Chamber Choir Ireland Quartet at Killaloe Music Festival
Our Lady & St Lua Roman Catholic Church, Ballina, Co. Tipperary
4 June 2023
St Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe, Co. Clare
4 June 2023
Programme
Henry Bishop (England, 1786-1855)—Foresters, Sound the cheerful horn
Eoghan Desmond (Ireland, b. 1989)— An Gleann Mór
Joseph Barnby (England, 1838-1896)—Sweet and Low
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austria, 1756-1791)—Horn Quintet in Eb, K. 407
John Kinsella (Ireland, 1932-2021)—A Reeling Rhapsody
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia, 1840-1893)—String Sextet in D minor 'Souvenir de Florence'
Performers
Chamber Choir Ireland
Chamber Choir Ireland Quartet
Katherine Hunka, Diane Daly, Florian Donderer—Violin
Hannah Miller—French horn
Ed Creedon, Seamus Hickey—Viola
Peggy Nolan, Guy Johnston—Cello
Chamber Choir Ireland brings a quartet of singers to County Clare for SCS Killaloe Music Festival.
Joined by two local choirs, the Gúnas (dir. Rhoda Clery) and the Killaloe Male Voice Choir (dir. Anne Cullen), the quartet will give a free lunchtime concert of sacred and secular gems on Sunday 4th June.
The festival closes later that evening with a mixed programme of solo and chamber music, including vocal quartets by Henry Bishop, Eoghan Desmond, and Joseph Barnby.
The programme also features Mozart's Horn Quintet in E flat, Tchaikovsky's String Sextet in D minor, John Kinsella's A Reeling Rhapsody, and the world premiere of Katherin Hunka's Unwound, performed by the composer-violinist herself.
Joined by two local choirs, the Gúnas (dir. Rhoda Clery) and the Killaloe Male Voice Choir (dir. Anne Cullen), the quartet will give a free lunchtime concert of sacred and secular gems on Sunday 4th June.
The festival closes later that evening with a mixed programme of solo and chamber music, including vocal quartets by Henry Bishop, Eoghan Desmond, and Joseph Barnby.
The programme also features Mozart's Horn Quintet in E flat, Tchaikovsky's String Sextet in D minor, John Kinsella's A Reeling Rhapsody, and the world premiere of Katherin Hunka's Unwound, performed by the composer-violinist herself.