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Thursday 29th April 2010, 1.15pm
Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music
‘East meets West’
Featuring:
Miyagi Sanjo Og Choir, Japan
Conductor: Kanezo Kori
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This 30 voice, world-class female choir joins us for this year’s Fleischmann Competition all the way from Japan. Their lunchtime concert presents a varied programme which will also feature both contemporary and traditional Japanese work.
Programme:
- Sakura: Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
- Hotaru Koi: Ro Ogura (1916-1990)
- Muramatsuri: Trad.
- Fuyunoyoru: Trad.
- The Silver Swan: Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
- Danny boy: Trad. / Arr. Akane Nakanishi (1964 - )
- Una Rosa de Francia: Rodrigo Prats (1909-1980)
- On Suuri Sun Rantas Autius: Matti Hyökki (1946 - )
- An der Schönen blauen Donau: Johann Strauss (1825-1899)
- Zigeunerleben: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- It’s a small world: Robert & Richard Sherman (1928 - )
Admission: €5
For the biography of the Miaygi Sanjo Og Choir and a full list of their performances in Cork, turn to page xx
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Friday 30th April 2010, 11.30am
The Masonic Hall, Tuckey St., Cork
Côr Llanofer, Wales
Conductor: Nerys Griffin
Programme: Works by Scott Joplin, Eric Jones, Delyth Rees, Robart Arwyn, Catrin Edwards as well as a selection of traditional songs
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Join us for this morning concert with children’s choir Côr Llanofer, Wales. The choir’s talent and enthusiasm has taken them to perform in many different places over recent years including the National Eisteddfod and the prestigious Côr Cymru Competition, and while in Cork we are delighted that their performance will be the first Choral Festival visit to the unique and historic setting of the Masonic Hall, Tuckey Street.
Côr Llanofer is a mixed choir made up of children from key stage 2 in Ysgol Gymraeg Cwmbrân and some of our ex pupils from years 7, 8 and 9 in Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw.
The choir has expanded over the years and there are over 50 members in the choir. They enjoy singing in both English and Welsh and also experiment with other languages. The choir meets every Thursday to learn new songs. They are conducted by Miss Nerys Griffiths and accompanied by Miss Bethan Morris, both teachers at the Welsh primary school.
The choir sings a wide range of songs in many different languages but mainly sings in the children’s mother tongue, Welsh. In Ysgol Gymraeg Cwmbrân, music plays an important part in everyday life and the choir is a reflection of how important our heritage and culture is to us.
Admission: Unticketed and Free of charge
For the full biography of Côr Llanofer and a full list of their performances in Cork, turn to page xx
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Friday 30th April 2010, 1.15pm
Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music
John Gibson Piano Recital
Programme:
Anach Cuan: trad./ arr. John Gibson (Composed in the 1990s for Oboist Aisling Casey)
An Cúilfhionn: trad./ arr. John Gibson
Down by the Salley Gardens: trad./ arr. John Gibson
Moladh go deo le Dia: trad./ arr. John Gibson (Composed for the 2006 AXA Dublin International Piano Competition)
Sreath do Phiano: Muiris Ó Ronáin (Aloys Fleischmann)
Mazurka in A Opus 17 No 4: Frederic Chopin
Scherzo in B Opus 20 No 1: Frederic Chopin
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The Piano Suite was composed using an Irish pseudonym. It is in five movements with the directions in the score written in Irish and Italian. This was due to Aloys Fleischmann’s passion for the all things Irish in particular the language. The music was composed in the early 1930s and was published in London by Chester Publications in1935. The work is influenced by Irish Music with a jig for the final movement. The composer strived to create a style akin to French music, in contrast to his native German tradition. The suite at the same time combines Irish influences and classical pianism.
John Gibson is one of Ireland’s leading pianist-composers. Born in Dublin in 1951 he has lived and worked in Cork since 1982. He is Lecturer in Piano at the Cork School of Music and has recently been awarded a first class honours Master of Arts in Composition from the Cork Institute of Technology.
His compositions include a Chamber Opera, Songs, Orchestral works and much Piano music along with 3 String Quartets. Two of his recent commissions include a test piece for the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, in 2006 and which received its premiere performance in Cork at the Piano Portraits series in March 2007. A new String Quartet titled “IKON” written for the RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet, received its world premiere at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival on the 26th of June 2006 and was broadcast live to six countries including Poland and Germany. In 2007 John was commissioned to write a Nocturne for the right hand, by Ian Fox, for the leading Irish Pianist John O’Conor. In the same year he wrote a Lament for Voice, Cor Anglais and Piano, a private commission. In 2009 he wrote a psalm setting for Madrigal 75 the distinguished choral group from Cork.
