June - August Calendar of Events 2013

INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2013/2014 International Orchestral Series

International Choral Series

Wednesday 4 September 2013, 8pm Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko conductor Christian Ihle Hadland piano

Saturday 12 October 2013, 8pm The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor ‘The Queen of Heaven’ St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Thursday 27 March 2014, 8pm Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits conductor Nicola Benedetti violin Saturday 12 April 2014, 8pm City of London Sinfonia Michael Collins clarinet/conductor Piano Masters Series

Wednesday 6 November 2013, 8pm Philip Martin piano Sunday 24 November 2013, 8pm Leif Ove Andsnes piano Mahler Chamber Orchestra Thursday 20 February 2014, 8pm John Lill piano 70th Birthday Celebration Saturday 19 April 2014, 8pm Lang Lang piano

Sunday 13 October 2013, 8pm The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Harry Christophers conductor Lucy Crowe soprano Handel - The National Concert Hall Sunday 9 February 2014, 8pm Chanticleer Sunday 4 May 2014, 8pm Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Choir of Enlightenment Sir Simon Rattle conductor Susan Gritton soprano John-Mark Ainsley tenor Peter Rose baritone Great Artists Series

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 8pm Joshua Bell violin Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Wednesday 29 January 2014, 8pm Thomas Hampson baritone Amsterdam Sinfonietta Tuesday 22 April 2014, 8pm Danish String Quartet

Box Office www.nch.ie 01 417 0000 NO BOOKING FEES Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2

Sunday 6 October 2013, 3pm Ann Murray mezzo-soprano Dearbhla Collins piano Finghin Collins piano Sunday 27 October 2013, 3pm Brazilian Guitar Quartet Sunday 10 November 2013, 3pm Jonathan Lemalu baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Sunday 27 April 2014, 3pm Sunday 11 May 2014, 3pm Sunday 25 May 2014, 3pm Catherine Leonard violin Hugh Tinney piano

THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL JUNE-AUGUST 2013 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Saturday 26 October 2013, 8pm São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conductor

Sunday Matinée Series

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FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL EVENTS

Corporate Associates Diamond Friday 31 May, 9am Monday 29 April 5.30pm NABUCCO RECEPTION & LIVE SCREENING Join us for a fabulous drinks and delicious canapé reception at the Harvey Nichols First Floor Restaurant in Dundrum followed by the performance of Verdi’s Nabucco, screened live from the Royal Opera House, London.

Ticket includes: • 5.30pm Drinks and canapé reception at Harvey Nichols, Dundrum • 7.15pm Ticket to Nabucco screening Friends €42 Non-members €52

Thursday 16 May, 11am IN CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR GEORGE EOGAN

BLOOM 2013 GARDEN TOUR Join us for an exclusive visit to the Bloom 2013 garden show held in the Phoenix Park. The year’s event will include a wide range of spectacular and engaging features from showgardens and floral displays to craft and cookery demonstrations. Friends of the National Concert Hall are invited to participate in an exclusive guided tour with an opportunity to see the show gardens close up, hosted by horticulturalist and Bord Bia Bloom Manager, Gary Graham. This will be followed by free time to enjoy the gardens and attractions with lunch served in Bistro Bloom.

Package includes: • Entry to Bloom • Private guided tour • Return coach transport from The National Concert Hall

Join Professor George Eogan and his colleague Helen Roche for an exciting insight into the revelations of their excavation work at the site of Knowth, in the Boyne Valley.

Friends €38

Prof. Eogan led excavation work at Knowth commencing in 1962 which revealed two impressive burial chambers, constructed by using large stones, most of which were decorated with motif. Enjoy being in an intimate audience in the relaxing atmosphere of the Iveagh Room at The Terrace Café to gain insight into Professor Eogan’s remarkable discoveries.

Experience a wonderful wine-tasting evening at the magnificent surroundings of The Shelbourne Hotel Dublin. The evening begins with a drinks and canapé reception, followed by an informative wine-tasting with The Shelbourne’s sommelier. Our wine journey, showcasing the unique selection of wines stocked in The Shelbourne cellar, will accompany a sumptuous 3 course meal in the luxurious Saddle Room.

Ticket includes: • Tea/coffee Friends €12

Wednesday 5 June, 6.30pm WINE-TASTING AT THE SHELBOURNE

Tickets €69 Non-members €79

Wednesday 20 June, 3pm ANNUAL AFTERNOON TEA

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[All proceeds from this fundraising event go towards education and outreach activities of The National Concert Hall] Friends €30

FRIENDS COFFEE MORNINGS One of the most popular events on the Friends calendar! On the first Wednesday of every month all Friends are invited to the Iveagh Room of the Terrace Café. Simply come along and purchase a beverage of your choice, meet new Friends and find out about upcoming Friends activities. No ticket required.

Coming up: Wednesday 1st May, 11am Wednesday 5th June, 11am Wednesday 3rd July, 11am Wednesday 7th, 11am Look forward to seeing you there.

For more information or to book your place contact the Friends Box Office line on Tel: 01 408 6777

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CONTENTS June listings July listings August listings June Highlight - Bryn Terfel: The Voice of the Valleys June Concerts - Main Auditorium June Concerts - John Field Room July Highlight - July Concerts - Main Auditorium July Concerts - John Field Room August Highlight - August Concerts - Main Auditorium August Concerts - John Field Room Forthcoming Highlights September-November Friends of the National Concert Hall Events Education Events Booking and General Information Getting Here and Parking Seating Plan

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Midsummer Messiah, RBS Europa Choir RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra: Global Express: A Family Concert For Young Children Boylan plays Brubeck Girls on Film, Liz Ryan The International Concert Series 2012/2013: Philharmonia Orchestra; Paavo Järvi, conductor; Paul Lewis, piano RTÉ Concert Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series: Franzita Whelan Hibernian Orchestra Summer Concert Angela Hewitt, piano In Defence of Satie - Ivan Ilic´, piano Rathmines & Rathgar Centenary Birthday Gala Concert Glória DLGC & Friends RTÉ Concert Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series: Raphaela Mangan Fionnuala Hunt - A Reflection Juan Martín and Flamenco Dance Ensemble Claudia Boyle sings Opera and Song The Young Europeans Concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra RTÉ Concert Orchestra Signature Series: Bryn Terfel ‘Lunchtime Fantasy’: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series At 60s and 70s with you... Susannah de Wrixon The Celine Byrne Summer Gala with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra ESB Live: BELL X1: Chop Chop Album Premiere Show

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‘Lunchtime Jewels’: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series Waltons World Masters - Branford Marsalis Quartet 4th of July Celebration with Dianne Reeves, Queen of American Song Anna Kiselyova, piano Hollywood Greats with Carl Davis and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer @ NCH: Sinéad O’Connor: How About I Be Me? ‘Lunchtime Romance’: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series Summer @ NCH: An Evening with Bryan Ferry and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra Zrazy The RTÉ Lyric Fm Hall of Fame with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer @ NCH: Martin Hayes Invites...Masters of Tradition The Three Tenors In Concert ‘Trumpeting Lunchtime’: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series Fionnuala Hunt - A Reflection More.....Good Old Days of Music Hall An Evening with The Chieftains and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra ‘Lunchtime in the Auvergne’: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series The International Concert Series 2012/2013: Renée Fleming, soprano; Maciej Pikulski, piano The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain World Tour Kevin Fitzpatrick plays Chopin The President’s Concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra World Choral Fest National Youth Orchestra of Ireland: Summer Proms RTÉ Concert Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series: Sharon Carty and Andreas Frese Berlin on Broadway

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The John McCormack Songbook Paul Brady with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra August Lunchtimes - Beth McNinch, viola and Fionnuala Moynihan, piano Paul Brady with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra August Lunchtimes - Meitheal’s Award-Winning Traditional Musicians Summer @ NCH: The Kilfenora Céilí Band - Spraoi RTÉ Concert Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series: Ben Dawson Edmund Battersby, piano August Lunchtimes - Eneko O’Carroll, french horn Evelyne Brancart, piano August Lunchtimes - OTC’s Young Associate Artists in Concert An Evening With Iris DeMent Pianist David Syme In Concert Julie Feeney with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Summer @ NCH: Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space RTÉ Concert Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series: Mia Cooper An Evening with Opera Serenade August Lunchtimes - Nicola Hegarty Fionnuala Hunt - A Reflection August Lunchtimes - OTC’s Young Associate Artists in Concert August Lunchtimes - Paul McCarroll, piano in Recital RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies Summer @ NCH: LAPD - Liam O’Flynn, Andy Irvine, Paddy Glackin, Dónal Lunny RTÉ Concert Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series: Cara O’Sullivan August Lunchtimes - Sam Jackson, piano August Lunchtimes - OTC’s Young Associate Artists in Concert YES To Young Talent RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Big Band: Unforgettable – Allan Harris sings Nat ‘King’ Cole Summer @ NCH: Martin Hayes invites: Jordi Savall’s Celtic Viol & Triúr Double Bill RTÉ Concert Orchestra Summer Lunchtime Series: William Butt August Lunchtimes - Quintessential Sax Quartet August Lunchtimes - OTC’s Young Associate Artists in concert A Flanders & Swann Tribute RTÉ Concert Orchestra: DISCO INFERNO!

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JUNE HIGHLIGHT

BRYN TERFEL THE VOICE OF THE VALLEYS

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funny thing happened the young Bryn Terfel Jones on the way to his spectacular opera career.

Aged 19, he applied for a place in a Cardiff music college but received a reply addressed to “Miss Terfel’’. The fact that a Welsh college did not know Bryn was a man’s name so incensed the native Welsh speaker that he took himself off to London and a place in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The incident now amuses the charismatic Terfel, who sings in the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Signature Series at the National Concert Hall on June 22 next. Cardiff may have lost out, but he still speaks in glowing terms of his school music teachers in Caernarfonshire, in north Wales. “They provided the key that opened the door for me,’’ he says.

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The episode has a humorous side, but it also pinpoints the deep-rooted convictions and single-minded attitude to life. Terfel, who dropped the Jones in favour of his second name because he knew another singer named Bryn Jones, was born into a Welsh-speaking farming family and is immensely proud he has passed this language inheritance on to his three sons. Wherever he travels his passion to return to the hills and valleys of his homeland has never wavered.

At the Guildhall, the new kid on the baritone block was soon making his considerable presence felt by winning prestigious competitions, bursaries and awards.

However, his road to stardom really began seriously in his graduation year of 1989 when he won both the Kathleen

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Ferrier Memorial Award and the Gold Medal. In the same year he was shaded out of first prize in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in what was known as “the battle of the baritones’’ with the Russian Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Terfel’s single-mindedness has, not surprisingly, landed Terfel in various spots of bother. Not the least of these was the media storm when he pulled out of a much-heralded production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Covent Garden in 2007 because his son had sustained a serious finger injury at home. Terfel was subjected to fierce media flak but weathered the storm (though its echoes remain to this day).

Not long after, he sang an acclaimed Figaro to ecstatic reviews in New York but then astonished the opera world by announcing he was dropping the role from his repertoire. Don Giovanni soon received a similar dismissal.

These had been iconic early-career roles for Terfel and had helped enormously in funding and promoting his career, so there was considerable angst among faithful fans when he decided to move to pastures new through Verdi and Strauss. He was spectacularly successful there too, but the ultimate peak loomed large in the distance and when he took on his first performance as Wotan in Wagner’s Das Rheingold in 2004 it was described by one critic as “a case of the emperor finally claiming his throne’’.

It comes as no surprise that Terfel singles out the Welsh National Opera production of Die Meistersinger two years ago as one of the proudest occasions in his career. “It was in Cardiff and the well over half the cast was Welsh-speaking. It was the first time I walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue. I was so happy and proud to be part of such a company. It was like a breath of fresh air from the Welsh mountains.’’

