NCH Calendar of Events (June - August 2014) by National Concert Hall

Rodrigo Y Gabriela Tinariwen Altan The Art Of The Song: David Bowie Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® “Adios Tour” Paul Brady Sinéad O’Connor The Vishnu Room www.nch.ie 01 417 0000

24 June Tickets: ¤37 1 July

Tickets: ¤30, ¤35

19 July

Tickets: ¤30, ¤35

26 July Tickets: ¤25

2 Aug

Tickets: ¤45, ¤55, ¤65

9 Aug

Tickets: ¤35

16 Aug

Tickets: ¤40, ¤45

THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL JUNE-AUGUST 2014 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS JUNE-August 2014 Box Office www.nch.ie 01 417 0000 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2

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CONTENTS June listings July listings August listings June Highlight - Bryan Ferry with Strings June Concerts - Main Auditorium June Concerts - John Field Room July Highlight - The Art of the Song: David Bowie July Concerts - Main Auditorium July Concerts - John Field Room August Highlight - Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® “Adios Tour” August Concerts - Main Auditorium August Concerts - John Field Room Forthcoming Highlights Friends Events Education Events Booking and General Information Getting Here and Parking Seating Plan

PATRON Michael D. Higgins President of Ireland

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RESIDENT AT THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

The National Concert Hall is supported by The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir Ireland Irish Baroque Orchestra Music Network

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Sublime: Bach, Scriabin Piano Recital, Ivan Ilic 22 The Claudia Boyle Summer Opera Gala with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 8 Waltons World Masters: Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté 8 Summer Lunchtime Series ‘The Enchanted Violin’ 9 with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Big Band: Sinatra My Way 9 Hibernian Orchestra Summer Concert 10 Popular Arias and Songs: Cara O’Sullivan, soprano • Mairéad Hurley, piano 22 Perspectives 2014: Wayne Shorter Quartet 11 Summer Lunchtime Series ‘Baritone Brilliance’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 12 The Beethoven Project 12 ESB Live 2014: Bryan Ferry with Strings 14 ESB Live 2014: Bryan Ferry with Strings 14 Fergal Warren - Chamber Music Recital 22 Bill Whelan Gala with Sir James Galway and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 16 RTÉ Concert Orchestra: A Night on the Town 16 Music for Fun 17 Music for Fun 17 Summer Lunchtime Series ‘Accordion Fantasies’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 18 Summer@NCH: Rodrigo y Gabriela 19 Pierre Bensusan, guitar 22 From Opera to Jerome Kern 22 ‘Beethoven’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 20 Giselle - Monica Loughman Ballet 21 Giselle - Monica Loughman Ballet 21

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Summer Lunchtime Series ‘Ciao Italia!’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer@NCH: Tinariwen A Summer in Dublin by Songs in the Key of D Pianist David Syme in Concert ‘The Spirit of America’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra National Youth Orchestra of Ireland: Summer Proms Arioso Quartet Debut Recital Summer Lunchtime Series ‘Sound the Trumpets!’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Ben Folds and Orchestra Pierce Turner Lunchtime Classics ‘Sonic Spectacular’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Nigel Kennedy: Bach Plus Summer Lunchtime Series ‘On the Blue Danube’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS with 3epkano The Good Old Days of Dublin’s Theatre Royal ‘Hollywood Greats A Journey through the Movies’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer@NCH: Altan Summer Lunchtime Series ‘Love, Actually’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Kathleen Ferrier: A Life in Music Kevin Fitzpatrick Plays Chopin ‘Viennese Delights’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer@NCH: The Art of the Song: David Bowie Artur Pizarro, piano RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Summer Lunchtime Series Forget Me Not, The Penston Vocal Academy

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Edmund Battersby, piano RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill Summer@NCH: Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® “Adios Tour” featuring Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa, Guajiro Mirabal, Barbarito Torres, Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Summer Lunchtime Series August Lunchtimes - Deirdre Scanlan Musici Ireland Summer Lunchtime Series The John McCormack Songbook RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Essential Classics Summer@NCH: Paul Brady Firework Trios - The Ducasse Trio RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Summer Lunchtime Series August Lunchtimes - Sarah Shine, Gemma Ní Bhriain, Dearbhla Marie Collins Paganini to Piazzolla, David Tobin, violin; Morgan Buckley, guitar Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin, piano Musici Ireland Summer Lunchtime Series Mabel Swainson Pianoforte Award Winner’s recital RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Dial M for Murder – Best of Hitchcock Summer@NCH: Sinéad O’Connor - The Vishnu Room RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Summer Lunchtime Series August Lunchtimes - Jazz on a Summer’s Day - Emily Conway Violin Varieties, Abigail McDonagh violin and Peter Dains piano Musici Ireland Summer Lunchtime Series RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Hello Jerry! – The Music of Jerry Herman RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Hello Jerry! – The Music of Jerry Herman Martin Moriarty - Viola, Peter Dains – Piano RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Summer Lunchtime Series August Lunchtimes - Kelley Lonergan Steve Earle – Solo Musici Ireland Summer Lunchtime Series They Can’t Be Serious RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Close Encounters – The Music of John Williams A Tribute To The King - 60 Years of Rock’n’Roll

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JUNE HIGHLIGHT

Bryan Ferry with Strings 6

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We can’t help saying this, but if there is any iconic rock/pop star you’d want to have strings attached to then it would be Bryan Ferry. He is indisputably one of rock music’s most enduring and delicately experimental proponents – and, of course, he last performed at the National Concert Hall a year ago, when he transformed his sleek solo and Roxy Music material into a night of jazzy sophistication. Over 12 months ago, it was Bryan Ferry flanked by wind instruments and percussion of all shapes and sizes. This year, a smartly attired orchestra (the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, no less) will surround the man in the sharply tailored suit. Long-term fans will know there is very little he can’t put his hand to and make a complete success out of it. While still a member of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry started his solo career in 1973, and effectively kick started the growing trend for well-known pop and rock stars to perform cover versions of ‘standards’, favourites, guilty pleasures and other lesser-known songs. Albums such as These Foolish Things (1973) and Another Time, Another Place (1974) opened up new sonic areas for Roxy Music followers (and, perhaps, for those that reckoned Roxy Music were just a bit too weird for them). Yet Ferry knew his audience, and while he was stylishly slaying the world with Roxy Music via ground breaking albums such as For Your Pleasure (1973), Stranded (1973), Country Life (1974), and Avalon (1982), he was laying in the long grass with accomplished solo works such as Let’s Stick Together (1976), In Your Mind (1977), The Bride Stripped Bare (1978) and Boys and Girls (1985). Over the years, Ferry has astutely managed to lead several creative parallel lives – touring with reconvened versions of Roxy Music being but one of them – yet always seemed to have at the forefront his mind his solo output. And not only that – he realised that in

order to keep matters fresh both for him and his audience that reconfiguration, refurbishment and re-envisioning of his art was in order. These regular bouts of sonic spring cleaning have enabled Ferry to engage and experiment with his back catalogue in a way that very few (indeed, if any) of his contemporaries have. As previously noted, he was at the National Concert Hall last year with his latest album, The Jazz Age (2012), which featured 1920’s jazz style re-recordings of some of his best known songs (including Love Is The Drug, Slave To Love, Virginia Plain, Don’t Stop The Dance, This Is Tomorrow and Do The Strand). And still Ferry refuses to sit still (let alone rest on his laurels), which is why his forthcoming National Concert Hall orchestral shows look set to be something even more special. If last year’s Jazz Age outing was about refashioning his music in the styles of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington (with subtle nods to Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman), then this year’s string-driven thing is how to go about invigorating familiar material with discreet artistic brushstrokes that add texture and depth. In many ways, such a suave approach to his body of work directly references a time when Ferry first entered pop music in the early 1970s – when Roxy Music would take aspects of previous genres of music and mould them into something else, something very new and different. Bryan Ferry has done this kind of thing before, and – wouldn’t you know it – the old smoothie is doing it yet again. By Tony Clayton-Lea, The Irish Times music critic Bryan Ferry with Strings will be performed as part of ESB Live 2014 at the National Concert Hall on June 18 and 19. Tickets from ¤55 Tel 01 417 0000 or online www.nch.ie

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The Claudia Boyle Waltons World Summer Opera Gala Masters: Toumani with the RTÉ National & Sidiki Diabaté Symphony Orchestra

Claudia Boyle

Toumani Diabaté

Friday 6 June 8PM

SATURDAY 7 JUNE 8PM

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Claudia Boyle soprano John Finucane conductor Claudia Boyle, one of Ireland’s brightest soprano stars, takes a break from her busy international schedule appearing with luminaries such as Joseph Calleja, Kent Nagano and Ricardo Muti, to return for a solo evening of heavenly opera and dazzling singing with the RTÉ NSO. Enjoy some of the very best of Italian, French and American opera, including rousing overtures by Rossini, Verdi and Bernstein, Massenet’s hypnotically lyrical ‘Méditation’ (Thaïs), the dramatic ‘Mad Scene’ from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s spirited ‘Sempre libera’ (La traviata) and bewitching ‘Caro nome’ (Rigoletto), the sublime ‘Depuis le jour’ (Charpentier’s Louise) and Bernstein’s delightfully carefree ‘Glitter and be gay’ (Candide).

Toumani Diabaté is responsible for bringing the glorious sounds of the kora, a West African 21-string harp, to audiences everywhere. Hailing from a family of exceptional Malian griots and musicians, his musical pedigree extends back over 700 years of kora players, and has collaborated across the musical spectrum. For this very special concert, Toumani shares the stage with his son, rising kora star 22-year-old Sidiki Diabaté.

Tickets: ¤15, ¤25, ¤32, ¤40 Concessions: ¤13.50, ¤22.50, ¤28.80, ¤36 Group discounts also available Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 8

“Not only the hottest but also the most ambitious and visionary kora player on the scene today” Boston Phoenix

Tickets: ¤24, ¤30, ¤34 (Choir Balcony: ¤16) Concessions: ¤21.60, ¤27, ¤30.60 (Choir Balcony: ¤14.40) 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Group Discounts Available Presented by Waltons New School of Music

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SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘The Enchanted Violin’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA & BIG BAND: SINATRA MY WAY

Helena Wood

Tuesday 10 June 1:05PM

TUESDAY 10 JUNE 8PM

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Helena Wood violin Gavin Maloney, conductor Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Big Band Glenn MacNamara vocalist Neil Thomson conductor

Oberon Overture Weber Adagio for Violin and Mozart Orchestra in E, K261 Mozart Rondo (Allegretto grazioso) in C, K373 Liadov The Enchanted Lake Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un lieu cher: Mélodie & Scherzo Khachaturian Masquerade Suite: Waltz, Mazurka, Romance & Galop Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm, 96-99fm within Niall Carroll’s Classical Daytime.

Lunch and all… ¤10 concert | ¤5 Grab&go lunch (sandwich or wrap with tea or coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at boxoffice with concert ticket. Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Francis Albert Sinatra, The Chairman of the Board, Ol’ Blue Eyes, the epitome of cool… Frank Sinatra is possibly best remembered as the leader of the Rat Pack. The RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Big Band perform all the greats from the Capitol and Reprise label years, in the original orchestrations by such master-arrangers as Billy May, Nelson Riddle and Don Costa. All the hits like Come Fly with Me, How about You, Night and Day, Ol’ Man River, You Make Me Feel So Young and many more. Starring Glenn MacNamara, ‘the UK’s finest swing singer’ (Time Out London).

Tickets: ¤11, ¤22, ¤27, ¤33, ¤38 Concessions: ¤10, ¤20, ¤25, ¤30, ¤35 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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HIBERNIAN ORCHESTRA SUMMER CONCERT Songschool is for young people who are interested in writing and recording songs, performing them at a concert, making a video, learning about music technology, and meeting people who love music as much as they do... not to mention forming bands and having fun! Join our Young Maestros today and receive a 20% discount For more information see our Education Events on page 63 or visit www.nch.ie

John Finucane

WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 8PM John Finucane conductor Michael d’Arcy violin Shostakovich Mahler

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor Symphony No. 4 in G Major

In celebration of the Orchestra’s 25 year anniversary under the baton of acclaimed musical director John Finucane, the Hibernian Orchestra is joined by internationally renowned soloist Michael d’Arcy.

