Nicholas Ellis (clarinet) and David McNulty (piano)

Friday 9^th  September at 8pm

Opera Theatre Company will perform Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne

Saturday 24^th September at 8pm

Daniel Wayenberg (piano)

Saturday 15^th October at 8pm

Cappa Ensemble – Bartosz Woroch (violin), Adam Newman (viola), Brian O’Kane (cello) and Michael McHale (piano)

If you come at 6.30pm Thomas will provide supper with as much as possible grown at Anaverna or from the wild.

For tickets (€20, students €5, supper €20) please email verelc@gmail.com or ring 042 9380836. You can pay at the door but please reserve your tickets in advance.

NB: Save €5 if you book or two concerts, €10 if you book for three and €15 if you book for all four.

Best wishes

Vere

Gary Beecher
Beethoven: Sonata no.10, op.14 no.2
Chopin: Ballade No. 3, op. 47
Poulenc: Toccata from ‘Trois Pieces’

Daniel Kearney
Tchaikovsky – Dumka Op.59
Debussy: Estampes.

Sean Rooney
JS Bach: Toccata in c minor
Ravel: Pavane for a dead princess
Chopin: Ballade no 4 in f minor

The three pianists are on the William Finlay Programme for Gifted Young Pianists organised by the Dublin International Piano Competition. Sean Rooney is from Newry and is studying under John O’Conor at the RIAM. Garry Beecher and Daniel Kearney are studing under Jan ?áp at the Cork School of Music.

If you come at 1.30pm Thomas will provide lunch (in the garden if it is fine) with as much as possible grown at Anaverna.

For tickets (e10, students e5, lunch e20) please email verelc@gmail.com or ring 042 9380836. You can pay at the door but please reserve your tickets in advance.

The next concert will be on Friday 26th August. Nicholas Ellis (clarinet) and David McNulty (piano) will play music by Mozart, John Ireland, Rachmaninov, Poulenc, Schumann and Tchaikovsky and on September 9th Opera Theatre Company will perform Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne

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Ritas started learning the violin with Father McNally. Very early in her performing career, Rita played at the first ever concert at Anaverna. Subsequently she joined the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields which she co-led for six years. More recently she has been the leader of the Locrian Ensemble, performed at the Wigmore Hall during the London Jazz Festival and toured the USA as leader of Camerata Ireland with Barry Douglas. Justin Pearson and Kathy Rockhill play with Rita in the Locrian Ensemble.
If you come at 6.30 you can have supper cooked by my son Thomas with much of the ingredients from the garden or the wild.
For tickets (e20, students e5, supper e15) please ring 042 9371490 or email verelc@gmail.com You pay at the door but please book in advance.
Rita will also be giving a solo concert for children on Friday 13th May at 6 pm. Please ring or email me if you want to reserve tickets.

Best wishes
Vere

Monica Huggett is the Artistic Director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Historical Performance Program at the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Centre, New York. She is world-renowned for her expressive and impassioned performances and, to quote the Juilliard, has achieved something like Rock Star status in the early music world.

The String Quintet in C major was composed by Schubert in 1828 (two months before his death) using two violins, a viola and two cellos. The Quintet represents “a high point in the entire chamber repertoir and is regarded as deeply sublime, with moments of unique transcendental beauty”

The musicians will be playing on period instruments so you will hear the quintet as it would have sounded if it had been played during the composer’s lifetime.

The concert will last for one hour without an interval. You are welcome to stay for supper with the musicians after the performance.

For tickets (e20, students e5, supper e15) please ring 042 9380836 or email verelc@gmail.com You pay at the door but please book in advance.

Future Concerts at Anaverna

• Sat 14 May – Locrian Ensemble (Rita Manning – violin, Justin Pearson – cello, Cathy Rockhill – Piano) There will also be a children’s concert and a master class during this week end.
• Sat 18 June – Finghin Collins – Beethoven’s piano Sonata in E flat Op. 31 No.3 and Debussy Images (Books I and II)

For tickets (e20, students e5) ring 042 9371490 or email verelc@gmail.com. If you arrive between 6.30 and 7 pm you can have supper (e15) cooked by my son Thomas with much of the food from the garden here or the wild. You pay at the door but please book in advance.