Towering and commanding are now the kind of words used to describe Terfel’s performances in the Wagnerian world of gods and goblins, but he is no opera snob and has his enormous feet

firmly planted on the ground with his eyes on his bank balance when it comes to crossover singing.

He recalls: “When I was in Munich doing the Flying Dutchman, I was in an opera house that had 3,000 to 4,000 seats while Paul Potts was in the city’s Olympic stadium selling maybe 15,000 tickets because the Nessum Dorma he sang had been used in an advert for a mobile phone network in Germany.

That’s fine by me. Paul obviously got into the minds and hearts of people so he is entitled to enjoy the fruits of that.’’

Because of his physique, it is often remarked that had Terfel not opted for singing, he might have performed a leading role of a different kind in that other great Welsh passion – rugby.

Surprisingly, soccer is his favourite ball game, stemming back to those glory years of Manchester United when George Best became his football idol.

He is also an enthusiastic golfer.

There is no doubt that Wales is in the heart and soul of Bryn Terfel. He established an eclectic music festival there (which unfortunately failed) and is a patron of the Welsh language and culture movement. The National Eisteddfod has admitted him to the Gorsedd of Bards, which dates back to 1792. He has also founded his own charity foundation and is president of Shelter Cymru, a charity for the homeless.

Bryn Terfel CBE may yet end up as King of Wales. A couple of years ago a small island off its coast named him honorary monarch of all he surveyed.

He’s a very big chap, so you never know!

by Dick O’Riordan, classical music columnist with the Sunday Business Post.

Bryn Terfel performs with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as part of its Signature Series at the National Concert Hall on June 22.

Tickets: ¤34.50 - ¤69.50. 10% discount available for groups of 10 or more.

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MIDSUMMER MESSIAH GLOBAL EXPRESS: A FAMILY CONCERT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

Paul Rissmann

SATURDAY 1 JUNE 8PM RBS Europa Choir • Dublin Handel Orchestra directed by Jeremy Jackman Catherine Redding soprano • Sharon Carty mezzo-soprano • Thomas Herford tenor • Johny Herford bass Handel

Messiah

Jeremy Jackman, former King’s Singer and Chorus Master of the London Philharmonic, is now one of the UK’s most highly regarded choral conductors. This special performance of Handel’s well-loved Messiah is based on original performances conducted by the composer.

Tickets: ¤25, ¤27.50, ¤30 (Choir Balcony: ¤20) Concessions: ¤22.50, ¤24.75, ¤27 (Choir Balcony: ¤18) 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by The RBS Europa Choir

SUNDAY 2 JUNE 3PM Concert with on-screen presentation and audience participation RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Presented by Paul Rissmann James Cavanagh conductor Age: 7-12 years Music to engage, excite and entertain the whole family! Prepare to be transported into space by Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra and back down-to-earth again (the Wild West, to be exact) to become a cowboy in Copland’s Rodeo, a bullfighter in Bizet’s Carmen, a Pirate of the Caribbean in music from the film, before losing yourself in Mussorgsky’s magical and mysterious Pictures at an Exhibition. You’ll even get an opportunity to sing along with the audience as the orchestra performs the curiously named Meerkat Tango written by our presenter Paul Rissmann.

Tickets: ¤10 child ¤15 adult Family of 4 (to include 1 adult): ¤40 Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA PAAVO JÄRVI, CONDUCTOR PAUL LEWIS, PIANO

Paul Lewis

SATURDAY 8 JUNE 8PM Pärt Mozart Dvorˇák

Fratres* (new addition to the previously advertised programme) Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”

The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the world’s great orchestras. Acknowledged as the UK’s foremost musical pioneer, the Philharmonia leads the field for its quality of playing and for its innovative approach to audience development, residencies and music education.

Tickets: ¤55, ¤65, ¤75, ¤85 (Choir Balcony: ¤40) Presented by the National Concert Hall NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie no booking fees

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RTÉ CONCERT HIBERNIAN ORCHESTRA SUMMER ORCHESTRA LUNCHTIME SERIES SUMMER CONCERT

Franzita Whelan

Fiachra Garvey

TUESDAY 11 JUNE 1:05PM

WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Franzita Whelan soprano David Brophy conductor

The Hibernian Orchestra Fiachra Garvey piano John Finucane conductor

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Anderson Jazz Pizzicato Mancini Moon River Arlen Somewhere Over The Rainbow Sondheim Send In The Clowns Bernstein I Feel Pretty Gershwin Summertime Copland Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz,

Buckaroo Holiday, Corral Nocturne and Hoe-Down

Glinka Overture to Ruslan and

Lyudmila Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor,

Op. 16 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor,

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Presented by Niall Carroll for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime.

Tickets: ¤10 Reserved seating Grab&go Lunch: ¤5 (sandwich or wrap with tea/ coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office at time of booking 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor was a big hit with Franz Liszt in 1870 and continues to delight. Tchaikovsky himself had to admit that his Symphony No. 4 was pretty good, referring to the work as “better than anything I’ve done so far”.

Tickets: ¤20, children under 12: ¤5 Concessions: ¤15 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by The Hibernian Orchestra

ANGELA HEWITT, PIANO

Angela Hewitt

THURSDAY 13 JUNE 8PM Schubert Liszt Bach

12 Valses Nobles, D969 Sonata in B minor Contrapunctus I – X, The Art of Fugue

Canadian Angela Hewitt is currently one of the world’s leading pianists whose performances of Bach have drawn universal acclaim, marking her as one of the great interpreters of Bach’s keyboard music. Her eleven year recording project of all the major keyboard works of Bach has been described as “one of the record glories of our age”. The Great Music in Irish Houses Festival was privileged to procure her only Irish performance of the composers extraordinary “Well Tempered Klavier” during her world tour in 2008.

This concert offers an opportunity to experience Angela Hewett’s interpretation of Bach again with Contrapunctus I-X from The Art of Fugue, in addition to waltzes by Schubert and Liszt’s gargantuan Piano Sonata in B minor.

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GREAT MUSIC IN IRISH HOUSES

Tickets: ¤25, ¤30, ¤35 (Choir Balcony: ¤15) 20% discount for friends of GMIIH festival 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by KBC Great Music in Irish Houses Festival in association with the National Concert Hall NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie no booking fees

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CELINE BYRNE

LISA HANNIGAN

CARL DAVIS

THE CHIEFTAINS

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The RTÉ NSO honours its FROM Patron, President Michael D. Higgins and celebrates outstanding Irish talent from classical, traditional and popular music Lisa Hannigan, Aoife Miskelly, Zoe Conway, Alex Petcu Colon, John McIntyre

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RATHMINES & RATHGAR CENTENARY BIRTHDAY GALA CONCERT

GLÓRIA DLGC & FRIENDS

Glória DLGC

FRIDAY 14 JUNE 8PM

SATURDAY 15 JUNE 8PM

Gearóid Grant musical director Marina Kealy director & choreographer Jackie Curran Olohan chorus director

Glória DLGC • Dublin Gay Men’s Chorus Quire, Belfast LGBT Singers Choral Con Fusion

For One Night Only! Join in the birthday celebrations of Ireland’s premier musical society as it marks its 100th year of musical theatre. The renowned chorus of the R&R is joined by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and many famous soloists from down the years for a night of musical theatre and light opera - not to be missed!

Glória DLGC celebrates its 18th birthday with LGBT choral groups from Dublin, Cork and Belfast in an evening of music and song that is sure to surprise and delight!

Tickets ¤40, ¤45. Concessions: ¤36, ¤40.50 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for Groups of 10 or more Presented by Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society in association with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra 14

Tickets: ¤15, ¤20, ¤25, ¤30 Concessions: ¤13.50, ¤18, ¤22.50, ¤27 10% discount available for Friends of the National Concert Hall and groups of 10 or more Presented by Glória, Dublin’s Lesbian and Gay Choir

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES

Raphaela Mangan

TUESDAY 18 JUNE 1:05PM RTÉ Concert Orchestra Raphaela Mangan soprano Gavin Maloney conductor Programme to Mendelssohn Elgar Ciaran Farrell Zimmer

include: Hebrides Overture Sea Pictures Spirit Of The Sea Pirates Of The Caribbean

Presented by Niall Carroll for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime.

Tickets: ¤10 Reserved seating Grab&go Lunch: ¤5 (sandwich or wrap with tea/ coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office at time of booking 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

CONCERT MEAL DEALS TREAT YOURSELF Why not enjoy a delicious meal in the Terrace Café before the concert.

For more information see www.nch.ie

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FIONNUALA HUNT-A REFLECTION

Fionnuala Hunt

WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE 8PM Wolfgang Holzmair baritone • The Orchestra of Ireland directed by Fionnuala Hunt Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik Eisler Ernste Gesange for baritone and strings Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 10 in B minor Respighi Il tramonto Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings The first in a series of concerts devised by one of Ireland’s foremost soloists highlighting the most important aspects of her performing career: directing a chamber orchestra, chamber music (including works by Irish composers) and her love of Tango music. After studies in Ireland and London, Fionnuala spent eight years in Vienna so it is fitting that the great Viennese baritone, Wolfgang Holzmair, will join Fionnuala for the opening concert; two contrasting, rarely performed works for voice and strings are framed by two of the most famous works for string orchestra.

Tickets: ¤20. Concessions: ¤15 20% discount available for Friends of the National Concert Hall Buy all four concerts in the Fionnuala Hunt - A Reflections Series for the price of three.

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JUAN MARTÍN AND FLAMENCO DANCE ENSEMBLE

THE YOUNG EUROPEANS CONCERT WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Gemma NiBriain

THURSDAY 20 JUNE 8PM

FRIDAY 21 JUNE 8PM

Juan Martín, guitar Raquel de Luna dancer Miguel Infante dancer Amparo Heredia singer

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Veronika Blachuta flute • Anna Malesza violin • Ricardo Gaspar viola • Gemma Ní Bhriain mezzo-soprano • Jean-Luc Tingaud conductor

A celebrated virtuoso of the flamenco guitar, Juan Martín has been voted one of the top three guitarists in the world by US magazine, Guitar Player. In Ireland he has built up a loyal following. His visits in 2001-2004 with his Arte Flamenco Puro troupe stunned sell out audiences in Dublin and in 2005 he opened The Cork Jazz Festival with his Quinteto Fabuloso. A concert not to be missed.

Tickets: ¤22, ¤25 (Choir Balcony: ¤18) 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Presented by JK Media Enterprises

As Ireland’s European Presidency draws to a close, outstanding young musicians from Austria, Poland, Portugal and Ireland celebrate their success at some of Europe’s leading music competitions with the RTÉ NSO, and French conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud. Programme includes Carmen Fantasy (Sarasate), Flute Concerto (Nielsen), and popular arias: Deh per questo istante solo from La clemenza di Tito (Mozart) and Faites-lui mes aveux from Faust (Gounod).

Tickets: ¤10, ¤20, ¤25 Concessions: ¤9, ¤18, ¤22.50 Dinner and concert deals available.

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA SIGNATURE SERIES: BRYN TERFEL

Bryn Terfel

SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES: ‘LUNCHTIME FANTASY’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Catriona Ryan

SATURDAY 22 JUNE 8PM

TUESDAY 25 JUNE 1:05PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Bryn Terfel

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Catriona Ryan flute • Jean-Luc Tingaud conductor • Presenter: Niall Carroll RTÉ lyric fm

Having won two Grammy Awards, four Classical Brit Awards and Her Majesty the Queen’s medal for Music, sensational Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is one of the most internationally sought-after voices.

With a masterfully rich, resonant voice and an ability to bring abundant personal charisma and enthusiasm to his performances, he has left a trail of standing ovations from the Metropolitan Opera to Sydney Opera House.

Don’t miss this powerful voice, magnified by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and chorus in a wide-ranging repertoire across Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Weill, Gershwin and more.