Young Maestros

Tickets: ¤20 (Children under 16: ¤5) Concessions: ¤15 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 12% discount for Members of the Irish Country Women’s Association Group Discounts Available Supported by Dublin City Council Presented by The Hibernian Orchestra 10

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WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET PERSPECTIVES 2014

Wayne Shorter

SATURDAY 14 JUNE 8PM Wayne Shorter saxophone • Danilo Pérez piano John Patitucci double bass • Brian Blade drums “A band of spellbinding intuition, with an absolute commitment to the spirit of discovery, it has had an incalculable influence on the practice of jazz in the 21st century” The New York Times One of the most influential saxophonists and composers in the pantheon of modern music, let alone jazz, Wayne Shorter celebrates his 80th terrestrial year in 2013. Regarded as a pioneer since his emergence in the 1950’s, Shorter’s trajectory has restlessly embodied continual exploration and unencumbered momentum. An entire generation of musicians and fans alike see and hear him as a humble master who has created a timeless vocabulary - as vital as it is unbound. He performs at the Hall with his all-star quartet featuring Danilo Pérez (piano), John Patitucci (double bass), Brian Blade (drums). “the most skillful, mutually attuned and fearlessly adventurous small jazz group on the planet,” The Guardian

Tickets: ¤25, ¤35, ¤40, ¤45 Concessions: ¤22.50, ¤31.50, ¤36, ¤40.50 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Group Discounts Available Presented by the National Concert Hall NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie

SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘Baritone Brilliance’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

The Beethoven Project

Gyula Nagy

Tuesday 17 June 1:05PM

Tuesday 17 June 8PM

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Gyula Nagy baritone Colman Pearce conductor Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

John Finucane clarinet • Christopher Marwood cello • Dearbhla Brosnan piano John O’Conor piano • Michael d’Arcy violin Aisling Drury Byrne cello Hugh Tinney piano The RIAM is proud to present The Beethoven Project, a large-scale collaborative event; this two-week celebration of the composer is presented by the RIAM in collaboration with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the National Concert Hall, the Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane and Dublin International Piano Competition. The opening concert at the National Concert Hall features three of Beethoven’s greatest works in the chamber music canon performed by some of Ireland’s finest musicians.

Suppé Poet and Peasant Overture ‘Hai già vinta la causa... Mozart Vedrò mentre io sospiro’ (The Marriage of Figaro) ‘Per me giunto’ (Don Carlos) Verdi Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut) Puccini ‘Ni sna ni otdycha’ (Prince Igor) Borodin Shostakovich Romance (The Gadfly) Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker) Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm, 96-99fm within Niall Carroll’s Classical Daytime.

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Tickets: ¤10, ¤20, ¤30 Concessions: ¤9, ¤18, ¤27 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 12% discount for members of the Irish Countrywoman’s Association Group discounts available Presented by the Royal Academy of Music

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ESB LIVE 2014 BRYAN FERRY WITH STRINGS

Bryan Ferry

WEDNESDAY 18/THURSDAY 19 JUNE 8PM Musical icon Bryan Ferry returns to the National Concert Hall in 2014 for the Irish début of his new show. From his earliest recordings with his group Roxy Music at the beginning of the 1970s, Bryan Ferry has taken his place as one of the most iconic and innovative singers and lyricists to emerge in popular music. This new show sees Ferry present new orchestral arrangements of both Roxy Music and solo works. Bryan Ferry and his band are joined by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. One of the great orchestrators of modern pop, Ferry represents his oeuvre in a new and thrilling way.

Tickets: ¤55, ¤75, ¤80 The National Concert Hall is proud to present Bryan Ferry brought to you in partnership with ESB 14

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The Beethoven Project The RIAM is proud to present The Beethoven Project, a large-scale collaborative event, celebrating the music of one of the great musical masters this June. The opening concert in Dublin’s National Concert Hall features three of Beethoven’s greatest works in the chamber music canon performed by some of Ireland’s finest musicians.

NaTioNal CoNCerT Hall • Tuesday JuNe 17th at 8.00 pm Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat major, op 11, Gassenhauer John Finucane, clarinet; Christopher Marwood, cello and dearbhla Brosnan, piano Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, op 70 no 1, Ghost John o’Conor, piano; Michael d’arcy, violin and aisling drury Byrne, cello Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major, op 97, Archduke Hugh Tinney, piano; Michael d’arcy, violin and Christopher Marwood, cello Tickets: €30, €20 and €10 www.nch.ie

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BILL WHELAN GALA WITH SIR JAMES GALWAY AND THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: A NIGHT ON THE TOWN

Sir James Galway

FRIDAY 20 JUNE 8PM

SATURDAY 21 JUNE 8PM

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Sir James Galway flute • Zoë Conway fiddle • Catherine Leonard violin • Colin Dunne dancer • Gavin Maloney conductor

RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Kim Criswell, vocalist • John Wilson, conductor

Star performers from the worlds of classical and traditional music join the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the music of Grammy-winning Riverdance composer Bill Whelan. Featuring the world première of Linen and Lace, Whelan’s major new work for the internationally renowned flautist Sir James Galway and orchestra, commissioned by RTÉ lyric fm to mark Limerick City of Culture 2014, and some of Whelan’s most popular works including the colourful and dynamic Riverdance Symphonic Suite, the evocative Inishlacken and the exhilarating An Chistín, Whelan’s playful interaction between fiddle, feet and orchestra.

Tickets: ¤20, ¤28, ¤38, ¤45 Concessions: ¤18, ¤25.20, ¤34.20, ¤40.50 Group Discounts Available Presented by RTÉ lyric fm and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 16

From Gershwin’s America in the roaring ‘20s and ‘30s – prohibition, the Wall Street Crash and flappers – to the jazz-inspired energy and theatrical panache of Leonard Bernstein. John Wilson conducts the RTÉ Concert Orchestra through a programme of gorgeous orchestral music, including pieces from Gershwin’s Girl Crazy and Porgy and Bess. Then, the sensational Broadway and West End star Kim Criswell lends her theatrical finesse to such Bernstein numbers as Somewhere from West Side Story, I Can Cook, Too from On the Town, I am Easily Assimilated from Candide, A Little Bit in Love from Wonderful Town and more.

Tickets: ¤11, ¤22, ¤27, ¤33, ¤38 Concessions: ¤10, ¤20, ¤25, ¤30, ¤35 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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MUSIC FOR FUN

SUNDAY 22 JUNE 2PM/4PM The Music for Fun Orchestra, conducted by Dave McGauran Following the hugely successful Music for Fun concert in September 2013, the Music for Fun Orchestra are back for yet again another fast paced, high octane concert. This familyfriendly concert provides a fun and enlightening approach to a wide range of music and will introduce young and old to a variety of musical styles. The programme will include popular classics, current chart topping singles and some well-known movie and TV themes including children’s favourite princess and superhero songs. As always, the energetic Music for Fun team will fill the National Concert Hall with fun, laughter and inspiration for music. This concert will involve elements of audience participation. With that in mind we encourage our younger friends to come along dressed in their favourite princess or superhero costumes. “It’s a pleasure to be able to introduce our children to classical music in such an interactive manner!” “My son loved the concert and left asking when the next one is on! Thanks for a super afternoon”

Tickets: ¤15, ¤20 Children: ¤10, ¤15 Family tickets: (2&2): ¤60 Concessions: ¤13.50, ¤18 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 12% Irish Countrywoman’s Association Member Benefit Group Discounts Available Presented by The Music for Fun Orchestra Proudly supporting Laura Lynn NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie

SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘ACcordion Fantasies’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

FRIENDS PRIORITY SEATING

Dermot Dunne

Tuesday 24 June 1:05PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Dermot Dunne accordion John Finucane conductor Presented by Niall Carroll RTÉ lyric fm Jota Aragonesa Glinka Il Postino Medley Bacalov (arr. Stewart) Czardas Monti Abreu Tico-Tico no Fubá Oblivion Piazzolla (arr. Dunne) Piazzolla Libertango (arr. Dunne) Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm, 96-99fm within Niall Carroll’s Classical Daytime.

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Just one of the benefits of being a Friend Friends priority seating can be availed of on the Choir Balcony and all John Field Room concerts. Friends of the National Concert Hall members simply need to show their valid membership card and their ticket to the performance and they will be admitted in advance of non-members. It’s that simple. To join the Friends call the Box Office today on 01 417 0000

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Rodrigo y Gabriela Summer@NCH

TUESDAY 24 JUNE 8PM Acoustic rock maestros Rodrigo y Gabriela are back with their new album: 9 Dead Alive. The album was recorded and produced by Rodrigo and Gabriela at their studio in Ixtapa, Mexico. The album sees Rodrigo y Gabriela playing face to face, guitar versus guitar, bursting with melodic energy and rhythmic invention. It captures the warmth and spontaneity of two great musicians riffing and jamming together; perfectly distilled into nine new songs teeming with desire, elegance and gusto. Each of the songs on the album is a personal celebration of individuals who have passed on, but through their deeds and words still resonate in the 21st century. Going as far back as Eleanor of Acquitaine (1122 – 1204) to Viktor Frankl (1905 – 1997), and including a tribute to one of Rodrigo and Gabriela’s enduring touchstones – animals and nature. This diverse and fascinating list will strike a chord with anyone familiar with the duo’s passion for human rights, literature, history and philosophy. Rodrigo y Gabriela’s last album of all new music was 2009’s 11:11. Since then they have collaborated on the soundtracks to both Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Shores and Puss N’ Boots and visited Havana to record the Area 52 album with a Cuban orchestra. They have continued to tour the world, playing sell out shows last year at the Hollywood Bowl and Red Rocks, Colorado.

Tickets: ¤37 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Group discounts available Presented by the National Concert Hall NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie

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‘Beethoven’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

John O’Conor

Friday 27 June 8PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra John O’Conor piano Gerhard Markson conductor Beethoven Egmont Overture Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, ‘Emperor’ Beethoven Symphony No. 5, in C minor The wide-ranging The Beethoven Project, presented by the Royal Irish Academy of Music, reaches a magnificently imposing finale with three epic, revelatory works stamped through with all the brilliance and boldness associated with one of the truly great composers. The game-changing ‘Emperor’ Concerto – a heroic battle of wills between piano and orchestra – with the dramatic Egmont Overture and thunderous Fifth Symphony moving rousingly from darkness to light with monumental force.

Tickets: ¤12, ¤20, ¤26, ¤32, ¤35 Concessions: ¤10, ¤18, ¤23.40, ¤28.80, ¤31.50 Group discounts available. Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 20

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Monica Loughman Ballet presents Giselle

Saturday 28/Sunday 29 June 8PM The greatest of all Romantic ballets, Monica Loughman’s production of Marius Petipa’s classic is a tale of betrayal, supernatural spirits and love that transcends death. The role of Giselle will be danced by golden cross of the stage winner and principal of Lithuanian National Opera Ballet, Olga Konosenko. The coveted role of Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, will be performed by Irish ballet artist, Leanne Sexton. Giselle is a peasant girl, who in Act One has fallen in love with Count Albrecht, who has led her to believe that he is a villager named Loys. Her discovery of his true identity has devastating consequences. Act two plunges the audience into an eerie moonlit forest haunted by the ethereal Wilis – vengeful spirits of young brides who died before their wedding day. It transformed the dance world when it was first performed in Paris in 1841 and remains at the centre of the classical repertory. Monica Loughman’s production uses Marius Petipa’s classic version, which was first staged in St Petersburg in 1884. Suitable for young and old alike, this classical ballet will inspire and enchant you like no other.

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JOHN FIELD ROOM JUNE

Friday 6 June 1:05PM Sublime: Bach, Scriabin Piano Recital Ivan Ilic pianist Both Bach and Scriabin reached for the sublime: Bach achieved it through rigour, Scriabin through freedom. Two keyboard giants are conjured by French-based pianist Ivan Ilic, a favourite of Irish audiences. A CD signing will follow the concert. Tickets: ¤12 Concessions: ¤10 Presented by Ivan Ilic Sponsored by Paraty

Friday 20 June 1:05PM Fergal Warren - Chamber Music Recital Recital includes: Brahms - Viola Sonata, Bloch - Suite Hébraïque, also works of Mahler and Ravel. This lunchtime recital will feature a variety of well-known romantic and 20th century works, performed by Fergal Warren on piano and also featuring some Dublin based classical musicians. Tickets: ¤12 Concessions: ¤10 Presented by Fergal Warren

Thursday 26 June 8:00PM Pierre Bensusan Living up to a reputation as the “Mozart of Guitar” has taken award winning musician Pierre Bensusan on an uncompromising journey across the globe. Performing upwards of 3,000 concerts over a 40 year career, Pierre is recognised universally as the foremost exponent of the DADGAD guitar tuning. Tickets: ¤25 Concessions: €22 Presented by Alive Network

Friday 13 June 1:05PM Popular Arias and Songs Cara O’Sullivan soprano • Mairéad Hurley piano Popular operatic arias and songs from the classical music repertoire One of Ireland’s most popular opera stars returns to the John Field Room to entertain in her customary humourous manner with a programme of arias and songs. A not to be missed concert full of plenty of surprises!! Tickets: ¤15 Concessions: ¤12 Group Discounts Available Presented by Mairead Hurley

Friday 27 June 1:05PM From Opera to Jerome Kern Michelle Daly, mezzo soprano • Aoife O’Sullivan, pianist Dublin born Michelle Daly made her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden debut in 2013 as Ninetta in Verdi’s Sicilian Vespers. In this vintage inspired concert, Michelle will sing great operatic arias, including Delila’s superb aria and great songs from the American song book, including Smoke gets in your eyes by Jerome Kern, The Man I love by George Gershwin. Tickets: ¤16 Concessions: ¤14 Friends of the National Concert Hall: ¤14 Presented by Paul Black

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JULY HIGHLIGHT

“The ‘what if?’ approach to life has always been a part of my personal mythology, and it’s always been easy for me to fantasise a parallel existence.” David Bowie

The Art of the Song: David Bowie The Art of the Song: David Bowie is the first of an occasional series celebrating the most interesting writers in modern music. Devised by the National Concert Hall, residents of the Artist Writing Space project, and some of Ireland’s most acclaimed musicians, the evening will feature Lisa Hannigan, Richie Egan, Duke Special, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Ross Turner and Glenn Keating, who will disseminate Bowie’s songwriting genius. This genius stems from what Bowie references as his “schizoid attitude”, something that began in childhood. He was brought up in both the “slum area of Brixton”, and later in Yorkshire, “in the country on the farms”, with this early duality providing a creative touchstone. His self-titled debut in 1967 drew on old music hall references, and rock and roll stars like Elvis and Little Richard. Its roots were “all over the place”, and would be deemed by biographer David Buckley, as “the vinyl equivalent of the madwoman in the attic”.

