Cór Cois Abhann

With over 110 members, Cór Cois Abhann is one of the largest choirs in the country. We are based in Cork City with an eclectic membership. Founded in 1990, the choir has long experience in both arts and light repertory and has performed all over Europe and throughout Ireland, including broadcasts, recordings and regular concerts.
Our choir, embodies a strong community social spirit, an oasis for all members, to join together, to learn and sing wonderful music, to forge great bonds of friendship and support.

The choir has collaborated with the Fleischmann Choir, the East Cork Choral Society, the Belfast Philharmonic Choir, Cantairí Mhuscairí the Kerry Choral Union and Tallaght Choral Society. A highlight for the choir is singing Christmas Eve Midnight Mass in the Honan Chapel each year. Some of the more notable works given have included Verdi’s Requiem, when the choir opened the Cork International Choral Festival in 2018, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony (No.2), Durufles’s Requiem (Opus 9), Vivaldi’s Gloria, and The Faure Requiem, together with a very long list of smaller-scale repertoire. The Choir also performs Handel’s Messiah every three years.

The choir travels regularly and in words of one of the members, ‘the party started at the airport—we laughed all week’. Past visits have taken the choir on tour to Budapest (which included a live national radio broadcast) and Rome, where the choir sang Holy Mass in the Basilica San Clemente. There was a magnificent visit to Italy to perform in the Tuscany International Choral Festival in 2019. In 2023 our Choir attend International Advent Choral Festival in Vienna, performing at in Festival Hall in Vienna’s City Hall, including Handel’s Messiah’s Hallelujah.