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Suppé Light Cavalry Overture Saint-Saëns Odelette for Flute and

Orchestra, Op. 162 Fauré Fantasy for Flute and Orchestra Debussy Petite Suite Chaminade Concertino for Flute and

Orchestra in D, Op. 107 Take your lunch break in France as Catriona Ryan, RTÉ NSO Flute Section Leader, takes centre stage with Parisian conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud for an hour of sunny French music.

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THE CELINE BYRNE SUMMER GALA WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

GROUP BOOKERS GOT A GROUP GET A DEAL Celine Byrne

FRIDAY 28 JUNE 8PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Celine Byrne soprano Mihnea Ignat conductor Back by popular demand, the sensational Irish opera star Celine Byrne performs favourite arias from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, La Bohème and Madame Butterfly, Dvorˇák’s Rusalka, Catalani’s La Wally along with Viennese operetta favourites from Die Fledermaus, Giuditta, Der Favorit and The Merry Widow.

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ESB LIVE: BELL X1 CHOP CHOP ALBUM PREMIERE SHOW

Bell X1

SATURDAY 29 JUNE 8PM The National Concert Hall Dublin is pleased to announce this special show as part of its ESB Live Series with Bell X1 to premiere their luminous new album, Chop Chop.

Chop Chop is a bold, unique and beautiful new direction for the band produced by Peter Katis (The National) and Thomas Bartlett (The Gloaming). To mark the release the band will perform the entire album in sequence before taking an interval and returning to play selections from their beloved back catalogue. Chop Chop will be available in stores on June 28th.

Last summer the three of us got together in Dave’s studio and demoed 15 songs, I think it was. We returned to simpler times, when all around here was fields - piano and guitar, bass & drums... less computers and noises from boxes. Shrink the palette! We’ve loved some of the records that Peter Katis has made in the last few years, and the cut of Thomas Bartlett’s playing with The Gloaming, so when the stars aligned for two weeks in January we made a record together. Chop Chop.

-Paul Noonan

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JOHN FIELD ROOM JUNE 2013 Liz Ryan

Friday 7 June 1:05PM GIRLS ON FILM Liz Ryan accompanied on Piano A journey through the catalogue of music performed by the icons of the silver screen over the decades - Kathryn Grayson, Deana Durbin, Virginia O’Brien, Judy Garland, Ann Blyth and more. An absolute treat for lunchtime music lovers performed by singer Liz Ryan Tickets: ¤15. Concessions: ¤12 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Presented by SOMS PRODUCTIONS

Cian Boylan

Wednesday 5 June 8PM BOYLAN PLAYS BRUBECK CIAN BOYLAN QUARTET Cian Boylan piano • Brendan Doyle alto saxophone Dan Bodwell double bass • Guy Rickarby drums “The audience dug him....a swaying crowd expressed a foot-stamping appreciation” - Time Out New York Acclaimed jazz pianist Cian Boylan takes us on a journey through the music of the late Dave Brubeck, including many of his well known compositions such as Bossa Nova USA, The Duke, Unsquare Dance, Blue Rondo, Three To Get Ready, and of course Take Five, alongside some famous Brubeck arrangements of favourite jazz standards along with an original composition composed for specially for this show.

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Ivan Ilic´

Friday 14 June 1:05PM IN DEFENSE OF SATIE Ivan Ilic´, pianist Works by Erik Satie, John Cage, Morton Feldman (Palais de Mari) and Bunita Marcus In 1948 John Cage said: “We need an art that is paradoxical; it reflects both unanimity of thought and originality of thought.” Few composers are as popular and as original as Satie: he is the perfect illustration of Cage’s paradox. Pianist Ivan Ilic´dedicates this concert to Satie and three American composers he influenced.

Tickets: ¤12. Concessions: ¤10 Presented by Paraty

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JOHN FIELD ROOM JUNE 2013

Claudia Boyle

Friday 21 June 1:05PM CLAUDIA BOYLE SINGS OPERA AND SONG Claudia Boyle soprano • Mairead Hurley accompanist Claudia, now undoubtedly one of Ireland’s leading sopranos at home and abroad, having won 1st prize last November at the Maria Callas competition at Verona, and completing a tour with the renowned conductor Carlo Muti will sing arias from Italian and French opera, including Puccini, Verdi and Charpentier and more.

Tickets: ¤16. Concessions: ¤14 Presented by Paul Black

Susannah de Wrixon

Friday 28 June 1:05PM AT 60S AND 70S WITH YOU...

Susannah de Wrixon • Cian Boylan piano Hugh Buckley guitar Hear fresh interpretations of Vincent, 50 ways to leave your lover, Your song and many more. Susannah always serves up an entertaining and fresh approach to her shows and this new departure will be no exception. For her brand new show Susannah wants to reel in the years and celebrate two decades of exceptional popular song writing.

Tickets: ¤15 Presented by Susannah de Wrixon

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JULY HIGHLIGHT

BRYAN FERRY: AN APPRECIATION

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any big-name musicians find a template and cling to it, limpet-like, for the remainder of their careers. A less common breed appear allergic to standing still and their need to experiment remains steadfast. Bryan Ferry is such an artist.

For more than 40 years, the 24

art-school graduate and style icon from Newcastle has confounded expectations, hopscotching gleefully from one genre to the next, but rarely at the expense of quality.

From the hugely influential avant-garde rock of early 1970s Roxy Music, through to the sumptuous,

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immaculately produced pop of a decade later and on to gloriously eclectic solo endeavours and choice collaborations, Bryan Ferry has rewarded the judicious listener time and again.

Just think of the songs: There’s the giddy, futuristic pop of Virginia Plain, the stately majesty of Avalon and the pristine radio-friendly appeal of Slave to Love.

There are curveballs like the unsettling In Every Dream Home a Heartache with its dark eroticism as well as zeitgeist-defining favourites such as Love is the Drug, whose glorious, cacophonous racket still sounds vital all these years later.

Then there have been the much-lauded reinterpretations of other people’s songs, including the better-than-the-original covers of John Lennon’s Jealous Guy and Wilbert Harrison’s Let’s Stick Together.

And, yet, the truly thrilling thing about this hard-to-pigeonhole songwriter is just how many great less heralded compositions there are from every facet of his career.

There’s the heartstrings-tugging power of Both Ends Burning and the troubled, contemplative The Space Between from his Roxy days as well as the sublime confessional, Tender is the Night, from the much-regarded Olympia album, a project that saw such luminaries as The Smiths’ Johnny Marr and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood queue up to work with him.

And don’t forget his marvellous re-imagining of All Along the Watchtower, from Dylanesque – an album of Bob Dylan covers that would encourage even the most ardent Robert Zimmerman student to reappraise the songs. It’s a reminder of his peerless ability to take even the best known songs and make them his own.

“The only songs worth covering are the ones you really love,” he told me when I interviewed him two years ago.

“They’re the ones you feel you could have written yourself. Otherwise, what’s the point?”

His latest project sees him tear up the rulebook once more – and attract some of the most euphoric reviews he’s ever had. The Jazz Age is an appropriate title for an album that sees Ferry remake/re-model material from his Roxy and solo back catalogues as big band instrumentals.

Not only do songs like Do the Strand and Slave to Love get radically overhauled by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, but in choosing not to sing, Ferry has opted to give his songs a new lease of life. Comparisons to Duke Ellington in his pomp have come from all quarters.

“I started my musical journey listening to a fair bit of jazz, mainly instrumental, and from diverse and contrasting periods,” Ferry says. “I loved the way the great soloists would pick up a tune and shake it up – to go somewhere completely different – and then return gracefully back to the melody, as if nothing had happened.” With the help of arranger Colin Good he has done just that, leading one critic to deduce that it is arguably the most radical album of a radical career.

It’s little wonder, too, that his exquisite 1920s renderings of his own material have found their way onto the soundtrack of Baz Luhrman’s recently released big-screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby. F Scott Fitzgerald’s era-defining parable is reaching a whole new audience – and so too is Bryan Ferry’s enduring music.

Quite what he has lined up next remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure: you will want to be there for the ride.

by John Meagher, Irish Independent

Bryan Ferry performs with The Bryan Ferry Orchestra at the National Concert Hall on July 11.

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SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES: ‘LUNCHTIME JEWELS’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jennifer Davis

WALTONS WORLD MASTERS BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET

Branford Marsalis

TUESDAY 2 JULY 1:05PM

WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 8PM

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Jennifer Davis soprano • Colman Pearce conductor • Presenter: Niall Carroll RTÉ lyric fm

Branford Marsalis saxophones Joey Calderazzo piano • Eric Revis bass Justin Faulkner drums

Jazz legend Branford Marsalis has performed and recorded with such giants as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins. The Branford Marsalis Quartet is one of the greatest jazz quartets in the world. Assertive, precise, and expressive of a timeless yet daring sensibility, this superb quartet performs both refreshed standards and classic originals, helmed by the most trustworthy arbiter of the state of the art.

Rossini The Barber of Seville Overture Mozart Porgi, amor... (The Marriage

of Figaro) Mozart Mi tradi quell’alma ingrata (Don Giovanni) Berlioz Rakoczy March (The Damnation of Faust) R Strauss September (Four Last Songs) R Strauss Cäcilie, Op. 27, No. 2 Mendelssohn War march of the priests (Athalia) Charpentier Depuis le jour (Louise) Gounod Jewel song (Faust)

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Tickets: ¤36, ¤42, ¤48 (Choir Balcony: ¤22) Concessions: ¤32.40, ¤37.80, ¤43.20 (Choir Balcony: ¤19.80) 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Waltons World Masters

4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION WITH DIANNE REEVES QUEEN OF AMERICAN SONG

Dianne Reeves

THURSDAY 4 JULY 8PM More than two generations have passed since jazz stars took on aristocratic titles, otherwise Dianne Reeves would surely be known as The Queen. Possessing a glorious voice and majestic stage presence, she’s one of jazz’s most regal figures; an artist who embodies the music’s enduring values of elegance, class and improvisational poise.

Though her jazz roots run deep--pianist/producer George Duke is her cousin--Reeves first hit the road with Brazilian pianist and bandleader Sergio Mendes in the early 1980s, and before long she attracted the attention of Harry Belafonte. She won the Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy Award for three consecutive releases, an unprecedented feat. She earned another Grammy for the soundtrack of George Clooney’s 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, which featured her prominently on screen.

Making any era she explores her very own realm, Dianne Reeves reigns uncontested as jazz royalty.

“There was a period when it looked as if the tradition of Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday was behind us. But with the appearance of singers like Ms. Reeves, those shoes are beginning to be filled. Hallelujah!” - The New York Times

Tickets: ¤35.

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HOLLYWOOD GREATS WITH CARL DAVIS AND THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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Carl Davis

FRIDAY 5 JULY 8PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Carl Davis conductor Legendary conductor, composer, arranger and BBC Proms in the Park favourite Carl Davis takes a whirlwind tour through some of Hollywood’s greatest film scores, from Wild West classics (Magnificent 7, High Noon) to Oscar winners (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Ring, Atonement, Born Free), and the brilliance of Bond (Goldfinger, Casino Royale, Skyfall) to the wonderful world of John Williams (E.T., Star Wars, Superman).

Tickets: ¤12, ¤20, ¤30, ¤38 Concessions: ¤11, ¤18, ¤27, ¤34 Dinner and concert deals available enquire when booking.

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Hailed by The Guardian as ‘joyous, brave and her most accessible in years’, the album How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? plays like an encyclopedic definition of O’Connor’s oeuvre: songs about love and loss, hope and regret, pain and redemption, anger and justice. This is an album of consistently moving, exciting, brilliant and beautiful songs built around Sinéad’s voice at its very best - raw and passionate. “... a heartbreaking performance from a vital musical force” - The Independent (UK) “The high priestess of pop has recovered her mojo” - The Observer

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SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘LUNCHTIME ROMANCE’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Peter Whelan

Saturday 9 November 8pm

ESB Live: Ludovico Einaudi Ludovico Einaudi has been creating music for films over the last year. You can hear his music on Untouchable and This is England.