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e followed this up with his 1969 record that provided something of a template, where folk and prog rock wrestled each other, and the Major Tom character was introduced on Space Oddity, as well as long-time collaborators Mick Ronson on guitar and producer Tony Visconti, who would work intermittently with Bowie, right up to last year’s The Next Day. For Bowie, music “is a communicative blanket media”, and not simply “something to listen to”, and his musical DNA is panoptic; 1970’s The Man Who Sold the World brought in a harder rock sound, and 1971’s kaleidoscopic Hunky Dory provided the groundswell for 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars which had a lighter, experimental atmosphere, and was based around his revelatory alter-ego Ziggy Stardust, whose influence Buckley says, “lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom”. The brooding Diamond Dogs (1974) saw Bowie moving towards soul, and on 1976’s Station to Station his Thin White Duke would emerge, where he became obsessed with various mythologies, and which provided ghostly traces of the influence of krautrock, and more abstract minimalist composition (influenced by collaborator Brian Eno) which featured on his late ‘70’s Berlin triptych: Low, Heroes and Lodger. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) filtered a New Romantic sensibility, with contributions from Robert Fripp and Pete Townshend, and 1983’s Let’s Dance paired him with Chic’s Nile Rodgers, who co-produced a record that was captivating, illustrating a gaiety that was also present on 1984’s Tonight. After experimental explorations with Tin Machine, he returned to working with Rodgers, releasing Black Tie White Noise in 1993,which expanded his interest in jazz and hip-hop, moving into the burgeoning jungle and drum ‘n’ bass scene, which he did for 1997’s Earthling, with 1999’s Hours referencing some of Bowie’s earlier work, but with a softer focus. 2002’s Heathen reunited him with Visconti, who called the record “a symphony”. A “deeply questioning” album, finished in the wake of the September 11th attacks, it recalls earlier themes, such as the disintegration of humanity, something that has been with Bowie from the beginning. Perhaps it is this anxiety that has been

Bowie’s greatest influence; it is because he loves humanity that he craves its survival. Reality (2003) was a response to the idea that “reality has become an abstract for so many people over the last 20 years.” It is a warm gem, a record that reaches back to Low, employing classic rock and ambient electronics. The Next Day expands this concept, but, as lead single “Where are we now?” suggests, to a more melancholy conclusion. It reminds us that this most innovative of artists constantly refers to the past; the record’s artwork adapts the iconic cover of Heroes to partly obliterate the photograph, suggesting a refusal of history. Bowie has addressed much through “illusionistic images”, but as the photographer Mick Rock recently said, “A lot of my images defined David, but I think of him as being magical and super-intelligent. He doesn’t always like being taken quite this seriously as a cultural figure, he is quite a light spirit and his main concern is his music.” In live performances (or even his video for Heroes), Bowie often appears lost in a radiant memory; as in thrall to the complicated nature of living as we all are. What is striking is that it reminds us that for all his achievements, visually, intellectually, and musically, he is still one of us. He retains a unique position in modern culture-who else could connect working with Giorgio Moroder, and Bing Crosby, or appear as The Elephant Man on Broadway, work with Martin Scorsese, voice a character on Spongebob Squarepants, produce the Scott Walker documentary 30 Century Man, play Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth, or Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige? It goes back to his innate curiosity, and belief that though life is absurd, art can be transformative, and because “history is all revisionism, one makes one’s own history.” Siobhán Kane is an academic and arts journalist, and writes for publications such as The Irish Times, WIRE, and The Quietus. She runs the collective Young Hearts Run Free. The Art of the Song: David Bowie will be performed at the National Concert Hall on July 26 as part of Summer @NCH. Tickets: ¤25. Tel: 01 417 0000 or online www.nch.ie

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SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘CIAO ITALIA!’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Kelley Lonergan

Tuesday 1 July 1:05PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Kelley Lonergan soprano David Brophy conductor Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

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Rossini The Barber of Seville Overture Chrysanthemums Puccini ‘Io son l’umile ancella’ Cilea (Adrian Lecouvrer) Puccini Si, mi chiamano Mimì’ (La bohème) Mascagni L’amico Fritz Intermezzo ‘Donde lieta usci’ Puccini (La bohème) Leoncavallo ‘Stridono lassù’ (Pagliacci) Respighi The Magic Toy Shop (after Rossini): Overture, Tarantella, Danse, Can-Can, Galop Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm, 96-99fm within Niall Carroll’s Classical Daytime.

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Tinariwen Summer@NCH

Tinariwen

Tuesday 1 July 8PM The desert is a place of hardship and subtle beauty, a stark world that reveals its secrets slowly and carefully. For the renowned Saharan band Tinariwen, the desert is their home, their hypnotic and electrifying guitar rock reflecting the complex realities of their homebase in North West Africa. They are Tuareg, descended from nomadic people who have wandered the dunes for millennia, but the music of Tinariwen travels too, reverberating far from dusty plains of Mali. Due to instability in their Northern Mali homeland, Tinariwen recorded their latest album Emmaar in the California desert of Joshua Tree. Created in the region known for spaced-out rock ‘n’ roll and psychedelic cowboy folk, the album showcases a distinctly organic soulful feel. The group was joined by a group of esteemed American musicians including Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, Matt Sweeney of Chavez and poet Saul Williams. The album is a richly layered listen solidified by atmospheric textures and gritty hypnotic guitar-work. Their 2011 album Tassili, recorded in the Algerian desert won a Grammy Award for Best World music.

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Wednesday 2 July 8PM

Friday 4 July 8PM

Following sell out concerts at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2013 and the National Concert Hall in 2014, the SITKOD choir return for a summer concert of Dublin delights.

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Andrew Litton, soloist/director & conductor

A musical journey through Dublin City from Handel to Hansard, Lynott to Drew. Performed by real Dubliners, this show uses the voice of Dublin to honour its music. The night also features music from contemporary singing trio Trilogy.

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Copland An Outdoor Overture Barber Adagio for Strings Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (full orchestra version) Dvorˇák Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ For Independence Day, a quartet of works celebrating America the bold and the brave, including the jazz-infused and euphoric celebration of city life that is Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and the heart-stopping Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, and Dvorˇák’s ‘New World’ symphony, a glorious hymnal to America’s spirit and soul.

Tickets: ¤12, ¤20, ¤26, ¤32, ¤35 Concessions: ¤10, ¤18, ¤23.40, ¤28.80, ¤31.50 Group discounts available. Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

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National Youth Orchestra of Ireland: Summer Proms

Nils Mönkemeyer

SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘SOUND THE TRUMPETS!’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Colm Byrne, Graham Hastings & Killyan Bannister

Sunday 6 July 3PM

Tuesday 8 July 1:05PM

National Youth Orchestra of Ireland Nils Mönkemeyer viola En Shao conductor

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Graham Hastings trumpet Killyan Bannister trumpet Colm Byrne trumpet Andrew Mogrelia conductor Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

Rimsky-Korsakov The Tsar’s Bride: Overture Walton Viola Concerto Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 Join the 106-strong National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, conducted by internationally renowned Chinese conductor En Shao. The orchestra presents an ambitious programme as part of its Summer Proms tour including Rachmaninov’s second symphony and Rimsky-Korsakov’s overture to The Tsar’s Bride. Multiple prize-winning German violist Nils Mönkemeyer joins the orchestra as soloist for Walton’s Viola Concerto.

Tickets: ¤18 Children: ¤9 Concessions: ¤13 Family of 5: ¤60 (max 3 adults) Presented by National Youth Orchestra of Ireland

The Secret Marriage Cimarosa Overture Vivaldi Concerto for Two Trumpets in C, RV537 Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Intermezzo & Scherzo Adams Tromba Lontana Anderson Bugler’s Holiday Ballet Suite No. 1 Shostakovich Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm, 96-99fm within Niall Carroll’s Classical Daytime.

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Ben Folds and Orchestra

Ben Folds

Liz Nolan

Tuesday 8 July 8:30PM Multi-platinum selling, singer-songwriter Ben Folds will perform on July 8th with a chamber orchestra in Dublin’s National Concert Hall as part of his 2014 global orchestral tour. Billed as “The Ben Folds Orchestral Experience,” the artist will feature his new classical piano concerto as well as a litany of his pop hits arranged for orchestral performances.

Tickets: ¤25, ¤40 Presented by Aiken Promotions

‘Sonic Spectacular’ with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Friday 11 July 8PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Andrew Mogrelia, conductor Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm An orchestral journey through time and space and some of the most colourful and brilliant music ever composed. Celebrate with Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Festival Coronation March, thrill to exhilarating dances by Brahms and Dvorˇák, admire the imperial grandeur of John Williams’ The Empire Strikes Back and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (‘The Great Gate of Kiev’), revel in Stravinsky’s exotic The Firebird (Introduction, Dance of the Firebird & Variation of the Firebird) and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits’). And to relax: the lilting beauties of John Barry’s Dances With Wolves, Khachaturian’s Adagio from The Spartacus Suite No. 2 and John Larchet’s poem for his children, By the Waters of Moyle.

Tickets: ¤12, ¤20, ¤26, ¤32, ¤35 Concessions ¤10, ¤18, ¤23.40, ¤28.80, ¤31.50 Group discounts available. Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ lyric fm

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Nigel Kennedy: Bach Plus

Nigel Kennedy

SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘ON THE BLUE DANUBE’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Nadene Fiorentini

Saturday 12 July 7:30PM

Tuesday 15 July 1:05PM

Nigel Kennedy violin • Rolf Bussalb and Doug Boyle guitars • Tomasz Kupiec bass Adam Czerwinski percussion

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Nadene Fiorentini piano Colman Pearce conductor Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

Brubeck, Bach, Fats Waller plus more: World-famous violinist, Nigel Kennedy, presents a typically maverick musical programme celebrating the music of Bach as well as other brilliant composers that have influenced Kennedy. The concert begins with Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin, after which he is joined by an acoustic guitarist, a snare drum and a double bass to perform Kennedy’s own arrangements of the music of the legendary Fats Waller, Brubeck, as well as other composers and classical cross over pieces such as Monti’s Czardas, Danny Boy and more. A hugely entertaining and enjoyable evening where skill and passion come together for an electrifying evening of music.

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Mozart The Abduction from the Seraglio Overture Piano Concerto No. 1 in Mendelssohn G minor Brahms Hungarian (arr. Schmeling) Dances, Nos. 5 in G minor; 6 in D; 7 in F By the Beautiful J Strauss II Blue Danube Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm, 96-99fm within Niall Carroll’s Classical Daytime.

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Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS with 3epkano

Hollywood Greats A Journey through the Movies with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Carl Davis

Thursday 17 July 8:00PM 3epkano with guest musicians 3epkano celebrate their 10th anniversary with a presentation of the most unique cinematic achievement from the silent era, Metropolis. Fritz Lang’s sci-fi epic will be screened in its original format, as seen by German cinema-goers in 1927. 3epkano’s original score will provide a contemporary musical accompaniment to this great modernist classic.

Tickets: ¤15 Presented by 3epkano Sponsored by Goethe Institut Dublin

Friday 18 July 8PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Carl Davis conductor Presented by Aedín Gormley, RTÉ lyric fm A night of outstanding music from film and television masterpieces. Bask in the warmth of South Pacific, the heat of Casablanca, The Pirates of the Caribbean and Out of Africa. Thrill to epic stories of heroes real (El Cid, Napoleon, Chariots of Fire) and imagined (Gladiator) and experience the heroism and heartache of war (Bridge on the River Kwai, The World at War). Escape into the exoticism of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the romance of West Side Story, Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet, the adventure of Around the World in 80 Days before returning home for the delights of The Quiet Man.

