Chamber Music Series 2019 by National Concert Hall

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES 2019 January-March

Chamber Music Gathering International Guitar Series Female Composer Series Bach To Beethoven Complete Works for Piano and Cello

Redmond O’Toole

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Sharon Carty

Miriam Kaczor

Gaëlle Solal

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Chamber Music Programme 2019 At a Glance Chamber Music Gathering 2019 Saturday 5 January 2019 11am - Kevin Barry Recital Room 1pm - The Studio 4.30pm - University Church, St. Stephen’s Green A cross generational assembly of Ireland’s finest classical musicians and rising stars Tickets: €15 or €40 for all 3 concerts. Presented in association with the National String Quartet Foundation

Female Composer Series Thursday 24 January 7.30pm Sharon Carty mezzo-soprano Gillian Williams violin Úna Hunt piano Thursday 7 February 7.30pm ‘Trailblazers’ Concorde Jane O’Leary director Thursday 7 March 7.30pm Irish Baroque Orchestra Thursday 4 April 7.30pm Miriam Roycroft cello Lance Coburn piano Tickets: €17.50 Series presented in partnership with ‘Sounding the Feminists’ and supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Creative Ireland.

NCH International Guitar Series 2019 Thursday 17 January 7.30pm Marco Ramelli guitar Friday 22 February 7.30pm Pavel Steidl guitar Wednesday 27 February 7.30pm Nigel North lute Thursday 28 March 7.30pm Redmond O’Toole 8-string Brahms guitar Thursday 11 April 7.30pm Paul Gregory guitar Yoko Ono piano Thursday 25 April 7.30pm Gaëlle Solal guitar Tickets €17.50 | Series of 6 concerts: €90

Bach to Beethoven Complete Works for Cello and Piano Sunday 27 January 3pm Gerald Peregrine cello Fiachra Garvey piano Sunday 24 February 3pm Gerald Peregrine cello Fiachra Garvey piano Sunday 31 March 3pm Gerald Peregrine cello Fiachra Garvey piano Tickets: €17.50 or €45 for all three concerts

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Fiachra de hÓra

Anna Cashell Killian White

Miriam Kaczor

Chamber Music Gathering 2019 Saturday 5 January 2019, 11am, 1pm, 4.30pm Following the success of both the 2017 and 2018 NCH Chamber Music Gathering, 2019 begins with a unique day of wonderful music-making. A cross-generational assembly of Ireland’s finest classical musicians and rising stars come together to present three concerts of chamber music masterpieces.

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11am Kevin Barry Recital Room Mozart String Quintet In C major K.515 Eoin Ducrot violin | Maighréad McCrann violin Tríona Milne viola | David Kenny viola | Jane O’Hara cello Brahms Clarinet Quintet In B minor Op. 115 Seamus Wylie clarinet | David O’Doherty violin | Siobhán Doyle violin Fiachra de hÓra viola | Christopher Ellis cello 1pm The Studio Beethoven String Quintet In E flat major Op. 4 Elaine Clark violin | Molly O’Shea violin | Ed Creedon viola Martha Campbell viola | Miriam Roycroft cello Schulhoff String Sextet Lynda O’Connor violin | David McElroy violin | Martin Moriarty viola Cian Ó Dúill viola | Ailbhe McDonagh cello | Aoife Burke cello Dvořák String Quintet Op. 97 Mairéad Hickey violin | Anna Cashell violin | Seamus Hickey viola Rosalind Ventris viola | Jane O’Hara cello 4.30pm University Church, St. Stephen’s Green Brahms String Quintet Op. 88 Maighréad McCrann violin | David O’Doherty violin Fiachra de hÓra viola | Tríona Milne viola | Christopher Marwood cello Nielsen Wind Quintet Op. 43 Miriam Kaczor flute | Matthew Manning oboe Macdara Ó Seireadáin clarinet | Cormac Ó hAodáin horn Greg Crowley bassoon Schubert String Quintet D.956 Patrick Rafter violin | Siobhán Doyle violin | Ed Creedon viola Killian White cello | Yseult Cooper Stockdale cello Tickets €15 or €40 for all 3 concerts Presented in association with the National String Quartet Foundation

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Fiachra Garvey

Gerald Peregrine

Bach to Beethoven Complete Works for Cello and Piano Gerald Peregrine cello Fiachra Garvey piano Kevin Barry Recital Room

NCH CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAMME 2019

Two of Ireland’s leading chamber musicians perform the complete works for cello and piano by Bach and Beethoven. Both previous NCH Rising Star awardees, Gerald and Fiachra are established and respected chamber musicians and soloists in their own right. Sunday 27 January 3pm Bach Beethoven Beethoven Bach

