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NEXT CONCERTThursday 4th February 2010at 8pmVIENNA MOZART TRIOPresented by Waterford Music ClubTickets €15 / €5 students - available on the door
In it's 18 years of its existence the Vienna Mozart Trio has performed in all the major concert halls of Europe and Asia and is one of a small group of ensembles known in virtually all the important music centres. It’s members are not bound by any contracts with orchestras or other ensembles. Their artistic independence enables them to achieve a musically free and unconventional interpretation of utmost intensity. The musicians consider it as their vocation to convey music as a spontaneous and original experience. They are not three soloists who thrust themselves into the limelight, but a harmonized and flexible ensemble which enjoys making music together. The trio's repertoire comprises practically all the works for piano trio and they have developed a large international following for their distinctive style of playing.
Sunday 7th February at 12 Noon NORA RENDELL & BRIAN MILLER Tickets €7 / €5 / €12 family - available on the door Vancouver singer and flute player Norah Rendell and Minnesotan guitarist Brian Miller met while studying Irish traditional music in Limerick and Cork. Their duo performances clicked from the start. Since returning to North America in 2007, their debut album, Wait There Pretty One, has earned Norah a nomination for Canadian Traditional Singer of the Year. Norah and Brian are quickly becoming known as some of the best young interpreters of the traditional Irish music that emigrated to North America along with the Irish men and women who settled there as farmers, woodsmen, and fishermen among other pioneering occupations. Sunday 21st February 2010 at 12 noon JONATHAN MORRIS PIANO RECITAL Tickets €7 / €5 / €12 family - available on the door
Jonathan has won numerous awards including, in the past year, the Segal Cup for Pianoforte and the Tynan Cup for Piano Concerto at RIAM, First Prize at the Junior Concerto Competition at the Dublin Feis Ceoil, and overall winner for Senior Pianoforte at the Feis Maitiu in Cork. Jonathan was selected to take part in the Clandeboye International Festival, conducted by Barry Douglas last summer. He has recently been accepted into both the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Jonathan will be performing music by Chopin, Debussy and Beethoven. Thursday 25th February 2010 at 8pm KILKENNY COLLEGE CHAMBER CHOIR Sopranos: Evelyn Johnston & Aine Cosgrave Tickets €10 - available on the door
The Kilkenny College Chamber Choir was formed nine years ago from among the senior singing students in the school. They rehearse and perform, to a high standard, a wide ranging repertoire of choral music from the 15th to 20th centuries in up to 12 vocal parts. They have won major awards at competitions and festivals and broadcast on national television and radio and have recorded a CD. Their performance will include movements from works by Chillcot and Jenkins as well as a selection of motets and songs. Sunday 7th March 2010 at 12 noon CONCORDIA Tickets €7 / €5 / €12 family - available on the door
Concordia is a newly formed male vocal ensemble comprised of four Waterford based singers: Niall Crowley, Ruairi de Fréin, Dermot Doyle and Brendan Long. Exploring music from the Middle Ages to the present, their programme includes music by Perotin, Schubert, Poulenc as well as Irish composers Michael Holohan and Michael McGlynn. Joining Concordia, for this their debut performance, will be pianist Deirdre Long. WATERFORD NEW MUSIC WEEK 2010
Thursday 11th March at 8pm STOCKHAUSEN (DOCUMENTARY FILM) Tickets €10 available on the door As part of Waterford New Music Week 2010, this is a rare chance to see a screening of a film documentary on the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007) and a performance of Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youth) which premiered in Cologne cathedral in 1956. Using a revolutionary spatialisation technique, layers of sound are moved around the cathedral from speaker to speaker. The music is based on the recorded voice of a choirboy singing part of the canticles. WATERFORD NEW MUSIC WEEK 2010
Saturday 13th March at 8pm HYMN TO GAIA by Eric Sweeney Tickets €16 / €12 concessions - available on the door This concert sees the premiere of a major new work by Eric Sweeney sung by combined choirs from Dublin, Galway and Waterford with soloists, organ, narrator and ensemble.
Sunday 14th March
at 12 noon LIBERTY CHRISTIAN CHORALE (USA) & THE DE LA SALLE SENIOR CHOIR Tickets €7 / €5 / €12 family - available on the door
De La Salle Senior Choir was founded in 2000 and has built up a fine reputation since then, singing regularly in concerts and competitions. the group has performed with the NSO in the National Concert Hall and last year won first place at the Limerick Church Music Festival and second place in the Equal Voice Competition at the Cork Choral Festival. They will be joined in concert by the Liberty Christian Chorale from Texas, which was established in 2008. The Chorale began with 25 auditioned members and has grown to 45 members. The Chorale toured the Northeast United States last year in January. Past performances include singing the National Anthem at a New York Knick's game, St. Paul's Church at Ground Zero, the Shelter for Creative Living in Washington D.C. and the Washington National Cathedral.
Sunday 21st March 2010 at 12 noon KATHERINE HUNKA (violin)
Presented with funding from The Music Network Performance and Touring Award Tickets €7 / €5 / €12 family - available on the door
Leading accordionist Dermot Dunne joined Katherine Hunka in 2009 creating a stunning duo presenting an exciting mix of music which ranges from celebrated classics and virtuoso show pieces to a selection of works with a strong Latin flavour. The versatile accordion takes on the roles of piano, guitar and even full orchestra.
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