Tickets: ¤15, ¤25, ¤32, ¤40 Concessions ¤13.50, ¤22.50, ¤28.80, ¤36 Group discounts available. Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ lyric fm

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Altan Summer@NCH

Altan

Saturday 19 July 8PM Over 25 years of playing together, Altan have established themselves as one of the most important live acts to play traditional Irish music on the world stage. The Boston Globe has described them as “The hottest group in the Celtic realm.” The current line-up consists of Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (fiddle and vocals), Mark Kelly (guitar), Dermot Byrne (accordion), Dáithí Sproule (guitar), Ciaran Tourish (fiddle), and Ciarán Curran (bouzouki), Altan has released 13 albums over the past 25 years. They have recorded three albums for Virgin records; Blackwater (1996), Runaway Sunday (1997) and The Blue Idol (2002). This merger with a major record label helped Altan bring their music, song and culture to a wider audience worldwide and paved the way for up and coming younger bands to tour extensively all over the world. Altan have proven to be important ambassadors of the music and culture of Ireland, so much so that they were invited to accompany the Irish President, Mary McAleese on several State visits, visiting Greece, Korea and Japan. Altan have played their music in some of the most prestigious venues in the world such as The Sydney Opera House, The Hollywood Bowl, The Royal Albert Hall, The Greek Theatre Los Angeles and more. They have played music and recorded with The Chieftains, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs to name but a few.

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NIGEL KENNEDY BACH

7.30pm Tickets prices from €30 Box Office: (0)1 417 0000 www.nch.ie

A Senbla presentation

Senbla Live Events

SAT 12th JULY 2014 DUBLIN NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

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SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘LOVE, ACTUALLY’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Rachel Kelly

Viennese Delights with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Hugh Tinney

Tuesday 22 July 1:05PM

Friday 25 July 8PM

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano Robert Houlihan conductor Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Hugh Tinney piano • David Brophy conductor Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, ‘Unfinished’ Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, ‘Elvira Madigan’ J Strauss II Die Fledermaus Overture, Pizzicato Polka, Perpetuum Mobile, Thunder and Lightning Polka, Emperor Waltz Radetsky March J Strauss I Schubert’s mighty ‘Unfinished’ Symphony is by turns, bittersweet, brooding and bold while Mozart’s ‘Elvira Madigan’ (popularised by the 1967 Swedish film of the same name) is a serenely beautiful concerto brimming with exquisite melodies. The sumptuous Emperor Waltz underlines why the younger Johann Strauss will forever be known as ‘The Waltz King’, his sparkling polkas and rapturous overture to Die Fledermaus are Viennese music-making at its most ornate and delectable. To conclude, Johann Strauss Senior’s thrilling Radetsky March.

Mozart Mozart Rossini Offenbach Bizet Gounod Fauré Offenbach

The Marriage of Figaro Overture ‘Voi che sapete’ (The Marriage of Figaro) ‘Naqui all’affanno… Non più mesta’ (La Cenerentola) The Tales of Hoffmann: Intermezzo and Barcarolle Seguidilla (Carmen) ‘Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle’ (Roméo et Juliette) Pavane Orpheus in the Underworld Overture

Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm, 96-99fm within Niall Carroll’s Classical Daytime.

Tickets: ¤12, ¤20, ¤26, ¤32, ¤35 Concessions ¤10, ¤18, ¤23.40, ¤28.80, ¤31.50 Group discounts available. Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

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THE ART OF THE SONG: DAVID BOWIE SUMMER@NCH

Jape, Lisa Hannigan, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh, Duke Special

Saturday 26 July 8PM A new occasional series sees the National Concert Hall bring some of Ireland’s most exciting artists together to pay tribute to the great writers of modern music. This show sees Lisa Hannigan, Duke Special, Jape, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh and more pay tribute to the Thin White Duke. “As was the case with Miles Davis in jazz, Bowie has come not just to represent his innovations but to symbolize modern rock as an idiom in which literacy, art, fashion, style, sexual exploration and social commentary can be rolled into one.” Rolling Stone magazine From July 1969 when Space Oddity hit to UK Top Ten through to the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single Starman and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie has created a modern canon of work marked by it’s constant re-invention and exploration. This went on to feature his landmark Berlin Trilogy of albums, his collaborations with Brian Eno and Lou Reed right through to blue-eyed soul of Fame and mainstream American success. He has recently released the unanimously acclaimed The Next Day. Emerging from the Hall’s Artist Writing Space project, this concert will see some of those Resident Artists, some of Dublin’s innovators and most acclaimed singers address the considerable work of David Bowie. Stay tuned for more information on the line-up for this special evening.

Tickets: ¤25 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Groups discounts available Presented by the National Concert Hall NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie

RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Summer Lunchtime Series

Róisín Walters

Forget Me Not

The Penstons

Tuesday 29 July 1:05PM

Wednesday 30 July 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Róisín Walters violin John Finucane conductor

Naoimh, Amy and Leah Penston with The Penston Vocal Academy Choir Sinead Rees • Jackie Curran Olohan Tony Carty • Chris Currid Dave Latham...more to be announced An eclectic mix of musical theatre, light opera, popular and Irish music, with choral, solo and ensemble performances by an accomplished cast. Renowned, award-winning singers and actresses of the Irish musical theatre stage, Naoimh Penston and her daughters, Amy and Leah will be joined by celebrated guests in this special evening of song. The evening is dedicated to the memory of Naoimh’s mother, Claire Kavanagh, in celebration of her musical inspiration in her family’s lives, and proceeds of the concert will be donated to The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.

Presented by Niall Carroll for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime. Suppé Light Cavalry Overture A.J. Potter Finnegan’s Wake Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Smetana Vltava Sibelius March of the Finnish Infantry Op. 91a

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Tickets: ¤20 Concessions: ¤18 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Presented by The Penstons

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Sunday 12 October 8pm

Clint Mansell An evening of breath-taking film music from the acclaimed British composer Clint Mansell. A long-time collaborator of ground-breaking director Darren Aronofsky – for whom he has scored Black Swan, Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler and Pi – Clint Mansell was recognised for this outstanding work with Grammy and Golden Globe nominations. Lux Aeterna, from Requiem for a Dream, has become ubiquitous even outside the realms of the film itself. In addition to his impressive work on Aronofsky’s films, and a plethora of more mainstream films, Clint received major acclaim for his 2009 score for Duncan Jones’ directorial debut Moon. His latest creation is the soundtrack to the upcoming film Noah, starring Russell Crowe. Mansell will perform with his band, alongside pianist Carly Paradis and the Sonus Quartet. Tickets: €35 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for Groups of 10 or more

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JOHN FIELD ROOM JULY

Friday 4 July 1:05PM Pianist David Syme in Concert Just returned from his concerts in the U.S., Germany and the Czech Republic, David Syme appears once again in the John Field Room. The concert will include a salute to United States Independence Day. A Juilliard alumnus, he was recently awarded an honorary diploma by the Royal Irish Academy Of Music for his contributions to cultural life in Ireland.

Thursday 10 July 8PM Pierce Turner Award winning singer, composer, performer in the perfect venue for his piano skills, extraordinary songs and stage presence. His first solo album It’s Only a Long Way Across was produced by Philip Glass. He went on to make two more albums for Beggars Banquet, The Sky and The Ground and in 1991 his epic Now Is Heaven was released to great critical acclaim. “He has created what I confidently believe to be the finest body of work in Irish contemporary music bar none” Liam Fay, The Sunday Times Tickets: €23 Presented by WhelansLive.com

Tickets: ¤15 Presented by Sheil Entertainment Agency

Monday 7 July 8PM Arioso Quartet Debut Recital In Aid of Children’s University Hospital Temple Street Arioso Quartet: David Tobin • Abigail McDonagh • Martin Moriarty • Christopher Ellis Haydn String Quartet Op.77, No.1 Shostakovich String Quartet No.8 Ravel String Quartet in F Major The Arioso Quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when all members were the leaders of their sections in the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. They are the leading young string quartet in Ireland and range in age from 17-19. They have received masterclasses from world-leading musicians, including The Voegler Quartet, Apple Hill Quartet, Danish String Quartet, Zemlinsky Quartet, Vanbrugh Quartet and Alina Ibragimova. They have been invited to perform in both the West Cork Chamber Music and Music in Drumcliffe festivals. Tickets: ¤12 Concessions: ¤8 Presented by Music Co-Op

Friday 11 July 1:05PM Lunchtime Classics Veronica McSwiney, piano • Aisling O’Dea, violin A varied programme for piano and violin solos, featuring Mozart, Chopin, De Falla and more. Veronica McSwiney is one of Ireland’s premier international pianists for the past 50 years. Today she is proud to join forces with her equally talented daughter Aisling, who enjoys a very busy career abroad, and is currently a member of the celebrated Scottish Chamber Orchestra. This is a rare treat for all. Tickets: €15 Concessions: €13.50 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Presented by Veronica McSwiney

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JOHN FIELD ROOM JULY Friday 18 July 1:05PM The Good Old Days of Dublin’s Theatre Royal Dara MacMahon mezzo-soprano • Gerry Noonan baritone Pauline Cooper accompanist • presented by Conor Doyle This show will explore the history of the iconic Theatre Royal by celebrating the great stars that performed here and their music, including Judy Garland, Ruby Murray, Nat King Cole, Jimmy O’Dea, Maureen Potter, and more. The Royal, as it was affectionately known by Dubliners, closed fifty years ago in June 2013, the largest stage in Europe at the time. The show will also feature a slideshow of rare photos and archival footage from the Royal.

Friday 25 July 1:05PM Kevin Fitzpatrick Plays Chopin Chopin: A Ballade and Valses, Nocturnes and Etudes Kevin Fitzpatrick returns to the John Field Room to celebrate his 20th recital at the National Concert Hall. He will play an exciting and varied programme of music by his favourite composer Frederic Chopin. Chopin was a genius of universal appeal, his music conquers the most diverse audiences. Tickets: €15 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 12% discount for members of the Irish County Woman’s Association Group discounts available

Tickets: €16 Concessions: €13 Presented by All Era Music

Wednesday 23 July 8PM Kathleen Ferrier: A Life in Music Raphaela Mangan contralto • Niall Kinsella piano A concert featuring repertoire made famous by the great English singer Kathleen Ferrier, whose meteoric rise to fame in the 1940s was cut short by her untimely death in 1953. Irish contralto Raphaela Mangan and pianist Niall Kinsella reprise a concert they performed on the centenary of Ferrier’s birth in 2012. Tickets: €18 Concessions: €16.20 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 12% discount available for members of the Irish Countrywoman’s Association Group discounts available Presented by Irish Songmakers

Monday 28 July 8PM Artur Pizarro, piano Since winning 1st prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1990, Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro has won international acclaim for his ‘breath-takingly sensitive playing’ - Glasgow Herald. Returning to Dublin, he will perform masterpieces by Rachmaninov and Albeniz ‘...for those who value above all the intoxicating allure of these treasurable pieces, Pizarro has no rivals’ - International Record Review. Tickets: €20 Concessions: €17 25% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Group discounts available Presented by Dublin International Piano Festival & Summer Academy Sponsored by Piano Academy of Ireland, International Piano Magazine and Classical Music Magazine

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AUGUST HIGHLIGHT

Orquesta Buena Vista ® Social Club

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Do you recall, about five years ago, when Leonard Cohen returned from the wilderness to meet and sing for his public again? While the people who bought tickets for all of Cohen’s sold-out shows undoubtedly went to see him revisit his back catalogue, there was surely a percentage of concert goers who went sensing that it would be Cohen’s last gasp (so to speak), a revered man and lyricist/poet taking his final bow. As subsequent years have proven, those people were wrong - 79-year-old Leonard Cohen shows little sign of retiring. Which brings us to the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club®, and their only Irish date this year in what is definitely their very final outing – or, as the musical ensemble outfit itself says, their “Adios Tour.” In many ways, you can’t blame this particular Social Club – whose musical history and legacy is rooted in an era long since gone, if not forgotten – from hanging up its collective touring boots. During the 1930s/’40s, in the Marianao district, Havana, Cuba, the Buena Vista Social Club was a popular meeting place for musicians and like-minded people, but with politics and economics playing their part, the club closed down. Fast forward almost 50 years, to the mid-1990s, when American roots music explorer Ry Cooder and Cuban musician Juan de Marcos Gonzalez teamed up with a number of the original Buena Vista Social Club members (some of whom, to put it politely, had fallen on hard times) to record music directly inspired by those glorious and, some would say, hedonistic days. What happened next was extraordinary: in 1997, the album Buena Vista Social Club™ – ostensibly a work signified by the description ‘world music’, which in itself implied a relatively niche audience – sold over five million copies and, the year after its release, won a Grammy Award. Within five years, not only was the record listed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time, but two of the ensemble group’s concerts were filmed by German director Wim