For this concert he returns with his full band presenting music from his latest best-selling album In A Time Lapse.

Tickets: e45, e55

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TUESDAY 9 JULY 1:05PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Peter Whelan bassoon Stephen Bell conductor Presenter: Niall Carroll RTÉ lyric fm Warlock Capriol Suite Elgar Romance for bassoon and

orchestra in D minor, Op. 62 Sibelius Karelia Suite, Op. 11 Berwald Konzertstück for bassoon and orchestra Dublin-born Peter Whelan has been described as ‘an absolute master of fleet facility with a solidly plush tone of wondrous immediacy’, Philadelphia Enquirer. A rare chance to enjoy the solo beauty of the bassoon in a programme of romantic and lyrical music.

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SUMMER @ NCH: AN EVENING WITH BRYAN FERRY AND THE BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA

Bryan Ferry

THURSDAY 11 JULY 8:30PM Musical icon Bryan Ferry makes his National Concert Hall debut this July.

An Evening with Bryan Ferry will feature both his usual band and also The Bryan Ferry Orchestra with whom he has just released the highly acclaimed instrumental album The Jazz Age. The former Roxy Music frontman will be performing an eclectic selection of songs chosen from across his whole career to celebrate his 40 years as a singer and songwriter.

Tickets: ¤45, ¤65, ¤75 (Choir Balcony: ¤35).

Limited VIP ticket available: ¤199 (see www.nch.ie for more details).

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THE RTÉ LYRIC FM HALL OF FAME WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RTÉ lyric fm Presenters

FRIDAY 12 JULY 8PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra RTÉ lyric fm Presenters: Niall Carroll Carl Corcoran • Aedín Gormley George Hamilton • Paul Herriott • Liz Nolan Michael Seal conductor RTÉ lyric fm presenters join the RTÉ NSO to celebrate some of the station’s all-time listener favourites from the worlds of classical music, film and ballet. Programme includes the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, Finlandia, music from The Big Country and Laurence of Arabia, the Sabre Dance from Khachaturian’s ballet Gayane, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz and the Finale from Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Sousa’s The Washington Post.

Tickets: ¤10, ¤20, ¤25, ¤30, ¤35 Concessions: ¤9, ¤18, ¤22.50, ¤27, ¤31.50 Dinner and concert deals available, enquire when booking Presented as part of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Festival

BOOKING DATES INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2013/2014 SUBSCRIPTION SALE DATES Patron Circle Members and Season Friends Friday 26 April Friends Tuesday 30 April Subscription sales for all Tuesday 7 May INDIVIDUAL SALE DATES Patron Circle Members and Season Friends Monday 13 May Friends Wednesday 15 May Booking for all Wednesday 22 May ‘Choose your own’ package Wednesday 22 May

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SUMMER @ NCH: MARTIN HAYES INVITES...

MASTERS OF TRADITION

Martin Hayes

SATURDAY 13 JULY 8PM “In its purest form, Irish traditional music speaks a universal language” Martin Hayes.

In the first of two special concerts curated by trad star Martin Hayes, Hayes has brought together the Masters of Tradition, seven of the most compelling artists in Irish music today for a concert celebrating the art form. Joining Hayes on fiddle are vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird, fiddler Cathal Hayden, guitarists Dennis Cahill and Seamie O’Dowd, Máirtín O’Connor on accordion, and uilleann piper David Power.

With performances of solos, duets, trios, and full group collaborations, the evening’s format gives real insight into the musical journeys that these musicians and the masterful music they play. Having toured the U.S. to great acclaim, Masters of Tradition makes its National Concert Hall debut this July. Masters of Tradition is a concert where the heart of Irish traditional music is revealed.

Masters of Tradition is named after the music festival Hayes hosts each August in Bantry, Co. Cork presented by West Cork Music.

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THE THREE TENORS IN CONCERT IRELAND’S GREATEST VOICES

The Three Tenors

SUNDAY 14 JULY 8PM Direct from their amazing performance at the European Premiere Celebration of Lincoln…Ireland’s hottest trio - Declan Kelly, David Martin and Ray O’Hare promise you a night to remember! Packed with the world’s most beautiful, magical and feel-good songs from Sinatra (My Way/New York, New York), Leonard Cohen (Hallelujah), The Dubliners (Song for Ireland) Pavarotti (Nessun Dorma) and fabulous newly arranged songs (She, I Believe).

SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘TRUMPETING LUNCHTIME’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Niall O’Sullivan

TUESDAY 16 JULY 1:05PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Niall O’Sullivan trumpet • Andrew Mogrelia conductor • Presenter: Niall Carroll RTÉ lyric fm Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) Handel Suite in D for Trumpet and Orchestra Rossini The Silken Ladder Overture Haydn Trumpet Concerto Prokofiev Finale from Symphony No. 1

‘Classical Symphony’ Schubert Ave Maria (arr. for Trumpet

and Orchestra) Piazzolla Libertango (arr. for Trumpet

and Orchestra) Music from the baroque, classical, romantic through to 20th century with the outstanding young Irish trumpeter, Niall O’Sullivan joining the RTÉ NSO for some thrilling trumpet showpieces.

Tickets: ¤32.50, ¤35 (Choir Balcony: ¤25) 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by IME Ltd

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FIONNUALA HUNT - A REFLECTION

Fionnuala Hunt

WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 8PM Le Grand Tango Quartet, with Dancers Fionnuala Hunt violin • Joe Csibi bass • Noel Eccles percussion • Andrew Synnott piano Dancers: Simona Zaino • Hernan Catvin The second in a series of concerts devised by one of Ireland’s foremost soloists highlighting the most important aspects of her performing career: directing a chamber orchestra, chamber music (including works by Irish composers) and her love of Tango music.

Fionnuala’s CD Tangos and Dances was the culmination of years of research into the Argentinian Tango, and featured her own arrangements of a dozen sensual dances. This programme illustrates the history of the Tango with the dances rearranged for the Grand Tango Quartet (violin, double bass, piano and percussion). First performed at the Wexford Festival last October this will be its first performance in Dublin with the added attraction of live dancers.

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AN EVENING WITH THE CHIEFTAINS AND THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND GUESTS

The Chieftains

FRIDAY 19 JULY 8PM The Chieftains: Paddy Moloney uilleann pipes/tin whistle, Matt Molloy flute, Seán Keane fiddle, Kevin Conneff bodhrán/ vocals with John Pilatzke fiddle/dance Triona Marshall harp · Alyth McCormack singer · Tim Edey guitar · Nathan Pilatzke dancer · The City of Limerick Pipe Band RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Stephen Bell conductor Celebrating ‘The Gathering’, the ‘High Kings’ of traditional Irish music, the RTÉ NSO and guests from Ireland, Scotland, England and Canada join forces for the very first time.

Hear The Chieftains ‘solo’ and specially arranged numbers including the Anthem (Shenandoah) from The Long Journey Home, Galician Overture, The March to Battle with the City of Limerick Pipe Band, Planxty Mozart and An Dro with its snake dance through the audience!

Tickets: ¤15, ¤25, ¤38, ¤45.

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SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES ‘LUNCHTIME IN THE AUVERGNE’ WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Anna Devin

TUESDAY 23 JULY 1:05PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra • Anna Devin soprano • Gavin Maloney conductor Presenter: Niall Carroll RTÉ lyric fm Mozart The Marriage of Figaro

Overture Mozart Guinse al fin.... Deh vieni non

tardar (The Marriage of Figaro) Verdi Gualtier Maldè…Caro Nome (Rigoletto) Puccini O Mio Babbino Caro

(Gianni Schicchi) Tchaikovsky Waltz from Eugene Onegin Mendelssohn Scherzo from A Midsummer

Night’s Dream Canteloube Chants d’Auvergne: Brezairola

Malurous Qu’o uno fenno Bailèro

Tickets: ¤10 | Grab&go Lunch: ¤5 (sandwich or wrap with tea/coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office at time of booking Presented as part of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Festival

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THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013: RENÉE FLEMING, SOPRANO MACIEJ PIKULSKI, PIANO

Renée Fleming

WEDNESDAY 24 JULY 8PM Canteloube Chants d’Auvergne Programme to include:

La delaïssádo Händel O Sleep, why dost thou

Malurous qu’o uno fenno

leave me from Semele

To fleeting pleasures make Baïlèro Puccini Donde lieta uscì from

your court from Samson

La Bohème Richard Strauss Ständchen, Op. 17, no. 2 Leoncavallo Mimì Pinson, la biondinetta

Morgen, Op.27, no. 4 from La Bohème

Zueignung, Op. 10, no.1 Verdi

Mi parea. M’ingiunse di Delibes Les Filles de Cadix

coricarmi...Mia madre aveva

una povera ancella...Ave Maria

from Otello One of the most beloved and celebrated musical ambassadors of our time, soprano Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. Known as “the people’s diva” and named the number one female singer by Salzburger Festspiele Magazin in 2010, she continues to grace the world’s greatest opera stages and concert halls.

We are delighted to welcome Ms Fleming to the National Concert Hall for her debut performance here in what is sure to be a mesmerising finale to the International Concert Series 12-13.

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THE UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN WORLD TOUR

THE PRESIDENT’S CONCERT WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND GUESTS

THURSDAY 25 JULY 8PM

FRIDAY 26 JULY 8PM

Playing instruments ‘bought with loose change’, the acclaimed Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain proudly asserts that all music, whether by Tchaikovsky or David Bowie, is ripe for reinterpretation — as long as it is played on the ukulele. Charming audiences from Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall, the Orchestra is a funny, and infectiously high-spirited group, it has spawned thousands of ukulele orchestras around the world and inspired millions of players.

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Lisa Hannigan singer Alex Petcu Colan percussion Zoë Conway fiddle John McIntyre guitar Aoife Miskelly soprano Gavin Maloney conductor

Plucking brilliant! - Sunday Times

Tickets: ¤27, ¤32, ¤35 (Choir Balcony: ¤20) Concessions: ¤24.30, ¤28.80, ¤31.50 (Choir Balcony ¤18) 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Pat Byrne in association with Waltons World Masters

A concert in honour of the RTÉ NSO’s patron, President Michael D. Higgins with a musical celebration showcasing outstanding Irish talent from the fields of classical, traditional and popular music performing with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets: ¤15, ¤25, ¤32, ¤40 Concessions: ¤13.50, ¤22.50, ¤29, ¤36 Dinner and concert deals available, enquire when booking Presented as part of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Festival

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WORLD CHORAL FEST NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF IRELAND: SUMMER PROMS

Tracy S. Resseguie and Bernie Sherlock

SUNDAY 28 JULY 8PM Directed by Bernie Sherlock and Tracy S. Resseguie Handel Halleluia Chorus Miskinis Cantate Domino Wilbye Adieu Sweet Amaryllis Monteverdi Beatus Vir Mendelsshon Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen Michael McGlynn Incantations (Allelu) Gjeilo Unicornis Captivator Dan Forrest All People that on Earth Do Dwell Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium Silvestri • Forrest Over Havet Whitacre • Silverstri Sleep Forrest • Silverstri Cantante Canticum Novum (Sing a New Song) World Premiere

Anthony Kearns

MONDAY 29 JULY 8PM National Youth Orchestra of Ireland Anthony Kearns, tenor • Majella Cullagh soprano • Rafael Payare conductor Programme to include Bingham Celticity, Verdi vocal selection & Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 Join the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland with renowned singers Anthony Kearns and Majella Cullagh. Liz Nolan will present a free pre-concert interview with conductor Rafael Payare onstage at 7pm.

A unique event not to be missed!

Singers from Ireland, United States and Canada uniting in one choir to bring the world together in song.

