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Thursday 25 April 2013 Academy of Ancient Music Richard Egarr conductor/forte piano

Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo soprano

Wednesday 1 May 2013 Capuçon Trio Renaud Capuçon violin Gautier Capuçon cello Michel Dalberto piano

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Lynn Harrell cello Monday 18 February 2013 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Jacek Kaspszyk conductor Agata Szymczewska violin Wednesday 8 May 2013 Moscow State Symphony Orchestra Pavel Kogan conductor Nina Kotova cello Saturday 8 June 2013 Philharmonia Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi conductor

Paul Lewis piano

Wednesday 24 July 2013 Renée Fleming soprano Maciej Pikulski piano

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Wednesday 30 January 2013 Nikolai Lugansky piano Saturday 23 February 2013 Míc· eál O’Rourke piano Stephen Ackert narrator Wednesday 27 March 2013 Benjamin Grosvenor piano

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Sunday 2 September 2012 Emerson String Quartet and Sir James Galway flute

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Philippe Cassard, piano 50th birthday celebration

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AS PART OF THE PIANO MASTERS SERIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013 Platinum

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AXA Insurance Cornmarket Group Financial Services CRH plc Darta Saving Chopin Nocturne Op. 27, No. 1 Berceuse in D flat major Op. 57 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Grieg

3 Pièces Lyriques Nocturne Op. 54, No. 4 Bell Ringing Op. 54, No. 6 To Spring Op. 43, No. 6

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Debussy Ballade Valse Romantique

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Au bord d’une source Sospiro Après une lecture du Dante

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CONTENTS September listings October listings November listings October Highlight - Xavier de Maistre September Concerts - Main Auditorium September Concerts - John Field Room October Highlight - William Vincent Wallace October Concerts - Main Auditorium October Concerts - John Field Room November Highlight - A Tribute to Master of Jazz, Noel Kelehan November Concerts - Main Auditorium November Concerts - John Field Room Forthcoming Highlights December - January Friends of The National Concert Hall Events Education Events Booking and General Information Getting Here and Parking Seating Plan

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International Concert Series 2012/2013: Emerson String Quartet with Sir James Galway Delights of Piano Music, Svetlana Rudenko “Fine Together”: The Emilie Conway Quartet Featuring Linley Hamilton Lunchtime Popular Classics, Veronica Mc Swiney RTÉ Concert Orchestra: The Two of Us: The Lennon & McCartney Songbook Mr. Acker Bilk and Chris Barber Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series 2012 An Evening with Pat Coldrick “Virtuoso Guitarist” RTÉ Concert Orchestra: The Golden Age of Broadway Romantic Ladies - Songs by Women Composers, Elizabeth Pink and Anthony Byrne, piano RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: Viennese Whirls Genre, Encounters & Fusion Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series 2012 We’re Old Fashioned presents More Porter Nigel Kennedy presents Bach Plus Fats Waller RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Shaken, Not Stirred: The Music of Bond…James Bond Sentimental Journey, Derby Browne RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and The National Concert Hall: Pipeworks, Mark Duley RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: Marching Towards Hope and Happiness Masterpieces of World Opera and Ballet Masterpieces of World Opera and Ballet Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil Young Platform Series 2012 Music of the Night - An Andrew Lloyd Webber Tribute Concert Troubadour Club from Tralee Among My Souvenirs - The Connie Francis Story A Romantic Journey for Piano and Cello, Rachel Quinn RTÉ Concert Orchestra: You Should Be Dancing! A Tribute to the Bee Gees The Pasadena Roof Orchestra

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Sam Jackson Sharp & Flat Album Launch International Concert Series 2012/2013: Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas, piano/conductor; Lara St. John, violin Stephane Wrembel Quintet - ‘Midnight in Paris’ Michael O’Toole, guitar The Best of Symphonic Rock with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Karl Jenkins conducts The Peacemakers - Irish premiere Mario Lanza – The Great Caruso – His Life & Music The Great Caruso - The Original Film with Mario Lanza as Enrico Caruso International Concert Series 2012/2013: Miloš Karadaglic´, guitar RTÉ Concert Orchestra: A Song in My Heart More...Good Old Days of Music Hall RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: From Poland With Love Tony Buzan: Maximise Brainpower with Mind Mapping and Memory Techniques Casta Diva - The Life, Loves and Music of Maria Callas Going Back With Dusty Springfield - All The Hits & More William Wallace Bi Centenary Concert On Stage together - An Acoustic Evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin Celtic Tenors perform An Evening of Power Ballads and Great Love Songs The Fureys and Davey Arthur Songs You Should Hear (or should hear again), Kathy Nugent RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: Fate Knocking At The Door The Defence Forces Annual Gala Concert Geraldine O’Grady, A Celebration Paddy Cole & Friends in Concert: The Friends of St. Lukes Annual Concert International Concert Series 2012/2013: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly, Gewandhauskapellmeister & Lynn Harrell, cello RTÉ Concert Orchestra: A Tribute to Brendan Graham Anthony Byrne plays his favourite encores RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: The Noble, the Sentimental and the Exotic RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra presents An Evening with Eimear Quinn and the Dublin Laptop Orchestra Ronan Collins Sings Joe Dolan - The Classic Hits Concert Oíche Samhna featuring “Carmina Burana and Scéalta na Samhna”, Conservatory of Music and Drama, DIT RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Psycho - Live!

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NOVEMBER 2012 Thurs 1 MA In Dreams - Roy Orbison & Friends - The Ultimate Concert Fri 2 JFR ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’, Jim Doherty and Richie Buckley Fri 2 MA RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and The National Concert Hall: Pipeworks, David Leigh Fri 2 MA RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: Songs In The Key Of Life And Loss Sat 3 MA Waltons World Masters - Mavis Staples Mon 5 JFR Dr. Bernadette Greevy Bursary Recital, Aoife Miskelly Tue 6 MA Paco Peña Presents Quimeras Thu 8 MA International Concert Series 2012/2013: Alison Balsom, trumpet; Kammerorchester Basel Fri 9 JFR Neil Cooney, piano recital Fri 9 MA RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: Grace Out Of Darkness Sat 10 MA Glorious Handel by Candlelight Sun 11 MA International Concert Series 2012/2013: Evgeny Kissin, piano Tue 13 MA Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society-Oklahoma!

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Thur 15 MA Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society-Oklahoma!

Fri 16 JFR Did Scott Joplin meet Gershwin & Fats Waller?

Fri 16 MA Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society-Oklahoma!

Sat 17 MA Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society-Oklahoma!

Sun 18 MA An Evening With Richard Clayderman. The Prince of Romance Mon 19 MA A Kiss for All the World, UCD Symphony Orchestra Thurs 21 JFR John B After 10 Thurs 22 MA Mors et Vita, Our Lady’s Choral Society Fri 23 JFR The Winter Café, Derby Browne Fri 23 MA RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: Turkish Delight And Tartan Sat 24 MA Friends Gala 2012 - Jennifer Larmore and Opus Five Sun 25 MA A Tribute to Noel Kelehan - Jazz Artist Mon 26 MA Ballymun Lullaby Tues 27 MA A Magical Musical Journey, Rathfarnham Concert Band Thu 29 MA International Concert Series 2012/2013: Philippe Cassard, piano Fri 30 JFR The Quigley Duo Fri 30 MA RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season concert: Dreams, Defiance And Leave-Taking

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HARPING ON...

XAVIER DE MAISTRE ON PUTTING THE HARP CENTRE STAGE WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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ome musicians like to claim that their instrument chose them. Not Xavier de Maistre, who, at the tender age of nine decided he wanted to be a musician but was adamant that ‘I didn’t want to play an instrument that everybody else was playing’.

The harp perfectly fitted the bill. Happily, his choice has proved to be as prodigious as it was precocious. On the eve of his 30th birthday next year, the young French virtuoso has acquired a formidable reputation as a harpist of unimpeachable technique and rare emotional insight with an almost evangelical passion for what is surely one of the most challenging of all instruments.

‘I want to make it a more normal and common concert instrument. But with 47 strings and seven pedals, it’s a very complex and demanding instrument, and much richer than the common perception of it as ethereal and angelic.

And more rewarding, too, with a very broad range of colours and temperament.’

His début appearance with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra on Friday 26 October promises to be a revelatory experience when he performs the Tango-infused Harp Concerto by the Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera.

Completed in 1964 after an eight-year-long gestation period – and approvingly described by the composer as ‘the most difficult work I have ever written’, de Maistre regards it as offering ‘a new musical language for the harp: very rhythmic, not so many glissandi, and a very spectacular experience for the audience’.

Immediately surprising about the Concerto is its blending of traditional Argentinean folk idioms inspired by the iconic figure of the gaucho horseman with distinctly modern, 20th-century accents. The result is something altogether unique from a composer, the 30th anniversary of whose death at the age of 67 will fall in 2013, widely considered to be one of Latin America’s greatest and certainly one of its most successful musical exports.

‘Ginastera explores a range of techniques to find new ways to express and exploit what the harp can do. It’s a very distinctive, beautiful and exciting piece for both

the harp and the orchestra, which boasts 28 different percussion instruments, a big brass sound and rich use of horns.’

All of which calls into question the conventional image of the harp as a delicate and fragile instrument with a small sound.

‘It can be delicate, but it’s also surprisingly robust. It’s not a concert piano, of course, but the sound of a harp is just as varied and can easily fill a concert hall. It has a very direct and focused tone and Ginastera really draws out the full range of what it can do in music that is challenging to play and at the same time very beautiful and dramatic and emotional to listen to.’

With echoes of Stravinsky in its strong rhythms and of the ‘night music’ of Bartók in its evocation of mood, its harmonies and orchestration, the Harp Concerto proves a remarkably accessible piece.

‘Every time I’ve played it before, audiences have been surprised, impressed and above all, entertained by it. It’s a rare opportunity to discover the harp as a more flexible and powerful instrument than you might think it is, and to discover a composer of great and very approachable gifts.

It is music you can begin to understand and appreciate even when hearing it for the first time.’

There’s a certain courage, too, in de Maistre’s first appearance as a concerto soloist in Ireland, where, he says, ‘there are harps everywhere but none, I think, that will ever have sounded quite the same as Ginastera allows it to be. I’m sure it’s going to be a very exciting experience for everyone in the hall!’

Michael Quinn

Xavier de Maistre performs Ginastera’s Concerto for Harp with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in ‘The Noble, the Sentimental and the Exotic’. Friday 26 October, 8pm. See listing on page 42.

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS

EMERSON STRING QUARTET & SIR JAMES GALWAY, FLUTE AS PART OF THE GREAT ARTISTS SERIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013

Emerson String Quartet

SUNDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 8PM Emerson String Quartet • Sir James Galway flute Mozart Debussy v Dvorák Arthur Foote Barber Mozart

Flute Quartet No. 4 in A major, K. 298 Syrinx for solo flute String Quartet in F major, Op. 96 American A Night Piece for Flute and String Quartet Adagio for Strings Flute Quartet No. 1, in D major, K. 285

Formed in 1976, the Emerson String Quartet took its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Emerson String Quartet stands alone in the history of string quartets with an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades: more than thirty acclaimed recordings since 1987, nine Grammy® Awards (including two for Best Classical Album, an unprecedented honour for a chamber music group), three Gramophone Awards, the coveted Avery Fisher Prize and cycles of the complete Beethoven, Bartók, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich string quartets in the world’s musical capitals, from New York to London and Vienna.

They will be joined by Sir James Galway, regarded as both the supreme interpreter of the classical flute repertoire and a consummate entertainer whose appeal crosses all musical boundaries. Through his extensive touring, over 30 million albums sold and his frequent international television appearances, Sir James has endeared himself to millions worldwide and is a tireless promoter of the arts.

Tickets: ¤40, ¤50, ¤60, ¤70 (Choir Balcony ¤30) To mark the opening of the new series, your ticket includes a complimentary glass of bubbly and a free concert programme to celebrate the first concert in the International Concert Series 2012/2013.

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THE TWO OF US: THE LENNON & MCCARTNEY SONGBOOK RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Mark McGann

MR. ACKER BILK AND CHRIS BARBER

Chris Barber and Acker Bilk

SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 8PM

SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Big Band • Mark McGann, Claire Martin & Joe Stilgoe singers John Wilson, conductor Script by Bob Eaton & Mark McGann

Mr. Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz band The Big Chris Barber Band

2012 marks 50 years since The Beatles came together and is also Paul McCartney’s 70th birthday year. Celebrate the world’s greatest songwriting duo with an evening of favourites linked by a script telling the Lennon McCartney story. Joining the RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Big Band under John Wilson are the remarkable young Joe Stilgoe, the award-winning Claire Martin – and of course to tell this story there had to be a true Liverpool favourite, Mark McGann.

Enjoy Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love, Yesterday, Strawberry Fields Forever and many more.

Living legends of traditional jazz Live on stage.

They have enjoyed great success on their own, both in concert and on record with Strangers on the Shore and Petite Fleur.

Now you can see them on stage together in this rather special jazz extravaganza!

This follows the sell-out John Lennon Songbook in 2009 – early booking advised!

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Tickets: ¤32.50, ¤38.50 (Choir Balcony ¤29.50) Presented by Wigt Productions BV

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: VIENNESE WHIRLS

Finghin Collins

THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 8PM

FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Kim Criswell vocalist John Wilson conductor

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Finghin Collins piano Alan Buribayev conductor

Strike Up the Band and join Kim Criswell, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and John Wilson in a dazzling celebration of the music of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe. Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Girl Crazy, Showboat and more…To deliver all these in the utmost style is the incomparable Kim Criswell, a terrific singer, a terrific live performer and a true successor to Ethel Merman! In demand not only on West End and Broadway stages, she has brought the house down in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the BBC Proms and all over the world.

Lehár Gold and Silver Waltz, Op. 79 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 26 in D,

K537 ‘Coronation’ R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Op. 59 Ravel La valse An RTÉ NSO season opening under Principal Conductor Alan Buribayev where Viennese gaiety and glitter reign with sparkling Léhar, glorious music from Richard Strauss’ seductive ‘comedy for music’ and the waltz-like rapture of Ravel’s La valse. Finghin Collins returns to Mozart’s piano concertos with the brilliantly amiable and suitably celebratory ‘Coronation’ Concerto.

