Concerts 2008
Upcoming performances
Culture Night (Fri 19th Sep 2008)Leinster House 2000 Wing, Oireachtas, Dublin. Book tour tickets for entry.
We hope to perform a short slot at the end of each guided tour. This will consist of a capella contemporary choral music from SOLAS, plus spirituals and folk music from our lighter programme.
Advent Concert (Nov 2008)Dublin.
Details to follow.
Christmas Carols (Dec 2008)Dublin.
A selection of old favourites and custom arrangements of popular carols. At least one performance will be for charity. Details to follow.
Join our audience mailing list to receive advance notice of future performances, and the opportunity to purchase discounted tickets.
Events earlier this year
Electric Picnic
(Sat 30th Aug 2008) 1pm, IMC Jazz & World Music Stage (Area 21), Stradbally Estate, Co. Laois. Tickets sold out.
We performed a capella contemporary choral music from SOLAS, spirituals and folk music, in the Improvised Music Company tent. We gave it some welly and were rewarded with a standing ovation.
Farmleigh Affair (Sun 3rd Aug 2008)12:30pm, Farmleigh, Phoenix Park. Tickets sold out.
The first of our two summer festival appearances. We were privileged to open the affair with a capella contemporary choral music from SOLAS, plus spirituals and folk music from our lighter programme.
Pipeworks Festival (June 2008)
We joined with
New Dublin Voices,
Cois Cladaigh and
Resurgam
in two concerts under the direction of Mark Duley.
Choral Cornucopia (Sat 28th June 2008)
3pm, City Hall, Dublin. Admission free.
Lutheran Vespers (Sun 29th June 2008)
5pm, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Tickets
€15 / €10.
MMT Grad Show
(Tue 17th June 2008)
8pm,
Broadstone Studios, Dublin. Entrance free.
We (with some assistance) formed the 32-voice "surround choir" for the premiere of two polychoral electroacoustic pieces composed as part of TCD's MMT degree programme:
- Laura Kilty - Letum Tenebrae
- Louise Harte - Bom Apego
Sung Mass (Sun 15th June 2008)
11am, St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin.
Music included Frank Martin's 'Mass for Double Chorus' and extracts from SOLAS, our new CD.
Estonian Tour (May-June 2008)
We spent four nights in Estonia as part of an exchange with the Tallinn Chamber Choir.
We are very grateful to Culture Ireland for their generous support of this tour,
which included two concerts and a workshop on Irish choral music.
Music sung included pieces from SOLAS, plus
lighter selections from our spirituals and folk music repertoire.
Cork International Choral Festival (May 2008)
We were delighted to have been asked to return to Cork to compete in the Fleischmann International Trophy Competition.
This trip included a prize-winning performance opening the Fleischmann competition,
a sung Mass, the Festival Fringe
(where we joined with our friends in
Cois Cladaigh)
and the closing Gala concert.
SOLAS concert and CD launch (12th April 2008)
This took place in
St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin
at 8pm on Saturday April 12th 2008.
SOLAS included:
- Martin - Mass for Double Chorus
- Cyrillus Kreek - Psalms of David
- Elgar - Lux aeterna (Nimrod choral arrangement)