Tickets: ¤20. Concessions: ¤15 25% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 25% discount for Young Maestros 25% discount for groups of 10 or more Sponsored by Destinations Ireland and Beyond

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Tickets: ¤18. Concessions: ¤13 ¤9 for children under 18 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros 10% discount for groups of 10 or more 5% discount for groups of 5 or more Presented by National Youth Orchestra of Ireland

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES

SUMMER @ NCH:

Sharon Carty

TUESDAY 30 JULY 1:05PM

MARTIN HAYES INVITES… JORDI SAVALL’S CELTIC VIOL & TRIÚR DOUBLE BILL Sunday 25 August 8pm

RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Sharon Carty, mezzo-soprano • Andreas Frese, piano Sinéad Hayes conductor Programme to include: Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice Overture Mozart Ch’io mi scordi di te Mozart Rondo KV 382 Berlioz Le spectre de la rose from

Les nuits d’été Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite 1

This unique event curated by Martin Hayes sees Early Music superstar Jordi Savall perform a full concert with his trio preceded by a full set from Triúr.

Tickets: ¤35

Presented by Niall Carroll for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime.

Tickets: ¤10 Reserved seating Grab&go Lunch: ¤5 (sandwich or wrap with tea/ coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office at time of booking 10% discount available for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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JOHN FIELD ROOM JULY Friday 5 July 1:05PM ANNA KISELYOVA, PIANO Mozart Sonata in F, K 332 Scriabin Sonata No.4, Op.30 Debussy Estampes Anna Kiselyova Glinka-Balakirev The Lark Pianist Anna Kiselyova returns to the National Concert Hall to perform a fine selection of piano works, including one of the most delightful sonatas by Mozart, wild and powerful Scriabin’s Sonata No. 4, exquisite Oriental and Spanish pictures by Debussy and concluding with the broad, but tender Russian song The Lark (Michael Glinka), virtuously arranged for piano by Mily Balakirev.

Tickets: ¤12. Concessions: ¤10.80 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall, Presented and sponsored by Russian School of Music

Friday 19 July 1:05PM MORE.....GOOD OLD DAYS OF MUSIC HALL Dara MacMahon mezzo-soprano • Gerry Noonan baritone Pauline Cooper accompanist After recent sell-out shows, Dara MacMahon and Gerry Noonan return to the John Field Room with another wonderful show of Music Hall songs. Take a trip down memory lane with an all-new selection of your favourite tunes from the Music Hall. This lunchtime concert promises to be fun and entertaining, with plenty of opportunity for the audience to sing-along!

Tickets: ¤15. Concessions: ¤12 Presented by Dara MacMahon and Gerry Noonan

Friday 26 July 1:05PM KEVIN FITZPATRICK PLAYS CHOPIN Kevin Fizpatrick Kevin Fizpatrick piano Chopin Preludes, Études,

Valses & Polonaises Kevin Fitzpatrick returns to the John Field Room to perform a varied and exciting Chopin recital.

Tickets: ¤15. Concessions: ¤13.50. 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall. 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. Presented by Kevin Fitzpatrick Zrazy

Friday 12 July 1:05PM ZRAZY Maria Walsh and Carole Nelson of Zrazy bring their “unquenchable love of what they do” back to the National Concert Hall. Musically sophisticated and lyrically smart, Zrazy inhabit a unique place in contemporary music in Ireland. The garlanded song writing team of expressive singer Maria and pianist/saxophonist Carole dip into their extensive catalogue. Steeped in jazz, latin, R’n’B and soul, familiar or new.

Tickets: ¤15. Concessions: ¤13 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Presented by Maria Walsh and Carole Nelson

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Tuesday 30 July 8PM BERLIN ON BROADWAY Aylish Kerrigan, mezzo-soprano Aylish Kerrigan Dearbhla Collins, piano Kurt Weill songs to include: Alabama Song, Morität von Mackie Messer, Bilbao Song, Foolish Heart, September Song, I’m a stranger here myself. This Kurt Weill Evening is a compelling and unusual programme presented by Aylish Kerrigan and Dearbhla Collins and includes works from both phases of Weill’s prolific musical outpouring. With theatrical lighting and simple props, both the Weimar Republic and the Broadway stage come alive with an intensity appropriate to the absorbing and gripping lyrics and music.

Tickets: ¤20. Concessions: ¤10.80. 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall. 20% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Akademie für internationalen Kulturaustausch e. V., Stuttgart

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SUMMER @ NCH

LAPD:

Liam O’Flynn Andy Irvine Paddy Glackin Dónal Lunny

Saturday 17 August 8pm

LAPD is the affectionate acronym attached to a quartet of Irish music legends who have recently graced us with their combined presence and beautiful music. They are three-quarters Planxty and the original Bothy Band fiddler, also collectively featuring past and present members of Moving Hearts, Sweeney’s Men, Mozaik, Patrick Street. The few concerts they have played to date have been extraordinary events. Ancient tunes, old songs, funny stories, and most importantly, brand new arrangements.

Tickets: ¤35 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall

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AUGUST HIGHLIGHT

MARTIN HAYES INVITES... JORDI SAVALL’S CELTIC VIOL & TRIÚR WITH DENNIS CAHILL

M

usical tributaries find their own way of intersecting, regardless of the boundaries or limitations we might attempt to impose upon them. Catalonia’s Jordi Savall has had a long and immensely fruitful relationship with early and Baroque music, and has mined its depths with an ear cocked as much to the space, as to the sounds 44

within the music. Martin Hayes, as curator of this concert, traces a natural path to Savall’s door, since both musicians are long practiced in the art of unearthing the essence of a melody line so that it glistens afresh for its (diverse) audiences.

East Clare music has had a long and fruitful history before Martin Hayes

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lifted a fiddle under his chin, but ever since he did, guided by the listening ear of his late father, P. Joe Hayes and the Tulla Céilí Band, he has breathed new life into its veins, putting a finger on the essence of its lonesome touch, and in the process, lured swathes of new listeners to its doors. For those whose rapt attention was already in thrall of this music, he’s revealed layer after delicate layer in tunes he’s inherited from the late Paddy Fahy, as well as those from his own father and from countless, nameless others in traditional music.

Ever since Hayes encountered Jordi Savall’s music for the first time, on the soundtrack to the 1991 Alain Corneau film, Tous Les Matins Du Monde, he was transfixed by the level of sensitivity in Savall’s playing. The refinement and subtlety of Savall’s bowing on the viola de gamba, and its inherent warmth, revitalised the music of French composers, Marin Marais, Sainte Colombe, François Couperin and Jean-Baptiste Lully. Encouraged by his first exposure to Savall’s interpretation of this early music, Martin Hayes was determined to delve deeper into the finer detail of tunes within the Irish tradition. And instinctively, Hayes felt, a natural connection exists between Savall’s reading of early and baroque music and the music of the Irish tradition.

Jordi Savall released two albums in 2009 and 2010, The Celtic Viol 1 and 11, which featured airs and dances

by Turlough O’Carolan alongside a rich repertoire of traditional Irish and Scottish tunes. Savall’s often stark, bare boned, deeply resonant interpretation of music from the Irish tradition was a further lure for Martin.

Here was a Catalan musician who really understood how to populate space with densely-textured yet buoyant sound, much as Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill have re-imagined such traditional tunes as The Pigeon At The Gate and Tell Her I Am. What both musicians unquestionably share is an ability to reach out to that intangible

aspect of the music that, although sometimes born of pain or sadness, has a transcendent quality reflecting a joyous, celebratory undercurrent.

And that’s what they call in Clare the ‘lonesome touch’. It demands much of a musician: to set aside his own personal foibles or concerns in order to yield to the needs of a particular piece of music. And anyone who has had the joyous experience of hearing Savall’s reading of ‘Carolan’s Farewell’ or ‘The Lamentations From Owen Roe O’Neill’ (both included on Celtic Viol 1) will recognise the common ground he shares with Hayes in this regard.

This concert poses a challenge for both musicians. While each can bask in the respective comfort of their own ensembles, Savall and Hayes relish the prospect of bartering repertoires in this chance encounter. Having the courage to follow the leads which have brought them together, it’s likely that both musicians will mine those authentic soundscapes which characterise their music. Hayes’ choice of Triúr adds further to the intrigue: with a repertoire populated by the infinite riches of Peadar Ó Riada’s compositions, infused by a warm and indefatigable wit, Hayes will encounter Savall at a crossroads where anything is possible. And both musicians have clearly embraced the challenge that this encounter poses for themselves – and for the audience. Some might see such coalitions as unnecessary risk-taking by musicians whose reputations are firmly established. For Savall and Hayes, this concert marks an opportunity to test the elastine qualities of their creative limits, and enjoy the adrenaline rush that fuels such an encounter.

by Siobhán Long, The Irish Times

Martin Hayes Invites... Jordi Savall’s Celtic Viol & Triúr with Dennis Cahill at the National Concert Hall August 25. Tickets: ¤35 Tel 01 417 0000 or www.nch.ie

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PAUL BRADY WITH THE RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Paul Brady

THURSDAY 1 AUGUST/FRIDAY 2 AUGUST 8PM RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Paul Brady • David Brophy conductor Paul Brady - quite simply one of the finest musicians Ireland has ever produced. It is rare that a musician literally shapes a nation’s musical tradition. Brady’s perpetual breaking of musical boundaries has done just that.

His staggering back-catalogue incorporates folk, rock, blues, traditional and classic pop while anthems like The Island, Arthur McBride and Nobody Knows continuously smash generational barriers.

Don’t miss the rare chance to catch this unrivalled Irish legend with the phenomenal sound of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Tickets: ¤15, ¤28, ¤35 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Music in High Definition from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

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SUMMER @ NCH: THE KILFENORA CÉILÍ BAND - SPRAOI

The Kilfenora Céilí Band

SATURDAY 3 AUGUST 8PM The Kilfenora Céilí Band and Guests • Don Stiffe vocals • The West Clare Set Dancers The Kilfenora Ceili Band is back with its new show, “Spraoi”. In “Spraoi”, The band is joined by friends, singer/songwriter Don Stiffe and the wonderful West Clare Set Dancers. The show is an exciting celebration of Irish music song and dance from home and abroad. 2012 saw the launch of this band’s current album, aptly called Chapter 8. it being the eighth since the formation of the band in 1909. As Earle Hitchner of the Wall Street Journal states, “... It is that ultimate rarity among céilí band albums: a feat for the feet and a feast for the ears.” “…Fiery fiddles, pounding rhythms and flashing feet are all part of the Kilfenora Ceili Band’s make-up & today’s Kilfenora band has a modern edge about it that makes it instantly appealing…” - Sunday Business Post Supported By

Tickets: ¤25, ¤30, ¤35 (Choir Balcony: ¤20) Concessions: ¤22.50, ¤27, ¤31.50 Choir Balcony: ¤18 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros 15% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by the National Concert Hall NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie no booking fees

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RTÉ CONCERT AN EVENING WITH ORCHESTRA SUMMER IRIS DEMENT LUNCHTIME SERIES

Ben Dawson

Iris DeMent

TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 1:05PM

THURSDAY 8 AUGUST 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Ben Dawson piano Timothy Henty conductor

Iris DeMent, one of America’s most beloved and respected singer songwriters, didn’t know if or when she would make another record. Sixteen years after her last release, DeMent has come up with another great collection Sing The Delta. DeMent will be performing from her new collection along with many of her previously recorded songs.

Bizet Carmen Suite No. 1 De Falla Nights In The Gardens Of Spain Ro ´zsa El Cid Suite: Overture, Love Scene and March (Entr’acte) Presented by Niall Carroll for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime.