Soundings, 7pm: Guest Talk with Austrian Ambassador, Dr. Walter Hagg

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SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 7PM Ceoltóirí Drumlin, Our Lady’s Secondary School Choir and The Meath Harp Ensemble An exciting and eclectic evening of music, song and some dance is promised from an unusual collaboration.

Ceoltóirí Drumlin, a seventy strong traditional Irish orchestra under the direction of Francis McMahon. The award-winning and highly regarded eleven-member Meath Harp Ensemble, directed by Dearbhail Finnegan, has performed in Dublin Castle, the National Concert Hall, and toured in Milan and Turin.

Our Lady’s Secondary School Choir from Castleblayney, led by Cara Murray, recently took silver at the secondary schools choral competition with an energetic and spirited performance.

All this evening’s performers will combine on stage for the evening’s grand finale filled with anticipation, expectation and excitement!

Tickets: ¤10 10% discount for senior citizens, students and unwaged. 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by Ceoltóirí Drumlin, Our Lady’s Secondary School Choir and The Meath Harp Ensemble

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS

NIGEL KENNEDY PRESENTS BACH PLUS FATS WALLER

Nigel Kennedy

WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 8PM Nigel Kennedy violin • Jarek Smietana guitar • Yaron Stavi double bass Krzysztof Dziedzic drum Leap through time with virtuoso violinist Nigel Kennedy in a stunning musical programme that takes on Baroque and Jazz back to back.

Opening with Bach for solo violin, Kennedy then switches mode with his own startling arrangements of jazz legend Fats Waller’s works.

With an all-embracing repertoire that ranges from little known Polish violin concertos to the music of Jimi Hendrix, Kennedy, whose accolades include Outstanding Contribution to British Music and Male Artist of the Year at the UK Brit Awards, has never ceased to surprise audiences with his ingenious programming since he burst on to the scene with his best selling 1989 recording of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

“Playing Bach and Fats Waller on one show is a dream for me - two amazing keyboard players, both masters of harmony and melody” Nigel Kennedy

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SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED: THE MUSIC OF BOND… JAMES BOND RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

PIPEWORKS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL AND RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 8PM

FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 6:10PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Guest vocalists David Brophy conductor

Mark Duley organ Mendelssohn Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 65 Sweelinck Onder een linde groen Liszt Weinen Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen Linked to RTÉ NSO Main Season programme. Tchaikovsky famously outlined a programmatic element to the first movement of his fourth symphony (to be heard in tonight’s 8pm concert); Pipeworks presents organ works which follow a similar broad outline of fate/despair moving to resignation/hope. Tchaikovsky’s final movement incorporates the folk song The Little Birch Tree, here mirrored in Sweelinck’s set of variations on Under the Linden Tree.

When it comes to action, adventure and espionage nobody does it better than Bond.

To celebrate the release of Skyfall join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for the ultimate musical tribute to the world’s favourite secret agent. Expect to be shaken not stirred with the best of the best from Bond – and remember you only live twice!

Packed with favourites like Goldfinger, Live and Let Die, Licence to Kill, The Man with the Golden Gun, GoldenEye, For Your Eyes Only, Diamonds are Forever…

When it comes to film music, Nobody Does It Better than the RTÉ Concert Orchestra!

Presented by the National Concert Hall for Culture Night 2012.

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Unreserved seating.

Pipeworks in association with the National Concert Hall. Presented by the RTÉ NSO and the National Concert Hall

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RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: MARCHING TOWARDS HOPE AND HAPPINESS

GIFT CARDS FROM THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL Howard Shelley

FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 8PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Howard Shelley piano/conductor Elgar Froissart Overture, Op. 19 Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor,

Op. 54 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor,

Op. 36 Three works full to the brim with youthful dreams of adventure and love with Elgar’s tune-filled Froissart Overture and two of the greatest expressions of musical Romanticism: Schumann’s Piano Concerto, joyfully dynamic and spontaneous and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, an emotional tour de force that blazes with passion.

7pm: FREE concert with RTÉ Cór na nÓg in the John Field Room.

Culture Night 2012: 100 free tickets will be available from August. See www.rte.ie/nso for details

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MASTERPIECES OF WORLD OPERA AND BALLET

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SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 7:30PM SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2PM

1/June/2012 14:30 1/Ju

Melissa Hamilton (Principal of The Royal Ballet) and Dawid Trzensimiech White Swan Adagio Larisa Akhmetova (Soprano of Bashkortostan Opera, Saratov Opera) Athanasios Routianadis and Pandora Beaumont (New Principals of Monica Loughman Ballet): Chlainne Lir Anton Ploom and Yulia Tikka (Principals of Mikhailovsky Theatre, Russia) Kevin O’Carroll conductor • Monica Loughman artistic director; The Dying Swan Ruslan Nurtdinov, artistic director Russian Artists; Carmen Orla E. Colleton opera director, Soprano Opera Masterpieces Ballet Masterpieces

Faust; La Traviata; Lucia di Lammermoor; Carmen; Tosca Swan Lake; The Nutcracker; Corsaire; Don Quixote; Cinderella

Satiate your artistic hunger with a fantastic feast of opera and ballet masterpieces performed by Monica Loughman with the biggest stars in Russian ballet and guest stars of The Royal Ballet. A chance to see the best of opera and ballet and perfect for all your family and friends.

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AMONG MY SOUVENIRS THE CONNIE FRANCIS STORY

YOU SHOULD BE DANCING! A TRIBUTE TO THE BEE GEES RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 8PM

FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 8PM

Starring Kathy Nugent as the voice of Connie Francis with her Musical Director Eugene McCarthy & His Musicians and Singers with Special Guest Jimmy O’Brien as Bobby Darin

RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Guest vocalists Andy O’Callaghan conductor

Kathy, along with her musicians & singers, will perform Connie Francis’ Greatest Hits to include: Lipstick On Your Collar, Who’s Sorry Now, Stupid Cupid/Carolina Moon, Among My Souvenirs, You Always Hurt The One You Love, Jealous Heart, Volare and many many more.

Connie Francis had over 25 UK and Irish chart hits including two No. 1’s with Who’s Sorry Now and Carolina Moon. Primarily known as a singer she also starred in a number of movies in the 60’s and also released a best-selling autobiography titled Who’s Sorry Now.

Tickets: ¤25, ¤30, ¤36.50 (Choir Balcony ¤20) 10% discount for seniors, students, unwaged, Friends and groups of 10 or more Presented by Pat Egan Sound Ltd

Brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, as The Bee Gees, were one of the best-selling music acts of all time. Join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and guest vocalists for a feelgood evening of their disco classics. Think back to those mirror balls, medallions and melodies of the 1970s with titles synonymous with the era – Stayin’ Alive, How Deep is Your Love, Jive Talkin’, Night Fever, If I Can’t Have You, You Should be Dancing and lots more.

So – get out those long-buried platforms, brush up the afro wigs and remember…YOU SHOULD BE DANCING!

Ticket: ¤11, ¤22, ¤27, ¤33, ¤38 Concessions: ¤10, ¤20, ¤24, ¤30, ¤34 Group Discount 10% for 10 people or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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THE PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA

SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 8PM

CONCERT MEAL DEALS

The Pasadena Roof Orchestra Back with a new show The Pasadena Roof Orchestra are set to delight the audience in this new entertainment extravaganza. This marvellous show recaptures an era, both brilliant and wonderful.

Elegance and style are epitomised in this concert and the show is packed with great tunes displaying their matchless appeal, such as My Blue Heaven/Singin’ In The Rain, Stardust, Night & Day, Cheek To Cheek, and many more all-time favourites with other timeless classics such as Top Hat, White Tie & Tails, Puttin’ On the Ritz, I Can’t Dance. An indispensable music classic full of magical moments that captivates the new fans today.

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The Fureys & Davey Arthur

Legends of Irish music & song The FUREYS & DAVEY ARTHUR return again to the National Concert Hall.

Renowned for their hit songs ‘I will love you’, ‘When you were sweet 16’, ‘The Green fields of France’, ‘The old man’, ‘Red rose café’, ‘From Clare to here’, ‘Her father didn’t like me anyway’, ‘Leaving Nancy’, ‘Steal away’ etc, the Fureys & Davey Arthur have been entertaining audiences worldwide for 35 years.

They are responsible for some of the most stirring music ever to capture the public imagination. Their folk / middle of the road based songs and music has received standing ovations in some of the biggest concert halls in the world. Their emotive songs stir many emotions….tears and laughter, sadness and joy.

A Fureys concert is always a night to remember.

NATIONAL CONCERT HALL THURSDAY 18th OCTOBER 2012 Tickets €25, €32.50 and €35 (no booking fee) Show 8pm Bookings: Telephone: (003531) 4170000 or www.nch.ie www.thefureys.com

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JOHN FIELD ROOM SEPTEMBER Wednesday 5 September 8PM DELIGHTS OF PIANO MUSIC Svetlana Rudenko piano Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Chopin Ballade No. 2 in F, Op. 38 Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 32, No. 4 to No. 13 Chopin and Rachmaninov, composers of different generations and countries, both paid tribute to the poetic tone of the piano, evoking images of their native lands.

Tickets: ¤18 (concessions ¤15) Presented by Svetlana Rudenko

Thursday 6 September 8PM “FINE TOGETHER”: THE EMILIE CONWAY QUARTET FEATURING LINLEY HAMILTON Emilie Conway voice • Linley Hamilton trumpet Johnny Taylor piano • Dave Fleming double bass Dominic Mullan, drums Selected jazz standards from Emilie’s recently released debut album, The Secret of a Rose & Linley’s debut album, Taylor Made, as well as new collaborations: Abbey Lincoln, Bill Evans, AC Jobim, Rogers & Hart, Michel Legrand, Carole King & more.

The Emilie Conway Jazz Quartet returns to The John Field Room following the success of their sell-out spring concert to launch debut album, The Secret of a Rose; joined by special guest trumpeter from Belfast, Linley Hamilton, whose recent album, Taylor Made, has met with great acclaim. “Fine Together” sees their collaboration on selected music from their recent releases in addition to new material from Lars Gullin, Abbey Lincoln, Carole King, Bill Evans & more.

Tickets: ¤15 (concessions: ¤12.50) 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 20% discount for senior citizens, students and unwaged Early bird offer of ¤12.50 until August 15th Presented by Emilie Conway

Friday 7 September 1:05PM LUNCHTIME POPULAR CLASSICS Veronica McSwiney piano • Aisling O’ Dea violin A selection of popular classics Come and enjoy this lovely and rare occasion when mother and daughter get together to perform some of their favourite works from the vast repertoire for Piano/Violin Duo. Undoubtedly the highlight of their programme will be a performance of Beethoven’s popular Spring Sonata.

Tickets: ¤15 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 10% discount for senior citizens, students, unwaged Presented by Veronica McSwiney

Monday 10 September 8PM ESB ELECTRIC IRELAND FEIS CEOIL YOUNG PLATFORM SERIES 2012 Presenter: Tanya Sewell New Dublin Voices • Dublin (Bernie Sherlock , conductor) Eoin Fleming piano • Liane Bradley flute • Isolde O’Loughlin cello • Presentation to Junior Rosebowl Winners • Junior Chamber Trio - (Emma Gilmartin, Phoebe White, Christopher Ellis) • Patrick Hyland tenor • David Conway saxophone David Tobin violin Piano accompanists for the Series include: Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin • Dearbhla Brosnan • Lina Butorina-Kiva Celine Kelly These concerts, spread over three nights, showcase a number of outstanding winners from Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil 2012.

Choirs, ensembles and soloists representing a variety of disciplines will be featured throughout this unique series.

Tickets: ¤12 (concessions: ¤8) Friends of The National Concert Hall: ¤8 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Feis Ceoil Association Sponsored by Electric Ireland

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JOHN FIELD ROOM SEPTEMBER Tuesday 11 September 8PM AN EVENING WITH THE WINDSONG HARP ENSEMBLE Windsong Harp Ensemble • Harp Duet Edel and Alida Loftus This evening’s concert of classical, Irish, Latin American and jazz is performed by a dynamic group of young harpists, the internationally acclaimed Windsong Harp Ensemble. Founded by renowned harpist, singer, and pianist, Edel Loftus and led by her daughter Alida, also an acclaimed harpist, pianist and violinist, they perform nationally and internationally.

Tickets: €20, Senior Citizens: €15, Students: €10 Presented by Edel Loftus

Wednesday 12 September 8PM AN EVENING WITH PAT COLDRICK “VIRTUOSO GUITARIST” Pat Coldrick guitar Original and iconic works for guitar Following his May sell-out concert Pat Coldrick returns to The John Field Room to present an intimate evening of beautiful guitar music in a relaxed and friendly setting. Enjoy his unique and emotional style of playing featuring many popular guitar favourites and arrangements and his own compositions including the hugely popular Lament, Antarctica, and Aurora.

This promises to be another highly entertaining musical treat.

Monday 17 September 8PM ESB ELECTRIC IRELAND FEIS CEOIL YOUNG PLATFORM SERIES 2012 Presenter: Jack Morrissey Wesley College Choir (Helen Doyle, conductor) Devin O’Shea Farren piano • Jennifer Hughes, mezzo soprano • Vladimir Sint/Bethany Edgar piano duet Liam McManus, guitar • Jane Hackett violin Christian Bauer trumpet • Nadene Fiorentini piano Piano accompanists for the Series include: Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin • Dearbhla Brosnan • Lina Butorina-Kiva Celine Kelly These concerts, spread over three nights, showcase a number of outstanding winners from Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil 2012.

Choirs, ensembles and soloists representing a variety of disciplines will be featured throughout this unique series.