Wenders for a documentary (also titled Buena Vista Social Club) that received an Academy Award nomination. The resultant combined success of both album and documentary initiated a resurgence of interest in Latin American music in general and Cuban music specifically that remains very much in place. The ensemble’s original music director, Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, regarded the album/documentary artifacts as having served as “a symbol of the power of Cuban music.” British writer and historian Mike Gonzalez (no relation), meanwhile, noted that the music in particular caused people to imagine “timeless, sensual places where dreams and desires merged in a comfortable, evocative music.” The Adios Tour musical director/ band leader is trombonist Jesus Aguaje Ramos, and the line-up includes several original musicians from both album and documentary: singer/guitarist Eliades Ochoa, diva Omara Portuondo, trumpeter Guajiro Mirabal and laud virtuoso Barbarito Torres. They will be joined on stage by newer members, including tres player Papi Oviedo, pianist Rolando Luna; double bass player Pedro Pablo, percussionists Andres Coyao (congas), Filiberto Sánchez (timbales), Alberto ‘La Noche’ (bongos), a three-man trumpet section (led by Luis Allemany), and celebrated son singer, Carlos Calunga. So, yes, the bad news is that this really is the last time we’ll see such a wonderful gathering of Cuban musicians under the colourful banner title of Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club®. But there is good news for fans of these much loved ambassadors for Cuban music, and that is the music that has inspired them will, as always, live on. By Tony Clayton-Lea, The Irish Times music critic Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® performs at the National Concert Hall on Saturday August 2nd. Tickets from ¤45 Tel 01 4170000 or online www.nch.ie

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: MARTIN HAYES AND DENNIS CAHILL

WhistleBlast Quartet Family Concert Series

Friday 1 August 8PM

With their infectious enthusiasm they guarantee you will have a blast, no matter what! Mary Curran french horn • Kenneth Edge saxophones, clarinet • Andrew Synnott piano • Sile Daly oboe, cor anglais

RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Sat 12 July 1PM & 2.30PM

Following their sold-out concert in 2010, the violin and guitar duo return for another gripping performance with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Kevin Barry Room

TALL TALES WITH THE WHISTLEBLAST QUARTET Exciting stories set in the cities and farmyards! Mother Goose, Montagues and Capulets, Opus Zoo and other well-known Classics to sit back and enjoy. Sat 27 September 3PM & 4.30PM

Kevin Barry Room

PETER AND THE WOLF INTERACTIVE SHOW Slip on your paws, wear animal masks and enter the story of Peter and the Wolf! Learn about the WhistleBlast’s instruments and join in with rhythm, song and hear other musical animals involving elephants and the like Tickets: €12.50 • Family Ticket (family of 4 with at least 1 child): €44 20% discount for Young Maestros All Young Maestors are entitled to 2 tickets per Young Maestro event unless otherwise stated. Presented by the National Concert Hall Education & Outreach Department

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill

‘Never before had I heard music, let alone traditional music, played like this.’ – Dave Flynn.

The extraordinary fiddle player Martin Hayes is one of the most remarkable musicians to come out of Ireland in the last 50 years. Dennis Cahill’s unique guitar accompaniment allows Hayes the freedom to take our simple, complex, harrowing and beautiful traditional music into uncharted territories. A highlight will be Dave Flynn’s Aontacht (‘Unity’), commissioned by RTÉ in 2010.

Tickets: ¤11, ¤22, ¤27, ¤33, ¤38 Concessions: ¤10, ¤20, ¤25, ¤30, ¤35 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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ORQUESTA BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB® “ADIOS TOUR” FEATURING OMARA PORTUONDO, ELIADES OCHOA, GUAJIRO MIRABAL, BARBARITO TORRES, JESUS “AGUAJE” RAMOS SUMMER @NCH

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club®

Saturday 2 August 8PM After 16 years thrilling audiences around the world, the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® is set to bid Adios with a farewell world tour. The group – which has been touring the globe in different forms, guises and combinations since 1997 – will take to the road one final time in 2014/15 with a series of concerts and related cultural events that will celebrate the Orquesta’s storied journey as ambassadors for Cuban music. “We wanted our traditional music to live on and to enchant the world and this is what our tours achieved. It has been an incredible part of my career and life.” Omara Portuondo The Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® grew out of the 1997 release of the Grammy-winning best-selling album Buena Vista Social Club™, and its line-up continues to include a number of the original artists featured on the landmark recording and film. Under the musical direction of band leader and trombonist Jesus Aguaje Ramos, the line-up for The Adios Tour will feature several of those who played on the original Buena Vista Social Club™ album and film all those years ago, including cowboy hatted singer/guitarist Eliades Ochoa, the incomparable veteran diva Omara Portuondo, trumpeter Guajiro Mirabal and laud virtuoso Barbarito Torres. They will be joined on stage by those who have joined the journey along the way, including dynamic veteran tres player Papi Oviedo; Havana’s young star pianist Rolando Luna; a superb rhythm section comprising double bass player Pedro Pablo and percussionists Andres Coyao (congas), Filiberto Sánchez (timbales) and Alberto ‘La Noche’ (bongos); a three-man trumpet section led by high note specialist Luis Allemany plus Havana’s celebrated son singer Carlos Calunga.

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES

Alex Petcu-Colan

RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: ESSENTIAL CLASSICS

John Wilson

Tuesday 5 August 1:05PM

Friday 8 August 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Alex Petcu-Colan marimba (winner of the Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year 2013)

RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Andrew Haveron violin • John Wilson conductor

Presented by Niall Carroll for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime. Egmont Overture Beethoven A.J. Potter Rhapsody under a High Sky Emmanuel Sejourne Marimba Concerto De Falla Danza ritual del fuego (‘Ritual Fire Dance’) from El amor brujo Rossini/Britten Matinées Musicales Op. 24: V. Moto Perpetuo

Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Violin Concerto Korngold Mussorgsky / Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition There are certain classical masterpieces that simply have be heard by everyone at some stage in their lives. John Wilson’s phenomenally popular Essential Classics series – as the name suggests – journeys through the best and most famous of these greats. This special concert also features Andrew Haveron, one of the most sought after violinists in the UK..

Tickets: ¤11, ¤22, ¤27, ¤33, ¤38 Concessions: ¤10, ¤20,¤25, ¤30, ¤35 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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Paul Brady Summer@NCH

Paul Brady

Saturday 9 August 8PM Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is one of Ireland’s most enduringly popular and acclaimed artists. Born in Northern Ireland, Paul Brady started out as a singer and performer in a succession of R ’n B/soul bands including The Inmates, The Kult and Rootzgroop, covering the songs of Ray Charles, James Brown, Junior Walker and blues legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Chuck Berry. In 1969 he joined The Johnstons who were at the forefront of the traditional Irish music scene along with The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers. After several successful albums Paul joined Planxty who featured future stars Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, Liam O’Flynn and Andy Irvine. It was with the latter that Paul Brady formed a duo and a classic album Andy Irvine and Paul Brady in 1977. After going solo, Paul Brady has released a series of impressive and legendary albums such as True for You, Primitive Dance, Spirits Colliding, Say what you feel and Hooba Dooba. Paul Brady has worked with artists such as Carole King, Ronan Keating, Conner Reeves, Christy Moore and more in his career. He continues to push out the boundaries not only of his own talent but of Irish contemporary music.

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES

Anna Devin

RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: DIAL M FOR MURDER

Alfred Hitchcock

Tuesday 12 August 1:05PM

Friday 15 August 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Anna Devin soprano Dane Lam conductor

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Neil Thomson conductor

This concert will be broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime. Suppé Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna Overture Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Rachmaninov Vocalise Weber Invitation to the Dance Rossini En proie à la tristesse from Le comte Ory Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor Strauss Mit Dampf Polka-schnell Op. 70

The suspense, mistaken identity and sinister plots of Alfred Hitchcock. Watch all of the best bits from Hitchcock’s famous films on the big screen while at the same time the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performs the scores live on stage. Featuring To Catch a Thief (Lyn Murray), Strangers on a Train (Dimitri Tiomkin), Dial M for Murder (Dimitri Tiomkin) and North by Northwest (Bernard Herrmann). Warning: You’ll never want to see a film the old way again.

Tickets: ¤15, ¤25, ¤30, ¤35, ¤40 Concessions: ¤13, ¤23, ¤27, ¤32, ¤36 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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Membership only ¤125 a year. Gift membership available Join today by calling the Box Office 01 417 0000 Email friends@nch.ie or go to www.nch.ie for more information

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Sinéad O’Connor - The Vishnu Room Summer@NCH

Sinéad O’Connor

Saturday 16 August 8PM Sinéad O’Connor presents Irish audiences with her new album and songs from a career spanning twenty-five years and millions of record sales worldwide backed by her band. The Guardian hailed her 2013 album How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? as ‘joyous, brave and her most accessible in years’. A series of critically-acclaimed live shows through 2011 and 2012, proved moving, exciting, brilliant with Sinéad’s voice at its very best – raw and passionate. This show sees Sinéad perform from her highly anticipated new album and some of her best known work. ‘The high priestess of pop has recovered her mojo’ The Observer

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES

John Wilson

Tuesday 19 August 1:05PM RTÉ Concert Orchestra John Wilson conductor Presented by George Hamilton for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime. Coriolanus Overture Beethoven Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Grieg A Shropshire Lad Butterworth Rhapsody Strauss Roses from the South

Lunch and all… ¤10 concert | ¤5 Grab&go lunch (sandwich or wrap with tea or coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office with concert ticket. Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Mini Music is an action-packed music workshop experience for babies and young children aged 3 months to 5 years old. 30-minute workshops take place on Saturdays at the National Concert Hall. Carefully designed to suit each of the age groups, workshops are fun and accessible with foot-tapping, memorable tunes! Join our Young Maestros today and receive a 20% discount on up to 2 tickets for Mini Music workshops! Tickets for the 2014/2015 terms go on sale to Young Maestros on April 26 at 10am. General sales from May 17 at 10 am. For more information see our Education Events on page 60 or visit www.nch.ie

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Young Maestros

RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: HELLO JERRY! – THE MUSIC OF JERRY HERMAN

Friday 22/Saturday 23 August 8PM RTÉ Concert Orchestra • World-renowned vocalists Kim Criswell, Annalene Beechey and more • John Wilson conductor Tonight you can expect the unmistakable pizzazz that conductor John Wilson never fails to elicit from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. This time it’s music from the spectacular Broadway musicals of twice Tony Award winner Jerry Herman. The first half will feature hits from musicals including Mame, Mack & Mabel and La cage aux Folles. After the interval it’s a glorious performance of all of the music of Hello, Dolly! The credits this evening reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of Broadway and West End stars. Kim Criswell – the redhead who oozes showbiz, theatricality and that voice – is joined by Annalene Beechey and other outstanding performers.

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Thank You The National Concert Hall would like to acknowledge with appreciation and gratitude the generous support of our Patron Circle Members • John Field Society Members • American Friends PATRON CIRCLE Frank & Ivy Bannister • Tom Bryant • Sharon Burke • Tom & Maura Carey Denis & Gráinne Cremins • Veronica Dunne • Donagh McDonagh • Brian McElroy Deirdre O’Grady • Richie Ryan • Clive Shannon • Stephen Vernon JOHN FIELD SOCIETY Frank & Ivy Bannister • Sharon Burke • Denis & Gráinne Cremins Sir James & Lady Jeanne Galway • Gráinne Hope • Francis Ludlow Finbarr & Mary O’Neill • Kieran Tobin AMERICAN FRIENDS Cormac Brady • Tom Bryant • Peter Hooper Theresa Murtagh • Robert Pedersen • Mark H.Tuohey AMERICAN PATRONS Tom Moran • Mutual of America We also gratefully acknowledge those patrons who have requested to remain anonymous.

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES

George Jackson

STEVE EARLE SOLO

Steve Earle

Tuesday 26 August 1:05PM

Wednesday 27 August 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Eamon Mulhall tenor George Jackson conductor

A protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Earle quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders, Joan Baez and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his debut record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts and immediately established the term “New Country.” What followed was an extremely exciting and varied array of releases including the biting hard rock of Copperhead Road (1988), the minimalist beauty of Train A Comin’ (1995), as well as the politically charged masterpiece, Jerusalem (2002) and the Grammy Award-winning albums, The Revolution Starts...Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007), and Townes (2009). His previous album, I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (2011), was also Grammy Award nominated.