Tickets: ¤10 Reserved seating Grab&go Lunch: ¤5 (sandwich or wrap with tea/ coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office at time of booking 10% discount available for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra 48

Tickets: ¤30.50, ¤34.50 (Choir Balcony: ¤25.50) Presented by Imaj Promotions

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Photo: Justin MacCarthy

JULIE FEENEY WITH THE RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

SUMMER @ NCH:

Spiritualized Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Saturday 10 August 8pm

Julie Feeney

FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 8PM RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Julie Feeney David Brophy conductor Julie Feeney – composer, orchestrator and songwriter “Intricate, articulate.....draws on sources across centuries” – The New York Times Julie Feeney’s unquestionably original sound and innovative, avant-garde approach, while rooted in classical music, straddle both the pop and theatrical worlds.

Her latest Choice Music Award-nominated album Clocks was voted Irish Times Album of the Year.

Spiritualized will perform their classic album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space live in its entirety. This very special show will feature a choir, string and horn sections.

Tickets: ¤45, ¤50

It’s about time this “eccentric pop genius” (Hot Press) shared a stage with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

This will be the intimate concert of the summer!

Tickets: ¤15, ¤28, ¤35 10% discount available for groups of 10 or more Music in High Definition from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

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SUMMER @ NCH: SPIRITUALIZED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE

Jason Pierce

SATURDAY 10 AUGUST 8PM Spiritualized will perform their classic album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space live in its entirety. This very special show will feature a choir, string and horn sections.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space made a profound impact on its release in the summer of 1997, both critically and commercially, with its psychedelic soundscapes and heart-rending lyrics. It has influenced a whole range of musicians ever since. It was NME’s album of the year for 1997, reached No.4 in the official charts and No. 1 in Ireland.

Ladies and Gentleman was performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall, New York’s Radio City Music Hall & the Sydney Opera House all to great critical acclaim. This show is the only worldwide performance of Ladies and Gentlemen in 2013.

“That’s what ranks Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space alongside the best art: Jason Pierce and a big band that included his ex-girlfriend and a whole slew of people that soon became his ex-bandmates faithfully render the cycle of loving anything-- the innocent exuberance, the bitter rejection, the episodic denial-- in 70 perfect minutes” Pitchfork

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES

RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN AT THE MOVIES

Mia Cooper

TUESDAY 13 AUGUST 1:05PM

FRIDAY 16 AUGUST 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Mia Cooper violin Robert Houlihan conductor

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Neil Thomson conductor

Kodály Sibelius Williams Bartók Strauss

Oklahoma!, The King and I, South Pacific, Carousel and The Sound of Music – all legacies of the phenomenal song-writing duo Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Marosszék Dances The Swan Of Tuonela The Lark Ascending Hungarian Sketches Thunder And Lightning Polka

Presented by George Hamilton for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime.

In a special sensory treat, you can watch stunning clips of these classic movie musicals on the big screen, while the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performs the unforgettable scores live on stage.

Iconic hits like Shall We Dance?, Some Enchanted Evening, There Is Nothing Like A Dame, The Sound Of Music, Climb Ev’ry Mountain and more!

Tickets: ¤10 Reserved seating Grab&go Lunch: ¤5 (sandwich or wrap with tea/ coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office at time of booking 10% discount available for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Tickets: ¤15, ¤25, ¤30, ¤35, ¤40 Concessions: ¤13, ¤23, ¤27, ¤32, ¤36 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Music in High Definition from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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SUMMER @ NCH: LAPD: LIAM O’FLYNN - ANDY IRVINE PADDY GLACKIN - DÓNAL LUNNY

Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Liam O’Flynn, Paddy Glackin

SATURDAY 17 AUGUST 8PM LAPD: Liam O’Flynn • Andy Irvine • Paddy Glackin • Dónal Lunny Liam, Andy, Paddy and Dónal, aka LAPD, collectively inhabited the bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Sweeney’s Men, Moving Hearts and many more through decades of Irish music. Anyone who was lucky enough to attend their performances will testify that their energy and amazing telepathic chemistry hasn’t waned.

LAPD is the affectionate acronym attached to a quartet of Irish music legends who have recently graced us with their combined presence and beautiful music. They are three-quarters Planxty and the original Bothy Band fiddler, also collectively featuring past and present members of Moving Hearts, Sweeney’s Men, Mozaik, Patrick Street. The few concerts they have played to date have been extraordinary events. Ancient tunes, old songs, funny stories, and most importantly, brand new arrangements.

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RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA SUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES

Cara O’Sullivan

RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA & BIG BAND: UNFORGETTABLE – ALLAN HARRIS SINGS NAT ‘KING’ COLE

Allan Harris

TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 1:05PM

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Cara O’Sullivan soprano Neil Thomson conductor

RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Big Band Allan Harris

Beethoven Arne

Bellini C.P.E. Bach Mussorgsky Stevenson Arditi Bizet

Prometheus Overture The Soldier Tir’d from Artaxerxes Casta Diva from Norma Symphony No. 5 in B minor Gopak from Sorochinsky Fair The Last Rose Of Summer Parla-Walzer L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2

Presented by George Hamilton for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime.

Tickets: ¤10 Reserved seating Grab&go Lunch: ¤5 (sandwich or wrap with tea/ coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office at time of booking 10% discount available for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Following four previous sell-out shows, the velvet-toned, world-renowned New Yorker Allan Harris reunites with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Big Band in celebration of the music of Nat ‘King’ Cole.

Together they reminisce on the jazz clubs of the 30s, 40s and 50s through timeless hits like When I Fall in Love, Route 66, Stardust, Let There Be Love, The Very Thought of You, Walkin’ My Baby Back Home, Mona Lisa and of course Unforgettable.

Early booking strongly advised.

Tickets: ¤11, ¤22, ¤27, ¤33, ¤38 Concessions: ¤10, ¤20, ¤24, ¤30, ¤34 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Music in High Definition from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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SUMMER @ NCH: MARTIN HAYES INVITES… JORDI SAVALL’S CELTIC VIOL & TRIÚR DOUBLE BILL

Jordi Savall

SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 8PM Jordi Savall viola da gamba • Andrew Lawrence-King harp • Frank McGuire percussion Triúr: Peadar Ó Riada • Martin Hayes • Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh plus guest Dennis Cahill This unique event curated by Martin Hayes sees Early Music superstar Jordi Savall perform a full concert with his trio preceded by a full set from Triúr.

Jordi Savall is an exceptional figure in today’s music world. For more than thirty years he has been devoted to the rediscovery of abandoned musical treasures. Savall and a strangely beautiful instrument have changed how the world hears early and Baroque music and enraptured audiences everywhere.

“A man worth celebrating... A performer of genius” The New Yorker Triúr is a collaboration that is not only a meeting of great musical minds, but the finished recordings are a tour de force of masterful playing of inspired composition. From the foot tapping polkas and reels to the delicate beauty of the airs and the courtly hornpipes and jigs the music is soulful, witty and always intimate.

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RTÉ CONCERT RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA SUMMER ORCHESTRA: LUNCHTIME SERIES DISCO INFERNO!

William Butt

TUESDAY 27 AUGUST 1:05PM

FRIDAY 30 AUGUST 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra • William Butt cello Conor Palliser conductor

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Andy O’Callaghan conductor Celebration Singers

Sibelius Finlandia Walton Façade Suite No. 2 Tchaikovsky Variations On A Rococo Theme, Op.33 Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Presented by George Hamilton for live broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm’s Classical Daytime.

Due to phenomenal demand, the troupe that brought the roof down at February’s sold-out Bee Gees and Super Troupers concerts are back with their brand new show, DISCO INFERNO! It takes a certain something to have the entire National Concert Hall audience dancing in the aisles. DISCO INFERNO! is that something. Expect hit after 70s hit from the Bee Gees, Abba, Isaac Hayes, Elton John, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand and so many more, fabulously executed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Early booking strongly advised.

Tickets: ¤10 Reserved seating Grab&go Lunch: ¤5 (sandwich or wrap with tea/ coffee) Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office at time of booking 10% discount available for groups of 10 or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Tickets: ¤11, ¤22, ¤27, ¤33, ¤38 Concessions: ¤10, ¤20, ¤24, ¤30, ¤34 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Music in High Definition from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST Thursday 1 August 1:05PM THE JOHN McCORMACK SONGBOOK Ross Scanlon tenor David O’Shea piano Tenor Ross Scanlon and pianist David O’Shea return Ross Scanlon & David O’Shea to the John Field Room to present another musical tribute to the great Irish tenor John McCormack, featuring such McCormack classics as None but the lonely heart, Roses of Picardy, I hear you calling me and many more old favourites.

Tickets: ¤12. Concession: ¤10 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Ross Scanlon and David O’Shea

Saturday 3 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes MEITHEAL’S AWARD-WINNING TRADITIONAL MUSICIANS Meitheal’s prize-winning group performs a lunchtime concert of innovative Irish music.

Belying their age, these award winners provide a sparkling recital of all that’s best in the new directions traditional music is is taking in the 21st century. A guest appearance by Meitheal’s winning soloist tops off an absorbing show for a discerning audience.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends and Young Maestros. 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. Presented by the National Concert Hall

Edmund Battersby Beth McNinch

Fionnuala Moynihan

Friday 2 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes BETH MCNINCH, VIOLA AND FIONNUALA MOYNIHAN, PIANO Nino Rota Intermezzo.

Vieuxtemps Capriccio (solo viola) Schubert Moments Musicaux Nos 2 & 3 (solo piano) Schubert Arpeggione Sonata Join Musici Ireland’s Artistic Director Beth McNinch and one of Ireland’s leading pianists, Fionnuala Moynihan, in a concert showcasing the beautiful timbre of the viola. This duo of highly experienced artists whose live performances have been described as stunning and uplifting bring you a concert including the rarely performed Nino Rota Intermezzo, alongside Schubert’s’ masterpiece, the Arpeggione Sonata.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends and Young Maestros 10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

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Tuesday 6 August 8PM EDMUND BATTERSBY, PIANO Haydn Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI/20 Schumann Waldszenen, op. 82 Schumann Novelette in D major, op. 21, no. 2 Schubert Klavierstücke no. 1 & no. 2, D. 946 Schubert Fantasy in C major, ‘Der Wanderer’, op. 15, D.760 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: ¤20 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Dublin International Piano Festival & Summer Academy.

Sponsored by Piano Academy of Ireland, International Piano Magazine, Classical Music Magazine

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST Wednesday 7 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes ENEKO O’CARROLL, FRENCH HORN Eneko O’Carroll Eneko O’Carroll was born into a musical family in Dublin. He has recently gained a BMus in Performance in French Horn and Higher Diploma Qualification in Teaching at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

In 2011 he performed the Karl Matys Horn Concerto with the Dublin Symphony Orchestra, and shortly after performed R. Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 with the Royal Irish Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra for his final year exam at the National Concert Hall. He has performed with the RTÉ National Symphony and Concert Orchestras, National Youth Orchestras of Ireland and Scotland and the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble. Eneko is currently studying for a Masters Degree in the Royal Conservatory of Scotland and has recently won the Yamaha Bursary for Brass at the Feis Ceoil in Dublin.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends and Young Maestros 10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Presented by the National Concert Hall

Wednesday 7 August 8PM EVELYNE BRANCART, PIANO Beethoven Piano Sonata in C major, ‘Waldstein’ Op. 53 Schumann Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, ‘Florestan und

Eusebius’, Op. 11 Chopin 12 Etudes, Op. 25 A world renowned pianist and teacher, Evelyne Brancart’s “technical demand ranges from brilliant to very impressive and shows a distinctive musical personality, with a style marked by a surging, graceful quality rather than any sense of strict proportion.” - New York Times Tickets: ¤20 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more. Presented by Dublin International Piano Festival & Summer Academy Sponsored by Piano Academy of Ireland, International Piano Magazine, Classical Music Magazine

Gyula Nagy

Lynda-Jane Nelson

Margaret Bridge

Thursday 8 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes OTC’s Young Associate Artists in concert If music be the food of love, play on…

Lynda-Jane Nelson mezzo-soprano • Margaret Bridge soprano • Gyula Nagy baritone Is music the food of love? Love is certainly the food of music - love between lovers, between family, between friends, love for a cause or a country, love unrequited, love thwarted, love lost, love found, love realised just too late… and, every now and then, love fully realised.