Tickets: ¤12 (concessions: ¤8) Friends of The National Concert Hall: ¤8 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Feis Ceoil Association Sponsored by Electric Ireland

Tickets: ¤20 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by Pat Coldrick

Friday 14 September 1:05PM ROMANTIC LADIES - SONGS BY WOMEN COMPOSERS Elizabeth Pink contralto • Anthony Byrne piano Songs by Clara Schumann, Cecile Chaminade, Annie Patterson, Mary Plumstead, and Alicia Adelaide Needham In association with the 2nd “Women and Music in Ireland” Conference, Elizabeth and Anthony present a fascinating insight into songs by women composers. From familiar melodies to some newly-discovered rare gems (including works by Irish women), this intriguing programme of charming songs will delight and entertain you!

Tickets: ¤12 25 % discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall. 20% discount for senior citizens, students, unwaged. 20% for groups of 10 or more Presented by Elizabeth Pink

Tuesday 18 September 8PM “We’re Old Fashioned” presents More Porter Honor Heffernan • Jim Doherty • Dave Fleming Myles Drennan Honor Heffernan, Jim Doherty and the Trio return to the Cole Porter collection for another evening of America’s greatest songs.

Tickets: ¤25 (concessions: ¤22.50) Presented by Paul Black

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JOHN FIELD ROOM SEPTEMBER Monday 24 September 8PM ESB ELECTRIC IRELAND FEIS CEOIL YOUNG PLATFORM SERIES 2012 Presenter Herbie Sharman St. Brigid’s Choir, Castleknock, (Niamh Williams conductor) Kevin O’Loughlin violin • Fiona Gryson harp • Louise Martyn soprano • YES Orchestra (Conductor Ronald Masin) Karen Ni Bhroin clarinet • Sarah Maxwell viola Mantautas Katinas piano Piano accompanists for the Series include: Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin • Dearbhla Brosnan Lina Butorina-Kiva • Celine Kelly These concerts, spread over three nights, showcase a number of outstanding winners from Electric Ireland Feis Ceoil 2012.

Choirs, ensembles and soloists representing a variety of disciplines will be featured throughout this unique series.

Tickets: ¤12 (concessions: ¤8) Friends of The National Concert Hall: ¤8 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Feis Ceoil Association.

Sponsored by Electric Ireland

Friday 21 September 1:05PM SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Derby Browne • David Wray Trio Torch singer, Derby Browne, performs the music of the 1940’s Icons: Edith Piaf, Marlene Deitrich, Doris Day, Vera Lynn, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Lauren Hutten, Fats Waller and Glen Miller. A lunchtime concert reminiscent of the days of the Wireless, dripping with romance and nostalgia of a bygone era. Songs include La Vie En Rose, Lilli Marlene, Murder He Says, Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, When I Grow Too Old To Dream, Two Sleepy People, Sunny Side of the Street and We’ll Meet Again.

Tickets: ¤18 (concessions ¤16) Friends of The National Concert Hall ¤16 Groups of 10 or more ¤16 Presented by Derby Browne Productions

Tuesday 25 September 8PM MUSIC OF THE NIGHT AN ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER TRIBUTE CONCERT Tracy Armstrong • Frank Beadle • John Furlong Lizzy Honan • Marybeth Jennings • Kathy Kelly Sean MacMahon • Jennifer McGann • Peter Manning Naoimh Penston • Shokri Raoof • Emma Jane Reilly Jim Walsh • Kevin Fagan • Dermot O’Callaghan Musical Director • Kevin Walsh keyboards A night full of the best music from one of the world’s most successful composers in musical theatre Mr Andrew Lloyd Webber. Music from Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sunset Boulevard, Aspects of love, Tell me on a Sunday, Starlight Express and more including material written for the Wizard of Oz. If you’re a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber or of just great music this is the night for you. With the multiple award winning cast who gave you Sondheim An 80th Birthday Celebration and Finishing the Hat A Stephen Sondheim Tribute this promises to be a magical evening.

Tickets: ¤20 (concessions: ¤18). Presented by Bobby Productions

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JOHN FIELD ROOM SEPTEMBER

Wednesday 26 September 8PM TROUBADOUR CLUB FROM TRALEE Oracle • John Hurley • Noel McCord • Mark Leen plus guests Luan Parle • Mickey Harte • Rob Burke Each artist will be performing original material from the successful Troubadour Tralee Album.

The artist featured in the National Concert Hall this evening are all from the first Troubadour Club Album and showcase Irish contemporary writing at its best.

Tickets: ¤15 Presented by Francie Conway The concert is presented by Troubadour Club in association with Tralee Chamber Alliance

Friday 28 September 1:05PM A ROMANTIC JOURNEY FOR PIANO AND CELLO Rachel Quinn, piano • Annette Cleary, cello Featuring works such as Liszt Rigoletto Paraphrase

Les Jeux Deau a la Ville D’este

Mephisto Waltz Consolation Elegie Rachmaninoff Cello and Piano Sonata Liszt’s solo piano music includes some of the most inspired romantic piano writing. In this recital the cello joins the piano in duo works such as Elegie, Consolation by Liszt and Rachmaninoff’s much loved Sonata for Cello and Piano third movement.

Tickets: ¤15 (concessions: ¤12 ) Friends of The National Concert Hall: ¤11 Presented by Rachel Quinn and Annette Cleary

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OCTOBER HIGHLIGHT

CELEBRATING WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE (1812-1865)

T

ime was when William Vincent Wallace was a household name and his music graced many an operatic stage and concert venue and was played and sung in many a homely parlour. However, time and fashion change and what is enjoyed by one generation is relegated to obscurity by the next.

As this year celebrates the bicentenary of Wallace’s birth maybe the time is ripe to rekindle his memory and resurrect some of his forgotten treasures. To this end, pianist and musicologist Una Hunt has been conducting considerable research into the composer and will be presenting a commemorative event in the Hall on 15 October.

Wallace was born in Waterford City on 11 March 1812 to a protestant father William Spencer, who was a sergeant bandmaster in the Royal 29th Regiment, and a catholic mother Elizabeth McKenna, who came from Limerick. The following year the family were posted to Ballina where the Wallaces had three other children Wellington, Eliza and Susanna. The lads became boy soldiers with William showing unusual talent as a pianist as well as on several other instruments. He was permitted to play with the regimental band and, on occasions, he led it. The regiment returned to Waterford in 1825 but on learning of its planned 24

posting to Mauritius, William Spencer bought himself and his sons out of the army and moved to Dublin where William joined the Theatre Royal Orchestra and took organ lessons from Haydn Corri (1785-1860) at the Pro-Cathedral.

When a mere eighteen-year-old, handsome and well mannered, William was appointed organist at Thurles Cathedral and accepted a teaching post at the Ursuline Convent in the town where one of the novices, Isabella Kelly of Frascati House in Dublin’s Blackrock, fell in love with him. This was much to the consternation of Isabella’s father and her sibling – Sister Vincent – who was a professed nun in Thurles. William saw a way out through becoming a catholic and adding Vincent to his name. Thereafter he was known as William Vincent Wallace.

After their marriage, the young couple returned to Dublin living for a while in South William Street where their son Willy was born. Wallace rejoined the Theatre Royal orchestra as violinist and conductor and also led the Anacreontic Society with which body he made his debut as composer - his violin and piano concertos being particularly well received. Hearing Paganini play at the Theatre Royal in 1831, Wallace became obsessed with the violin so much so that fears

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arose for his health and sanity. Isabella took matters in hand, deciding to emigrate to Australia. Sailing to Liverpool, the family left the English port on 9 July 1835 and William Vincent Wallace’s extraordinary odyssey began.

Initially calling to Tasmania, where Wallace gave a number of recitals, the family settled in Sydney and within a month Wallace gave his first acclaimed concert under the patronage of the Limerick-born governor general Sir Richard Bourke. Hailed as the ‘Australian Paganini’ for his violin virtuosity, he was also likened to Liszt through his remarkable pianism. Wallace was soon an established figure in society.

When a recession hit the Australian economy and the Wallace finances, the family returned to Ireland in 1838 although Wallace, leaving considerable debts behind him, took a ship for New Zealand where he went through a form of Maori marriage and had a cross engraved on his chest by his ‘bride’ to prove it.

He is alleged to have been court pianist to the Begum of Oudh in Uttar Pradesh and to have hunted elephant with the King of the Belgians before arriving in South America and riding a mule across the Andes. It must be remembered Wallace revelled in story telling!!

However he was in Chile in 1837 and was director of the Italian Theatre in Mexico City in 1841, the year he also conducted at the French Theater in New Orleans. The following year found him in Philadelphia and Boston before making his New York debut at the Apollo Saloon on 6 June 1843.

Coming back to Europe in 1844, Wallace’s English debut was at the Hanover Square Concert Rooms where he was introduced to the dramatist Edward Fitzball (1792-1873). The meeting proved fruitful as Fitzball later provided the libretto for Wallace’s first, and most successful, opera Maritana. Premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 15 November 1845, it was conducted by Julius Benedict (1804-1885) composer of the equally popular The Lily of Killarney. Further productions followed quickly including Dublin in 1846 and Vienna, New York and Philadelphia in 1848.

A favourite at court, Queen Victoria had a special medallion minted in Wallace’s honour. Only five were

struck - showing a side view cameo of Wallace’s head – with one each going to the Russian Czar, the Austrian Emperor, the King of Prussia and the composer.

Victoria kept the fifth herself.

Wallace came back to Dublin in 1846, hoping for reconciliation with Isabella but news of his philandering exploits preceded him and she refused to meet him.

Somewhat dejected, Wallace ventured to Paris where, meeting Berlioz and Rossini, he accepted a commission from the Opéra. This was not fulfilled and the planned work – Lurline - waited until 1860 for its Covent Garden production.

In the meantime Wallace had returned to the New York where he fell in love with, and it appears married, the German-born singer Helene Stöpel. She bore him two sons – Clarence and Vincent – before the family settled in London in 1853. Wallace’s opera The Amber Witch followed in 1861 with Love’s Triumph in 1862 and The Desert Flower in 1864. None achieved the popularity of either Maritana or Lurline.

Wallace’s health and eyesight deteriorated in 1865 and the family travelled to France, staying initially in Passy outside Paris and then continuing to the Pyrenees and the Château de Bagen, owned

by Helene’s sister and her husband. William Vincent Wallace died there on 12 October 1865. He is buried in London’s Kensal Green Cemetery.

Commenting on Lurline, George Bernard Shaw felt ‘there are several moments in the opera in which the string of hackneyed and trivial shop ballad rise into melody that surges with genuine emotion’. Among Wallace’s instrumental music his pièce de résistance may well be the Introduction and Variations Cracovienne. Some of his piano works display enormous Lisztean difficulties while others are reminiscent of Chopin. – Pat O’Kelly Pat O’Kelly is classical music reviewer with the Irish Independent.

The National Concert Hall presents The William Wallace bi-Centenary Concert Monday 15 October.

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS

CAMERATA IRELAND; BARRY DOUGLAS, PIANO/CONDUCTOR; LARA ST. JOHN, VIOLIN AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRAS SERIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012-2013

Barry Douglas

TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER 8PM Camerata Ireland • Barry Douglas piano/conductor • Lara St. John violin Rossini Mendelssohn Mozart Mozart

Overture: La Scala di Seta Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K.459 Symphony No. 40 in G minor K550

Belfast born Barry Douglas founded Camerata Ireland in 1999 as an orchestra of Irish musicians determined to match the best in the world. Through its tours in USA, South America, China and most of Europe it has quickly developed a reputation for excellence and for creating a particularly distinctive Irish string sound. In 2004, President McAleese and Queen Elizabeth II became joint Patrons of Camerata Ireland, testament to Camerata Ireland’s all Ireland commitment and to its determination to create opportunity for the very best young Irish musicians.

Guest violinist Lara St. John who, after making her debut toured Spain, France, Portugal and Hungary and entered the Curtis Institute at 13, spent her first summer at Marlboro three years later. “A volcanic violinist with a huge, fabulous tone that pours out of her like molten lava.” The Los Angeles Times

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THE BEST OF SYMPHONIC ROCK WITH THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

KARL JENKINS CONDUCTS THE PEACEMAKERS IRISH PREMIERE RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Karl Jenkins

FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER 8PM

SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER 8PM

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra David Arnold conductor Presented by Shay Byrne RTÉ Radio 1

RTÉ Concert Orchestra with guest soloists and choir Karl Jenkins conductor

Get the Rock and Pop star treatment as we unleash the full power of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra performing awesome rock and pop classics from Queen, Coldplay, Robbie Williams, The Beatles and more.

Numbers include Can’t Buy Me Love, Eye of the Tiger, Thriller, Fix You,Wind Beneath My Wings, We Will Rock You, Simply The Best and much much more.

Last year Karl Jenkins joined the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to conduct sold-out performances of his classic The Armed Man. Now the RTÉ CO is proud to bring him back to Dublin to conduct the first Irish performance of its sequel, The Peacemakers.

Go on! Let your hair down and rock out to the iconic anthems of your favourite supergroups.

Tickets: ¤10, ¤18, ¤24, ¤30, ¤35 Concessions: ¤9, ¤16, ¤22, ¤27, ¤32 Presented by the RTÉ NSO

This powerful work sets texts from such iconic figures as Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, as well as words from the Bible and the Koran. Inspirational and comforting, joyous and meditative, it ranges from the simplicity of one voice to the grandeur of many. The Peacemakers is sure to become another modern classic.

Tickets: ¤19.50, ¤29.50, ¤39.50 Concessions: ¤17.50, ¤26.50, ¤35.50 Group Discount 10% for 10 people or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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MARIO LANZA THE GREAT CARUSO – HIS LIFE & MUSIC

SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER 8PM Vladimir Jablokov • The Slovak Festival Musicians with Tenors Sean Costello & Niall Morris and Soprano Sandra Oman

Thursday 4 October, 8pm

Stephane Wrembel Quintet Stephane Wrembel guitar • Dave Speranza bass • Roy Williams rhythm guitar • Nick Anderson drums • David Langlois percussion French-born, US-based guitarist was recruited by Woody Allen to score the theme of this movie ‘Midnight in Paris’.

