coirm cheoil chórúil - Dundalk Institute of Technology

COIRM CHEOIL CHÓRÚIL
Le Cór DkIT agus Oriel Consort
Déardaoin 10 Aibreán 2014
ag 7.30 i.n. i Séipéal Naomh Phádraig
Dún Dealgan
Comóradh
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Comóradh deich mbliana
Throughout the 2013–2014 academic year, Ceol Oirghialla is celebrating ten years
of success, creativity and excellence. Ceol Oirghialla has a dynamic and vibrant
approach to the study of music and offers exciting and innovative programmes
to both undergraduates and postgraduates in a proactive centre of teaching
and learning, research and performance. We aim to provide a distinctive and
pioneering environment for advanced study, performance and research while
recognising and engaging with the diversity of musics and technologies. We seek
to foster an ethos of creativity, collaboration, advanced teaching and learning, and
offer students a range of opportunities to reach their full potential.
Our imaginative programmes have facilitated students to progress to a diverse
range of careers including teaching, composition, performance, music technology,
arts administration and business management with many students undertaking
further postgraduate study both at DkIT and internationally. We are proud of the
success of our graduates and we continue to maintain links with them. We are
delighted that many of them have contributed to our performances over the past
year as part of our ten-year anniversary celebrations.
We pride ourselves in the sense of community which we foster through both
formal and informal teaching and learning activities. Performance is an integral
part of our programmes and students are given the opportunity to take part in
various music ensembles, including the DkIT Choir and Oriel Consort who are
performing tonight. Vocal Studies form an integral part of our students’ academic
programme with many opportunities for students to develop vocal technique and
repertoire. The Choir forms the principal musical element of our hugely popular
Christmas concert and they regularly perform an annual Spring Choral concert
focusing on sacred repertoire. Recent concerts by the Choir and Consort have
taken place at a range of venues including Redemptorist Church, Dundalk, Church
of the Holy Redeemer, Dundalk, the Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Colman,
Newry, Ulster Hall and Birr Castle.
Works performed by the choir in recent years include Britten’s A Ceremony
of Carols, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in D, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation,
Charpentier’s Te Deum and Carissimi’s Jephte. In 2010 the choir performed
a special joint concert in the Ulster Hall, Belfast with the South Ulster Youth
Orchestra featuring specially commissioned piece Gullion Tales by composer Brian
Irvine.
Over the ten years, students in Ceol Oirghialla have been successful in winning
prizes in national and international competitions for performance, composition
and research, while many of our performers have been honoured by invitations
to perform for distinguished guests at notable venues in Ireland and abroad.
We are dedicated to growing our international education network and some of
our students and staff have recently returned from participating in an Erasmus
Intensive Programme at Artesis Plantijn University in Antwerp where they were
joined by staff and students from Stord Haugesund University, Norway. We were
delighted to host performing groups from Molloy College. New York and Baker
University, Kansas recently for a series of concerts celebrating music from Ireland
and America, and members of our traditional ensemble have received invitations
to conduct a series of workshops and performances in America later this spring
including the American Irish Historical Society on 5th Avenue, New York.
Ceol Oirghialla has developed a strong community outreach programme enriching
the cultural life of the Institute and the wider region and we are acutely aware of
the rich cultural and historical landscape of Oriel, within which DkIT is situated,
a region which has always been a centre of music and literary activity. Our
performance and research activities reflect Ceol Oirghialla’s ongoing commitment
to the preservation and promotion of this cultural region.
We have a large and vibrant community of research students enrolled on our
postgraduate programmes, and these courses are enhanced by the research
expertise of our staff. Our research activities cover a comprehensive range of
areas and will ensure that our research activities will continue to gain national and
international recognition while also underpinning our teaching at undergraduate
and postgraduate level.
Ceol Oirghialla has firmly established itself on the cultural map of third and
fourth-level education in Ireland and we aim to continue to be a leading provider
of music education in Ireland. We thank you all for your continued support of our
activities over the past ten years and we look forward to the future development
of music at DkIT.