Join OTC’s Young Associate Artists as they explore this theme, solo and ensemble, for a series of lunchtime concerts at the National Concert Hall this August.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by the National Concert Hall

Friday 9 August 1:05PM PIANIST DAVID SYME IN CONCERT David Syme Performs works by Chopin, Liszt, O’Carolan and Schumann.

Internationally-renowned American concert pianist David Syme is bold and forceful, subtle and tender, summoning whatever the notes call for, but injecting his own affinity, interpretation and remarkable flexibility. He has appeared at prestigious venues such as the Lincoln Centre and Carnegie Hall and has recorded 25 concertos with such orchestras as the London Philharmonia and the Vienna Symphony.

“David Syme evidently views the piano as a limitless resource of colour and nuance…..indescribably sensitive” Glasgow Herald Scotland Tickets: ¤15 Presented by Sheil Entertainment Agency

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST Opera Serenade

Tuesday 13 August 8PM AN EVENING WITH OPERA SERENADE An Evening with Opera Serenade promises a rich and varied programme from Opera to Irish Airs and Popular Song, with music from Mozart, Bizet, Morricone and many more…

This popular Arklow based quintet has developed a reputation as one of Ireland’s finest female classical vocal groups. Following sell-out performances in The John Field Room in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011, Opera Serenade is delighted to return to the National Concert Hall.

Tickets: ¤15 10% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Opera Serenade

Wednesday 14 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes NICHOLA HEGARTY Nichola Hegarty, a singer based in Dublin is becoming a rising star on the Irish jazz scene. From listening to an abundance of vocalists at a young age from The Vard Sisters to Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra to Stevie Wonder, she began to develop her own sound and technique learning from each of these artists. Nichola is currently in her last year studying at Newpark Music Centre on their Honours BA in Jazz Performance. Nichola’s musical influences vary from classical, traditional, soul, jazz, funk, RnB, hip hop, folk and metal and are reflected in her own personal compositions.

The tone in Nichola’s voice is very sweet, captivating and extremely melodic. She sings with genuine heartfelt emotions, leaving her audience wanting more.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Presented by the National Concert Hall

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Wednesday 14 August 8PM FIONNUALA HUNT - A REFLECTION Fionnuala Hunt violin • Una Hunt piano Rachel Kelly mezzo soprano This programme includes works by Hamilton Harty, Charles Villiers Stanford and Irish Airs.

The third in a series of concerts devised by one of Ireland’s foremost soloists highlighting the most important aspects of her performing career: directing a chamber orchestra, chamber music (including works by Irish composers) and her love of Tango music.

Chamber music has always been central to Fionnuala’s musical life playing with her sister Una since childhood.

Both played in a piano trio for many years with their brother Vincent, and since then Una and Fionnuala have since played as a duo in many parts of Europe and the USA and recorded a CD together of works by Irish composers entitled Irish Fantasy.

Tickets: ¤20. Concessions: ¤15 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Bundle: 4 concerts for the price of 3. Presented by the National Concert Hall

Thursday 15 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes OTC’S YOUNG ASSOCIATE ARTISTS IN CONCERT If music be the food of love, play on…

Gemma Ní Bhriain mezzo-soprano • Maria Hughes mezzo-soprano • Cormac Lawlor bass-baritone Margaret Bridge soprano Is music the food of love? Love is certainly the food of music - love between lovers, between family, between friends, love for a cause or a country, love unrequited, love thwarted, love lost, love found, love realised just too late… and, every now and then, love fully realised.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Presented by the National Concert Hall

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST Wednesday 21 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes SAM JACKSON, PIANO Sam Jackson, piano plus special guests Sam Jackson Following rave reviews for his album, Sharp & Flat, acclaimed composer Sam Jackson returns to the John Field Room to play an intimate lunchtime set.

“Fuses jazz and modern classical music in a compelling fashion. Jackson’s subtly evocative compositions have an intrinsic beauty to them and his virtuosic playing will remind many of the acclaimed American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau” - 4 Stars - Irish Independent

Paul McCarroll

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Presented by the National Concert Hall

Friday 16 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes PAUL MCCARROLL IN RECITAL Mabel Swainson Pianoforte Award Winner at the 2013 Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil The Mabel Swainson Pianoforte Award provides the prizewinner the opportunity to perform their winning recital in a recognised venue. For the last 15 years Prizewinners have been afforded the opportunity of performing in the John Field Room of The National Concert Hall. Paul McCarroll will perform a special recital as this year’s winner of the Mabel Swainson Pianoforte award.

As a chamber musician, Paul has toured the Czech Republic and the U.S. and was the recipient of the grand prize at the WRR Chamber International Competition in Dallas.

The National Concert Hall is delighted to continue this association with the Friends of Mabel and Ronald Swainson.

Thursday 22 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes OTC’s Young Associate Artists in concert If music be the food of love, play on…

Kelley Lonergan soprano Niall Gallagher tenor Is music the food of love? Love is certainly the food of music - love Kelley Lonergan between lovers, between family, between friends, love for a cause or a country, love unrequited, love thwarted, love lost, love found, love realised just too late… and, every now and then, love fully realised.

Join OTC’s Young Associate Artists as they explore this theme, solo and ensemble, for a series of lunchtime concerts at the National Concert Hall this August.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Presented by the National Concert Hall

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Presented by the National Concert Hall

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JOHN FIELD ROOM AUGUST Friday 23 August 1:05PM YES TO YOUNG TALENT Martin Moriarty viola • Peter Dains piano Music by Brahms, Bach and Enescu Prize winner of multiple awards, Martin Moriarty started his musical studies in the Young European Strings School of Music where he is currently studying with Ronald Masin.

The principle viola of the Young European Strings Chamber Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and the Cámara Ensemble takes to the stage as a soloist presenting some of the most renowned repertoire for the viola.

Tickets: ¤8 (children under twelve years of age: ¤5) Concessions: ¤4 25% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall Presented by Young European Strings School of Music

Wednesday 28 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes QUINTESSENTIAL SAX QUARTET Gavin Brennan, David Conway, Séan Kenny and Stephen O’Brien Quintessential Sax formed in 2012 and since then have gone on to perform in venues such as St. Patrick’s Cathedral as well as numerous recitals in Trinity College Dublin, The Peppercanister Church and DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. Quintessential Sax is comprised of both DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and Trinity College Dublin students. Quintessential Sax won the DIT Chamber Music Competition in 2013. Individually the members’ achievements include various competition wins at the Feis Ceoil and DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama Competitions, reaching the semi-finals of the Freemasons Young Musician of the Year, and being selected as a Finalist in the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarships.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Presented by the National Concert Hall

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Thursday 29 August 1:05PM August Lunchtimes OTC’S YOUNG ASSOCIATE ARTISTS IN CONCERT If music be the food of love, play on…

Gyula Nagy baritone • Kelley Lonergan soprano Niall Gallagher tenor If music be the food of love, play on…

Is music the food of love? Love is certainly the food of music - love between lovers, between family, between friends, love for a cause or a country, love unrequited, love thwarted, love lost, love found, love realised just too late… and, every now and then, love fully realised.

Join OTC’s Young Associate Artists as they explore this theme, solo and ensemble, for a series of lunchtime concerts at the National Concert Hall this August.

Tickets: ¤10. Concessions: ¤9 20% discount for Friends of the National Concert Hall and Young Maestros.

10% discount for groups of 10 or more.

Presented by the National Concert Hall

Jack Morrissey and Brian McIvor

Friday 30 August 1:05PM A FLANDERS & SWANN TRIBUTE Jack Morrissey • Brian McIvor Jack & Mac return with their ever-popular Flanders and Swann Tribute. Join them as they perform the animal songs and recitations of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. This is the fourth production of this show in the John Field Room and features the perennial favourites (The Gas Man, The Elephant and the Hippo) with some new delights - and an Irish twist.

Tickets: ¤15. Concessions: ¤12 10% discount available for Friends of the National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. Presented by Jack & Mac Productions

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We would like to acknowledge with appreciation and gratitude the generous support of our Patron Circle and John Field Society Members Patron Circle

Frank & Ivy Bannister • Tom Bryant • Sharon Burke • Geraldine & David Byrne Tom & Maura Carey • Denis & Gráinne Cremins • Veronica Dunne Donagh McDonagh • Brian McElroy • Deirdre O’Grady

We also gratefully acknowledge those patrons who have requested to remain anonymous.

John Field Society

Frank & Ivy Bannister • Tom Bryant and Family • Sharon Burke Denis & Gráinne Cremins • Sir James & Lady Jeanne Galway • Gráinne Hope • Francis Ludlow • Donagh McDonagh • Finbarr & Mary O’Neill • Kieran Tobin • Rosita Wolfe For further information contact Sinéad Hope Tel: +353 1 4170072 or e-mail Sinead.Hope@nch.ie

Box Office www.nch.ie 01 417 0000 NO BOOKING FEES Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2

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FORTHCOMING HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2013 SEPTEMBER Wed 4 International Orchestral Series 2013/14

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Vasily Petrenko, conductor; Christian Ihle Hadland, piano Thurs 5 RTÉ Concert Orchestra Fri 6 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season Thurs 12 RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Iarla Ó Lionáird Friday 13 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season Wed 18 Fionnuala Hunt - A Reflection Thurs 19 RTÉ Concert Orchestra Fri 20 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season Sat 21 How Great Thou Art - The Spiritual Concert with Ireland’s Greatest Voice Red Hurley and Guest Choirs and Singers Fri 27 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season Sat 28 Swing’s Greatest Hits - A Celebration of Benny Goodman & Gene Krupa SuN 29 Glenn Miller - Greatest Hits Sun 29 Sinatra - The Voice Of The Century OCTOBER Tue 1 Fri 4 Sun 6

Fri 11 Sat 12 Sat 12 Sun 13

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We’re Old Fashioned RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season Sunday Matinée Series 2013/2014: Ann Murray, mezzo soprano; Dearbhla Collins, piano; Finghin Collins, piano RTÉ Concert Orchestra Choral Workshop with The Sixteen International Choral Series 2013/2014, The Sixteen; Harry Christophers, conductor, St. Patrick’s Cathedral International Choral Series 2013/2014 The Sixteen; Harry Christophers, conductor & Lucy Crowe, soprano The Friends of St Luke’s Annual Concert RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season RTÉ Concert Orchestra Song Recital by Elizabeth Pink RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season International Orchestral Series 2013/2014- São Paulo Symphony Orchestra with Marin Alsop, conductor Sunday Matinée Series 2013/2014: Brazilian Guitar Quartet Dino Saluzzi, bandoneon

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FORTHCOMING HIGHLIGHTS SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2013 NOVEMBER Fri 1 George Melly and vintage swing with Johnny Sheridan & The Long John Jump Band Sun 3 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season Wed 6 Piano Masters Series 2013/2014: Philip Martin, piano Thurs 7 RTÉ Concert Orchestra Fri 8 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season Sat 9 ESB Live: Ludovico Einaudi: In a Time Lapse Sun 10 Sunday Matinée Series 2013/2014 : Jonathan Lemalu, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano Thurs 21 RTÉ Concert Orchestra Fri 22 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season Sat 23 The Hollies in Concert Sun 24 Piano Masters Series 2013/2014: Leif Ove Andsnes, piano; Mahler Chamber Orchestra Thurs 28 RTÉ Concert Orchestra Fri 29 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2013/2014 Season

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EDUCATION EVENTS JUNE-AUGUST

Monday 17 – Friday 21 June Monday 29 July – Friday 2 August 10am-4pm daily (Thursday 10am -8pm to include concert) Kevin Barry Room SONGSCHOOL Five day summer course for 13-18 year olds.