Hailed as ‘a revelation’ by Rolling Stone, Wrembel brings his New York quintet to Ireland for the first time in a programme that showcases his virtuosity and compositional skills, from his Django - inspired roots to his own unique lyrical fusion of jazz, blues, flamenco and rock.

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After an incredible 9 sell-out concerts in the past 3 years Mario Lanza - The Loveliest Night of The Year returns to celebrate the 53rd Anniversary of the legendary singers passing. The concert will include all of his biggest songs and duets to include: Begin The Beguine, Golden Days, Ave Maria, The Loveliest Night of The Year, Night and Day, Be My Love, O Sole Mio, Because You’re Mine and many more.

Tickets: ¤38.50, ¤32.50 (Choir Balcony ¤20) 10% discount for Groups of 10 or more, Friends of The National Concert Hall, senior citizen’s, students and unwaged Presented by Pat Egan Sound Ltd

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS

ˇ KARADAGLIC ´, GUITAR MILOS AS PART OF THE GREAT ARTISTS SERIES IN THE THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013

Miloš Karadaglic´

WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 8PM Miloš Karadaglic´ guitar Villa-Lobos Albéniz

J.S. Bach Jorge Morel Jorge Cardoso Savio Carlo Domeniconi

Prelude No. 1 Asturias Granada Prelude and Fugue BWV 997 Danza Brasiliera Milonga Batucada Koyunbaba Suite

‘Classical guitar has a new hero’. The Telegraph Miloš Karadaglic´ has established himself as one of today’s most gifted young guitar virtuosos. In July 2010 he signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, and his first recording, The Guitar, was released in spring 2011.

Miloš’s engagements have included solo recital debuts at the Wigmore Hall in London and the Lucerne Festival, and concerto debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra. Other appearances have included the Cheltenham and Spitalfields Festivals, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, and the 2010 iTunes Festival in London – the first time the festival had staged a classical event. Upcoming engagements include recitals at Wigmore Hall, Brighton Festival, and BOCA Festival of the Arts.

Miloš uses D’Addario J 46 strings and a 2007 guitar by Greg Smallman, kindly lent to him

by Paul and Jenny Gillham.

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A SONG IN MY HEART RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Wynne Evans, tenor

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: FROM POLAND WITH LOVE

Hisako Kawamura

THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER 8PM

FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra Wynne Evans tenor Cara O’Sullivan soprano Conductor TBA

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Hisako Kawamura piano Alan Buribayev conductor

One of the UK’s most exciting tenors and one of Ireland’s most acclaimed sopranos join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for one night only. Having become a well-known face on television through the Go Compare ads, Wynne Evans’ début album A Song in My Heart went straight in at number one in the classical charts. Cara O’Sullivan is ‘the Irish superstar of her generation’ (The Irish Times), combining artistry and drama with true sensitivity. Now, with the full forces of the RTÉ CO, Wynne and Cara perform a delightful programme of operatic, musical and Neapolitan favourites.

Glinka Polish Dances from A Life for

the Tsar Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in

F minor, Op. 21 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 3 in D,

Op. 29 ‘Polish’ Brilliant piano writing and ravishing orchestral accompaniment shot through with the vitality of traditional Polish dances are the hallmarks of Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto, its haunting nocturne a soulful declaration of unrequited love.

Polish dances feature also in the Glinka and in Tchaikovsky’s colourful and lyrical symphony, with its gracious waltz and rousing polonaise.

Soundings, 7pm: Guest Talk with pianist Conor Linehan

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MAXIMISE BRAINPOWER WITH MIND MAPPING AND MEMORY TECHNIQUES

Tony Buzan

CASTA DIVA - THE LIFE, LOVES AND MUSIC OF MARIA CALLAS

Maria Callas

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 10AM

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 8PM

Tony Buzan

Mairéad Buicke will star as Maria Callas with The Casta Diva Chamber Orchestra conducted by Andrew Synnott and special guest singers.

Come and learn from world’s leading author and top lecturer on the brain and learning (over 100 authored and co-authored books to date) as he takes you through his Mind Map technique and the latest research on the brain, memory techniques and learning tools.

Another chance for students from 10 to 100 to attend one of Tony Buzan’s inspirational learning seminars!

Please note start time.

“Casta Diva” is a newly devised evening honouring the legacy of the great opera diva Maria Callas. Starring Mairéad Buicke, fresh from making her English National Opera debut in La Bohème, as Maria Callas and tenors James Edwards & Simon Morgan as the men in her life, Callas’ fascinating and ultimately tragic life story is told through much loved opera classics from La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La Traviata and Carmen.

In the last 12 months 5,000 people have attended “Casta Diva.The Life, Loves and Music” of the world’s greatest Opera Diva, Maria Callas.

Tickets: ¤50 Students & Senior Citizens: ¤25 Unwaged: ¤35 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 20% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Seminars.ie 32

Tickets: ¤35, ¤46.50 (Choir Balcony ¤25) 10% to senior citizen’s, groups of 10 or more & the unwaged Presented by Pat Egan Sound Ltd & Niall Morris

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GOING BACK WITH DUSTY SPRINGFIELD ALL THE HITS & MORE

Give the gift of Music with a membership to the Young Maestros music club For music lovers aged 3-15 years

Katy Setterfield

SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 8PM Katy Setterfield, the winner of BBC TV’s The One And Only, stars as Dusty Springfield with her exceptional band & singers Katy Setterfield, stars as Dusty Springfield in this stunning evening of outstanding music and non-stop hits. Hear Katy, with her exceptional band & singers, perform all of Dusty’s timeless, classic hits to include I Only want To Be With You, Son Of A Preacher Man, I Just Don’t Know what To Do With Myself, Breakfast In Bed, Wishin’ and Hopin’, If You Go Away, Just A Little Lovin’, What Have I Done To Deserve This and many more.

The perfect Christmas gift giving members a 20% discount on selected events and lots more.

Membership is just €50 per year Call 01 417 0000, e-mail: youngmaestros@nch.ie or visit www.nch.ie

Book now to receiv e your Christma s

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Tickets: ¤25, ¤30, ¤35 (Choir Balcony: ¤20) 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 10% discount to groups of 10 or more, senior citizens and the unwaged.

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS

WILLIAM WALLACE BI-CENTENARY CONCERT

William Wallace

MONDAY 15 OCTOBER 8PM Máire Flavin mezzo-soprano • Matthew Sprange baritone • Rosemary Tuck piano Una Hunt piano Afternoon sessions (commencing 2.30pm) Lecture: ‘Wallace the American and the Music Album of 1854’ - Pete Jaggard Lecture recital: ‘Chopinesque: the Piano Music of William V. Wallace’ - Rosemary Tuck Lecture: ‘One of our best and most original of native composers ...’ - David Grant To include world-première performances of music from the 1854 Music Album and favourite excerpts from Wallace’s Maritana and his other operas, plus a rare performance of Wallace’s Grand Duo for two pianos on Halévy’s opera L’éclair It is now scarcely remembered that Wallace was a great virtuoso on both the violin and piano or that he was a great adventurer, travelling the world and visiting places that no other Irish musician had set foot in. This day-long celebration presents a rare opportunity to find out more about this extraordinary Irish musical figure so come along to the afternoon lectures and lecture-recital to hear the experts on Wallace and experience his music, some of which has never been performed in Ireland before.

The evening Gala concert launches the new facsimile edition plus CD of the sumptuouslyembellished Music Album published in New York in 1854, now in the collection at the National Library of Ireland.

The Commemorative Music Album 1854 composed by William Vincent Wallace is published

by RTÉ lyric fm and Heritage Music Productions in association with the National Library of Ireland, and generously funded by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Ticket: ¤20 (concessions: ¤18) 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall; Lectures ¤5 Presented by The National Concert Hall 34

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“A beautiful young woman with a cherub’s voice that floats in an ethereal cloud of its own making” The Sunday Independent

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra presents AN EVENING WITH

and the Dublin Laptop Orchestra Eimear Quinn’s haunting, ethereal sound won the hearts of millions with her 1996 Eurovision Song Contest winning performance of Brendan Graham’s The Voice. As a best-selling recording artist and performer, her highly distinctive sound and her interpretations inspire. In this her first collaboration with the RTÉ NSO, she will embrace a span of repertoire ranging from the Irish tradition to the contemporary.

This unique evening includes the fragile beauty of Thomas Moore’s Silent, O Moyle, Sean O’Riada’s Mná na hÉireann, Brendan Graham’s haunting Cruchán na bPáiste and Eimear’s own setting of In Paradisum. With the innovative Dublin Laptop Orchestra – who “make music with lots of laptops, hands, golf controllers, a wireless router, and anyone

David Brophy conductor

that plays...anything” and who aims “to bring some theatricality and ‘physical presence’ into electronic music performance” with a focus on folk music – she will perform with the Dublin Laptop Orchestra the world premiere of Whisper City by Emma O’Halloran, ‘taking inspiration from the American podcast show www.whispercities.org’ and exploring the ‘secret music’ of Dublin streets.

Orchestral works include the power and poetry of Aloys Fleischmann’s Na Ceithre Máistirí (Réamhcheol ) and Séan Ó Riada’s stirring Olynthiac Overture, The Banks of Sulan, Seoladh na nGamhan (The Herding of the Calves) and, with the Dublin Laptop Orchestra, the world premiere of Very Pointy

by Dublin Laptop Orchestra founder Alex Dowling.

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ON STAGE TOGETHER AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER AND SHAWN COLVIN

Mary Chapin Carpenter

THE CELTIC TENORS PERFORM AN EVENING OF POWER BALLADS AND GREAT LOVE SONGS

The Celtic Tenors

TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 8PM

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 8PM

Mary Chapin Carpenter • Shawn Colvin

The Celtic Tenors with their musicians and special guest soprano Deirdre Gilsenan

Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin will embark on a series of tour dates this spring; this is the first time that Carpenter and Colvin - long time friends for over 20 years - will undertake a tour together. The special shows will feature the acclaimed songwriters performing as an intimate duo and will include material spanning their vast catalogues as well as some of their favourite songs.

The Celtic Tenors, their musicians and guests, will perform some of the World’s Greatest Love Songs to include: Nessun Dorma, Time To Say Goodbye, I’m All out of Love, Nella Fantasia, Galileo, Feels Like Home, A Love So Beautiful, She Moved Through The Fair, Red Haired Mary and many many more.

The Celtic Tenors are Ireland’s biggest ever selling classical crossover group with record sales in excess of 500,000. They have performed on all the world’s major concert stages and include President Bill Clinton and UN General Secretary Kofi Annan as fans.

Tickets: ¤38.50 Presented by Raglane 36

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THE FUREYS & DAVEY ARTHUR

The Fureys

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: FATE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR

Kenneth Montgomery

THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER 8PM

FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER 8PM

The Fureys • Davey Arthur

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra RTÉ Philharmonic Choir Mark Hindley chorus master Kenneth Montgomery conductor

Legends of Irish music, the Fureys and Davey Arthur return after a three year absence. Still touring the world after almost 35 years, they are truly among our greatest musical ambassadors. Sing along to all their hits including Sweet 16, Red Rose Café, Green Fields of France, The Old Man, Steal away, Leaving Nancy.

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor,

Op. 67 Verdi Four Sacred Pieces Two mighty and majestic works demonstrate the imaginative and emotional power of music to excite and to comfort.

Beethoven’s Fifth is a masterpiece of propulsive energy that makes full use of a symphony orchestra at its most expressive.

Verdi’s sublime Four Sacred Pieces features music of serene and breathtaking beauty.

Soundings, 7pm: In Conversation. RTÉ Philharmonic Choir Chorus Master Mark Hindley with Lesley Bishop

Tickets: ¤25, ¤32.50, ¤35 10% discount for groups of 10 or more and Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by Joe McCadden Management Sponsored by Stena Line and Volkswagen Commerical Vehicles

Tickets: ¤10, ¤18, ¤24, ¤30, ¤35 Concessions: ¤9, ¤16, ¤22, ¤27, ¤32 Buy 3 or more RTÉ NSO season concerts and save. From ¤28.50 Presented by the RTÉ NSO

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DEFENCE FORCES ANNUAL GALA CONCERT

GERALDINE O’GRADY: A CELEBRATION

Geraldine O’Grady

SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER 8PM Bands of the Defence Forces and special guest Orla Boylan soprano Defence Forces Bands, pipers and special guest soprano Orla Boylan, will combine for an evening of military favourites and popular arias - the highlight of the year for all band enthusiasts. The proceeds of the concert are donated to the Defence Forces Benevolent Fund and Soldiers Aid Fund.

Tickets on sale from Monday 13th August at 10am.

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SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER 8PM Na Casaidigh • Oonagh Keogh Virginia Kerr • Conor Linehan Veronica McSwiney • Margaret O’Sullivan and members of The O’Grady and Cassidy Clans, with special “surprise” guests Des Keogh and Rosaleen Linehan Family members and friends from the world of entertainment come together to celebrate the birthday and the career of the distinguished violinist Geraldine O’Grady.

Geraldine’s guests will include Na Casaidigh, Oonagh Keogh, Virginia Kerr, Conor Linehan, Veronica McSwiney, Margaret O’Sullivan and members of The O’Grady and Cassidy Clans. With special “surprise” guests Des Keogh and Rosaleen Linehan.

Presented by Des Keogh, all proceeds from the evening go to Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services.

Tickets: ¤25, ¤35 (Choir Balcony ¤20) 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall. 10% discount for Senior Citizens, unwaged, students 10% discount available for groups of 10 or more Presented by Des Keogh

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SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER 8PM

Adrian Partington director/harpsichord Rachel Nicholls soprano Crispian Steele-Perkins trumpet Mozart Festival Orchestra in full 18th Century costume A sublime programme of Handel’s masterpieces performed in full 18th century costume in an evocative candle-lit style setting.