Dr Adèle Commins
Ceannasaí Rannóg an Cheoil
Head of Section of Music
Comóradh
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Cairde Ceoil Oirghialla
If you would like to receive future invitations to our concerts
and events, please forward your email address/contact details to:
ann.coffey@dkit.ie
Tel: 042-9370280
For future events check out: www.dkit.ie/music
Clár
DkIT Choir & Chamber Orchestra
Directors: David Connolly, David Stalling
Oriel Consort
Directors: Aisling Kenny, David Stalling
George Frederic Handel (1685–1759)
Zadok the Priest
Tomas Luis de Victoria (c.1548–1611)
Pueri Hebraorum
O vos omnes
Jacob Handl-Gallus (1550–1591)
Ecce quomodo moritur Justus
Giovanni Francesco Anerio (c.1567–1630)
Christus Factus est
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901)
Mass for Double Choir, op.109
Kyrie
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Pater Noster
John Tavener (1944–2013)
Funeral Ikos
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Mass No. 2 in G major
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
INTERVAL
DkIT Choral Society
DkIT Choir
Directors: David Connolly, David Stalling
Soprano
Katie Bolger, Margaret Brady, Rebecca Byrne,
Ling Wei Chua, Adèle Commins*, Emer
Corcoran, Josephine Freund, Lora Gilbert,
Caitríona Graham, Aisling Kenny*, Jessica
Hui Sze Lee, Christina Lynn, Fiona McErlane,
Eimear McGeough, Theresa McKenna, Ellie
McGinley, Marie Mooney, Naoimhe Mulroy,
Edel Murray, Rachel Murray, Rachel O’Brien,
Victoria Olaoye, Robyn Brennan Scorr,
Rebecca Sillery, Orla Smith, Róisín Timoney,
Amy Walsh, Kala Whelan, Stephanie Winters
Alto
Sarah Blacoe-Dyas, Samantha Connolly,
Joanne Cusack, Siobhán Denton, Lauren
Farquharson, Saidhbhín Gorham, Catherine
Kelly, Laura Kenny, Suzanne Kierans, Rachel
Loscher, Brianna Madden, Carrie McCarthy,
Damhnait McKenna, Jennifer McKenna,
Avril Miller, Catherine Morgan, Sarah
Moynihan, Lauren Murphy, Marian O’Brien,
Aoife O’Connor, Leanne O’Doherty, Emma
Quinlan, Tegan Thomas, Silvia Veverova
Tenor
David Bellew, Choon Mon Lee, Niall
Clarke, James Crehan, Matthew Devlin,
Gary Doyle, Brian Dunne, Jonathan Fahy,
Cathal Faughnan, Raymond Guckian, Seán
Haugh, Michael Hyland, David Joyce, Shane
Keeley, Edward Lynch, Ryan McAuley,
James McGeehan, Fiachra Meek, Oscar
Montague, Seán O’Brien, Matthew O’Kane,
Niall O’Reilly, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Josh Quinn,
Diarmuid Rooney, Eoghan Ryan, Seán
Stringer
Bass
Stuart Anderson, David Burke, Stephen
Byrne, Brendan Cleary, Éamonn Coleman,
Robert Essmeier, Anthony Healy, Lee
Kearney, Sebastian Marquez Blanc, Brendan
McNamee, Liam Molloy, Keith Mooney,
Ciaran O’Brien, Kieran Parker, John Quigley,
Robert Sinclair, Brian Slattery, Gary Smyth,
Daire Stanley, Harry Stover, Daniel Whelan
Chairperson:
Rachel O’Brien
Deputy Chair:
Eoghan Ryan
Librarian:
Brendan Cleary
Public Relations:
James Crehan
Stage Management:
Robyn Brennan-Scorr, Tadhg O’Sullivan
Committee Members:
Niall Clarke, Siobhan Denton, Laura Kenny,
Christina Lynn,Leanne O’Doherty, Róisín Timoney
DkIT Chamber Orchestra
Director: Violin: Viola: Cello: Double Bass: Continuo: David Stalling
Clara Taylor**, Ciara O’Neill**, Gráinne Ní Ír**,
Jessica Hui Sze Lee, Orla Smith, Ling Wei Chua,
Peig McAufield**,
N.N.
Lynsey O’Neill**,
Kevin O’Brien**
Bryan Quigley,
Thomas McConville***
Goh Wei Jing***
*Staff Member
** DkIT Graduate
***Postgraduate Research Student
The Oriel Consort
Directors: Aisling Kenny, David Stalling
Soprano
Adèle Commins, Lora Gilbert, Aisling Kenny,
Christina Lynn, Eimear McGeough, Róisín Timoney,
Jessica Hui Sze Lee
Alto
Katie-Anne Bolger, Fiona McErlane, Ellie McGinley,
Leanne O’Doherty, Emma Quinlan
Tenor
Shane Keeley, Choon Mon Lee, Tadhg O’Sullivan,
Diarmuid Rooney, David Stalling
Bass
Brendan Cleary, James Crehan,
Sebastian Marquez-Blanc, John Quigley,
Gary Smyth, Daire Stanley
David Connolly is a graduate of NUI Maynooth with a first-class honours
degree in music and mathematics, a first class honours MA in performance and
musicology and a higher diploma in education. He is a former organ scholar of
Maynooth College and Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral as a student of Professor Gerard
Gillen. In 2013 he was awarded a PhD from DIT Conservatory of Music and
Drama, specialising in French organ music. David has served as a member of the
committee of Pipeworks, the Dublin Diocesan Advisory commission on church
music and the Irish committee of the Royal School of Church Music, for which
he has served as honorary secretary. From 2005 to 2007, he was director of
the Maynooth University Chamber Choir and in 2009 he was appointed the first
director of the NUI Maynooth Ladies’ Choir. He is an organist, tutor and conductor
with the Irish Church Music Association. In 2006 he was appointed organist
and director of music at St Michael’s Church Dún Laoghaire. He is a multiple
contributor to The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland.
