Clandeboye Festival 2014 Programme

IN ASSOCATION WITH

Clandeboye Festival Barry Douglas Camerata Ireland & Guests

18th - 23rd August 2014

Andrés Díaz - cello / Michel Lethiec - clarinet Paul Neubauer - viola / Ailish Tynan - soprano Elina Vähälä - violin / Richard Watkins - horn Cameratino, Fashion Show with young designers, Musicians of the Future concert and Five Fables by Seamus Heaney, Art Exhibition at the Adam’s Gallery.

box office: 028 9024 1919 www.goh.co.uk/clandeboye-festival www.camerata-ireland.com

CLANDEBOYE FESTIVAL

18th - 23rd August 2014 evening concerts

Monday 18th - 7.30pm

Festival Opening Concert £25 adult £20 conc. £5 student/child

Featuring Andrés Díaz, Barry Douglas, Paul Neubauer, Elina Vähälä and Richard Watkins.

Dukas: Villanelle for horn and piano Schumann: Adagio and Allegro Op 70 for horn and piano Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A Op 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor

Tuesday 19th - 7.30pm £20 adult £15 conc. £5 student/child

Featuring Andrés Díaz, Barry Douglas, Michel Lethiec, Paul Neubauer, Ailish Tynan, Elina Vähälä and Richard Watkins.

Mahler: Piano Quartet Schubert: Songs Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major K 581

Designer Fashion Show Tuesday 19th - 9:00pm doors open 8:45 pm

£15 incl Clarins goodie bag Young designer graduates and established designers accompained by young festival musicians.

Show produced by Maureen Martin.

Proceeds to Young Musicians’ Clandeboye Festival.

Fashion Show sponsors

evening concerts Wednesday 20th - 7.30pm

Barry Douglas Recital £25 adult £20 conc. £5 student/child Brahms: Waltzes Op 39 Brahms: C major Op 1 Brahms: 3 Intermezzi Op 117 Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy

Thursday 21st - 6.30pm (note earlier start time)

Young Musicians of the Future Concert £15 adult £10 conc. £5 student/child

This year’s young artists perform a diverse programme of music. There will also be a presentation of a number of awards and bursaries by the Flax Trust, The Ireland Fund of France and the Alan Gillespie Ulster Bank Award. This is a great opportunity to hear some of our best young musicians, many of whom go on to solo careers or play with Camerata Ireland.

Friday 22nd - 7.30pm

Beethoven Gala 1

£25 adult £20 conc. £5 student/child

Featuring Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas, piano/conductor & Michael d’Arcy, leader Douglas: Fanfare (In celebration of St. Columba) Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 ‘Emperor’

evening concerts Saturday 23rd - 7.30pm

Beethoven Gala 2

£30 adult £25 conc. £5 student/child

Featuring Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas, piano/conductor & Michael d’Arcy, leader Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Beethoven: Triple Concerto

Sean Rafferty will present the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert featuring recordings from the Clandeboye Festival 14th-17th October 2014.

daytime concerts Lunchtime Music in the Chapel Unreserved seating. All tickets £6

Monday 18th - 1.00pm

Featuring clarinet solos with Michel Lethiec

Tuesday 19th - 1.00pm

Traditional music with Eimear McGeown – flute and Jonny Toman – guitar

Wednesday 20th - 1.00pm

Violin and Cello Duos with Andrés Díaz and Elina Vähälä

Thursday 21st - 1.00pm

Solos, duos and trios with Andrés Díaz, Paul Neubauer, Elina Vähälä and Richard Watkins

Friday 22nd - 1.00pm

Banqueting Hall Young Musician Gala Recital Gary Beecher, Winner of the Mabel Swainson Piano Award at the 2014 Feis Ceoil, Dublin

special event Saturday 23rd 12 noon

£12.50 adult, £10 conc. £5 student/child £25 Family Ticket (2 adults 2 children) Five Fables Live!

Five Fables, translated

by Seamus Heaney, was recently animated for an enchanting BBC Northern Ireland series.

The superb score for chamber orchestra is composed and conducted

by Barry Douglas. In this unique event Barry, along with players from Camerata Ireland will play the score alongside a screening of the animations with special guest stars narrating.

Presented in association with Flickerpix and with the permission of Faber & Faber.

Seamus Heaney: John Minihan

Camerata Ireland will be appearing at the Kilkenny Arts Festival on 15th and 16th August, playing Beethoven’s five piano concertos. www.kilkennyarts.ie

art exhibition at

6th August – 5th September This year’s Clandeboye Festival Loan Exhibition is “Irish Women Artists 1870 - 1970” and as in previous years will be a roll call of museum quality works all drawn from Private Collections from North and South of the border. It includes works by Sarah Purser, Mary Swanzy, Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone, Norah McGuinness and Camille Souter to name but a few. There will be 70 museum quality works on show at the Ava Gallery, our biggest show to date.

It will show how women artists were to the forefront of modernism in Irish art from the very beginning.

Mon - Fri 11am to 5pm, with special late/ weekend openings during the Clandeboye Festival. Tel: 028 9185 2263 Catalogue available online at www.adams.ie Dendron Lodge at Clandeboye is open for teas, coffees and light snacks.

Details may be subject to change.

Camerata Ireland is honoured to have as its Joint Patrons Her Majesty the Queen and Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland.

Camerata Ireland is registered for charitable status in Northern Ireland No.XR37891 www.camerata-ireland.com

The Clandeboye Estate is two miles from Bangor and 12 miles from Belfast on the A2 - follow the AA Festival signs.