Tickets: €37, €42, €44.50 (Choir Balcony: €25) Presented by Raymond Gubbay

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013

PADDY COLE & FRIENDS IN CONCERT

WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2012, 8pm

Miloš Karadaglic ´ guitar

PROGRAMME to include works by Bach, Villa-Lobos, Barrios and Carlo Domeniconi

Paddy Cole

TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER 8PM Paddy Cole All Stars The Wolseley Singers Regina Hanley, Musical Director Celtic Divas A lively evening is promised with Paddy and his band, who have been performing for The Friends of St. Luke’s since 2001 and have raised over ¤165,000 for cancer care at St Luke’s. Special guests are Tullow’s Wolseley Singers who will be joined by the Celtic Divas.

‘Classical guitar has a new hero’ The Telegraph

Tickets: e25, e30, e35, e40 (e15 Choir Balcony)

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Tickets: ¤30 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by The Friends of St Luke’s

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA RICCARDO CHAILLY, GEWANDHAUSKAPELLMEISTER LYNN HARRELL, CELLO AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRAS SERIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013

Riccardo Chailly

WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER 8PM Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra • Riccardo Chailly Gewandhauskapellmeister Lynn Harrell cello Shostakovich Rachmaninov

Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 126 Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

‘The Gewandhaus is one of Europe’s finest Orchestras, while Chailly is one of a handful of living conductors who genuinely deserves to be called great’ The Guardian.

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is the oldest civic concert orchestra in the world. Few other orchestras have contributed as much to the development of the symphonic musical tradition as the Gewandhaus Orchestra. For example, it performed all of Beethoven’s symphonies during the composer’s lifetime.

Riccardo Chailly’s first artistic encounter with the Gewandhaus Orchestra took place at the Salzburg Festival in 1986. He took up his position as Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in September 2005. In 2010 Chailly received the Alexander von Zemlinsky Award and the Orphée d´Or “Prix H. von Karajan.”

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A TRIBUTE TO BRENDAN GRAHAM RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Brendan Graham

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: THE NOBLE, THE SENTIMENTAL AND THE EXOTIC

Xavier de Maistre

THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER 8PM

FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER 8PM

RTÉ Concert Orchestra David Brophy conductor Special guests to be announced

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Xavier de Maistre harp Hannu LIntu conductor

You Raise Me Up is famed the world over, having been covered by Westlife, Josh Groban and many more. The inspirational lyrics were written by Ireland’s own Brendan Graham. Brendan also composed two of Ireland’s Eurovision winners: Rock ’n’ Roll Kids (1994) and The Voice (1996), has written several songs for Celtic Woman, including O, America, and has seen his songs recorded by artists ranging from Anúna to Daniel O’Donnell to The Irish Tenors.

Tonight a host of special guests join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and David Brophy to celebrate one of Ireland’s finest and most internationally acclaimed songwriters.

Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Ginastera Concerto for Harp, Op. 25 Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition Ginastera’s exotic and exciting Harp Concerto puts Argentina’s native folk melodies and rhythms to magnificently colourful use. Mussorgsky’s masterful Pictures at an Exhibition brings paintings by the Russian painter Viktor Hartmann to enthralling and vivacious life. The Ravel reveals a deliciously tongue-in-cheek set of Schubert-inspired waltzes.

Soundings, 7pm: In Conversation.

Dr. Clíona Doris with Xavier de Maistre

Tickets: ¤12.50, ¤23.50, ¤28.50, ¤35.50, ¤39.50 Concessions: ¤11, ¤21.50, ¤25.50, ¤31.50, ¤35.50 Group Discount 10% for 10 people or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra 42

Tickets: ¤10, ¤18, ¤24, ¤30, ¤35 Concessions: ¤9, ¤16, ¤22, ¤27, ¤32 Buy 3 or more RTÉ NSO season concerts and save. From ¤28.50 Presented by the RTÉ NSO

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THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH EIMEAR QUINN AND THE DUBLIN LAPTOP ORCHESTRA

Eimear Quinn

RONAN COLLINS SINGS JOE DOLAN. THE GREATEST HITS CONCERT

Ronan Collins

SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER,8PM

SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER 8PM

RTÉ NationalSymphony Orchestra Eimear Quinn voice Dublin Laptop Orchestra David Brophy conductor O’Riada Olynthiac Overture O’Riada The banks of Sulan O’Riada Mná na hÉireann Brendan Graham Cruchán na bPáiste Thomas Moore Silent, O Moyle Eimear Quinn In Paradisum Canteloube Bailero (Songs of the

Auvergne) O’Riada Seoladh na nGamhan

(The Herding of the

Calves) Emma O’Halloran Whisper City Alex Dowling Very Pointy

(world premiere) Aloys Fleischmann Na Ceithre Máistirí

(Réamhcheol)

Ronan Collins with his Big Band & Singers

For full concert detail see p. 35

Tickets: ¤10, ¤18, ¤24 ¤30, ¤35 Concessions: ¤9, ¤16, ¤22, ¤27, ¤32 For the full concert details see page 5.

Presented by the RTÉ NSO

Ronan will perform all of Joe Dolan’s Greatest Hits: You’re Such A Good Looking Woman, Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller, It’s You, It’s You, It’s You, Make Me An Island, The Westmeath Bachelor, More and More, Teresa and many more.

After 3 sell out shows in the past two years Ronan Collins and his Big Band are back!

The big problem in celebrating the career of Joe Dolan is finding a singer who can emulate his unique vocal range. Surprisingly one of the few who can match the falsetto quality of Joe’s voice is RTÉ Star and Radio 1 DJ Ronan Collins. Join Ronan for a night of high nostalgia as he, his big band & singers, relive the classic hits of arguably Ireland’s most popular singer ever - Joe Dolan.

Tickets: ¤33.50, ¤38.50 (Choir Balcony ¤25) 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 10% discount for senior citizens, students, and the unwaged 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Pat Egan Sound Ltd

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CARMINA BURANA AND SCÉALTA NA SAMHNA

PSYCHO - LIVE! RTÉ CONCERT ORCHESTRA

TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 8PM

WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER 8PM

DIT Irish Music Ensemble DIT Choral Society DIT Percussion Ensemble

RTÉ Concert Orchestra John Wilson conductor

Scéalta na Samhna performed by DIT Irish Music Ensemble Carmina Burana performed by DIT Choral Society and soloists The origins of Hallowe’en date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of summer and the harvest, and the start of winter and the new year.

You are invited to celebrate Scéalta na Samhna –A Halloween Masquerade with the DIT Irish Traditional Music Ensemble celebrating the Celtic New Year in music, song and storytelling.

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Imagine the impact of the iconic shower scene from Psycho on the big screen with the screeching violin music played live underneath! Following sell-outs in 2010, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra is proud to present a very special Hallowe’en screening of the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece accompanied by a live performance of Bernard Herrmann’s spine-tingling score.

The unforgettable Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, the evocative blackand-white photography and the famous all-strings score all contribute to the tension, thrills and terror.

This Hallowe’en check into the Bates Motel for the ultimate way to experience one of the greatest thrillers of all time!

Tickets: ¤15 (Restricted view), ¤25, ¤30, ¤35, ¤40 Concessions: ¤13 (Restricted view), ¤23, ¤27, ¤32, ¤36. Group Discount 10% for 10 people or more Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

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Opera & Ballet International presents an Ellen Kent Production

THE MOST SEDUCTIVE OPERA EVER WRITTEN

AN EXPLOSION OF LOVE AND TREACHERY

‘Impassioned and sultry’

‘Brilliantly sung’

THE OBSERVER

‘Hot-blooded, a joy’ THE INDEPENDENT

THE TIMES (ROYAL ALBERT HALL) Starring the international soprano Elena Dee*

FEATURING A BOYS CHOIR

Starring international mezzo soprano Nadia Stoianova*.

A dazzling new production, set in Seville

Set against the backdrop of Rome with spectacular sets and costumes, with two of the best roles for tenor and soprano, plus a truly blood curdling villain

Sung in French with English surtitles

Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Saturday 30th March 7.30pm Tickets: €40, €34, €25

*Cast subject to change..

Sunday 31st March 7.30pm Tickets: €40, €34, €25

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JOHN FIELD ROOM OCTOBER Monday 1 October 8PM SAM JACKSON SHARP & FLAT ALBUM LAUNCH Sam Jackson piano and Fender Rhodes Shane O’Donovan drums • Dave Mooney double bass and special guests An atmospheric blend of music from a master of mood and a veteran of the biggest names in theatre.

After two sold-out performances last year, the critically acclaimed composer from The Abbey, Druid Theatre and Moya Brennan returns to launch his debut album Sharp & Flat.

“Sam Jackson’s episodic music is gorgeous” - Irish Examiner Tickets: ¤15 20% discount for senior citizens, students and the unwaged 30% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by Sam Jackson Music

Michael O’Toole

Friday 5 October 1:05PM Michael O’Toole guitar Fernando Sor Introduction, Theme and Variations on a

Theme of Mozart Ian Wilson Sternlos Francisco Tarrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra Carlo Domeniconi Koyunbaba A concert of virtuosic music performed by one of Ireland’s leading guitarists. “…I was knocked out by his performances… he revealed a talent for telling stories with his hands and weaving meticulous trains of musical thought, delivered with a fair punch.” Tim Panting, Classical Guitar Magazine Tickets: ¤12 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 20% discount for senior citizens, students and unwaged

‘Midnight in Paris’ Stephane Wrembel

Thursday 4 October 8PM ‘MIDNIGHT IN PARIS’ Stephane Wrembel Quintet Stephane Wrembel guitar • Dave Speranza bass • Roy Williams rhythm guitar • Nick Anderson drums • David Langlois percussion French-born, US-based guitarist was recruited by Woody Allen to score the theme of this movie Midnight in Paris. Hailed as ‘a revelation’ by Rolling Stone, Wrembel brings his New York quintet to Ireland for the first time in a programme that showcases his virtuosity and compositional skills, from his Django - inspired roots to his own unique lyrical fusion of jazz, blues, flamenco and rock.

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Monday 8 October 8PM THE GREAT CARUSO - THE ORIGINAL FILM WITH MARIO LANZA AS ENRICO CARUSO Renowned tenor Mario Lanza portrays his long-time singing idol Enrico Caruso in the crowd pleasing musical film that was a box office smash when it was released in 1951. The music includes works by Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi and many more.

2011 was the 60th Anniversary of the cinema release of The Great Caruso which made Mario Lanza an international superstar equalling that of Elvis Presley. The Great Caruso was nominated for 4 Academy Awards at the 1951 Oscars and winning one for Best Sound Recording. The Film Soundtrack Album went on to sell several million copies and was re-released on CD in 1989.

Tickets: ¤20 10% discount for Senior Citizens, unwaged, students, groups of 10 or more 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by Pat Egan Sound Ltd

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JOHN FIELD ROOM OCTOBER

Seamus Brett and Kathy Nugent

Dara MacMahon & Gerry Noonan

Friday 12 October 1:05PM MORE......GOOD OLD DAYS OF MUSIC HALL Dara MacMahon mezzo-soprano • Gerry Noonan baritone Pauline Cooper piano Popular music hall songs Following their sell-out shows in 2010, The Good Old Days of Music Hall returns to the John Field Room with a brand new programme of popular musical hall songs. Take a step-backin-time at lunchtime with well-known tunes from this era, filled with memories from the “Good Old Days”...and plenty of opportunity to sing-along!

Tickets: ¤15 (concessions ¤12) Presented by All Era Music

Friday 19 October 1:05PM SONGS YOU SHOULD HEAR (OR SHOULD HEAR AGAIN) Kathy Nugent • Seamus Brett Kathy Nugent one of Ireland’s outstanding artists accompanied by the equally outstanding pianist, Seamus Brett, will perform a lunchtime treat of some of the greatest songs ever written.

Some you will love and know and some you will get to know and love.

Tickets: ¤15 (concessions ¤13) Presented by Paul Black

Anthony Byrne

Friday 26 October 1:05PM ANTHONY BYRNE PLAYS HIS FAVOURITE ENCORES Anthony Byrne piano Anthony will introduce and play some of his favourite encores including pieces by Chopin, Liszt, Liadov, Mozart, Percy Grainger and the king of syncopation Billy Mayerl. Anthony will also be joined by his son Robert in a selection of piano duets.

Tickets: ¤13 Presented by Anthony Byrne

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NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHT

AND ALL THAT JAZZ...

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oel Kelehan was an all-round musician. As pianist, conductor, composer and arranger, he played music of many genres, but his greatest love was jazz. On Sunday 25 November, the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra, plus guests, will play a concert in tribute to this great Irish jazz pianist, who died on 6 February 2012.

Born in Dublin on 26 December 1935, Noel studied classical piano, theory and harmony, but was self-taught as a composer and arranger. His main jazz influences were George Shearing, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Miles Davis.

After leaving school, he worked for a while in a clothing company before becoming a professional pianist, playing for dances in tennis clubs and the Metropole Ballroom.

In 1963 he went to New York for a year. Although he enjoyed playing there, he was glad to return home to Dublin. He never lived outside Ireland again. He became a familiar part of the Dublin jazz scene, playing with Louis

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Stewart, Jimmy McKay, Mike Nolan, Keith Donald and John Wadham, and writing charts for big bands.

But a musician in Ireland cannot earn a living from jazz alone, especially with a family to support. Noel took on a staff job as Musical Director in RTÉ, writing arrangements for the Light Orchestra, later the Concert Orchestra. From 1966 to 1998 he conducted most of the Irish entries to the Eurovision Song Contest, including five of the winning songs. This work made his name known to a wider audience.

No matter how busy he was, Noel always found time for jazz. In the late 1970s he led the Noel Kelehan Quintet, with Keith Donald (soprano and tenor sax), Mike Nolan (trumpet and flugelhorn), Frank Hess (bass) and John Wadham (drums). The group played music by Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis. They had a Sunday night residency in a Dublin hotel, and recorded an LP, Ozone.