Presented by George Hamilton for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime. Nabucco Overture Verdi Verdi Scene and Aria Quando le sere al placido from Luisa Miller Leoncavallo Scene and Aria Recitar! Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci Coates By the Sleepy Lagoon Donizetti Una furtiva lagrima from L’elisir l’amore Sibelius Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 46 (Excerpts) Kabalevsky Scherzo and Galop from The Comedians

Tickets: ¤40 Presented by RAGLANE

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS – THE MUSIC OF JOHN WILLIAMS

A Tribute To The King - 60 Years of Rock’n’Roll

Anthony Bradley

Friday 29 August 8PM

Saturday 30 August 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Neil Thomson conductor

Featuring Anthony Bradley as Elvis. A full orchestra and choir form together to celebrate 60 years of rock’n’roll with a Tribute to its founder… Elvis Presley. Over 100 musicians will perform new and original arrangements by composer Brendan Breslin, which have been written specifically for the occasion.

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra honours John Williams, one of the greatest film composers of our age and winner of 5 Academy Awards, 4 Golden Globes and 21 Grammy Awards. The orchestra brings his epic scores to life in an evening of instantly memorable themes from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, E.T., Harry Potter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, War Horse, Superman, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Lincoln and more. Get comfy – you’re about to experience what are arguably the greatest film scores ever composed.

Tickets: ¤11, ¤22, ¤27, ¤33, ¤38 Concessions: ¤10, ¤20, ¤25, ¤30, ¤35 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Tickets: ¤25 Presented by showtimepremier.com in association with Our Lady’s Hospice, Harolds Cross.

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST Friday 1 August 1:05PM Edmund Battersby piano Beethoven Sonata in A Major, op. 101 Ravel Valse nobles et sentimentales (1911) Chopin Ballade no. 4 in F Minor, op. 52 Throughout the course of his international career as pianist, orchestral soloist, chamber player and teacher, Edmund Battersby has earned the highest praise from audiences, critics and illustrious colleagues alike. His landmark recordings of Beethoven on modern and period instruments, puts him, "in the company of Brendel, Serkin, Schnabel and Pollini." - American Record Guide Tickets: €15 Concessions: €12 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Group discounts available Presented by Dublin international Piano Festival & Summer Academy Sponsored by Piano Academy of Ireland, International Piano Magazine and Classical Music Magazine

Wednesday 6 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes - Deirdre Scanlan Deirdre Scanlan is a native of West Limerick now living in County Clare. Having taken up traditional singing as a child, Deirdre quickly built up a reputation as one of Ireland's leading female vocal talents, earning no less than seven AllIreland titles during her teenage years. Deirdre went on to study music and theatre, after which she was invited to work with Ireland’s National Folk Theatre. Deirdre took time out of her busy schedule to release her debut solo album entitled Faces which sees her fusing her traditional style with more contemporary influences to complete an album confirming her place amongst the greatest ladies of traditional song in Ireland. Tickets: €12 Concession: €10 20% discount available for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros Group discounts available Presented by the National Concert Hall 56

Thursday 7 August 1:05PM Musici Ireland Summer Lunchtime Series Bethan Watkeys horn Helena Wood violin Anita Vedres violin Beth McNinch viola Robin Panter viola • Grainne Hope cello Stanford Fantasy for Horn and String Quartet in A Minor Mozart String Quartet No.4 in C K.157 Mozart Horn Quintet In this opening concert of their series, Musici Ireland performs two major chamber works for Horn. Featuring the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestras’ 3rd Horn, Bethan Watkeys and their Concertmaster Helena Wood, this promises to be an electrifying opening concert. Musici Ireland are gaining a reputation as the leading mixed instrumental chamber group in Ireland, with performances described as stunning and uplifting. Tickets: €15 Concessions: €10 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros Group discount available Presented by The National Concert Hall

Friday 8 August 1:05PM The John McCormack Songbook Ross Scanlon tenor • David O'Shea piano Tenor Ross Scanlon and pianist David O'Shea return to the John Field Room to present another tribute to the great Irish tenor John McCormack. The concert will feature a selection of well-known favourites associated with McCormack, including Macushla, I hear you calling me and many more. Tickets: €12 Concession: €10 20% discount available for Friends of the National Concert Hall Group discounts available Presented by David O'Shea and Ross Scanlon

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST Monday 11 August 8PM Firework Trios The Ducasse Trio - Clarinet, Violin and Piano William Duncombe clarinet • Charlotte Maclet violin Fiachra Garvey piano Khachaturian Trio for clarinet, violin and piano Glick The Kelzmer's Wedding Stravinsky L'Histoire du soldat Milhaud Suite for clarinet, violin and piano The Ducasse Trio is comprised of three award-winning musicians from Ireland, UK and France. They are the recipient of the Worshipful Company of Musicians 2014/15 award which will lead to their Wigmore Hall debut. Fiachra was the National Concert Hall's Rising Star 2011, Charlotte is the musical director of Camerata Alma Viva and William is one of the UK's foremost clarinettists.

Tickets: €12 Concession: €10 20% discount available for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros Group discounts available Presented by the National Concert Hall

Tickets: €15 Concessions: €10 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Presented by Charlotte and Eelco von Solkema

Tickets: €15 Concessions: €10 Presented by Music Co-op

Wednesday 13 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes Sarah Shine • Gemma Ní Bhriain • Dearbhla Marie Collins Join three rising stars from the Royal Irish Academy of Music for a summer lunchtime concert. Soprano Sarah Shine is in her final year of the BA Music Performance degree under the tutelage of Dr Veronica Dunne. Most recently Sarah was awarded the 2014 Irené Sandford Award for Singers at the RIAM. Mezzo-soprano Gemma Ní Bhriain is currently in her final year of the BA in Music Performance degree with Veronica Dunne and répétiteur Dearbhla Collins. In October 2014, Gemma will be joining the Young Artist Programme at Opéra Bastille, Paris. Dearbhla Máire Collins is currently studying on the BA in Music Performance with Dr John O’ Conor and Professor Reamonn Keary. Dearbhla also studies piano accompaniment with Brenda Hurley. Dearbhla has been assistant répétiteur and conductor at the Wexford Festival Opera 2013, on the production of La Traviata.

Wednesday 13 August 8PM Paganini to Piazzolla David Tobin violin • Morgan Buckley guitar Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin piano Two of Ireland's leading young musicians come together at the National Concert Hall with a programme sure to please the audience. Young virtuoso violinist David Tobin returns after two hugely successful recitals in 2011 and 2012. With music from France, Spain and Argentina, he will be performing habaneras and tangos alongside Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin and Ireland's leading young guitarist Morgan Buckley who also had his debut recital here last year.

Thursday 14 August 1:05PM Musici Ireland Summer Lunchtime Series Finghin Collins piano • Joanne Quigley violin Beth McNinch viola • Grainne Hope cello Mozart Piano Quartet in Eb KV 493 Faure Piano Quartet in C Minor In the second concert of their series, Musici Ireland are joined by Internationally renowned pianist Finghin Collins. The simple beauty of the Mozart is in stark contrast to the dramatic quartet by Faure and the two pieces enable this wonderful group of musicians to shine both individually and as an ensemble. Tickets: €15 Concessions: €10 20% discount for Friends and Young Maestros of the National Concert Hall Presented by the National Concert Hall

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST JULY Friday 15 August 1:05PM Mabel Swainson Pianoforte Award Winner's recital The Mabel Swainson Pianoforte Award provides the prizewinner with the opportunity to perform their winning recital in a recognized venue. For the past 16 years prizewinners have been afforded the opportunity of performing in the John Field Room. This year’s winner will be announced during the ESB Feis Ceoil March 31st – April 11th. Tickets: €12 Concession: €10 20% discount available for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros Group discounts available Presented by the National Concert Hall

Wednesday 20 August 8PM Violin Varieties in Aid of 'Aware' Abigail McDonagh violin • Peter Dains piano Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonata No. 4 Op. 23 Brahms Violin and Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 100 Messiaen Thème and Variations for Violin and Piano Ysaÿe Sonata for Solo Violin Op. 27 No. 2 de Falla Suite Populaire Espagnole for Violin and Piano Young Dublin violinist Abigail McDonagh, recipient of multiple awards, will perform a diverse range of works from the violin repertoire. An engaging performer, Abigail has appeared as a soloist both at home and abroad. Currently studying with Professor Ronald Masin of Young European Strings School of Music, Abigail will commence a Bachelor Degree in Music Performance in Autumn 2014. Tickets: €10 Concessions: €8

Wednesday 20 August 1:05PM August Lunchtime - Jazz on a Summer's Day - Emilie Conway "Star of the show is Conway's voice." Hot Press Emilie Conway is an award winning Dublin born jazz singer whose stage debut was an impromptu session with Jon Hendricks and Kurt Elling in a Chicago club in 1999. She combines a love of melody with a feeling for the nuances of lyrics. Her diction is spot-on at every tempo and, with a straight-ahead style, she appeals not only to jazz fans but also to a more mainstream audience. Following a successful spring tour of the music of Alec Wilder countrywide, she returns to the John Field Room with her quartet to present the sounds of summer with the sparkle of some well-known jazz standards, as well as a few hidden gems. Tickets: €12 Concession: €10 20% discount available for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros Group discounts available Presented by the National Concert Hall 58

Thursday 21 August 1:05PM Musici Ireland Summer Lunchtime Series Helena Wood violin • Joanne Quigley violin Beth McNinch viola • Grainne Hope cello In this, the third concert in their series, Musici Ireland present a wonderful selection of classical film music. These marvellous arrangements for string quartet will take you on a journey of discovery, from Barbers’ Adagio to Boccherini’s joyful La Musica Notturna di Madrid, all expertly performed by one of Ireland’s leading chamber ensembles. Expect music from Cinema Paradiso, James Bond, The Wizard of Oz, The Gadfly, Mishima and Scent of a Woman. Tickets: €15 Concessions: €10 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros Group discount available Presented by the National Concert Hall

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST JULY Monday 25 August 7:30PM Martin Moriarty viola • Peter Dains piano Beethoven Notturno for Viola & Piano Shostakovich Sonata for Viola & Piano Fauré Après un Rêve - arranged for Viola & Piano Schubert Sonata in A minor "Arpeggione" - arranged for Viola & Piano D821 Bowen Rhapsody for Viola & Piano. Following on from his successful lunchtime concert last season, Martin Moriarty returns to the National Concert Hall to perform an evening concert to pay tribute to his teachers at Young European Strings School of Music before he continues his musical studies abroad starting in September. Tickets: €10 Concessions: €5 12% discount available for members of the Irish Countrywoman’s Association Presented by Young European Strings School of Music

Wednesday 27 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes - Kelley Lonergan Twenty-six-year-old Irish soprano Kelley Lonergan is a native of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary and graduated from the CIT Cork School of Music with a first class honours. In 2012, while partaking in an Erasmus programme in Italy, Kelley had the opportunity to study singing at the Conservatorio di Verona. Kelley is currently a young associate artist with Opera Theatre Company and is also an advanced vocal student at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, under the tuition of Sinead Campbell-Wallace and Aoife O’Sullivan. Kelley took part in the 62nd Wexford Festival Opera as a member of the chorus in Il cappello di paglia di Firenze and Cristina Regina di Svezia. Tickets: €12 Concessions: €10 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros Group discounts available Presented by the National Concert Hall

Thursday 28 August 1:05PM Musici Ireland Summer Lunchtime Series Michael McHale piano • Ioana Petcu-Colan violin Beth McNinch viola • Grainne Hope cello Sarah Halpin double-bass Schubert String Trio in Bb Major D471 Trout Quintet Schubert In this closing concert of their series, Musici Ireland are joined by renowned Irish pianist Michael McHale and violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan. Written when Schubert was just 22 years old, the Trout quintet has become one of the best loved chamber works of all time. Tickets: €15 Concessions: €10 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros Group discount available Presented by the National Concert Hall

Friday 29 August 1:05PM They Can't Be Serious Jack Morrissey • Brian McIvor Jack and Brian dip into their extensive 20 year repertoire to bring you their most popular songs and stories - and, maybe, a few surprises. Laced with a comic sense of the absurd the show will include favourites from Flanders & Swann, Tom Lehrer, Gilbert & Sullivan and others. This creative duo continues to attract sell-out audiences in the John Field Room and elsewhere - this event will show you why. Tickets: €15 Concessions: €12 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Group discounts available Presented by Jack & Mac Productions

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS Sept-Nov September Thurs 4 Fri 5 Fri 12 Sat 13 Mon 15 Wed 17 Thurs 18 Fri 19 Sat 20 Mon 22 Wed 24 Thurs 25 Fri 26 Mon 29

RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season RTÉ Concert Orchestra Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series International Concert Series 2014-2015: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Vasily Petrenko, conductor & Ning Feng, violin RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Signature Series: Miloš Karadaglicˇ RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season The Power Ballads with Red Hurley & Guests Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series International Concert Series 2014-2015: Stephen Kovacevich, piano RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Essential Classics RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series