Songschool is for secondary school age students interesting in writing and recording songs, performing them in concert, making a video, learning about music technology and meeting people who love music as much as they do.

Tickets: ¤150 for the 5 day course 20% discount on up to two tickets for Young Maestros Presented by National Concert Hall Education Programme and Songschool Ltd

Monday 22 – Friday 26 July 10am-2pm daily (Thursday 10am -3pm to include concert) Kevin Barry Room JUNIOR SONGSCHOOL Five day summer course for 8-12 year olds.

Junior Songschool is chance for 8-12 year olds to spend some holiday time at the National Concert Hall, learning about writing, performing and recording songs. Make music and new friends!

Tickets: ¤112.50 for the 5 day course 20% discount on up to two tickets for Young Maestros Presented by National Concert Hall Education Programme and Songschool Ltd

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Monday 19 – 23 August 10am -2.30pm daily Kevin Barry Room SIMPLY MUSIC Simply Music is an innovative way of working with percussion and rhythm within the school curriculum. The model has been designed to enhance learning for different cognitive styles through the introduction of technology as a learning tool.

A number of iPad’s will be made available during the course but participants are also advised to bring a laptop. For a more in-depth view of Simply Music’s approach please see www.simplymusic.ie Ticket: ¤90 for the five day course Presented by the National Concert Hall Education Programme and Simply Music

Saturday 12 October 12pm Kevin Barry Room CHORAL WORKSHOP WITH THE SIXTEEN The four hour workshop is a perfect combination of historical context, provided by soprano and practical scholar Sally Dunkley, and expert vocal tuition from The Sixteen’s Associate Conductor Eamonn Dougan. Sessions include a range of vocal advice including warm-ups, breathing technique, voice production and blend. Singers should be confident in holding their own line, and music is sent in advance to all participants.

Tickets: €35 Presented by The Sixteen in association with the National Concert Hall Education Programme

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EDUCATION EVENTS JUNE-AUGUST

MUSIC IN HEALTHCARE As part of our portfolio of work in the healthcare sector, we have two very exciting programmes currently running: KIDS CLASSICS Since its inception in 2008, this highly successful initiative has provided interactive workshops to children in hospitals and hospital schools in Dublin, Waterford and Cork. Led by cellist Gráinne Hope and her team of musicians this project aims to give children a chance to interact with music and provide a sense of well-being.

This programme is kindly supported by the Community Foundation for Ireland and the National Concert Hall.

HEALTH AND HARMONY In October 2012 the National Concert Hall launched a one year project in collaboration with The Alzheimer Society of Ireland called Health and Harmony. The aim of the project is to bring live musicians into four centres in Dublin, Tipperary and Limerick to enhance the quality of life for long and short-term care patients, to inspire expression through music, to develop a framework to support the continued development of music programmes in each setting and to support and encourage the rollout of similar music programmes throughout Ireland in the future. On completion of this programme an open seminar will be hosted by the National Concert Hall to share our experiences and learnings.

This project is supported by The Ireland Funds and the National Concert Hall.

TEA DANCE TUNES The National Concert Hall is delighted to partner with Create Louth, the Arts Service of Louth Local Authorities, to present “Tea Dance Tunes” – live classical music concerts – in six communities of older people in Louth during the month of May as part of the month-long Bealtaine Festival, Ireland’s groundbreaking nationwide celebration of creativity as we age and an initiative of Age & Opportunity. Tea Dance Tunes concerts include: Carlingford Nursing Home, Carlingford Monday May 20 at 11am St. Gerard’s Senior Citizens’ Club, Dundalk Monday May 20 at 3pm St. Oliver’s Hospital, Dundalk Tuesday May 21 at 11am The Birches, Dundalk Tuesday May 21 at 2pm Ardee Daycare Centre, Ardee Wednesday May 22 at 11am The Barbican, William Street, Drogheda Wednesday May 22 at 2.30pm

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Without you there would be no music. If the National Concert Hall has inspired and entertained you over the years you may wish to consider leaving a charitable bequest or Planned Gift to help encourage the next generation of musicians and music lovers. Every gift makes a meaningful contribution to our work, engaging and entertaining audiences, inspiring young minds of future generations and positioning the National Concert Hall as a world renowned venue. With no immediate financial outlay you can make a lasting contribution today.

Thank you for your continuous support as a concert attendee and Friend or Patron Circle member.

For further information contact: SinĂŠad Hope Fundraising and Development Manager Tel: + 353 1 4170072, www.nch.ie E-mail: Sinead.Hope@nch.ie

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International Orchestral Series 2013/2014 Wednesday 4 September 2013, 8pm

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko conductor Christian Ihle Hadland piano Sibelius Finlandia Op. 26 Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 in

G minor, ‘Winter Dreams’

“Petrenko inspired the orchestra to go well beyond its normal megawatt virtuosity.”

Chicago Tribune

Tickets: ¤85, ¤75, ¤65, ¤55 (¤40 Choir Balcony) International Orchestral Series Subscription Package from ¤114.00 (or ¤102.00 for Friends) Full Series Subscription Package from ¤356.00 (or ¤311.50 for Friends)

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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.

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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

SI D GR E BA EE LC N O N Y

STAGE STALLS

CHOIR BALCONY 136 SEATS UNRESERVED VIEW FROM YELLOW BALCONY

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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

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ENTRANCE/EXIT ENTRANCE TO YELLOW AND RED BALCONIES

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New Offers From The Music Box AT THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

Ludovico Einaudi In A Time Lapse CD

¤14.99

In A Time Lapse is Einaudi’s representation of the bringing together all of life’s experience and emotions into a single moment of time..His hauntingly beautiful and evocative music has kept him among the best-selling and most requested recording artists in Europe. Einaudi’s music has been described as a “welcome sound of stillness in a hectic world”

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The biggest selling male solo artist of the 21st century is back with a brand new album featuring a great mix of standards and four brand new songs!

¤14.99

AVAILABLE AT THE MUSIC BOX AND CLASSICAL.IE

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FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL EVENTS

Corporate Associates Diamond Friday 31 May, 9am Monday 29 April 5.30pm NABUCCO RECEPTION & LIVE SCREENING Join us for a fabulous drinks and delicious canapé reception at the Harvey Nichols First Floor Restaurant in Dundrum followed by the performance of Verdi’s Nabucco, screened live from the Royal Opera House, London.

Ticket includes: • 5.30pm Drinks and canapé reception at Harvey Nichols, Dundrum • 7.15pm Ticket to Nabucco screening Friends €42 Non-members €52

Thursday 16 May, 11am IN CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR GEORGE EOGAN

BLOOM 2013 GARDEN TOUR Join us for an exclusive visit to the Bloom 2013 garden show held in the Phoenix Park. The year’s event will include a wide range of spectacular and engaging features from showgardens and floral displays to craft and cookery demonstrations. Friends of the National Concert Hall are invited to participate in an exclusive guided tour with an opportunity to see the show gardens close up, hosted by horticulturalist and Bord Bia Bloom Manager, Gary Graham. This will be followed by free time to enjoy the gardens and attractions with lunch served in Bistro Bloom.

Package includes: • Entry to Bloom • Private guided tour • Return coach transport from The National Concert Hall

Join Professor George Eogan and his colleague Helen Roche for an exciting insight into the revelations of their excavation work at the site of Knowth, in the Boyne Valley.

Friends €38

Prof. Eogan led excavation work at Knowth commencing in 1962 which revealed two impressive burial chambers, constructed by using large stones, most of which were decorated with motif. Enjoy being in an intimate audience in the relaxing atmosphere of the Iveagh Room at The Terrace Café to gain insight into Professor Eogan’s remarkable discoveries.

Experience a wonderful wine-tasting evening at the magnificent surroundings of The Shelbourne Hotel Dublin. The evening begins with a drinks and canapé reception, followed by an informative wine-tasting with The Shelbourne’s sommelier. Our wine journey, showcasing the unique selection of wines stocked in The Shelbourne cellar, will accompany a sumptuous 3 course meal in the luxurious Saddle Room.

Ticket includes: • Tea/coffee Friends €12

Wednesday 5 June, 6.30pm WINE-TASTING AT THE SHELBOURNE

Tickets €69 Non-members €79

Wednesday 20 June, 3pm ANNUAL AFTERNOON TEA

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Join us for a special Afternoon Tea at the National Concert Hall. An annual event on the Friends calendar, enjoy a traditional afternoon tea, including delicate finger sandwiches, pastries, and tea and coffee in the surroundings of the Iveagh Room.

[All proceeds from this fundraising event go towards education and outreach activities of The National Concert Hall] Friends €30

FRIENDS COFFEE MORNINGS One of the most popular events on the Friends calendar! On the first Wednesday of every month all Friends are invited to the Iveagh Room of the Terrace Café. Simply come along and purchase a beverage of your choice, meet new Friends and find out about upcoming Friends activities. No ticket required.

Coming up: Wednesday 1st May, 11am Wednesday 5th June, 11am Wednesday 3rd July, 11am Wednesday 7th, 11am Look forward to seeing you there.

For more information or to book your place contact the Friends Box Office line on Tel: 01 408 6777

Gold ACCENTURE AXA Insurance Cornmarket Group Financial Services CRH plc

Earlsfort (East-Point) Irish Distillers Mercer Ireland Ltd Nordic Cold Storage Ltd Tilestyle

Silver BNY Mellon Frank Glennon Ltd Frank Keane (Naas Road)

Green Property Ltd. Kylemore Food Group Ltd

The National Concert Hall would like to thank its Corporate Associates who enable us to bring the joy of music to thousands of children and adults all over Ireland.

For further information on Corporate Associate membership or sponsorship please contact Audrey Phelan on 01-4170065 or email audrey.phelan@nch.ie

Your Loyalty. Your Support. Your Generosity. Thank You. WWW.NCH.IE

INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2013/2014 International Orchestral Series

International Choral Series

Wednesday 4 September 2013, 8pm Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko conductor Christian Ihle Hadland piano

Saturday 12 October 2013, 8pm The Sixteen Harry Christophers conductor ‘The Queen of Heaven’ St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Thursday 27 March 2014, 8pm Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits conductor Nicola Benedetti violin Saturday 12 April 2014, 8pm City of London Sinfonia Michael Collins clarinet/conductor Piano Masters Series

Wednesday 6 November 2013, 8pm Philip Martin piano Sunday 24 November 2013, 8pm Leif Ove Andsnes piano Mahler Chamber Orchestra Thursday 20 February 2014, 8pm John Lill piano 70th Birthday Celebration Saturday 19 April 2014, 8pm Lang Lang piano

Sunday 13 October 2013, 8pm The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Harry Christophers conductor Lucy Crowe soprano Handel - The National Concert Hall Sunday 9 February 2014, 8pm Chanticleer Sunday 4 May 2014, 8pm Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Choir of Enlightenment Sir Simon Rattle conductor Susan Gritton soprano John-Mark Ainsley tenor Peter Rose baritone Great Artists Series

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 8pm Joshua Bell violin Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Wednesday 29 January 2014, 8pm Thomas Hampson baritone Amsterdam Sinfonietta Tuesday 22 April 2014, 8pm Danish String Quartet

Box Office www.nch.ie 01 417 0000 NO BOOKING FEES Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2

Sunday 6 October 2013, 3pm Ann Murray mezzo-soprano Dearbhla Collins piano Finghin Collins piano Sunday 27 October 2013, 3pm Brazilian Guitar Quartet Sunday 10 November 2013, 3pm Jonathan Lemalu baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Sunday 27 April 2014, 3pm Sunday 11 May 2014, 3pm Sunday 25 May 2014, 3pm Catherine Leonard violin Hugh Tinney piano

THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL JUNE-AUGUST 2013 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Saturday 26 October 2013, 8pm São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conductor

Sunday Matinée Series

JUNE-AUGUST 2013 Box Office www.nch.ie 01 417 0000 NO BOOKING FEES Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2