Pipeworks Dundalk 2011
- Published in Choral, News, Dundalk Town Council, Classical
Artist’s Talk by Frances Lamb
Microcosmos
Artist Talk by Frances Lamb
Basement Gallery, Town Hall
Thursday 11 March 2010 at 1.00pm
- Published in Visual Arts, Dundalk Town Council
Frances Lambe Microcosmos
Frances Lambe
“Microcosmos”
March 3rd. – April 9th.
Lambe’s work springs from visual research into disparate areas of interest including geography, biology, marine biology, botany and astronomy. This research is informed by my involvement in scuba diving. She is interested the visual ‘inter-relatedness’ of life on our planet. Life forms that exist underwater mimic those on land. Her work contains the counterpoint of opposites;
+ smooth / textured,
+ minimal / intricate,
+ single / multiple,
+ convex / concave,
+ still / moving,
+ microscopic / vast,
+ surface / interior,
+ vertical / horizontal.
Observed effects of weathering on surfaces influences the form and texture of the work.
The sphere, the oval and undulating forms underpin her visual language. The form of each piece is of prime focus. The constructed walls form a taut ‘membrane’ between the inner and exterior space. Holes punctuate the surface and link exterior to interior.
Her abstract sculptural work seeks to explore concepts of stillness, structure, balance and implied movement. On a deeper level her work reflects on our perception of time as it is defined by the movement of the earth, sun, moon the tides and erosion.
basementgallery@dundalktown.ie 042 9392916
Opening hours Monday /Friday, 10.00.am/1.00.pm – 1.30.pm. / 5.00.pm.
- Published in Visual Arts, Basement Gallery, Dundalk Town Council
Geraldine’s School of Speech & Drama
PRESS RELEASE
Geraldine’s School of Speech & Drama is delighted to announce that the school will be starting new classes in a new venue! The school will be running two new tot classes and a new ‘Just beginner ‘class. The ‘tot classes’ are suitable for children aged between three and five. These classes are tailored to suit the needs of this age group. The children will develop their communication and social skills in a fun and entertaining way. The ‘Just beginner’ class will be suitable for children aged between five and eight. This class aims to encourage new students who have never tried drama before to join up! The aim will be to develop a beginner class for older students later. The ‘Tot’ classes will be held on Tuesdays in the Outcomers centre. The new venue ‘Blackthorn art & design’ in Blackthorn business park will host the new ‘Tot’ and new ‘Just beginner’ courses will be held on Wednesdays at 4pm & 5pm!
Miss Kieran will also be holding auditions for the school annual show on Friday the 19th of February if children are interested in being part of the production as a dancer or extra characters then they are welcome to attend auditions between 6-7 in the Outcomer’s Centre. Please call if interested.
Geraldine Kieran
Mob: 0861695670
- Published in Dundalk Town Council, Youth Drama
DUNDALK SCHOOL OF MUSIC OPEN DAY
DUNDALK SCHOOL OF MUSIC OPEN DAY
— DSM Invites Public to Official Opening of School Premises —
Dundalk School of Music (DSM), the area’s first comprehensive music education and training centre, today announced an invitation to the public to attend an event to celebrate the official opening of the School premises on Saturday, February 20th from 1.45pm to 4pm. Well-known musical figures from the area, Jim Corr, Eilhlis Farrell, Head of Music DkIT and Sharon-Treacy-Dunne, Cross Border Orchestra, will perform the opening ceremony at the School in th Brewery Business Park, Ardee Road, at 1.45pm sharp, followed by a recital by current DSM students.
During this festive afternoon, adults and children will have an opportunity to ‘try out’ a range of instruments, tour the premises, and speak with DSM staff about the courses and programmes on offer. Everyone who enrols on the day will be entered into a draw for a chance to win some free tuition. There will be free face painting, and discounts offered at Tony’s Pizzeria in the building, where under 11’s can eat for free and everyone can enjoy live entertainment from guest artists and DSM teachers.
The new school offers 25 different courses such as musicianship classes for adults, teens and children; beginner to advanced theory; and Junior and Leaving Cert. exam preparation, as well as group and individual instrument tuition. DSM also prepares students for the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Associated Board of the Royal School of Music practical and theory exams in piano, violin and cello. Uniquely, the school provides advanced training for primary school teachers, a pre-instrumental preparatory course for young children, and various innovative programmes which make the DSM a truly comprehensive centre for music education.