In 1997 John was awarded the prestigious Nijinsky Medal for his piano piece Nijinsky, by the Polish Ministry of Arts and Culture and the International Society of the Friends of Vaclav Nijinsky. He is the first composer to receive this honour.
www.johncgibson.com ,
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Admission: €10 / €7
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Friday 30th April 2010, 5pm
Honan Chapel, University College Cork
Contemporary Choral Music with Concert Harps
Featuring:
Tribal Chamber Choir, Galway
Conductor: Mark Keane
Anne-Marie O’Farrell (Harp)
Ann Jones (Harp)
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Programme:
A Noone of Night (1996) - Palle Mikkelborg (First Irish Performance)
1. The Noone of Night
2. A Breton Fisherman’s Prayer
3. The Fly
4. Atter og Atter
5. Infant Joy
6. Tiger-tiger
7. The Teacher
8. A Simple Prayer
A Prayer of the Chalice & Prayer of the Paten (2010) - Anne-Marie O’Farrell (Première Performance)
1. A Prayer of the Chalice
2. Prayer of the Paten
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ANNE-MARIE O’FARRELL - Harp
Anne-Marie O’Farrell was born in Dublin where she began her musical education at the DIT College of Music. She has received numerous national composition awards, together with professional diplomas in many instruments and a DAAD academic scholarship to study at Bonn University.
She was awarded first class honours in an MA in composition NUI Maynooth where she studied with John Buckley and Martin O’Leary. Her output comprises orchestral, choral, solo vocal and instrumental chamber music, including an extensive body of solo and ensemble harp repertoire.
Her compositions, arrangements and performances have led to recordings for TV and radio in Ireland, France, Germany, the USA and Japan. She has also made several commercial recordings, including her solo albums, Heads & Harps, Harping Bach to Carolan, The Jig’s Up, Just So Bach and Double Strung with Cormac De Barra.
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She is in regular demand at international festivals and congresses and has performed throughout Europe, United States, Scandinavia, Africa and Russia. She has been consultant to Salvi harpmakers on the development of their Irish harp, which features a mechanism based on her pioneering levering techniques.
Anne-Marie has performed and recorded with Moya Brennan of Clannad and The Chieftains with whom she recorded in Abbey Road Studios. Also committed to the promotion of new music, she has premiered and recorded twelve new Irish compositions for flute and harp with flautist Philippa Davies at the IMRO Summer School of Composition.
Recent premieres include her work for brass and percussion, In the Beginning at the National Concert Hall, Sante Sana Tanzania in Dar es Salaam, Ruach at Christ Church Cathedral and Hoopoe Song at the Hugh Lane Gallery and original music for Cailleach: The Wilder Wisdom of Auld Ones grant aided by the Arts Council. S
he lectures in composition at the DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama.
www.annemarieofarrell.com / www.myspace.com/annemarieo39farrell
ANN JONES - Harp
Ann, born in Mid Wales was brought up in a Welsh speaking choral tradition , both parents being musical and conducting local choirs. She studied harp and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. At the age of 21 she became Principal Harpist of the Icelandic Radio Orchestra. After returning to London she worked with orchestras including the L.P.O. and BBC. She later joined the RTE Concert Orchestra and settled in Dublin. She now freelances and teaches.
Admission: €10/€7
For the biography of Tribal Chamber Choir and a full list of their performances in Cork, turn to page xx
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Friday 30th April 2010, 8pm
St Michael’s Church, Blackrock
Westminster College Chamber Singers, U.S.A.
Conductor: Dr Christopher Quinn
Join us for a full concert with the critically acclaimed premier touring ensemble of Westminster College, Utah, USA. Proceeds are in aid of St Michael’s Church Restoration Project.
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Programme: Works by various American Composers, including: Bemstein, Barber, Whiteacre, Wilberg, Ticheli and Claussen.
Admission: €10*
*Tickets available in Sacristy, Credit Union Blackrock & Mahon Point and at the door.
For the biography of The Westminster College Chamber Singers and a full list of their performances in Cork, turn to page xx
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Saturday 1st May 2010, 6am
Church of St. Anne's (Shandon Bells)
'Shandon Sunrise'
Featuring:
Máire Ní Chéilleachair(Cork) & Gloria (Russia)
Conductor: Marina Zhulyabina
The Goldie fish will lead a dawn chorus to herald in the Summer
At 6.05am, sunrise, on May morning (the 1st of May), the dawn will be sung in 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 5.50am.
