CHAMBER CHOIR IRELAND - lIVE STREAMED CONCERT!
Garnering a strong reputation for its unique approach to creative commissioning, recording and programming, Chamber Choir Ireland is the country’s flagship choral ensemble and national chamber choir under the Artistic Direction of the multi-award-winning conductor, Paul Hillier.
For this unique concert, under guest conductor Andrew Synnott, Chamber Choir Ireland will perform works by David Lang including a selection from The Writings, four movements composed over the course of 14 years. Each movement is based on a book from The Writings of the Hebrew Bible which, according to the composer, deal with 'life and death, courage, love, companionship, regret.’
On the music itself, Lang explains 'I thought that if I took some of the language that seemed universal in each of these writings and set it to music I might be able to make my own emotional catalog, and that I would be able to use the music to get to the humanity that is at the core of these very human texts.’
Programme:
again from the writings
for love is strong from the writings
Give Me
i want to live
i live in pain from love fail
head, heart from love fail
where you go from the writings
solitary from the writings
Chamber Choir Ireland Artistic Director
Paul Hillier
Guest Conductor
Andrew Synnott
Patron
Michael D Higgins
President of Ireland
Sopranos
Abbi Temple
Felicity Hayward
Charlotte Trepess
Sarah Keating
Altos
Christina Whyte
Leanne Fitzgerald
Stephen Wallace
Margaret Bridge
Tenors
Alan Leech
Stuart Kinsella
Shane Barriscale
Christopher Bowen
Basses
Jeffrey Ledwidge
Paul McGough
Eoghan Desmond
William Gaunt
Chief Executive
Majella Hollywood
Concerts’ Manager
David Darcy
Marketing & Development Manager
Aoife Cuthbert
