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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Droichead Arts Centre,

Drogheda

Booking: 041 9833946

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€15/€12 (conc) €18 on the door

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The 2011 Pipeworks Festival takes place in three centres around Ireland, from 17–25 June. The central portion of the festival will be in Dundalk, Co Louth, from 20–22 June, with the support of CreateLouth, the Arts Service of Louth Local Authorities. It will feature the superb Willis organ of St Patrick’s Cathedral, one of the finest organs of its type in the world, and lovingly curated and made available to the festival by cathedral organist Brendan McCourt. It will bring to Dundalk competitors and recitalists from every corner of the globe.
This year Pipeworks will bring the stunning English vocal ensemble Stile Antico to Ireland for the first time. Described by The New York Times as ‘an ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance’, they sing without a conductor, and specialize in music from the renaissance and early baroque eras.
Stile Antico perform on Monday 20th June, 20.15, St Nicholas’ Church (The Green Church), €20/€15

At the core of every Pipeworks Festival is the Dublin International Organ Competition. This year fourteen quarter finalists, encompassing ten different nationalities, have been selected from the highest number of entries ever. The quarterfinal B round will take place in Dundalk, bringing these fine young players from all over the globe to Dundalk, along with the members of the distinguished international jury.

The International Organ festival will take place on Monday 20th June, 10.40 & 14.25, St Patrick’s Cathedral. The event is free.

The award-winning Dundalk ensemble Clermont Chorale, under the direction of Ronan Dennedy, will make an appearance in the festival, in a lunchtime recital offering a wide range of music from ancient to modern, sacred and secular. Clermont Chorale will perform on Tuesday 21st June, 13.15, St Nicholas Church (The Green Church). This is a free entry.

Jury member, Jon Laukvik (Norway) will both give a recital and a masterclass in Dundalk. Laukvik is Professor of Organ at the Musik Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, and also at Oslo’s Norges Musikkhøgskole. In the course of his stellar career he has won many major international competitions, and now gives recitals and serves on competition juries all over the world.jon Laukvik will give the recital on Tuesday 21st June, 20.00, St Patrick’s Cathedral, €15/€10.

Masterclasses for Ireland’s finest young organ students will be given by two jury members in St Patrick’s Cathedral, offering an opportunity to avail of the world’s most insightful teaching and scholarship. Places for participants are awarded as scholarships (details available at directorpipeworks@gmail.com), and for observers (€10) at the door.

Further events include Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin: The Art of Improvisation Tuesday 21st June 15.00 and  Jon Laukvik: Romantic Performance Practice I: Liszt and his contemporaries Wednesday 22nd June 10.30.

For further information on this exciting collaboration between Pipeworks and CreateLouth, please contact: Mark Duley, festival director, as above or Denis Darcy, Arts Office, Dundalk Town Council Tel: 042 9392950 denis.darcy@dundalktown.ie

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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)

Terry Riley, Talvin Singh, George Brooks

California Kirana – The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath

An Tain Theatre Dundalk

29 Oct 2010 @8pm.

Tickets available from www.centralticketbureau.com

Terry Riley has been away from Europe for many years, and this is his 75th Birthday. Louth Contemporary Music Society , is honoured to present the world famous Terry Riley as he performs Indian ragas with arrangements on the saxophone played by the ever progressive saxophonist George Brooks and Mercury Music awarded tabla player Talvin Singh. Solos from each artist as well.

This show is not only to celebrate Terry Riley’s birthday and welcome return to Europe, but also to see how Indian Classical music so easily flows into Jazz and minimalism, as well as seeing the young maestro and experimentalist of tabla, Talvin Singh, to perform in a traditional context.

Terry Riley, Talvin Singh and George Brooks will perform traditional ragas arranged for piano, voice, saxophone and tablas, focusing on some of Pran Nath’s favorite ragas from the Kirana tradition such as Darbari, Bageshri, Malkauns, Yemen and Bhimpolasi.

In addition they will perform works from the Riley-Brooks duo repertoire including movements from “Salome Dances for Peace“ and “Ebony Horns“. Each artist will also perform a solo work.

California Kirana – The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath is presented by Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) in association with Create Louth. California Kirana – The West Coast Legacy of Pran Nath is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and financially supported by Create Louth.

Tickets for the performance priced €25 are available from www.centralticketbureau.com
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California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic IN C in 1964. This seminal work provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns. Its impact was to change the course of 20th Century music and its influence has been heard in the works of prominent composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams.

Talvin Singh Producer, composer and tabla player.

The Mercury Music Prize 1999 winner is known for creating an innovative fusion of classical Indian music and drum and bass. He is generally considered as a central figure in the electronica sub genre called Asian Underground. Also, his traditional tabla playing has gained him world recognition and respect. He has worked with the likes of Bjork, Blondie, Madonna, Siouxsie & the Banshees, David Sylvian, Sun Ra, DJ Spooky, Massive Attack, Future Sound of London, Ryuchi Sakamoto, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

George Brooks Saxophonist

George Brooks has performed with such notable musicians as Etta James, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet, Anthony Braxton, Zakir Hussain, and Terry Riley. His original compositions combine elegant melodies with the rich harmonies of modern jazz and the driving rhythms of North India to form a unique and wholly satisfying musical experience.

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MICHAEL DERVAN

Various performers, Louth Contemporary Music Society LCMS 1001 ****

Louth Contemporary Music Society is one of the most adventurous music promoters in Ireland. It also stretches its boundaries in the recording studio as well as in concert. The centre of gravity on this latest disc lies to the East. Dimitri Yanov-Yanovski and Polina Nadarejshvili are from Uzbekistan, Zurab Nadarejshvili from Georgia, Arvo Pärt from Estonia, and Alexandra Vrebalov from Serbia. And the one Englishman, John Tavener, has been heavily influenced by the music of the Orthodox Church, and, on Samaveda , Indian Saman chant. Reflective calm is the dominanting characteristc, sometimes conveying a mode and mood that can seem almost frozen, memories locked and looping, distilled for minutest inspection. There are strong performances from a line-up that includes the Carducci Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, soprano Patricia Rozario and pianist Michael McHale. See louthcms.org/path

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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.