As time went by and visits from international jazz musicians became more frequent, Noel played piano for

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A TRIBUTE TO MASTER OF JAZZ, NOEL KELEHAN big names like Zoot Sims, Kenny Wheeler, Art Farmer and Johnny Griffin. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he appeared at several Dublin Jazz Society concerts, accompanying American greats like Scott Hamilton, Joel Helleny, Randy Sandke, Harry Allen and Spike Robinson.

Honor Heffernan, who frequently sang with Noel, and who recorded Chasing The Moon with him in 1991, spoke on RTÉ Radio 1 soon after his death. Remembering how he helped to nurture talent, she described him as ‘supportive, wonderful, funny, kind, caring’. Honor led a tribute concert to Noel Kelehan in Bewley’s on 25 February.

Ronan Guilfoyle, who first played bass with Noel in the late 70s, echoes Honor’s praise. In his ‘Mostly Music’ blog, he writes: ‘He was always positive and supportive to me despite being light years ahead of me in knowledge and experience. This musical and personal generosity was something he was renowned for.’

Ronan has composed a specially commissioned piece for the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra, to be performed at the tribute concert. Formerly known as Dublin City Big Band, the DCJO was founded by Ciaran Wilde and Ray Martin in 2007 to encourage students at the Ballymun Wind Project.

The band went on to play in the Button Factory, Temple Bar, as well as touring the country and playing a concert at the National Concert Hall in March 2011.

Also appearing at the Noel Kelehan tribute concert are Laura MacDonald (alto sax), Ellister van der Molen (trumpet), Mike Nielsen (guitar), Phil Ware (piano), Cormac O’Brien (double bass) and Shane O’Donovan (drums).

Grainne Farren (Jazz critic, Sunday Independent) The National Concert Hall presents Noel Kelehan, A tribute, Sunday 25 November. Tickets from e25 on Tel: 01 417 0000 or www.nch.ie

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IN DREAMS ROY ORBISON & FRIENDS THE ULTIMATE CONCERT

PIPEWORKS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL AND THE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 8PM

FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 6:10PM

Alan Morris stars as the voice of Roy Orbison with Tim Harwood as Buddy Holly and Colin Fidoe & Geoff Bates as The Everly Brothers all backed by the Fabulous Rockets Band

David Leigh organ

This two hour concert special is the ultimate 60’s flashback! Join Roy Orbison and his friends The Everly Brothers & Buddy Holly singing all of their greatest hits…In Dreams, Pretty Woman, Only The Lonely, You Got It, Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have To Do Is Dream, Peggy Sue, Oh Boy, Rave On and many more! This show is a “must see” for any fan of 60’s music.

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Whitlock

Sonata in C minor 1. Grave - Animato 2. Canzona 3. Scherzetto 4. Choral

Linked to RTÉ NSO Main Season programme This complex and monumental work is linked with Rachmaninov’s second symphony (heard in the 8pm concert), first heard by Whitlock in 1934 and referred to cryptically in the Sonata’s dedication.

Whitlock’s unashamedly lush romantic style owes much to the older composer, and marks him out as an important if somewhat neglected figure in the twentieth century canon of organ music.

A ticket is required for this free ticketed event.

Pipeworks in association with the National Concert Hall. Presented by the RTÉ NSO and the National Concert Hall

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RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE AND LOSS

Christopher Warren-Green

FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 8PM RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Alan Smale violin Christopher Warren-Green conductor Arvo Pärt

Frank Corcoran

Rachmaninov

Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten Violin Concerto (world première) Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Frank Corcoran’s ‘lyrical, leppin’’ and song-like Violin Concerto combines, the composer says, ‘fiddling fun, violinistic seriousness and art’s sorrow, and fast, furious, last orchestral thoughts’. Estonian Arvo Pärt’s bewitching, prayer-like elegy for Britten is a haunting recognition of a lost kindred spirit, and Rachmaninov’s swooningly beautiful Second Symphony could have no better champion than the dynamic conductor Christopher Warren-Green.

WALTONS WORLD MASTERS MAVIS STAPLES

Mavis Staples

SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER 8PM Mavis Staples, lead vocals Yvonne Staples, Vicki Randle & Donny Gerrard backing vocals • Rick Holmstrom guitar • Jeff Turmes bass, guitar Stephen Hodges drums Mavis Staples doesn’t so much sing a song as baptize it in truth.’ Boston Globe Mavis Staples’ career is one of the most remarkable in all of music, not only for its spirit and longevity, but also for the period of history that it spans. The gospel music of The Staples Singers in the 1950s blossomed into the 1960s popular mainstream on the strength of Mavis Staples’ voice, and she was at the epicentre of the civil rights movement, when she sang for both Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy. Her later career includes both powerful solo recordings and collaborations with such major artists as Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder and Prince (who called her ‘the epitome of soul’).

Soundings, 7pm: In Conversation. Conductor Colman Pearce with Frank Corcoran

Tickets: ¤10, ¤18, ¤24, ¤30, ¤35 Concessions: ¤9, ¤16, ¤22, ¤27, ¤32 Buy 3 or more RTÉ NSO season concerts and save. From ¤28.50. Presented by the RTÉ NSO

Tickets: ¤28, ¤36, ¤42 (Choir Balcony ¤20) 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by Waltons New School of Music

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PACO PEÑA PRESENTS QUIMERAS

GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC this christmas

TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 8PM Paco Peña, his Flamenco Dance Company, Musicians & Singers

gift cards available from e20

order online at www.nch.ie or tel: 01 417 0000

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Quimeras is the brand new show written by the legendary flamenco guitarist Paco Peña.

It combines the best flamenco dancers with a sensational band of musicians and virtuoso singers and is packed with all the integrity, depth and raw energy that have become Paco Peña’s trademark. Quimeras is an intoxicating mixture of flamenco guitar, dance and song along with African drums and singing to create a rhythmic blend of African and Flamenco styles. Together it is a big, joyous celebration of exuberant dance and magical music. “…..the dance - by turns flamenco and high energy African movement - is superb and Paco’s own guitar playing is breathtakingly beautiful.” - The London Telegraph

Tickets: ¤25, ¤32.50, ¤39.50, ¤46.50 10% to senior citizens, the unwaged and groups of 10 or more Presented by Pat Egan Sound Ltd

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ALISON BALSOM, TRUMPET KAMMERORCHESTER BASEL AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL GREAT ARTISTS SERIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013

Alison Balsom

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 8PM Alison Balsom trumpet • Kammerorchester Basel Haydn James MacMillan Elgar Haydn

Symphony No. 92 in G major, Oxford (Hob.1:92) Seraph for Trumpet and Strings (2010) Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20 (1892) Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat major

Recently crowned ‘Female Artist of the Year’ for the second time at the Classic BRITs, Alison Balsom has cemented an international reputation as one of classical music’s great ambassadors and is ranked among the most distinctive and ground-breaking musicians on the international circuit today. Balsom has also been honoured with numerous awards by Classic FM, Gramophone and Echo Klassik.

Balsom studied trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music, the Paris Conservatoire, and with Håkan Hardenberger. Previously a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Balsom was a concerto finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition in 1998 and received the Feeling Musique Prize for quality of sound in the 4th Maurice André International Trumpet Competition.

She will be accompanied by Kammerorchesterbasel, founded in 1984 by graduates of various Swiss conservatories and now ranks as one of the most popular international chamber orchestras in Europe.

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RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: GRACE OUT OF DARKNESS

Hannu Lintu

GLORIOUS HANDEL

BY CANDLELIGHT

Mozart Festival Orchestra

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 8PM

SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER 8PM

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Finghin Collins piano Hannu Lintu conductor

Adrian Partington director/harpsichord Rachel Nicholls soprano Crispian Steele-Perkins trumpet Mozart Festival Orchestra in full 18th Century costume

Andrew Hamilton The True Truths

(RTÉ commission,

World Première) Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24

in C minor, K491 Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E

minor, Op. 98 Principal Guest Conductor Hannu Lintu returns for Mozart’s grandest Piano Concerto, its dark, menacing atmospheres sounding like storm clouds lit up by brilliant lightning flashes.

Brahms’ final symphony offers music of bleak but beautiful gracefulness. The world premiere of The True Truths feeds ‘a song into the orchestra and becomes destroyed, mangled and bashed’ to explore ‘the meanings that can hide behind seemingly simple ideas’.

Soundings, 7pm: In Conversation. Bernard Clarke with Andrew Hamilton

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Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Let the Bright Seraphim, Samson Overture, Rejoice Greatly, I know that my redeemer liveth, Messiah Sarabande Trumpet Suite Lascia Ch’io Pianga, Rinaldo Largo, Xerxes Water Music Suite A sublime programme of Handel’s masterpieces performed in full 18th century costume in an evocative candle-lit style setting.

Tickets: ¤37, ¤42, ¤44.50 (Choir Balcony: ¤25) Presented by Raymond Gubbay

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Season Insights Music Appreciation Course Starts Wednesday 19 September 2012, 6.15pm-7.45pm Join us for an exciting 6-week journey exploring music from The National Concert Hall’s International Concert Series 2012/13. Composers, artists and works will be discussed thematically through the six evenings, drawing upon the series as inspiration but discussing in a wider musical context.

Presented by Prof. Gerard Gillen this is a course not to miss!

The course takes place on the following Wednesday evenings: 19, 26 September • 3, 17, 31 October • 7 November Tickets for the 6 week course: Friends €92 • Non-members €145 (includes tea and coffee on the first evening) Friends’ priority booking is now open with booking for non-members opening on Monday 3 September 2012.

Presented by the Friends office

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS

EVGENY KISSIN, PIANO

AS PART OF THE PIANO MASTERS SERIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013

Evgeny Kissin

SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 8PM Haydn Beethoven Schubert

Liszt

Sonata No. 59 in E flat major Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 4 Impromptus: No. 1 in F minor, Op. 142 (D935) No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 90 (D899) No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 142 (D935) No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 (D899) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C sharp minor

Evgeny Kissin’s musicality, the depth and poetic quality of his interpretations, and his extraordinary virtuosity have earned him the veneration and admiration deserved only by one of the most gifted classical pianists of his generation and, arguably, generations past. He is in demand the world over, and has appeared with many of the world’s great conductors, including Abbado, Ashkenazy, Barenboim, von Dohnányi, Giulini, Levine, Maazel, Muti and Ozawa, as well as all the great orchestras of the world.

“Without question he is a phenomenal pianist, a deeply intuitive and sensitive musician” The New York Times

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RATHMINES AND RATHGAR MUSICAL SOCIETY-OKLAHOMA!

TUESDAY 13/WEDNESDAY 14/THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 16/SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 8PM 2:30PM MATINÉE ON 17 NOVEMBER One of the most successful and iconic Broadway musicals makes a return to The National Concert Hall courtesy of the Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society. A real gem of musical theatre featuring Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’, Kansas City, I Cain’t Say No, Lonely Room and, of course Oklahoma!!!

Join the renowned chorus and principals of the R&R as they head out west to the frontier in Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s iconic Oklahoma! Director Garry Mountaine and Musical Director Gearóid Grant bring a new fresh lease of life to this Broadway classic, replete with melodies that have come to be hallmarks of modern musical theatre. This fully staged and costumed production will delight audiences young and old so book now to avoid delay.

Tickets: ¤30, ¤35 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 10% discount for groups of ten or more Presented by Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie no booking fees

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AN EVENING WITH RICHARD CLAYDERMAN THE PRINCE OF ROMANCE

A KISS FOR ALL THE WORLD

Richard Clayderman

SUNDAY 18 NOVEMBER 8PM

MONDAY 19 NOVEMBER 8PM

Richard Clayderman and His Musicians

UCD Symphony Orchestra UCD Choral Scholars UCD Philharmonic Choir Catherine Redding, soprano • Victoria Massey, alto • Eamonn Mulhall, tenor • Jeffrey Ledwidge, bass • Ciarán Crilly, conductor

Richard and his musicians will perform all his classic hits including the No 1 worldwide smash hit Ballad Pour Adeline.

Richard Clayderman, The Prince of Romance, returns to The National Concert Hall after a series of sell out shows. His has sold 70 million albums and his hit single Ballad Pour Adeline sold an incredible 22 million copies worldwide!

Sean Clancy Toile Brûlée (première,

UCDSO commission) Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor,

Op. 125 The UCD Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven’s Choral Symphony as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations. The evening features the complete arsenal of UCD’s Performing Groups, a quartet of international soloists and a specially commissioned work by the gifted young composer & UCD alumnus Sean Clancy.

Tickets: ¤30, ¤45 & ¤55 (Choir Balcony).

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Tickets: ¤18, ¤15, ¤12 (concessions: ¤8) 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 20% discount for groups of 10 or more Presented by UCD

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MORS ET VITA, OUR LADY’S CHORAL SOCIETY

Orla Boylan

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: TURKISH DELIGHT AND TARTAN

Baiba Skride

THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 8PM

FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 8PM

Charles Gounod Mors et Vita

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra • Baiba Skride violin • Michael Francis conductor

Orla Boylan soprano • Martha Bredin alto Andrew Boushell tenor • Park Ki Hyun bass Our Lady’s Choral Society • The RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Proinnsias Ó Duinn conductor Mors et Vita is a continuation of Gounod’s work The Redemption, it has a Prologue and three parts. Vivid and graphic choruses include the Sanctus, the celestial chorus and the final Hosanna in Excelsis. World class soloists with The RTÉ Concert Orchestra make this a memorable performance.

Schnittke Mozart

Mendelssohn

Moz-Art à la Haydn Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K219 ‘Turkish’ Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 ‘Scottish’

Two of today’s most sought-after young talents team up for Mozart’s a magnificently colourful dialogue between soloist and orchestra, brimming with wild exoticism.

Schnittke’s Moz-Art à la Haydn takes playful delight in reworking a Mozart fragment with a liberal helping of Haydn for added humour.

Mendelssohn’s glorious picture postcard of his travels in Scotland is every bit as rich and romantic as the Scottish Highlands.