Aisling Kenny lectures in musicology, analysis and vocal studies at DkIT. She
studied music at NUI Maynooth and completed her PhD in 2010. Active as a
researcher and performer, Aisling has studied singing with Mary Brennan and
Aylish Kerrigan and has participated in master classes with Paul Farrington and
Evelyn Tubb. Aisling currently studies with Ansy Boothroyd in the UK focussing on
early and baroque music. A member of Mark Duley’s professional chamber choir,
Resurgam, Aisling performs frequently as a soloist and ensemble singer in Ireland.
She is co-founder-director of the Oriel Consort, co-director of the DkIT Music
Theatre Group, and musical director of DkIT Staff Choir.
David Stalling is a composer, sound artist, improviser, creative researcher and
conductor. His works have been performed and exhibited widely in Ireland and
internationally. They include instrumental and electroacoustic music for concert
performance, dance and film, as well as site specific and gallery based audiovisual
installations. David has received numerous commissions and awards from the
Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Screentraining Ireland. He is a recipient of the
2014 Artist-in-Residence award at the University College Dublin School of Science,
and a participant in the PEEK Program for Arts-based Research, awarded by the
Austrian Science Fund (2014–2017). He is musical director of the DkIT Choir and
Chamber Orchestra, and former director of the Maynooth Chamber Choir and the
NUI Maynooth Guitar Ensemble. He is artistic director of the Hilltown New Music
Festival. David is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre Ireland.
Buíochas
Derek Farrell, Alice Hoey, Ann Coffey,
Stefanie Ratzky, Murt Ó Séaghdha, Fr Mark O’Hagan
Rannóg an Cheoil
Ceannasaí, Roinn Ceoil agus Meán Cruthaitheach, Stiúrthóir, Ionad Taighde Ceoil
Head of Department of Music and Creative Media, Director, Centre for Research in Music
Eibhlís Farrell BMus (Hons) (QUB), MMus (Bristol), PhD (Rutgers), LLCM, FRSA,
Member of Aosdána
Ceannasaí Rannóg an Cheoil
Head of Section of Music
Adèle Commins BA (Hons) (NUIM), PhD (NUIM), HDipEd (NUIM), ALCM, LGSMD
Dámh Ceoil
Music Faculty
Mark Clarke BEng (DCU), MSc (London), DipEE (DkIT), CEng (IEI)
Niall Coghlan MA (QUB)
David Connolly BA (Hons) (NUIM), MA (NUIM), PhD (DIT), HDipEd (NUIM)
Una Hunt BMus (QUB), Konzertfach Diplom (Hochschüle Für Musik, Vienna),
PhD (NUIM), DMus (QUB honoris causa)
Daithí Kearney BA (UCC), PhD (UCC), HDipED (UCC)
Sean Keegan BMus (TCML), MA (UL)
Aisling Kenny BMus (NUIM), PhD (NUIM), DipABRSM, ALCM
Helen Lawlor BMusEd (TCD), MMus (UCD), PhD (UCD)
Patrick McCaul BSc (QUB), MA (DkIT)
Paul McIntyre BMus (Hons) (UU), PhD (UU), PGCHEP (UU), DipMus (OU), LTCL
Caitríona McEniry BA (Hons), MA (NUIM), MA (York), LRIAM, ARIAM *
Paul McGettrick BEd, BMus (Hons) (NUI), MSc (York)
Hilary Mullaney BA (Hons) (NUIM), MA (DIT), PhD (Plymouth)
Neil O’Connor BA (IADT), MA (TCD), PhD (TCD)
Siubhán Ó Dubháin BMus (Hons) (QUB), MA (DkIT), PGCE (QUB), ALCM
Ciarán Rosney BA (Hons) (WIT), MA (DIT), MMus (DIT) *
David Stalling BA (Hons) (NUIM), MA (NUIM)
Rory Walsh BMus (Hons) (NUIM), MA (NUIM), HDip Mus Tech
* Career Break
Cláracha Acadúla i Rannóg an Cheoil
BA Music and Audio Production
BA (Hons) Applied Music
MA/MSc/PgDip Music Technology
MA/PgDip Traditional Music Studies
MA/MSc by Research
PhD by Research
Dátaí do do Dhialann
Guitar Ensemble Lunchtime Concert,
1 May 2014, MacAnna Theatre
Some Enchanted Evening,
25 May 2014, Birr Castle
Music and Audio Production
End of Year Showcase
28 May 2014, The Spirit Store, Dundalk
A CONCERT OF CHORAL MUSIC
Programme Design: Sinéad Duffy
Programme: David Stalling & Adèle Commins
Featuring the DkIT Choir and the Oriel Consort
Thursday10 April 2014
at 7.30 p.m. in St. Patrick’s Church
Dundalk
By kind permission of the Parish
Pastoral Council of St Patrick’s, Dundalk
Comóradh
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