Innovative trad show for Meitheal
THE Meitheal Finale Show 2009 this Friday 17 at LIT Millennium Theatre promises to be a “sparkling show featuring well-known stars from the Irish trad world”
Taking place at 8pm, the tutors and teachers at this summer school will stage new material prepared during a week of composition and musical innovation on workshops.
Established names and band members playing on the night include Liz Carroll (Chicago fiddler), Darren Maloney (New York banjo player), Dermot Byrne (Altan), Laoise Kelly (harp), Marco Pollier (pipes), Padraig Rynne (concertina), Tom Doorley (Danu), Tom Morrow (Dervish) and all the students of Meitheal!
Meitheal Summer School is confined to gifted students who enjoy five days’ immersion in Irish music and trad orchestra, preparing a unique programme. Book online at www.litmt.ie
Violin and accordion in cathedral
THIS Thursday July 16 at 8pm, Church Classics will present the first recital by a new violin and accordion duo in St.Mary’s Cathedral. Katherine Hunka on violin and accordionist Dermot Dunne will perform music by Bartok, Ligeti, Hernandez, de Falla, Tartini, Stravinsky and Piazzola’s tangos.
London born Katherine Hunka is leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra since 2002. She regularly directs from the leader’s chair and has performed premières and double concertos on tour with the orchestra.
She has also performed as soloist with the RTE NSO and RTECO and with many UK orchestras as well as in duo recitals with pianist Sophie Rahman.
On to her Church Classics’ partner. Since winning the RTE Musician of the Future competition in 1996 and completion of his studies in Russia, Dermot Dunne has become a regular performer throughout Ireland as a soloist and chamber musician. As well as solo recitals, he performs in the Nuevo tango quartet, in Lunfardia and with guitarist and composer Ariel Hernandez.
Church Classics presents concerts in acoustically and architecturally beautiful churches and cathedrals. The Summer 2009 series will continue in August with Sylvia O’Brien (soprano), Elizabeth Cooney (violin) and Hanna Shybayeva (piano). Details available on www.classicallinks.ie.
From Moonlight Sonata to raphsody
ST Mary’s Cathedral is host to a second formal recital at the weekend on Friday July 17. Pianist Stuart O’Sullivan (more than 20 first prizes at national music competition) says his solo programme “is an exciting and demanding one and should be of great interest to music fans”.
O’Sullivan has appeared as concerto soloist with both the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the RTE Concert Orchestra and engaged many international radio and television broadcasts.
His selection for the Friday 17 concert at 8pm is Beethhoven’s Moonlight Sonata; two preludes by Rachmaninov; Chopin polonaises; Schumann’s Fantasie in C Op17 and Hungarian Raphsody by Liszt. Stuart O’Sullivan will play this same programme in the John Field Room at National Concert Hall on Tuesday July 28.
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GERARD Hanberry’s third collection of poetry, At Grattan Road, was published recently. It follows Rough Night (2002) and Something Like Lovers (2005), both from Stonebridge Publications, Wales.
Hanberry is the White House Revival guest on Wednesday July 22, 9pm. All are welcome to a night of reading and finger food at this O’Connell Street pub.
Other publications are An Introduction to Poetry handbook and a biography of the Wilde family, More Lives Than One, which was shortlisted for the Kingston University Press Non-Fiction Prize.
In 2004 he was awarded the Brendan Kennelly/ Sunday Tribune Poetry Prize. Refer to blog http//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com for more details on the Revival series.
