NEXT EVENT:

DONNA ROCHE - Soprano
Sunday 5th September at 12 noon
Tickets €7 / €5 concs  / €12 family – pay at the door

Waterford native Donna Roche started her singing career in Waterford at the W.I.T Music School under the tuition of Anne Woodworth. After finishing school Donna continued her studies with Dr. Veronica Dunne at both the Leinster School of Music & Drama and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.  During her time with Dr. Dunne, Donna studied song cycles, lieder, French song, opera and operetta. She is continuing vocal studies under the tuition of Bridget Knowles at W.I.T... The programme will include “Un bel di vedremo" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly, "Parla piu piano" theme from The Godfather, "Because" and Dvorak's Song to the Moon from the opera Rusalka.

ERIC SWEENEY- Organ Recital
Sunday 19th September at 12 noon
Free admission

A Dubliner by birth, Eric Sweeney has lived in Waterford since 1981 where he is Head of Music at Waterford Institute of Technology. Previously he lectured in music at the Dublin College of Music (now Dublin Institute of Technology) and at Trinity College. He was Choral Director at RTE from 1978-1981. A frequent visitor to North America he has been composer-in-residence at the Newport Festival Rhode Island, Memorial University, Newfoundland, the University of Illinois, Indiana State University and the University of Portland, Oregon among others.

His programme will include three choral preludes by Johann Walther; Prelude and Fugue in D minor by Bach; Toccata, Villancico and Fugue by Alberto Ginastera and some improvisations.

Michael Joyce & Héloîse Geoghegan 
Sunday 3rd October at 12 noon 
Tickets €7 / €5 concs  / €12 family – pay at the door

Violinist Héloîse Geoghegan and pianist Michael Joyce perform regularly as a duo. Recent performances include Music for Wexford, the Felix Mendelssohn Hochschule für Musik and Theatre, Leipzig, the Ponte de Lima opera and chamber music festival in Portugal, the Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal and the University of Limerick, Ireland.

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