Sonata No. 1 in G major BWV 1027 Sonata No. 1 in F major Op. 5/1 Variations for cello and piano in G major on the theme of Handel’s ‘See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes’ WoO 45 Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 5/2

Sunday 24 February 3pm Bach Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven

Sonata No. 2 in D major, BWV 1028 Variations in F major on a Theme by Mozart Op. 66 Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 Sonata No. 4 in C major Op. 102/1

Sunday 31 March 3pm Bach Beethoven Beethoven

Sonata No. 3 in G minor BWV 1029 Variations for cello and piano in E flat on the theme of Mozart’s “Bei Männern” WoO 46 Cello Sonata No 5 in D major Op. 102/2

Tickets: €17.50 or €45 for all three concerts

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NCH International Guitar Series 2019

Marco Ramelli

Thursday 17 January 7.30pm Marco Ramelli guitar (Italy/Ireland) Barrios Barrios Raffaele de Giacometti Tarrega Marco Ramelli Barrios Barrios

Prelude in A minor, Mazurka Apassionata La Catedral In Absentia Essentia (Saudade) dedicated to Marco Ramelli Capricho Árabe Blue Confésion, Choro de Saudade Waltz No. 3, Waltz No. 4

The first in a series of six concerts curated by the NCH and Redmond O’Toole, this concert features the Milan-born guitarist and composer Marco Ramelli, professor of guitar at the DIT Conservatory of Music. The programme focuses on the expressive and exhilarating music of the mid-20th century South American virtuoso Agustin Barrios Mangoré, the self-styled ‘Paganini of the guitar’ from the jungles of Paraguay. It also includes two contemporary works – one by Rafaele de Giacommetti dedicated to Marco Ramelli and one by Ramelli himself.

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Pavel Steidl

Nigel North

Friday 22 February 7.30pm Pavel Steidl guitar (Czech Republic) Liebeslied, Romanze, Mazurka, Lied ohne worte Mertz Legnani Capricci Sonate, Ghiribizzi (Selection) Paganini Regondi Two Etudes Phillip Houghton Ophelia ...a haunted sonata Mauro Giuliani Rossiniana No. 1, Op. 119 Pavel Steidl ‘And you go to Ithaca too’ / Hommage a Jana Obrovska This second concert features Czech guitarist Pavel Steidl, one of the most celebrated of contemporary guitar virtuosos, performing music of the 19th century by some of the most notable guitar composers of the period – Mertz, Legnani, Regondi, Giuliani and Paganini (a fine guitarist as well as one of the greatest violinists of all time). This concert is presented in association with Dublin Guitar Symposium/DIT Conservatory of Music and the Italian Cultural Institute. Wednesday 27 February 7.30pm Nigel North lute (UK) Bach Bach Bach

Partita in A minor (after BWV 1013 for solo flute) Suite in E minor “auf Lautenwerk” (BWV 996) Partita in E major (BWV 1006a for lute /BWV 1006 for violin)

Nigel North, one of the greatest exponents of Bach on the lute, plays three of Bach’s major works for solo instruments in his own transcriptions. Classic CD has described Nigel’s playing as “Lute plucked to perfection… perhaps he is the greatest performer of his instrument of all time”. 7

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Thursday 28 March 7.30pm Redmond O’Toole 8-string Brahms guitar (Ireland) Bach Violin Sonata No. 1 BWV 1001 Haydn Sonata Hob.XVI: 46 Mertz Le Romantique Carlo Domeniconi Koyunbaba Cortège Ian Wilson Recognised as one of the most distinctive and original guitarists of his generation, Redmond O’Toole was the first to adopt Paul Galbraith’s ‘Brahms guitar’, which he plays in the position of a cello. This is a rare opportunity to hear O’Toole, an important ambassador for the classical guitar in Ireland, in recital. Thursday 11 April 7.30pm Paul Gregory guitar (UK) | Yoko Ono piano (Japan) Beethoven (arr. Carulli) Variations in F major on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for guitar and piano Tarrega and his successors: Tarrega Preludes in E and A Capricho Árabe (Serenata) Maria (Gavota) Fortea Toledo Op. 14 Capricho Estudio Op. 13 Boléro Op. 39 for guitar and piano Ferrer E. Sainz de la Maza Petenera and Zapateado South American Music Villa-Lobos Leo Brouwer Moscardini (Candombe) Gnattali

Valsa Concierto No. 2 Op. 4 (completed Gregory) Elogio de la Danza Duende Mulatos Sonatina No. 2 for guitar and piano

Distinguished English guitarist Paul Gregory plays music from Spain and South America and is joined by pianist Yoko Ono for works by Carulli and Gnatalli.

