vocem de caelo Duarte Lobo (1563-1646)
Psaume 150 Jan Peitersz. Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Dans les ombres de la nuit Peter Mathews (b. 1944)
Hymne à la Vierge Pierre Vilette (b. 1954)
Totus Tuus Op. 60 Henryk Mikolaj Gòrecki (b. 1933)
Tota pulchra es Maurice Duruflè (1902/1986)
A Good-Night Richard Rodney Bennett (b.1936)
A Chraobh Chrom Sèamas da Barra (b.1955)
The Star of the county Down arr. Alan Cutts (b.1950) |
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Madrigal'75
The vocal ensemble Madrigal'75 has been described as "one of the Ireland's finest chamber choirs" (Irish Examiner, Dec. 2008). The choir is based in Cork City and its repertoire ranges from early music to modern, both sacred and secular.
Founded in 1975 by music students from University College Cork, it has developed a reputation as an ensemble of great skill and beauty, often singing music that is seldom performed.
Though not usually a competing choir, Madrigal '75 has received many accolades over the years. In 2007 Culture Ireland awarded the choir a generous grant towards its visit to London in January of that year, when it sang services in St. Paul's Cathedral and in Southwark Cathedral. In 2005 Madrigal'75 was a prominent participant in the year-long celebration of Cork's designation as 'European Capital of Culture' and gave a concert tour in France as cultural ambassadors for Cork.
Madrigal'75 is also the winner of the Carols for Christmas 2006 competition on Lyric FM, Ireland's national arts and culture radio station. Other success include "Best Choir" at the Montreux Festival, several "Best Performances" and First Prize awards at succesive Cork International Choral Festivals, and the "Irish Choir of the Year" award.
Madrigal'75 has enjoyed capacity houses at their recent concerts in the CIT Cork School of Music, presenting rarely performed gems of the renaissance period as well as more popular madrigals, baroque vocal and instrumental music, through to contemporary choral works. The choir was privileged to present, at the Festival's invitation, the closing concert of the prestigious East Cork Early Music Festival 2008. Madrigal'75 is directd by James Taylor, Assitant Director of Music at St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork and Lecturer at CIT Cork School of Music.
Tickets: €10/€7
Saturday 2nd May 2009, 6pm
Honan Chapel, University College Cork
Cork Chamber Choir
Cork Chamber Choir was funded in 2005 by a group of experienced singers, many of whom met as a members of the Irish Youth Choir, and is now 20-strong with an equal of male and female voices and members from Angola, France and Serbia as well as Ireland. The choir has given concerts in Rosscarbery in West Cork, on Culture Night 2008 at Civic Trust House, in the Honan Chapel, UCC and in the Spiegeltent as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2007. The choir has participated in the Sligo International Choral Festival and Cork's Feis Mathiu and has given informal concerts at Christmas time in aid of local charities. The choir is conducted by Helen McGrath and they will be joined by an ensemble of top Cork musicians for these two attractive works.
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PROGRAMME:
- Four Choruses for Mixed Choir Op. 29B.59 (in the original Czech) - Antonìn Dvoràk
Gloria RV 589 - Antonio Vivaldi
Tickets: €10/€7
*Please note there will be no interval and the concert will be under an hour in durantion - so plenty of time to get to the Fleischmann International Trophy Competition Gala Concert! |
Sunday 3rd May 2009, 6pm
St. Anne's Church of Ireland, Shandon
(with kind permission of the Rector of Shandon)
The Clerks Choral of The Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Youghal
will sing 'The Office of Compline'
The College of Clerks Choral in Youghal is an ancient institution, founded in 1464 by Thomas, Earl of Desmond. The College originally consisted of eight fellows and eight singing clerks, but over the centuries this choral foundation was dissolved and reinstated a number of times. Finally, a large parish choir, the previous inheritor of this long choral tradition, folded up in the 1970s and the organ that was in the High Chancel was removed sometime later. However, in 2006, the Clerks Choral was reinstated as a choir to sing regularly in this ancient church. In 2007 a magnificent organ, built originally in the seventeenth century and re-built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was acquired from a closed church in City of Bristol and placed at the head of the Great Nave in the Collegiate Church. The Clerks Choral often gives secular recitals and RTE live broadcasts, in addition to the regular work of the choir.
Admission: Unticketed and Free of charge
Tuesday 5th May 2009, 5pm
Honan Chapel, University College Cork
I Madrigalisti di Perugia, Italy
PROGRAMME:
REGINA COELI: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST: Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)
AVE VERUM CORPUS: William Byrd (1543-1643)
CANTATE DOMINO: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
CRUCIFIXUS: Antonio Lotti (Venezia, 1667-Venezia, 1740)
EXULTATE DEO: Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
DISSI A L'AMATA MIA: Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)
ZAFIRO TORNA (1st and 2nd part): Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)
IL BIANCO E DOLCE CIGNO: Jacob Arcadelt (c. 1504-1568)
LAMENTO D'ARIANNA: Claudio Monteverdi (1657-1643)
SO BEN MI CH'A BON TEMPO: Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605)
AMOR VITTORIOSO: Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1555-1622)
GIÀ CANTAI ALLEGRAMENTE: Filippo Azzaiolo (16th century)
CHI LA GAGLIARDA: Baldassarre Donato (c.1525-1603)
ECHO: Orlando Di Lasso (1532-1594)
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Admission: Unticketed and Free of charge
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