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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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Saturday 1st May 2010, 1.15pm
Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music
Madrigal ‘75 Vocal Ensemble
Conductor: James Taylor
Madrigal '75
The vocal ensemble Madrigal ’75 has been described as “one of Ireland’s finest chamber choirs” [Irish Examiner, December 2008]. The choir is based in Cork City and its repertoire ranges from early music to modern, both sacred and secular.
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Programme:
- O quam gloriosum - T. L. de Victoria (1548-1611)
- Illumina oculus meos - Aloys Fleischmann (1910-1992)
- Nunc dimittis - Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
- Hear my prayer, O Lord - Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- Whispers (after William Byrd) - Steven Stucky (1949- )
- Wondrous love - Trad. arr Alice Parker & Robert Shaw
- Gloria - Séamas de Barra (1955- )
- A selection of folksongs
Founded in 1975 by music students from University College Cork, Madrigal ’75 has developed a reputation as a vocal ensemble of great skill and beauty, often singing music that is seldom performed.
The group has performed at services in London at St. Paul's Cathedral and Southwark Cathedral. In 2005 Madrigal '75 was a prominent participant in the Cork European Capital of Culture events and toured France as cultural ambassadors for the city. 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 successes include 'Best Choir' at the Montreux Festival, several 'Best Performances' and First Prize awards at successive Cork International Choral Festivals, and the 'Irish Choir of the Year' award. In 2008 the choir presented the closing concert of the prestigious East Cork Early Music Festival.
Madrigal '75 has enjoyed capacity houses at their recent concerts in the CIT Cork School of Music, where they regularly perform repertoire from the renaissance period, madrigals, baroque vocal music, sacred music and contemporary choral works.
Madrigal '75 is directed by James Taylor, Assistant Director of Music at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork and Lecturer at CIT Cork School of Music.
Admission: €10/€7
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Saturday 1st May 2010, 2pm
CORK VISION CENTRE
From Hungary to Ireland
Featuring:
Amica Voce Hungarian
Chamber Choir & St. Patrick’s
College Choir, Dublin
Soprano: Imelda Drum
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Two Dublin based choirs with a distinctly Hungarian flavour join to present a selection of Irish, Hungarian
and other international songs, which will include a mix of sacred and secular (including some popular) works.
The programme will include pieces by Durufle, Rutter, Kodály, Bartók, Gárdonyi, Petrovics, Ligeti and Karai. Amica Voce’s programme will feature choral music based on traditional folksongs and Hugarian poetry.
Amica Voce Hungarian Chamber Choir
Conductor: Krisztina Takacs
Amica Voce Hungarian Chamber Choir was formed in September 2007 by Hungarian citizens living in Dublin and its surrounding area. Currently the choir has 13 female singers.
95% of Amica Voce’s programme consists of pieces from Contemporary Hungarian composers, such as Zoltán Kodály, Béla Barták, Gyorgy Ligeti, Miklos Kocsar, etc. The Choir aims to introduce Hungarian choral music to an Irish audience and also to provide cultural enjoyment to Hungarian Citizens living in Ireland, through the classical music from ‘home’ of which they are all so proud.
St. Patrick’s College Choir, Dublin
Conductor: Dr John O’Flynn
St. Patrick’s College Choir is based at the Music Department of St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University. Since its establishment in the mid-1970s, the choir has been involved in various activities, including the performance of sacred choral works, the staging of musicals, and participation of intervarsity and national choral competitions.
Over the years, the choir has performed several largescale sacred works, including Mozart’s Requiem, The Creation (Haydn), A Ceremony of Carols (Britten) and The Chichester Psalms (Bernstein). It has also, in recent years added gospel, jazz and light opera and contemporary popular genres to its repertoire.
Recent links established with the Hungarian Embassy in Dublin led to a recital at the Embassy in December 2009. The choir is currently preparing for a visit to Hungary this July, where they have been invited to perform at the Irish Festival based in the city of Gyor.
Admission: Unticketed and Free of charge
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Sunday 2nd May 2010 6pm
Church of St. Anne's Ireland, Shandon
(with kind permission of the Rector of Shandon)
The Clerks Choral of St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal will sing
The Office of Compline
Introit: Tallis, O Lord Give Thy Holy Spirit
Setting: Chant
The Great Litany: Loosemore
Hymn: Plainsong, Conditor Alme
Motet: Blow, Let my Prayer Come UP
Organ: Silent
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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
Thursday 29th April 2010, 1.15pm
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