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Redmond O’Toole

Paul Gregory

Gaëlle Solal

Thursday 25 April 7.30pm Gaëlle Solal guitar (France) ‘Bach & Villa-Lobos’ J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Partita 2 BWV 1004 (Tr. Solal) Villa-Lobos Choro No. 1 Ernesto Nazareth Brejeiro (arr. Solal) Villa-Lobos Schottish Choro Pixinguinha Carinhoso (arr. Dyens) Villa-Lobos Mazurka-choro Jobim Chora coraçao (arr. Bellinati) Villa-Lobos Étude 6 Baden Powell Choro para metronomo Villa-Lobos Valse-choro Hermeto Pascoal Bebê (arr. Soares) Modinha (arr. Savias) Villa-Lobos Egberto Gismonti Água e Vinho (arr. Solal) Étude 12 Villa-Lobos Garoto Lamentos Do morro (arr. Solal) Villa-Lobos Gavota-choro Guinga Cine Baronesa (arr. Tardelli) Villa-Lobos Tristorosa (arr. Solal) Roland Dyens Tuhu (Hommage à Villa-Lobos) The last concert in the series features outstanding French guitarist Gaëlle Solal performing a programme inspired by Bach and Villa-Lobos. Her performances have been described as “infectiously wonderful” (Cleveland Classical.com). Tickets €17.50 Series of 6 concerts: €90 9

NCH CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAMME 2019

Sharon Carty Lance Coburn

Irish Baroque Orchestra

NCH Female Composer Series The first series of a multi-annual project focusing on female composers over the centuries. Presented in partnership with Sounding the Feminists. 10

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Thursday 24 January 7.30pm Sharon Carty mezzo-soprano | Gillian Williams violin | Úna Hunt piano ‘France in La Belle Époque’ A programme of French music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with particular emphasis on women composers and the French mélodie. The programme features songs and piano music by Fauré and Debussy coupled with the prominent female composer Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) and Franco-Irish composers: Augusta Holmès (1847-1903), Adela Maddison (1862-1929) and Hope Temple (1859-1938). The music of Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) is celebrated with her Deux Morceaux (Nocturne and Cortége) for violin and piano coupled with Debussy’s violin sonata, the composer’s last completed work before his death in 1918.

Thursday 7 February 7.30pm Concorde | Jane O’Leary director ‘Trailblazers’ Thea Musgrave Orfeo I (1975) Sofia Gubaidulina De Profundis, (1978) Marta Ptaszyńska Moon Flowers Jane O’Leary between 2 waves of the sea (2016) Nicola LeFanu Isobirthday (2002) Kaija Saariaho Cendres (1998) Unsuk Chin Alice in Wonderland - Advice from a caterpillar (2007) Joan Tower Amazon I (1977) As artistic director and pianist of Concorde ensemble, Jane O’Leary has been nurturing the development of new music in Ireland and promoting its performance worldwide since 1976. Ireland’s longest-established contemporary music ensemble. For this specially-curated programme she has chosen works from this forty-year period by trailblazing female composers from around the world: UK, USA, Poland, Russia, Korea and Ireland.

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Thursday 7 March 7.30pm Irish Baroque Orchestra ‘Donne Barocche’ Music includes: Barbara Strozzi, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre Sonatas for violin and continuo Barbara Strozzi Serenata ‘HorforApollo’ and Arietta ‘Miei pensieri’ Antonia Bembo Cantata ‘Lamento della Vergine’ Rosa Giacinta Badalla Mottetto ‘Non plangete’ Isabella Leonarda Sonata duodecima for violin solo and continuo (from Sonate a 1, 2, 3, 4, istrometi Op. decima sesta) On the eve of International Women’s Day, the Irish Baroque Orchestra perform ‘Donne Barocche’. The programme highlights the sometimes neglected compositional output by female composers of the baroque period and particularly celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Barbara Strozzi. Presented in association with Finding a Voice

Thursday 4 April 7.30pm Miriam Roycroft cello | Lance Coburn piano. Louise Farrenc Vítězslava Kaprálová Ethel Smyth Luise Adolpha LeBeau Henriëtte Bosmans

Cello Sonata in B flat major Op. 46 (1859) April Preludes, Op. 13 (1937) Cello Sonata in a minor Op. 5 (1887) Cello sonata in D major Op. 17 (1882) Sonata (1919)

The last concert in the series focuses on unjustly neglected sonatas for cello and piano by major female composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Series presented in partnership with ‘Sounding the Feminists’ and supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Creative Ireland. Tickets: €17.50

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