2022 CONCERTS

OPENING GALA CONCERT - TENEBRAE

FRIDAY 10TH JUNE, 7.30PM - UNIVERSITY CONCERT HALL
The Limerick Sings International Choral Festival is delighted to announce Tenebrae as the 2022 guest choral group.
Described as “phenomenal” (The Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir Tenebrae is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision.
Under the direction of Nigel Short, Tenebrae has twice secured the award for Best Choral Performance in the BBC Music Magazine Awards (2012 and 2016), and its recording of Fauré’s Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra was nominated for the Gramophone Awards (2013). In 2018 Music of the Spheres, Tenebrae’s album of part songs from the British Isles, received a Grammy nomination. Tenebrae is renowned for its highly-acclaimed interpretations of choral music ranging from the Renaissance through to contemporary choral masterpieces, and has appeared at major festivals and venues including the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, Leipzig Gewandhaus (Germany) and Melbourne Festival (Australia).

Programme Details:
Alonso Lobo – Versa est in luctum
Selections from the Tenebrae Responsories by Tomás Luis de Victoria
and James MacMillan:
Victoria – Amicus meus
MacMillan – Tenebrae factae sunt
Victoria – O vos omnes
MacMillan – Tradiderunt me
Victoria – Sepulto Domino
MacMillan – Jesum tradidit impius
J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu komm
Victoria – Reproaches
Bach – Singet dem Herrn

Presented by Lorcan Murray

AN EVENING OF CHOIRS IN CONCERT

SATURDAY 11TH JUNE, 8.30PM, REDEMPTORIST CHURCH, CITY CENTRE
This Saturday evening concert of the 2022 Limerick Sings Festival will feature local and visiting choirs performing a diverse programme of sacred, traditional and folk songs including For The Beauty of the Earth by John Rutter, Beethoven’s Sanctus and Rhythm of Life by Coleman to name but a few . All presented in the beautiful surrounds of
Limerick City’s Redemptorist Church.

Performing Choirs
Aoide Voices
Limerick Choral Union
Limerick Youth Choir
Neuer Kammerchor Heidenheim

Presented by Liz Nolan

AFTERNOON PROMS CONCERT

SUNDAY 12TH JUNE, 3.30PM - HOLY TRINITY ABBEY CHURCH, ADARE
This delightful Afternoon Proms concert takes place in the picturesque village of Adare and will feature a light choral programme performed by local and visiting choirs. Expect everything from pop and folk to traditional and classical, such as The Parting Glass, I’m Bound Away and Eric Whitacre’s The Seal Lullaby – the perfect Sunday afternoon of song to round off the 2022 Limerick Sings Festival!

Performing Choirs
Belle Voci
The Gúnas
Killaloe Male Voice Choir
Limerick Chamber Choir

Presented by Liz Nolan

For details of our 2023 Festival, please contact
information@limericksings.com / +353-61-213312