Soundings, 7pm: In Conversation. Finghin Collins with Baiba Skride

Tickets: ¤25, ¤30 10% discount for groups, senior citizens, students, unwaged, Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by Our Lady’s Choral Society

Tickets: ¤10, ¤18, ¤24, ¤30, ¤35 Concessions: ¤9, ¤16, ¤22, ¤27, ¤32 Buy 3 or more RTÉ NSO season concerts and save. From ¤28.50 Presented by the RTÉ NSO

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS

FRIENDS GALA 2012 JENNIFER LARMORE AND OPUSFIVE

OpusFive

SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER 8PM Jennifer Larmore mezzo soprano • OpusFive: Thibault Noally violin • Lisa Weiss violin Marco Massera viola • Hristo Kouzmanov cello • Davide Vittone double bass Handel Mozart Mozart Rossini/Torta Rossini Félicien David Massenet Offenbach Bizet Bizet

Where shall I fly, Hercules HWV 60 Divertimento in D for String Ensemble K136 Va’ Pure ad altri in braccio, La Finta giardiniera K196 Recalling Rossini Non piu’ mesta, La Cenerentola Soirée d’hiver Va! Laisse couler mes larmes!, Werther Vois sous l’archet frémissant, Les Conte d’Hoffman Carmen Suite Chanson Bohemienne, Carmen

Join the Friends for their annual Friends Gala, this year featuring the delightful Jennifer Larmore and intriguing string ensemble OpusFive. Presenting a popular programme including Mozart, Offenbach and Bizet. All Friends of the National Concert Hall are invited to enjoy an exclusive pre-concert reception in the John Field Room.

Tickets: ¤25, ¤35, ¤45 (¤15 Choir Balcony).

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NOEL KELEHAN - JAZZ ARTIST: A TRIBUTE

Dublin City Jazz Orchestra

SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 8PM Laura MacDonald alto saxophone • Ellister van der Molen trumpet • Mike Nielsen guitar Phil Ware, piano • Cormac O’Brien double bass • Shane O’Donovan drums • Dublin City Jazz Orchestra leader: Ciaran Wilde Universally regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest jazz pianists, composers, big band leaders arrangers, this concert pays tribute to the late Noel Kelehan’s contribution to the jazz music scene with a specially commissioned piece by Ronan Guilfoyle for Dublin City Jazz Orchestra. Formerly known as Dublin City Big Band founded by Ciaran Wilde and Ray Martin in 2007 the band was established to encourage students at the Ballymun Wind Project in their musical studies. They later became known as the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra for a performance at Electric Picnic in 2008.

Tickets: ¤25 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by The National Concert Hall, assisted by Jazz on the Terrace NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie no booking fees

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BALLYMUN LULLABY

A MAGICAL MUSICAL JOURNEY

Kathy Nugent

MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER 8PM

TUESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 8PM

The Ballymun Music Programme Cork Academy of Music David Brophy conductor

Rathfarnham Concert Bands with special guests Kathy Nugent and the choir of Loreto High School, Beaufort

Dara O’Toole Ballymun Lullaby Suite for

Children’s choir and

Orchestra

Come with us as we transport you through a magnificent range of music forms around the world, featuring our multi award winning Bands conducted by Vincent Kennedy, John Meehan, Conor O’Riordan and Richard Treston. With our special guests Kathy Nugent and the choir of Loreto High School, Beaufort directed by Marie Cruise

The various ensembles of the Ballymun Music programme will perform during the first half of this concert with the main event Ballymun Lullaby being the only item in the second half.

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Tickets: ¤20 (Choir Balcony ¤10) Children and Senior Citizens: ¤15 10% discount for groups of 10 or more 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by Rathfarnham Concert Band Society

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PHILIPPE CASSARD, PIANO 50TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AS PART OF THE PIANO MASTERS SERIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013

Philippe Cassard

THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 8PM Chopin

Grieg

Debussy

Liszt

Nocturne Op. 27, No. 1 Berceuse in D flat major Op. 57 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 3 Pièces Lyriques Nocturne Op. 54, No. 4 Bell Ringing Op. 54, No. 6 To Spring Op. 43, No. 6 Ballade Valse Romantique Clair de Lune L’Isle Joyeuse Au bord d’une source Sospiro Après une lecture du Dante

French pianist Philippe Cassard will celebrate his 50th birthday with a recital at the National Concert Hall recital. One of the finest interpreters of French repertoire, Cassard has established an international reputation as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician since giving a joint recital with Christa Ludwig in Paris in 1985. The same year he was the finalist at the Clara Haskil Competition and in 1988 he won the first prize in the now Dublin International Piano Competition. With his refined technique and musicality, Cassard has continued to give winning performances around the world.

Tickets: ¤25, ¤30, ¤35, ¤40 (Choir Balcony ¤15) 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 NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-2013 SEASON: DREAMS, DEFIANCE AND LEAVE-TAKING

It’s Friends who make the difference!

Rafael Payare

FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 8PM

Join the Friends of The National Concert Hall today and enjoy a host of exclusive benefits and savings whilst supporting our artistic objectives and education and outreach activities.

Friends enjoy priority booking, ticket discounts, music tours and day excursions, evening events, receptions, open rehearsals and much more...

Friends membership is also available as a gift!

Membership starts at e115 per annum.

Contact Sinead Fraher in the Membership Office on 01 417 0067 or email friends@nch.ie

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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra John Finucane clarinet • Rafael Payare conductor • with 2012 Mentoring Scheme participants R. Strauss Mozart Shostakovich

Don Juan, Op. 20 Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

RTÉ NSO Principal Clarinet John Finucane and the rising-star, Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare, step into the limelight for Mozart’s hauntingly beautiful Clarinet Concerto.

Taking delight in a youthful virtuosity that all but boils over with incident, drama and wit, Richard Strauss’s heroic tone poem Don Juan boasts enormous vim and irresistible vitality.

Shostakovich’s mighty Tenth Symphony offers a powerful and moving ‘testament of misery’ to life under Stalin’s thumb.

Soundings, 7pm: In Conversation. Deborah Kelleher with Mentoring Scheme participants

Tickets: ¤10, ¤18, ¤24, ¤30, ¤35 Concessions: ¤9, ¤16, ¤22, ¤27, ¤32 Buy 3 or more RTÉ NSO season concerts and save. From ¤28.50 Presented by the RTÉ NSO

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You decide where your taxes go!

Donate €250 or more to our John Field Society today If you are a self-assessed taxpayer donations of €250 and above are eligible for tax relief or If you are a PAYE taxpayer donate now and offer the National Concert Hall the opportunity to reclaim some of the taxes which you have already paid.

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JOHN FIELD ROOM NOVEMBER

Friday 2 November 1:05PM IT DON’T MEAN A THING...

Jim Doherty and Richie Buckley Jim Doherty (piano) is joined by the wonderfully swinging tenor saxophone of his great friend Richie Buckley for a lunchtime of jazz.

Tickets: ¤15 (concessions: ¤13). Presented by Paul Black

Monday 5 November 8PM DR. BERNADETTE GREEVY BURSARY RECITAL Aoife Miskelly soprano • William Vann piano Muriel Herbert Children’s songs Massenet Frere! Voyez! From Werther J. MacMillan The Children Messiaen Trois Melodies Walton 3 Edith Sitwell Poems Argento Spring from Six Elizabethan Songs Argento Winter from Six Elizabethan Songs Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade Britten How beautiful it is Grieg Zur Rosenzeit, Op. 48 Grieg Ein Traum, Op. 48 Martin The Fiddler of Dooney Programme subject to change Soprano Aoife Miskelly will give a special recital to mark her year as the Dr. Bernadette Greevy Bursary winner. The programme will feature a new piece commissioned for her by The National Concert Hall.

The National Concert Hall wishes to acknowledge the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for its kind support of the Bernadette Greevy Bursary for Singers.

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Friday 9 November 1:05PM NEIL COONEY - PIANO RECITAL R. Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 F. Chopin Grande Valtz Brilliante in A flat Op 34 No. 1 F. Chopin Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise

Brillante in E flat Op. 22 Irish pianist Neil Cooney, ‘a true poet of the piano’, places impetuous and lyrical Schumann with two of Chopin’s most popular and virtuosic works.

Tickets: ¤15 10% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall Presented by Neil Cooney

Friday 16 November 1:05PM DID SCOTT JOPLIN MEET GERSHWIN & FATS WALLER? Colm “Stride” O’Brien Colm “Stride” O’Brien plays the works of Ragtime & Stride Piano Legends Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, and Fats Waller.

Colm is Ireland’s leading exponent of Ragtime Piano and has performed regularly in the UK and USA including the prestigious Scott Joplin Festival in Missouri. Tributes to Al Jolson and “The Ballroom of Romance” will be highlights of this Lunchtime event.

Tickets: ¤15 (concessions: ¤12) Presented and Sponsored by Colm “Stride” O’Brien

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JOHN FIELD ROOM NOVEMBER Wednesday 21 November 8PM JOHN B AFTER 10 A miscellany of early works and music of John B Keane on the 10th anniversary of his death with performances by Lartigue Theatre Listowel, Listowel Folk Group and narration by Joe Stack.

Tickets: €20 (concessions €18) Presented by Danny Hannon

Friday 23 November 1:05PM THE WINTER CAFÉ Derby Browne and The Cappuccino Ensemble Derby will be performing songs from her Italian album Biscotti, Limoncello e Amore, and her gorgeous Christmas album The Winter Café.

The Winter Café is Derby Browne’s enchanted lunchtime concert of Christmas Eve in an Italian mountain Village. Her unique and seasonally entertaining story is set among the most gorgeous Italian Cafe Music by Nino Rota and Henry Mancini, and includes performances of Volare, Quando, Quando, Quando and When You Wish Upon A Star, whilst being sewn together with the silver threads of songs in a Disney Winter Wonderland style!

Friday 30 November 1:05PM THE QUIGLEY DUO Joanne Quigley violin • David Quigley piano Beethoven Sonata Op 24 in F Major ‘Spring’ R. Strauss Sonata Op 18 in E flat Major Acclaimed Sibling Duo, Joanne and David Quigley perform two well loved works from the Violin and Piano repertoire. The recital opens with Beethoven’s uplifting and radiant Spring Sonata followed by the glorious sweeping melodies, virtuosity and drama of the Sonata Op. 18 by Richard Strauss.

Tickets: ¤15 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall 20% discount for senior citizens, students & unwaged Presented by Joanne and David Quigley

Tickets: ¤18 (concessions: ¤16) Friends of The National Concert Hall ¤16 Groups of 10 or more ¤16 Presented by Derby Browne Productions

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FORTHCOMING HIGHLIGHTS DECEMBER 2012 - FEBRUARY 2013 DECEMBER Wed 5 Thurs 6 Fri 7 Fri 7 Sat 8 Sat 8 Mon 10 Wed 12 Thurs 13 Fri 14 Mon 17 Wed 19

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Dublin Choral Foundation-Lassus Scholars and Piccolo Lasso Culwick Choral Society DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama Chamber Choir Stephen Triffitt Performs Sinatra At Christmas & All The Hits Glasnevin Musical Society Glasnevin Musical Society Goethe Institute Choir Our Lady’s Choral Society: Messiah Our Lady’s Choral Society: Messiah Our Lady’s Choral Society: Messiah A National Concert Hall Baroque Christmas RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra presents The Three Sopranos Christmas Gala In Association with The John Murrary Show, RTÉ Radio 1 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra presents The Three Sopranos Christmas Gala In Association with The John Murrary Show, RTÉ Radio 1 The Sound of Music, Festival Productions The Sound of Music, Festival Productions The Sound of Music, Festival Productions The Sound of Music, Festival Productions The Sound of Music, Festival Productions The Sound of Music, Festival Productions The Sound of Music, Festival Productions

JANUARY Tues 1 Tues 1 Wed 2 Wed 2 Thurs 3 Thurs 3 Fri 4 Sat 5 Sun 6 Sun 6 Fri 11 Sat 12

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: Strictly Come Waltzing (New Year’s Day Celebration) RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: Strictly Come Waltzing (New Year’s Day Celebration) The Sound of Music The Sound of Music The Sound of Music The Sound of Music RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: THE LORD OF THE RING National Youth Orchestra of Ireland: New Year Gala Glenn Miller -Greatest Hits with The Syd Lawrence Orchestra Glenn Miller -Greatest Hits with The Syd Lawrence Orchestra RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: To Life! To Love!

Dublin Youth Orchestras

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FORTHCOMING HIGHLIGHTS DECEMBER 2012 - FEBRUARY 2013 Sun 13 Fri 18 Sat 19 Tues 22 Wed 23 Fri 25 Fri 25 Tues 29 Wed 30 Thurs 31

Reeling in the Showband Years RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: CELESTIAL FIELDS The James Langton Big Band Orchestra RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Horizons Contemporary Series 2013: Linda Buckley Waltons World Masters -Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and The National Concert Hall: Pipeworks RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: The Agony And The Ecstasy RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Horizons Contemporary Series 2013: Jonathan Nangle International Concert Series 2012/2013: Nikolai Lugansky, piano Final of the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition

FEBRUARY Fri 1 Tues 5 Fri 8 Tues 12 Fri 15 Mon 18

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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra presents: A Night at the Oscars RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Horizons Contemporary Series 2013: Raymond Deane RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: AFFAIRS OF THE HEART RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Horizons Contemporary Series 2013: Ann Cleare RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: JOURNEYS OF THE IMAGINATION International Concert Series 2012/2013: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor, Agata Szymczewska, violin RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: LANDMARKS OF EMOTION International Concert Series 2012/2013: Míc·eál O’Rourke, piano & Stephen Ackert, narrator RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2012-2013 Season: Beethoven For Mozart Lovers

International Concert Series 2012/2013: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor, Agata Szymczewska, violin Monday 18 February 2013

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FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL EVENTS

Starts Wednesday 19 September 2012, 6.15pm-7.45pm SEASON INSIGHTS’ - MUSIC APPRECIATION COURSE Join us for an exciting 6-week journey of music exploration from The National Concert Hall’s International Concert Series 2012/2013. Composers, artists and works will be discussed thematically through the six evenings, drawing upon the series as inspiration and discussing in a wider musical context. Presented by Prof. Gerard Gillen this is a course not to miss! The course takes place on the following Wednesday evenings: 19, 26 SEPTEMBER • 3, 17, 31 OCTOBER • 7 NOVEMBER

Friday 5 October, depart 10.30am TOUR TO MOUNT USHER GARDENS Join us for an excursion to the beautiful Mount Usher Gardens and enjoy a guided tour of the gardens to see it in all its autumnal glory. The guided tour will be followed by lunch and some free time to further enjoy the gardens before returning to Dublin.

