Friday 27 April 2018 - 610th concert

76th Season

Bringing Irish and InternationalChamber Music Concerts to Waterford since 1942

Large Room, City Hall, The Mall, Waterford

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Funders:Arts Council of Ireland; Foras Eireann; Waterford Council

Benefactors:The Downey Family, H.D. Keane & Co; M.M. Halley & Sons; Anonymous

Waterford-Music Committee: Elizabeth Twohig (Chair)Vincent Byrne (Hon. Secretary: info@waterford-music.org)Eamonn Phelan (Hon. Treasurer: 051 859 886)Marian Ingoldsby (Artistic Advisor), Jurgen Bauer, Patrick Grogan, Richard McCarthy, Miriam McDermott, Patrick O’Neill, James Walsh, Evelyne O’Riordain (ex officio)

Tickets at the door (includes interval soft drink) Adult €15 Student/Child €5

Annual Membership (All eight concerts)Family €150 | Individual €90 | Student €25

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Our Venue - City Hall

Finghin Collins - piano

ProgrammeField: Nocturne No.5 in B flat majorField: Nocturne No. 10 in E minorRos Tapestry Suite: Selection of Three PiecesRachmaninov: Seven Preludes from Op. 23Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28

Thursday 15 March 2018

Thibaut Garcia – guitar (France) & Isang Enders – cello (Germany)

One of Ireland’s most successful musicians, Dubliner Finghin Collins achieved major international success by taking first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Since then he has developed a flourishing international career that takes him all over Europe, the United States, the Far East and Australia. He has been Artistic Director of the New Ross Piano Festival since its inception in 2006, and is also Artistic Director of Music for Galway since 2013.

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Programme to include music by Bach, Granados and Cassado in addition to a newly commissioned work by an Irish composer.”

Presented by Music Network

Thibaut Garcia is a major prizewinner in guitar competitions throughout Europe, being hailed as “the new force of classical guitar” by Guitar Classique magazine. He has played throughout the world including in China and in the USA. Isang Enders was appointed principal cello of the Dresden Staatskapelle at age 20, and has performed widely in Europe, Korea and North America. His recording of the Bach Cello Suites on Berlin Classics is highly acclaimed.

Musici IrelandEmmet Byrne - oboe, Siún Milne - violin, Beth McNinch - viola, Ailbhe McDonagh - cello

Programme includesJ.C. Bach: Oboe Quartet in B flat majorBritten: Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and String Trio Op. 2Slán le Maighe arr by John Lynch Boccherini: String Trio Op.14 No.4Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major K. 370

Billy O’Brien & Daniel Kearney – piano Vanbrugh with Michael McHale – Piano QuartetMichael McHale - piano, Keith Pascoe - violin, Simon Aspell - viola, Christopher Marwood - cello

ProgrammeMonteverdi: Laudate Dominum (Psalm 150) Strozzi: Lagrime mie (cantata) Geminiani: Sonata for cello and basso continuo Opus 5 Purcell: Four songs

Ingoldsby: The Great Embrace (Michael Coady) Schubert: Five LiederBeethoven: Seven Variations for cello and piano on a theme from Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ Beethoven: Four Irish Songs

Thursday 21 September 2017 602nd concert - 75th Birthday Concert

Thursday 12 October 2017

Thursday 26 October 2017

Thursday 23 Nov 2017

Thursday 8 February 2018

Thursday 1 March 2018

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Elizabeth Downey Memorial Concert

Tine Thing Helseth – trumpet & Gunnar Flagstad – piano (Norway)

ProgrammeTveitt: Welcome with honour from Suite No.1 A Hundred Hardanger Tunes, Op 151Bull: Perpetuum Mobile (Homage to Johann Strauss)Shostakovich: Romances on Poems by PushkinPiazzolla: Café 1930 (from Histoire du Tango) Hindemith: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1939) Gribbin: Music Network Commission Bartók: Romanian FolkdancesGrieg: Haugtussa (The Mountain Maid) Op 67Weill: Three Songs

A selection of music for voice, piano and strings commemorates the Club’s first concert on 17th September 1942. We focus on Baroque music in the first half, including a 17th century woman composer, Barbara Strozzi, while the second half begins with a setting by our Artistic Advisor, Marian Ingoldsby of Michael Coady’s poem The Great Embrace which we have commissioned for the occasion.Róisín O’Grady has performed with early music ensembles, orchestras and choral societies throughout Ireland and the UK. Aoife Nic Athlaoich teaches cello at the Cork School of Music, is a member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Malcom Proud has given harpsichord and organ recitals throughout Europe, North America and Japan.

Widely hailed as one of the world’s leading young trumpet soloists, Helseth comes to Waterford with her regular collaborator, Gunnar Flagstad to present a range of music for trumpet and piano. She has played throughout Europe and North America both as a soloist and with her 10 woman brass ensemble tenThing; many will remember their appearance at the 2013 BBC Proms.

Billy O’Brien is from Waterford city and studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin and also in Paris; his debut as a soloist with the RTE Concert Orchestra was broadcast on Lyric FM last year. Daniel Kearney is from Dungarvan and has studied with both Jan Cap and Finghin Collins. He has won many prizes for piano, including the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland’s Soloist competition and the William Finlay Award for gifted young pianists. Their programme consists of a range of solo piano pieces ranging from composers J.S. Bach to Nicolai Kapustin (b. 1937), and ends with Debussy’s Petite Suite duet for piano.

ProgrammeBach: Partita no. 1Chopin: 4 mazurkas op. 17Bach: Partita no. 2Poulenc: Melancholie

Quatuor Voce String Quartet (France)Sarah Dayan – violin, Cecile Roubin – violin, Guillaume Becker – viola, Lydia Shelley- cello

ProgrammeBartók: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Sz,40Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor “Quartettsatz”, D. 703Rhona Clarke: New Music Network CommissionBeethoven: String Quartet No.9, Op. 59, No. 3 in C major

Founded in 2004, the quartet quickly established itself as an ensemble of note, winning international competitions in Geneva, Vienna, Bordeaux, Graz and London. They strongly advocate combining the great repertoire for string quartet with new commissions, as they do tonight.

Following the retirement of Greg Ellis from the Vanbrugh Quartet, the other three members continue as the Vanbrugh, and are warmly welcomed back to Waterford in the company of Irish pianist Michael McHale for a programme of three piano quartets, including one by the Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford.

ProgrammeMozart: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor K478Stanford: Piano Quartet No.1 in F majorDvořák: Piano Quartet No.1 in D major Op.23

Classical Links Tour, Supported by Arts Council Touring Grant

Founded in 2012, Musici Ireland is one of the leading chamber groups in Ireland, a varying collaboration between many leading soloists, and chamber and orchestral musicians under the Artistic Direction of Beth McNinch. Tonight’s group includes Waterford-born oboist Emmet Byrne, principal second oboe with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.The concert comprises a beautiful selection of chamber music featuring the oboe, ranging from the intricate works of Bach and Mozart to the intriguing Phantasy Quartet by Benjamin Britten; it also includes Boccherini’s string trio.

Róisín O’Grady - soprano, Aoife Nic Athlaoich - cello, Malcom Proud - harpsichord and piano

Presented by Music Network: W. F. Watt Memorial Concert

In Association with Imagine Arts Festival

NB VENUE: St. Patrick’s Gateway Centre, Patrick Street

Presented by Music Network - Heinz Pollmeier Memorial Concert

Rachmaninov: Lilacs Janáček: Sonata 1.X.1905 Kapustin: Variations op. 41 Debussy: Duet - Petite Suite