For more information on Open Day, and directions to the school, please visit our website at www.musicdundalk.com, or contact:
Patricia Duffy
Tel: 085-7213077
E-mail: patriciaduffy@musicdundalk.com
- Published in Dundalk Town Council, Education, Archives
Pipeworks with Stile Antico Dundalk
2011 PIPEWORKS FESTIVAL @ DUNDALK: 20–23 JUNE 2011
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
- Published in Music, Dundalk Town Council, Classical, Forthcoming Events
The Dead School heads for the London Stage
Acclaimed production of The Dead School heads for the London Stage
Following a sell out tour in 2008, a hugely successful run at the 2009 Dublin Theatre Festival, 3 Irish Times Theatre Award nominations including Best Play and Best Actor, NOMAD is thrilled to announce that our Nomad/Livin Dred production of Pat Mc Cabe’s “The Dead School” will now transfer to the London stage.
The Tricycle Theatre on London’s Kilburn High Road will be home to the production for three weeks this February and March.
Featuring a stellar cast including the Tony and Olivier Nominated Best Actor Sean Campion, this is theatre at its very best. “The Dead School” is a titanic clash between the forces of modernism and tradition in 1970’s Ireland.
Master Raphael Bell is devoted to traditional teaching values, while on the other side; Master Malachy Dudgeon loves rock music and makes rules only in order to break them. When these two men and all they represent come together, chaos is only round the corner. The drama dances between the past and the present, and music and song are seamlessly interwoven in this powerful story of the love men leave behind in the pursuit of what they think is life.
The Dead School is a rollercoaster of emotion from start to finish. It wowed both audiences and critics in 2008, with many claiming it was the best performance they had ever seen and to date every performance of The Dead School has received standing ovations – a testament to just how good this production is.
Directed by Padraic McIntyre, this production features a change to the previous cast as Nick Lee steps into the role of Young Master Dudgeon amongst others for the London run. Audiences can also expect to see once again stunning performances from Carrie Crowley, Peter Daly and Jemma Reeves all of whom will join Sean Campion on stage. Supported by Culture Ireland this is Nomad and Livin’ Dred’s first stage production outside of Ireland.
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For more information please contact: Marcella Bannon NOMAD 086 8278170 or Mary Hanley Touring Manager on 087 8079473
Marcella Bannon
Director
Droichead Arts Centre
Barlow House
Narrow West Street
Drogheda
Co.Louth
Ireland
Tel: + 353 041 9875140
Fax: + 353 041 9842055
www.droichead.com
- Published in Drogheda Borough Council, Dundalk Town Council, Drama, Louth County Arts
A mesmerising disc of new folk inspired works
BBC Music Magazine gives PATH 5 Stars for Performance and Recording
Chamber works by Medyulyanova, Nadarejshvili, Part, Tavener, Vrebalov & Yanovsky, The Carducci Quartet; Dublin Guitar Quartet; Patricia Rozario, Eamonn Dougan, Joachim Roewer, Malachy Robinson etc
Louth Contemporary Music Society LCMS 1001 65:29 mins BBC Music Direct £11.99 or alternatively available from www.louthcms.org/path
Except for the extract from Nadarejshvili’s quartet all these pieces are receiving their premiere recording (Part’s Summa is realised by guitar quartet here), and all are rooted in ancient folk traditions.
Yanovsky’s piece is inspired by the Chang, a traditional Uzbeki stringed instrument. To evoke this, the quartet uses plucking and percussive techniques, vividly conjuring visions of folk-dances surviving from time immemorial, but the opening materialises from ethereal notes which gradually give way to more corporeal, though no less mysterious, sounds. The Carducci Quartet also performs the third movement of Nadarejshvili’s quartet, a threnody drawing on Georgian folk sources that evolves from restrained pizzicato gestures above a quiet drone to an outcry about the experiences of Georgia under Stalinism.
Part’s Face to Face for soprano, baritone, clarinet, viola and bass contains some of his bleakest ever music but, by the end of its brief span, this meditation on St Paul’s ‘through a glass darkly’ epistle is imbued with the A major light of understanding. Tavener’s Samaveda effectively, features the tampura and flute to surround Patricia Rozario’s voice with intimations of eternal wisdom. Rozario is also featured to impressive effect on Epistle.
Medyulyanova’s Eternal Peace, beautifully’ sung by Doreen Curran, is a comparatively, lush piece of neo-Romanticism, contrasting dramatically with Vrebalov’s Spell, a mesmerising piece for violin interacting with live electronics and pre-recorded choral fragments. Barry Witherden PERFORMANCE ***** RECORDING *****
- Published in Contemporary, Drogheda Borough Council, Dundalk Town Council