For directions to Anaverna see www.anaverna.com/concerts/ You can read more about Elisaveta and Ensemble Blumina at www.blumina.com/

Tom Loves a Lord is a one man play written and performed by Martin Dyar together with some of Moore’s Melodies sung by Anna-Louise Costello.

Martin Dyar won the 2009 Kavanagh Award and was most entertaining when he visited Anaverna earlier this year. The play focuses on an attempt by Moore late in life to improve his patriotic credentials. You can read more about it at http://www.advertiser.ie/mayo/article/32243.

For tickets (e20, students e5) email verelc@gmail.com or ring 042 9371490. If you come between 6.30 and 7 pm, supper (e15) is available with food from the garden or the wild. You can pay at the door but please book in advance.

Bach – Inventions

Ravel – Sonata for Violin and Cello

Cliodhna has played twice at Anaverna with the Rothko String Quartet. She performs with the London Philharmonic Orchestra as well as being a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. More importantly she is originally from Bellurgan, which is close to Anaverna, and her parents, Joan and Michael, live in Mount Bagenal and Carlingford.

Juliet is the Principal Cello with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and lots of other things that she is too modest to tell me. You can hear her playing the Bach Inventions on U-Tube with Nigel Kennedy (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcnInjMkEc) – and he thinks she is brilliant.

For tickets (e15, students e5) email verelc@gmail.com or ring 042 9371490. You can pay at the door but please book in advance.

If you come at about 1.30 pm, Thomas will give you lunch (e15) with food from the garden or the wild. Please book in advance.

at Anaverna

Thursday 7 October at 8 pm.

Maire is a brilliant and influential harpist (and Irish Traditional Musician of the Year 2001). Chris is an admired master of the acoustic guitar. Together they play an addictive and stylish cocktail of powerhouse Irish dance-music, gorgeous airs, evocative old songs and striking new compositions – with shots of hot jazz and bluegrass thrown in!

“Máire Ní Chathasaigh is in a class of her own” The Guardian
“An eclecticism and spirit of adventure that is quite thrilling… Virtuoso playing… bewitching string fantasies and a wonderfully clear and expressive voice” The Times
“Dazzling virtuosity… The speed and complexity is to be marvelled at… exquisitely delivered… delightful” The Daily Telegraph
Their “blazing guitar and dancing harp”, coupled with Chris’s “subversively witty introductions”, guarantee a unique and captivating evening.

For tickets (e20, students e5) ring Kate 042 9380836 or email verelc@gmail.com. You can pay at the door but please book in advance.

Finghin Collins is the pianist to hear in 2010 (and see – he is very dramatic) He has been playing magnificently, wowing the critics and thrilling audiences both in Ireland and abroad. The week prior to the recital at Anaverna Finghin will be a soloist with the BBC Philharmonic at the Proms in the Albert Hall. And the week after he will be performing the Anaverna programme at the New Ross Piano Festival where he is the musical director. You can find out more and hear some recordings (including a sample from Schumann – Fantasiestücke op. 12) at www.finghincollins.com/

For tickets (e20) ring Kate 042 9380836 or email verelc@gmail.com. You can pay at the door but please book in advance. As it is likely to be a sell out I suggest that, if you intend to come, you book straight away.

Directions to Anaverna and a list of future events can be found at www.anaverna.com/concerts/

present

Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

13^th, 14^th and 15^th August

Shows @ 1pm, 3pm, 5pm and 7pm

in the magical gardens of Anaverna House, Ravensdale Dundalk

For more info call 087 2708906
Or e-mail upstarttheatre@fastmail.fm

Will you follow the White Rabbit…?