October Thurs 2 Fri 3 Sun 5 Sun 5 Wed 8 Fri 10 Sun 12 Wed 15 Fri 17 Sat 18 Wed 22 Fri 24 Sat 25 Sun 26 Tues 28/ Wed 29 Thurs 30 Fri 31

International Concert Series 2014-2015: Australian Chamber Orchestra; Steven Osborne, piano; director/lead violin: Richard Tognetti RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season Sunday Matinée Series Ronan Collins Showband Hits Live Featuring Joe Dolan’s Classic Hits RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Shaun Davey – Voices from the Merry Cemetery RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season Perspectives 2014: Clint Mansell RTÉ Concert Orchestra RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season The Defence Forces Annual Gala Concert Welcome To My World, A 50th Anniversary Celebration of The Life & Music of Jim Reeves RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season International Concert Series 2014-2015: Juan Diego Flórez, Sebastiano Rolli, conductor & RTÉ Concert Orchestra A Celebration of The Jersey Boys An Evening with Elaine Paige-The 50th Anniversary and Farewell Tour RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Psycho – Live! RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS Sept-Nov November Tues 4 Wed 5 Thurs 6 Sat 8 Sun 9 Sun 16 Mon 17 Wed 19 Fri 21 Sun 23 Fri 28 Sat 29

Bernadette Greevy Recital – Jennifer Davis, soprano RTÉ Concert Orchestra International Concert Series 2014-2015: The Tallis Scholars Classics by Candlelight Sunday Matinée Series Callas - The Life, Loves & Music of Maria Callas International Concert Series 2014-2015: Emerson String Quartet RTÉ Concert Orchestra RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season Sunday Matinée Series RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2014/2015 Season International Concert Series 2014-2015: Orchestra of the 18th century, conductor, Rosanne Van Sandwijk, mezzo-soprano; Finghin Collins, piano & Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

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FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL EVENTS SUMMER/AUTUMN

Friday 30 May Depart 8am FRIENDS AT BLOOM! 2014 GARDEN TOUR Join us for our highly anticipated visit to the Bloom 2014 garden show held in the Phoenix Park. Enjoy an exclusive private tour with an opportunity to see and enjoy the show gardens close up. Led by key horticulturalists to give us full insight into the garden wonders Bloom is showcasing this summer. Following the tour you can relax with tea/coffee and scones before having the free time to peruse and enjoy the gardens and attractions and fabulous food stalls Tickets: Friends €33

Wednesday 25 June 10am ALTAMONT GARDENS AND VISUAL CARLOW Altamont Gardens have been noted as ‘the jewel in Ireland’s gardening crown’ and few who have visited would disagree. The gardens are an exquisite example of the best Irish gardens can offer and are curated to perfection. Our tour of the gardens could not come at a better time with the garden in it’s blossoming summer prime and it’s roses in full bloom. Following Altamont we will then journey the short trip to Carlow’s Visual where you will rest and be treated to a two-course lunch before enjoying a different aspect of what Carlow has to offer. VISUAL Carlow. is a centre for contemporary art and theatre which rivals it’s contemporaries around the globe. Here staff will be on hand to guide you around, broaden your artistic horizons and leave you wanting to go back for more. Tickets: Friends €49 62

Thursday 4 and 11 September 2.15pm FRIENDS SUMMER TOURS OF THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL & IVEAGH GARDENS In early September, Friends will have the opportunity once more to be guided through Dublin’s hidden gem; The Iveagh Gardens. Craft Gardener and enthused horticultural expert, Donal Raynor, will personally guide you through garden’s history and highlights. The Iveagh Gardens are among the finest and yet the least known of all Dublin’s parks and gardens and are ideal for an afternoon stroll to take you away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Following the gardens we will give you a real insight into the history and workings of the National Concert Hall itself with a guided tour backstage and through some of our various grand rooms which you have come to know and love. The tours last 60-75 minutes and will be followed by complimentary tea/coffee in the Terrace Café. Tickets: Friends €5

Saturday 19 July 11.30am departure from the NCH RACING AT THE CURRAGH! Join us for a day at the races. Your coach transfer will leave The National Concert Hall at 11.30am. On arrival at the Curragh you will enjoy a wine reception in a private suite overlooking the finishing straight. You will receive your own race card and have access to the bar area as well as a hot buffet lunch to be served before the first race begins. Spend

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FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL EVENTS SUMMER/AUTUMN the afternoon enthralled in the excitement of the chase before returning to the National Concert Hall by private coach. This is the ideal opportunity to impress your friends or family with a day out for that special occasion coming up, with no limit on the amount of places available to book per Friend! Ticket includes: • Return coach travel from The National Concert Hall • Entry to the Curragh racecourse and Racecard • Wine reception in our own private suite • Three course buffet luncheon • Return to the NCH by approximately 7.30pm Tickets: Friends €85, unlimited number per booking. For more information or to book your place contact the Friends Box Office Line on 01 408 6777.

First Wednesday of every month, 11am FRIENDS COFFEE MORNINGS A regular staple on our Friends calendar! On the first Wednesday of every month all Friends are invited to the Iveagh Room of the Terrace Café. No ticket required, just come along for a chance to meet new Friends and find out about Friends activities! Coming up: Wednesday 4th June 11am Wednesday 2nd July 11am Wednesday 6th August 11am Wednesday 3rd September 11am

More Events to be announced! Keep in touch for the latest updates by signing up to our e-zine too. Send your name and e-mail address to friends@nch.ie or call us on 014086777 to get all the latest news and offers. Please note for all Friends Events Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded. Early booking is advisable as place for events vary and are limited. The National Concert Hall reserves the right to add, withdraw or substitute items to advertised programmes as necessary.

Friends Of The National Concert Hall Autumn Music Tour: LEIPZIG MUSICAL CULTURE TOUR 18 -22 September 2014 This autumn we are delighted to offer our Friends one of our richest and most exciting Friends Music tours to Leipzig; where many of the greatest German composers lived and worked. You will visit the places where Richard Wagner was born, where Clara and Robert Schumann lived, where Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Anton Bruckner worked. You will also experience the famous Thomas Church, Bach’s work place for 27 years. A private luxury coach will take you through Thuringia’s picturesque, hilly landscape to the old town of Eisenach. Also included is a tour through the “Bachhaus”, birthplace of J.S. Bach and home of his parents, followed by a concert exclusively played on traditional instruments of the era. Overlooking Eisenach stands the impressive medieval castle of Wartburg which inspired Richard Wagner for his opera Thannhäuser. All of this will be in the company of our specialist cultural tour guide whose expert knowledge of the area will ensure you get the utmost from this exclusive opportunity to visit this unrivalled Musical Mecca. Throughout the tour we will be staying 3 nights in Leipzig and 1 night in Eisenach, in lovely 4-star hotels. Dinners and lunches will be taken in different restaurants, each representing history or culinary specialities. Please ensure to book early as places are limited. Tour Price: € 1195 per person sharing; single supplement €120 Deposit: €250

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EDUCATION EVENTS JUNE-AUG

Saturday 10 May 11AM/12:15PM/2PM John Field Room AfriKaa!: for Children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions AfriKaa! is a multi-sensory installation and experimental concert by Slavek Kwi. Designed for and dedicated to children with autism, the sound journey allows children to move freely through the rich soundscape of South Africa’s Limpopo Valley. Experience the wonder of the waterholes and riparian woodland, where hippos, crocodiles, leopards and bat-eared foxes may appear at any moment. Feel the march of many tiny feet. The tribal gathering is here! Interludes of classical music will add even more magic to the experience. The composition was created from Slavek’s own field-recordings from Mmabolela Nature Reserve. AfriKaa! is the second project in a series of multichannel installations, following in the footsteps of Ama-Zone. Visitors to AfriKaa! are asked to be present for the start of the session for a brief welcome and introduction, but are then free to wander in and out as they please.

Saturday 17 May 3PM Kevin Barry Room Songschool: In Conversation with Paul Noonan and Neil Hannon Join Peter Baxter, Director of Songschool, in conversation with Paul Noonan from Bell X1 and Neil Hannon from The Devine Comedy and Duckworth Lewis Method. Paul, Neil and Peter will explore how songs evolve, what their favourite song is and that ultimate, unanswerable question…..what makes a great song? Paul Noonan and Neil Hannon are members of the National Concert Hall’s pilot Artist Writing Space programme.

Next date: 8th November 2014

Keep an eye on our website for announcements of further members of the Artist Writing Space who might drop in to join Paul, Neil and Peter on May 17.

Tickets: ¤8 20% discount for Young Maestros Presented by the National Concert Hall Education & Outreach Department

Tickets: €10 20% discount for Young Maestros Open to under 18’s, under 16’s should be accompanied by a guardian/parent

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EDUCATION EVENTS JUNE-AUG Monday 23 – Friday 27 June 2014 10AM – 4PM Kevin Barry Room Songschool Free concert for family & friends on Thursday 26 June at 7pm Songschool is for secondary school students who are interested in writing and recording songs, performing them at a concert, making a video, learning about music technology, and meeting people who love music as much as they do... not to mention forming bands and having fun! All Songschool students receive a copy of their songs and their videos, and a Songschool certificate of participation. www.songschool.ie Next date: 7 – 11 July 2014

Monday 14 - Friday 18 July 10AM – 2PM Kevin Barry Room Junior Songschool Junior Songschool is chance for 8-12 year olds to spend some time at the National Concert Hall, learning about writing, performing and recording songs. Make music and new friends! All Songschool students receive a copy of their songs and their videos, and a Songschool certificate of participation. Free concert for family & friends on Thursday at 1.30pm. Tickets: ¤112.50 20% discount for Young Maestros 20% discount for groups of 2 or more Presented by the National Concert Hall Education & Outreach Department

Tickets: ¤150 20% discount for Young Maestros 20% discount for groups of 2 or more Presented by the National Concert Hall Education & Outreach Department

Saturday 12 July 1PM & 2.30PM Kevin Barry Room Tall Tales with the WhistleBlast Quartet With their infectious enthusiasm they guarantee you will have a blast, no matter what! The Quartet is made up of talented musicians, Mary Curran (French Horn), Kenneth Edge (Saxophones, Clarinet), Andrew Synnott (Piano) and Sile Daly (Oboe, Cor Anglais).

Plenty of interaction and laughter to sizzle up your summer!

Saturday 27 September 3PM & 4.30PM Kevin Barry Room Peter and the Wolf Interactive show with the WhistleBlast Quartet WhistleBlast Quartet: Mary Curran french horn • Kenneth Edge saxophones, clarinet • Andrew Synnott piano • Sile Daly oboe, cor anglais Slip on your paws, wear animal masks and enter the story of Peter and the Wolf! Learn about the WhistleBlast’s instruments and join in with rhythm, song and hear other musical animals involving elephants and the like! Guaranteed to make you smile.

Tickets: €12.50 Family Ticket (family of 4 with at least 1 child): €44 20% discount for Young Maestros All Young Maestros are entitled to 2 tickets per Young Maestro event unless otherwise stated. Presented by the National Concert Hall Education & Outreach Department

Tickets: €12.50 Family Ticket (family of 4 with at least 1 child): €44 20% discount for Young Maestros All Young Maestors are entitled to 2 tickets per Young Maestro event unless otherwise stated. Presented by the National Concert Hall Education & Outreach Department

Exciting stories set in the cities and farmyards! Mother Goose, Montagues and Capulets, Opus Zoo and other well-known Classics to sit back and enjoy.

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EDUCATION EVENTS JUNE-AUG ABOUT THE ARTIST WRITING SPACES PROJECT The Artist Writing Spaces initiative seeks to further expand the work of the Residencies for classical music organisations by adding space for those working in contemporary song-writing. The project plans to provide space to artistically acclaimed song-writers who seek to engage with the programme of the Hall and to develop programme platforms with those artists at the Hall. A pilot programme is running from May 2013 to May 2014, where five artists are provided with one writing space each for 12 months. Artist selected for the Pilot Phase are the following: Cathy Davey is an Irish singersongwriter. She has released three albums, Something Ilk (2004), Tales of Silversleeve (2007) and The Nameless (2010). Her second album garnered her a Choice Music Prize nomination, and Meteor Award for Best Irish Female. The Nameless was the top selling album in Ireland upon the week of its release. It was also nominated for the Choice Music Prize. Neil Hannon is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter, best known as the creator and frontman of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy. Hannon has also collaborated with Thomas Walsh, from the Irish band Pugwash, to create a cricket themed pop album under the name The Duckworth Lewis Method. In April 2012, Hannon’s first opera commission, Sevastopol, was performed by the Royal Opera House.

James Vincent McMorrow is an Irish folk singer and songwriter. His debut album Early in the Morning was released in February, 2010 to widespread acclaim. His follow up album Post Tropical was released in February 2014. Paul Noonan is a song-writer best-known for his work with his band, BellX1, who premièred their new album Chop Chop at the Hall last summer. Upcoming projects include an album of pared back collaborations with female vocalists like Martha Wainwright, Joan Wasser and Gemma Hayes which will be premiered at the Hall on 24 May as part of ESB Live 2014.

