BIOGRAPHIES NATIONAL COMPETITIVE CHOIRS When & Where Sunday 2nd May, 3.00pm Facebook, YouTube & Virtual Event Portal
AIB Choral Society Conductor: Ernest Dines Founded in 2002, AIB Choral Society has almost fifty members including current and former staff, retired staff and pensioners, family members and friends – ranging in age from eighteen to over eighty! The choir is a four-part mixed voice choir with a wide repertoire including classical, traditional, popular and sacred works. Under musical director Ernest Dines our last summer concert in 2019 was themed “A Night at the Opera” including popular operatic choruses, as well as “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Phantom of the Opera”, and our Christmas 2019 programme included Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols”. As well as annual Summer and Christmas Concerts, AIB Choral Society has travelled to choral festivals in Prague, Krakow and most recently Verona in 2019, and performs for charity and at AIB customer and staff events. Since March 2020 we have been determined to keep singing while apart so we created our first virtual choir recording of “May it Be” by Enya, as part of an AIB Staff Wellbeing event. For Christmas 2020 we produced an hour-long virtual Christmas Concert in aid of the AIB Together Fund, supporting communities significantly affected by Covid19. This year we continue to meet virtually, and outdoors when possible. We look forward singing together soon and starting preparation for our 20th Annual Christmas concert in our ‘spiritual home’ at St Bartholomew’s Church in Dublin 4. The choir is a non-profit organisation supported by our patron Dr Colin Hunt, AIB CEO.
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A&L Goodbody Choir Conductor: Ben Jacob
A&L Goodbody LLP is one of the largest law firms in Ireland and possibly the only firm which is divided up along SATB lines. The A&L Goodbody Choir was formed in March 2014 and normally has between 40 and 50 members representing every corner of the firm. Anna-Marie Curran, a partner in our Corporate Department, is the Musical and Choir Director. The firm has a strong tradition of collaborating with and supporting the communities in which it works and is particularly proud of the Choir’s fundraising efforts. Since 2014, the A&L Goodbody Choir has performed an annual Christmas concert in aid of Depaul Ireland and in 2019, the Choir organised a fund-raising concert in aid of Aoibheann’s Pink Tie. The Choir is delighted to participate in the Cork International Choral Festival Choirworks programme and to have the very talented Ben Jacob assigned as its choir leader.
When & Where Sunday 2nd May, 3.00pm Facebook, YouTube & Virtual Event Portal