Ticket includes: Entry to Mount Usher Gardens, guided tour with Mount Usher guide, lunch and return coach transfers.

Tickets: Friend €50 (non-member €55) Limited places.

Tickets: Friends €92. Non-members €145 Ticket includes tea/coffee on the first evening.

Friends’ priority booking is now open.

(Booking for non-members opens on Monday 3 September 2012).

Starts Tuesday 25 September 2012, 11.00am-12.30pm FRIENDS MUSIC CLUB The Friends Music Club returns this autumn with Prof. Gerard Gillen who will be discussing CD’s and repertoire featuring in upcoming concerts at the Hall, one piece is explored each week. Each session takes place over tea and coffee in the Iveagh Room of the Terrace Café.

The course takes place on the following dates: 25 SEPTEMBER • 2, 8, 16, 30 OCTOBER • 6 NOVEMBER Tickets: Friend €80 for 6 sessions.

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Tuesday 23 October, 6.30pm VISIT TO THE LITTLE MUSEUM OF DUBLIN Join us for a private Friends evening at the newly opened Little Museum of Dublin. The museum housed in a fine Georgian townhouse overlooking St Stephen’s Green tells the story of Ireland’s capital city in the 20th Century. The social, cultural and political history of Dublin is chronicled in the museum with simple artefacts that encourage discussion and contemplation of the past, alongside items related to famous visitors such as President John F Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich and Muhammad Ali. Ticket includes: Entry to The Little Museum of Dublin, private guided tour, light refreshments.

Tickets: Friends €30. Limited places.

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FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL EVENTS All Friends and Season Friends are entitled to 2 tickets per Friends event unless otherwise stated.

Please note for all Friends Events tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded.

The National Concert Hall reserves the right to add, withdraw or substitute items to advertised programmes as necessary.

Places are limited on all Friends events. For more information or to book your place contact the Friends Box Office line on 01 408 6777.

Friends of The National Concert Hall enjoy year-round priority booking, ticket discounts, members events, music tours, day trips and much more…

Membership is also available as a gift, ideal for birthdays, special occasions, retirement or just a simple thank you.

Membership starts at €115.

To join the Friends call the Box Office on 01 417 0000 or visit www.nch.ie

Sunday 28 October 2012 WEXFORD FESTIVAL OPERA DAY TRIP This day tour for Friends of The National Concert Hall offers lunch in Wexford followed by the Wexford Opera Festival’s performance of Emmanuel Chabrier’s opera Le Roi Malgré Lui. Depart from The National Concert Hall at 11.00am and upon arrival in Wexford enjoy a three-course lunch at White’s Hotel. The pre-opera talk starts at 4pm (optional) followed by the opera performance at 5pm. Enjoy post-performance tea/coffee and scones in the opera house before returning to Dublin.

Friends: €175. Limited places.

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EDUCATION EVENTS SEPT/OCT/NOV

10:20am or 1:30 p.m. from 3 months 11:00am or 2:10 p.m. from 12 months 11:40pm or 2:50 p.m. 2 & 3 year olds 12:20pm or 3:30 p.m. 3 & 4 year olds 1.30pm or 4:10pm. 4 & 5 year olds MINIMUSIC Term 1 September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

October 6, 13, 20,

November 3, 10 Term 2 November 17, 24

December 1, 8, 15

January 5, 12, 19, 26

February 2 Term 3 February 16

March 2, 9

April 6, 13, 20, 27

May 11, 18, 25 MiniMusic is an action-packed music workshop experience for babies and young children aged 3 months to 5 years. Each workshop is carefully designed to suit its age group. They are fun and accessible with foot-tapping, memorable tunes!

Tuesday 30 October – Friday 2 November 2012 Tuesday – Thursday 10am – 4pm • Friday 10am – 8pm (includes evening performance) SONGSCHOOL Kevin Barry Room, Room 107 & Room 104 Songschool is for secondary school students who are interested in writing and recording songs, performing them at a concert, making a video, learning about music technology, and meeting people who love music as much as they do... not to mention forming bands and having fun!

All Songschool students receive a CD of their songs, a DVD of their videos, and a Songschool certificate of participation.

Multi-entrance ticket: €120 20% discount on up to 2 tickets for Friends and Young Maestros

Tickets: €120 for ten-week term 20% discount on up to 2 tickets per workshop for Young Maestros. 2 week priority booking period for Young Maestros.

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EDUCATION EVENTS SEPT/OCT/NOV November 5, 2012 8PM John Field Room THE DR. BERNADETTE GREEVY BURSARY RECITAL Join soprano Aoife Miskelly, winner of the Dr. Bernadette Greevy Bursary, for her John Field Room recital. The National Concert Hall has also commissioned a new piece by an Irish composer for Aoife, which she will premiere tonight.

Tickets: €15 (concessions: €12) 20% discount on up to 2 tickets for Young Maestros

Monday November 19, 2012 | 10:30 & 13:00 Tuesday November 20 | 13:00 Main Auditorium LEAVING CERT LIVE: BACH AND BARRY The Orchestra of St Cecilia, conducted by Blánaid Murphy, presented by Rhona Clarke Hear Bach’s Cantata 78 and Barry’s Piano Quartet No. 1 played live by Ireland’s leading classical musicians, with expert commentary from Rhona Clarke and an on-screen presentation to help prepare you for the Leaving Cert. The audience will contribute to the concert as well – everyone is invited to prepare their own part of the chorale from BWV 78 for a surround-sound Bach experience!

Tickets: €10 for students, complimentary for accompanying teachers

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No booking fees 20% discount on tickets for Young Maestros See WWW.NCH.IE for more info.

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Join some of Ireland’s most devoted arts supporters at The National Concert Hall. Enjoy premium ticket access, concert receptions and Patron events while you also support Education and Outreach programmes that make a difference in the lives of communities throughout Ireland.

Join the Patron Circle today and receive a voucher for Early Bird Dinner for two for the Saddle Room Restaurant at the Shelbourne Dublin

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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 • Sharon Burke • Geraldine & David Byrne • Denis & Gráinne Cremins • Veronica Dunne • Kevin Kelly • Donagh McDonagh 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 & Grainne Cremins • Sir James & Lady Jeanne Galway • Francis Ludlow • Donagh McDonagh • Rosita Wolfe For further information contact Sinéad Hope Tel: +353 1 4170072 or e-mail Sinead.Hope@nch.ie

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOOKING & GENERAL INFORMATION BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm TELEPHONE BOOKINGS +353 1 417 0000 Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm (open two hours prior to concerts on Sundays & Bank Holidays for one hour) ONLINE BOOKING www.nch.ie (no booking fees) All major credit/debit cards accepted. Cheques should be made payable to “The National Concert Hall” CONDITIONS OF SALE • Once purchased, tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged.

• Programme & artist are subject to change

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CONCESSIONS • Concessions are available on selected concerts to patrons who produce suitable identification • Concessions not requested at time of booking cannot be allocated later GIFT CARDS • Gift Cards can be used online, in person or over the phone.

• Please quote the Gift Card number and Redemption Number when booking

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STUDENT STANDBY SCHEME On production of suitable identification at the Box Office, students can avail of tickets for a5 one hour prior to a performance. Please contact the Box Office on the day of the performance for possible availability of this offer. One ticket per student only.

GROUPS Got a Group? Get a Deal. Contact the Groups & Reservations Executive Carol Elliott on +3531 408 6793 or email groups@nch.ie Monday – Friday 10am – 4pm CHILD ADMITTANCE Patrons are advised that children under the age of 5 will not be admitted to events which are unsuitable for children. Please contact the Box Office for recommendations regarding age admittance.

BABES-IN-ARMS • For family & children’s events, babes-in-arms (children under 12 months) will be admitted to the concert provided that they can be seated throughout the performance on the accompanying adult’s lap.

• Please inform the Box Office at time of booking to receive the free infant ticket.

SPECIAL ASSISTANCE • Seats are available at the back of the stalls (downstairs) for wheel chair users & their companions • An induction loop system for hard of hearing patrons has been installed in the Main Auditorium • An Infra Red Assistive Listening System is available for events throughout the Main Auditorium and in the John Field Room. To avail of this system please contact our reception desk on the night.

Instructions on how to use this system are available on www.nch.ie

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL ETIQUETTE • There is no smoking in The National Concert Hall • Cameras, video equipment and recording devices are not permitted • Please ensure all mobiles devices are switched off before entering the Auditorium • Please arrive early. There is no guarantee of late seating. Where possible, patrons will only be admitted when there is a suitable break, if any, in the performance • Please leave all coats, bags and umbrellas in the Cloak Room in the John Field Room. There is no charge incurred for this facility DATA PROTECTION • When you book tickets with The National Concert Hall, your details will be held on our database • The National Concert Hall does not pass on your details to any third parties • From time to time, we may send you information about The National Concert Hall and its programme of events. If you do not wish to receive this information, please tell a member of the Box Office Team at time of booking or select “No” to the Marketing Questions online • The National Concert Hall complies with the principles of good data handling. For details, please see our privacy policy on www.nch.ie or contact us on +3531 417 0077 THE MUSIC BOX The Music Box at The National Concert Hall features a selection of CDs, DVDs, books and more. Open one hour prior to concerts, during intermission and after performances.

FINE DINING AT THE TERRACE CAFÉ AT THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL • Opening Hours 9.30am – 5pm Monday – Friday (8pm when there is a main auditorium performance taking place) • Open three hours prior to concerts on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays.

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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 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.

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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

be used as it will leave you on Lower Leeson 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

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 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 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

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, There are some buses that stop on Earlsfort Dawson Street Car Park, Terrace. These Buses are: Schoolhouse Lane, 14, 14a, 15, 15a, 15b, 44, 48a, 74, 74a, 128 Drury Street Car Park, Some buses also stop on St Stephen’s Green Park Rite Car Park, or Leeson Street (depending on which direcSt. Stephen’s Green Car Park tion you are travelling) These buses are: Setanta Place 11, 11a, 11b, 46a, 46b, 92, 140, 145 It is also possible to park on Adelaide Road, Hatch Street, Fitzwilliam Square, St. Stephen’s For more information on routes and timetables, Green, all within walking distance of the Nalog on www.dublinbus.ie tional Concert Hall. Please check for parking If you are travelling directly from Dublin Airport restrictions and notices for Pay & Display areas. to The National Concert Hall, the Aircoach can

BY BUS As we are centrally located, there are plenty of options for buses to bring you to The National Concert Hall.

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Autumn Offers FROM THE MUSIC BOX

Daniel Barenboim: Beethoven For All - Music of Power, Passion and Beauty 2 CDs ¤14.99

Avi Avital: Bach Avi Avital was the first mandolinist to ever receive a Grammy nomination for “Best Instrumental Soloist” ¤14.99

Revisit André Rieu’s spectacular midsummer night concert live from Maastricht.

With unique spectacular light shows and unforgettable performances. DVD ¤16.99

Grammy award winner Gustavo Dudamel’s first ‘Best of’ album, features favourites from Beethoven to Bernstein and several Dudamel tracks never before released on CD ¤14.99

AVAILABLE AT THE MUSIC BOX AND CLASSICAL.IE

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL PRESENTS

Philippe Cassard, piano 50th birthday celebration

Corporate Associates Diamond

AS PART OF THE PIANO MASTERS SERIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2012/2013 Platinum

THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2012, 8pm

‘The world class level of his performance is unmistakable from the very first moments…’

Gold

Classic FM

AXA Insurance Cornmarket Group Financial Services CRH plc Darta Saving Chopin Nocturne Op. 27, No. 1 Berceuse in D flat major Op. 57 Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Grieg

3 Pièces Lyriques Nocturne Op. 54, No. 4 Bell Ringing Op. 54, No. 6 To Spring Op. 43, No. 6

Tickets: €25, €30, €35, €40 (Choir Balcony €15)

Box Office Tel: 01 417 0000

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Debussy Ballade Valse Romantique

Clair de Lune

L’Isle Joyeuse Liszt

Au bord d’une source Sospiro Après une lecture du Dante

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

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

Green Property Ltd. Kylemore Food Group Ltd Project Management Group

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.

Your Loyalty. Your Support. Your Generosity.

Thank You. WWW.NCH.IE

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International Concert Series 2012/2013

Thursday 25 April 2013 Academy of Ancient Music Richard Egarr conductor/forte piano

Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo soprano

Wednesday 1 May 2013 Capuçon Trio Renaud Capuçon violin Gautier Capuçon cello Michel Dalberto piano

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Lynn Harrell cello Monday 18 February 2013 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Jacek Kaspszyk conductor Agata Szymczewska violin Wednesday 8 May 2013 Moscow State Symphony Orchestra Pavel Kogan conductor Nina Kotova cello Saturday 8 June 2013 Philharmonia Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi conductor

Paul Lewis piano

Wednesday 24 July 2013 Renée Fleming soprano Maciej Pikulski piano

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Wednesday 30 January 2013 Nikolai Lugansky piano Saturday 23 February 2013 Míc· eál O’Rourke piano Stephen Ackert narrator Wednesday 27 March 2013 Benjamin Grosvenor piano

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Sunday 11 November 2012 Evgeny Kissin piano

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Tuesday 2 October 2012 Camerata Ireland Barry Douglas piano/conductor Lara St. John violin

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Wednesday 10 October 2012 Milos ˇ Karadaglic´ guitar

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Sunday 2 September 2012 Emerson String Quartet and Sir James Galway flute

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THE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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