Composer and electronic musician Glenn Keating is a member of the band Jape and performs with The Redneck Manifesto, Somadrone amongst others.

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EDUCATION EVENTS JUNE-AUG Mini Music Mini Music is an action-packed music workshop experience for babies and young children aged 3 months to 8 years old. 30-minute workshops take place on Saturdays at the National Concert Hall. Carefully designed to suit each of the age groups, workshops are fun and accessible with foot-tapping, memorable tunes! Young Maestro priority booking for 2014/15 terms opens at 10am on April 26, general sale commences on May 17.

Gamelan Orchestra The Sultan of Yogyakarta, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, with the assistance of the Indonesian Embassy in Dublin London and the Provincial Government of Yogyakarta, Java, has gifted the National Concert Hall with a complete set of Javanese gamelan instruments. The gamelan, a set of bronze instruments which will accommodate up to thirty people, has been purpose-built by the Sultan’s gamelan artisans and work on the instruments. It is intended that the gamelan be widely used as part of the National Concert Hall’s education and outreach programme. Dr. Peter Moran, a composer and educator, will direct the new gamelan orchestra. Moran is currently director of the UCD Gamelan Group, which he helped establish last year. Gamelan Music Gamelan is Indonesia’s ancient classical music with a history stretching back almost a thousand years. It is an orchestra made up of tuned gongs and other bronze percussion instruments, with a handful of softer instruments such as the bamboo flute (suling), the two-stringed fiddle (rebab) and drums (kendhang). Unique tunings give each gamelan its own distinct personality, and it is common practice to give a gamelan a name and even celebrate its ‘birthday’ on the date when it was first played. Outside of the education and outreach programme, regular rehearsals will be held on Tuesday evenings, there will be two groups, one for players new to the gamelan and the other for existing gamelan players. For more information please contact education@nch.ie or 01 417 0077.

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EDUCATION EVENTS JUNE-AUG STUDENTS Students can avail of a ‘Student Standby Scheme’ – on production of suitable identification at the Box Office, subject to the discretion of the Box Office Manager. Where available, tickets can be purchased for ¤5 one hour prior to a performance. One ticket per student only. Please check with the Box Office on the day of the concert for possible availability.

Student Standby Scheme

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When you support the Education and Outreach Department, you are supporting the following projects: AfriKaa: for Children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions Workshops in the John Field Room for children with autistic spectrum conditions and their families created by Slavek Kwi Blow the Dust off Your Trumpet Our unique orchestra, born in Bealtaine – the festival celebrating creativity in older age, conducted by Joe Csibi Kids’ Classics Monthly interactive workshops and ward visits to children’s hospitals facilitated by Grainne Hope, Julie Maisel and Nick Grennell National Rehabilitation Hospital Monthly music workshops in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, facilitated by Aingeala DeBurca and Deirdre O’Leary Surrounding Sounds Sound artist Slavek Kwi’s weekly sessions for children with autistic spectrum conditions Samba Sessions Hands-on percussion workshops for groups with special needs WhistleBlast Quartet The National Concert Hall supports workshop visits to schools in the West of Ireland.

Education and Outreach thank the Young Maestros, Friends, Patrons and Corporate Associates of the National Concert Hall for generously supporting our programme.

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOOKING & GENERAL INFORMATION BOOKING IN PERSON OPENING HOURS Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm

GIFT CARDS • Gift Cards can be used online, in person or over the phone. • Please quote the Gift Card number and Redemption Number when booking

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TELEPHONE BOOKINGS +353 1 417 0000 Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm (open two hours prior to concerts on Sundays & Bank Holidays for one hour) Tickets purchased by phone can be posted out for a charge of ¤1 (postage and packaging)

ONLINE BOOKING www.nch.ie All major credit/debit cards accepted. CONDITIONS OF SALE • Once purchased, tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged. • Programme & artist are subject to change

CONCESSIONS • Concessions are available on selected concerts to patrons who produce suitable identification • Concessions not requested at time of booking cannot be allocated later • All discounts apply to Full Price tickets only • Only one discount per ticket applies • Discounted tickets cannot be purchased in conjunction with any other offers or concessions

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THIRD LEVEL STUDENT STANDBY SCHEME On production of suitable identification at the Box Office, third level students can avail of tickets for a5 one hour prior to a performance. Please contact the Box Office on the day of the performance for possible availability of this offer. One ticket per student only. GROUPS Got a Group? Get a Deal. Contact the Box Office Booking Line on +3531 417 0000 or email groups@ nch.ie Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm CHILD ADMITTANCE Patrons are advised that children under the age of 5 will not be admitted to events which are unsuitable for children. Please contact the Box Office for recommendations regarding age admittance. BABES-IN-ARMS • For family & children’s events, babes-in-arms (children under 12 months) will be admitted to the concert provided that they can be seated throughout the performance on the accompanying adult’s lap. • Please inform the Box Office at time of booking to receive the free infant ticket.

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SPECIAL ASSISTANCE • Seats are available at the back of the stalls (downstairs) for wheel chair users & their companions • An induction loop system for hard of hearing patrons has been installed in the Main Auditorium • An Infra Red Assistive Listening System is available for events throughout the Main Auditorium and in the John Field Room. To avail of this system please contact our reception desk on the night. Instructions on how to use this system are available on www.nch.ie NATIONAL CONCERT HALL ETIQUETTE • There is no smoking in The National Concert Hall • Cameras, video equipment and recording devices are not permitted • Please ensure all mobiles devices are switched off before entering the Auditorium • Please arrive early. There is no guarantee of late seating. Where possible, patrons will only be admitted when there is a suitable break, if any, in the performance • Please leave all coats, bags and umbrellas in the Cloak Room in the John Field Room. There is no charge incurred for this facility DATA PROTECTION • When you book tickets with the National Concert Hall, your details will be held on our database • From time to time, we may send you information about The National Concert Hall and its programme of events. If you do not wish to receive this information, please tell a member of the Box Office Team at time of booking or amend your preference online • The National Concert Hall complies with the principles of good data handling. For details, please see our privacy policy on www.nch.ie or contact us on +3531 417 0077

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YOUR VISIT GETTING HERE AND PARKING

DISTANCES M50 Motorway: 9km Dublin Airport: 17km Dublin Busáras Station: 3.4km Dublin Connolly Station: 3.5km Dublin Heuston Station: 4.9km

BY TRAIN Pearse Street Station is the nearest DART station to us. Some commuter trains also stop here while others will terminate at Connolly Station For more information on timetables, log on to www.irishrail.ie

BY CAR The National Concert Hall is located in the centre of the city beside St. Stephen’s Green. Please be aware that there is a one-way system in place on St Stephen’s Green so please follow the instructions below.

BY LUAS Harcourt Street is within five minutes’ walk of the National Concert Hall and runs regularly: every five minutes at busy periods and every fifteen minutes at less busy periods

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DUBLIN BIKES Why not keep it green and use one of the Dublin Bikes available at various points around the city. There is a Dublin Bikes station directly outside The National Concert Hall. There are also two stations on St Stephen’s Green, both of which have credit card terminals. For more information, log on to www.dublinbikes.ie

Follow the signs to the City Centre From O’Connell Street, head south over the River Liffey, down D’Olier Street, past Trinity College onto Nassau Street From Nassau Street, take a right turn onto Kildare Street This will lead you onto St. Stephen’s Green. Continue down towards Baggot Street, take the first right onto Pembroke Street, straight past Fitzwilliam Square until you come to a set of traffic lights Turn right onto Leeson Street and at the next set of traffic lights take the left onto Earlsfort Terrace where The National Concert Hall is situated on the right-hand side

CAR PARKING FACILITIES Limited parking is available in the grounds of the National Concert Hall. There are also a number of car parks within a short walk of the Hall: The Royal College of Surgeons Car Park, Dawson Street Car Park, Schoolhouse Lane, BY BUS As we are centrally located, there are plenty of Drury Street Car Park, Park Rite Car Park, options for buses to bring you to The National St. Stephen’s Green Car Park Concert Hall. Setanta Place For more information on routes and timetables, It is also possible to park on Adelaide Road, log on www.dublinbus.ie Hatch Street, Fitzwilliam Square, St. Stephen’s If you are travelling directly from Dublin Airport Green, all within walking distance of the Nato The National Concert Hall, the Aircoach can tional Concert Hall. Please check for parking be used as it will leave you on Lower Leeson restrictions and notices for Pay & Display areas. Street which is just around the corner from The National Concert Hall. For more information or routes and fares, log on to www.aircoach.ie

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL SEATING PLAN CHOIR BALCONY Y D ON RE LC BA E D SI

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28 2 7 28 2 7 28 2 7 28 2 7 28 2 7 28 2 7

26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26

25 2 4 25 2 4 25 2 4 25 2 4 25 2 4 25 2 4 25 2 4 25 2 4 25 2 4 25 2 4

23 2 2 23 2 2 23 2 2 23 2 2 23 2 2 23 2 2 23 2 2 23 2 2 23 2 2 23 2 2

ENTRANCE/EXIT

21 21

GREEN SIDE BALCONY

21 21

ENTRANCE TO CHOIR BALCONY

21 21

21 21 2 21 22 21 22 21 21

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

ENTRANCE/EXIT ENTRANCE TO STALLS 1-15

STALLS A B C D E F G H J K

EXIT

21 21

EXIT

ENTRANCE/EXIT

6 25 24 2 3 26 2 5 24 23 25 2 4 23 2 2 25 2 4 23 22

21 21

48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

X Y

0 29 28 2 31 3 7 0 29 28 2 7 26 27 2 6

3 B 5 4 3 2 7 6 9 8 5 4 C 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 2 1 7 6 3 8 9 1 D 5 4 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 7 6 4 8 5 9 1 E 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 7 6 3 2 9 8 1 F 5 4 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 7 6 1 G 5 4 9 8 2 6 0 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 1 7 4 3 9 8 2 1 H 6 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 4 3 8 7 1 J 5 9 2 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 7 6 4 3 9 8 2 1 K 6 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 4 3 8 7 L 1 5 9 3 2 7 6 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 1 M 5 4 9 8 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 7 6 4 8 N 1 5 9 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 7 6 5 4 9 8 2 1 P 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 7 6 4 3 9 8 2 1 Q 6 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 7 4 8 5 9 2 1 R 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 7 6 4 3 9 8 2 1 S 6 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 4 3 8 7 1 T 5 9 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 7 6 1 U 5 4 9 8 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 7 6 4 8 1 V 5 9 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 7 6 1 W 9 8 5 4 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 7 6 4 8 9 6 5 1 X 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 3 2 8 7 Y 9 4 5 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 7 6 9 8 6 5 11 10 7 9 8 10 SOUND DESK

52 51 50 49 57 56 55 54 53 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23

A 29 B 30 28 27 26 29 2 25 2 8 27 4 23 C 31 30 26 2 22 5 24 29 23 2 D 31 30 28 27 26 2 29 2 25 2 8 4 2 2 3 22 7 26 E 31 30 25 2 29 4 23 F 31 30 28 27 26 2 2 29 2 G 31 30 28 27 26 5 24 23 22 29 25 H 31 30 28 27 26 24 23 22 29 2 2 5 24 2 8 27 J 31 30 3 22 26 2 29 K 31 30 28 27 26 5 24 23 22 29 2 L 31 30 28 27 26 5 24 23 22 29 2 M 31 30 28 27 26 5 24 23 2 2 29 2 N 31 30 28 27 26 5 24 23 2 2 29 2 25 P 31 30 2 8 27 26 24 23 22 25 9 Q 31 30 28 27 26 24 23 22 29 2 2 5 24 2 8 27 R 31 30 3 22 26 2 29 5 S 31 30 28 27 26 24 23 22 29 25 T 31 30 28 27 26 24 23 22 29 2 U 31 30 28 27 26 5 24 23 22 29 25 V 31 30 28 27 26 24 23 22 29 2 25 2 8 27 4 23 W 31 3 2 2

EXIT

STAGE

ENTRANCE TO STALLS 16-31

21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17 21 20 19 18 17

16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12 16 15 14 13 12

9 8 11 10 9 8 11 10 8 9 11 10 9 8 11 10 8 9 11 10 9 8 11 10 9 8 11 10 9 8 11 10 9 8 11 10 8 9 11 10

YELLOW BALCONY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

ORGAN

3 5 4 7 6 H 5 H H 7 6 H 5 7 6 H 5 H H 7 6 5 H 6 7 4 3 5 3 7 6 5 4 3 7 6 5 4 3 7 6 5 4 7 6 4 5 6 7

H H H H H H 2 2

H H 1 1

2 1

A B C D E F G H J K

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