COIRM CHEOIL CHÓRÚIL

Le Cór DkIT agus Oriel Consort

Déardaoin 10 Aibreán 2014ag 7.30 i.n. i Séipéal Naomh Phádraig

Dún Dealgan

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Comóradh deich mblianaThroughout the 2013–2014 academic year, Ceol Oirghialla is celebrating ten years of success, creativity and excellence. Ceol Oirghialla has a dynamic and vibrant approach to the study of music and offers exciting and innovative programmes to both undergraduates and postgraduates in a proactive centre of teaching and learning, research and performance. We aim to provide a distinctive and pioneering environment for advanced study, performance and research while recognising and engaging with the diversity of musics and technologies. We seek to foster an ethos of creativity, collaboration, advanced teaching and learning, and offer students a range of opportunities to reach their full potential.

Our imaginative programmes have facilitated students to progress to a diverse range of careers including teaching, composition, performance, music technology, arts administration and business management with many students undertaking further postgraduate study both at DkIT and internationally. We are proud of the success of our graduates and we continue to maintain links with them. We are delighted that many of them have contributed to our performances over the past year as part of our ten-year anniversary celebrations.

We pride ourselves in the sense of community which we foster through both formal and informal teaching and learning activities. Performance is an integral part of our programmes and students are given the opportunity to take part in various music ensembles, including the DkIT Choir and Oriel Consort who are performing tonight. Vocal Studies form an integral part of our students’ academic programme with many opportunities for students to develop vocal technique and repertoire. The Choir forms the principal musical element of our hugely popular Christmas concert and they regularly perform an annual Spring Choral concert focusing on sacred repertoire. Recent concerts by the Choir and Consort have taken place at a range of venues including Redemptorist Church, Dundalk, Church of the Holy Redeemer, Dundalk, the Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Colman, Newry, Ulster Hall and Birr Castle.

Works performed by the choir in recent years include Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in D, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Charpentier’s Te Deum and Carissimi’s Jephte. In 2010 the choir performed a special joint concert in the Ulster Hall, Belfast with the South Ulster Youth Orchestra featuring specially commissioned piece Gullion Tales by composer Brian Irvine.

Over the ten years, students in Ceol Oirghialla have been successful in winning prizes in national and international competitions for performance, composition and research, while many of our performers have been honoured by invitations to perform for distinguished guests at notable venues in Ireland and abroad. We are dedicated to growing our international education network and some of our students and staff have recently returned from participating in an Erasmus

Intensive Programme at Artesis Plantijn University in Antwerp where they were joined by staff and students from Stord Haugesund University, Norway. We were delighted to host performing groups from Molloy College. New York and Baker University, Kansas recently for a series of concerts celebrating music from Ireland and America, and members of our traditional ensemble have received invitations to conduct a series of workshops and performances in America later this spring including the American Irish Historical Society on 5th Avenue, New York.

Ceol Oirghialla has developed a strong community outreach programme enriching the cultural life of the Institute and the wider region and we are acutely aware of the rich cultural and historical landscape of Oriel, within which DkIT is situated, a region which has always been a centre of music and literary activity. Our performance and research activities reflect Ceol Oirghialla’s ongoing commitment to the preservation and promotion of this cultural region.

We have a large and vibrant community of research students enrolled on our postgraduate programmes, and these courses are enhanced by the research expertise of our staff. Our research activities cover a comprehensive range of areas and will ensure that our research activities will continue to gain national and international recognition while also underpinning our teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Ceol Oirghialla has firmly established itself on the cultural map of third and fourth-level education in Ireland and we aim to continue to be a leading provider of music education in Ireland. We thank you all for your continued support of our activities over the past ten years and we look forward to the future development of music at DkIT.

Dr Adèle Commins Ceannasaí Rannóg an Cheoil

Head of Section of MusicComóradh

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Cairde Ceoil OirghiallaIf you would like to receive future invitations to our concerts and events, please forward your email address/contact details to: ann.coffey@dkit.ie Tel: 042-9370280 For future events check out: www.dkit.ie/music

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DkIT Choir & Chamber OrchestraDirectors: David Connolly, David Stalling

Oriel ConsortDirectors: Aisling Kenny, David Stalling

George Frederic Handel (1685–1759)Zadok the Priest

Tomas Luis de Victoria (c.1548–1611)Pueri HebraorumO vos omnes

Jacob Handl-Gallus (1550–1591)Ecce quomodo moritur Justus

Giovanni Francesco Anerio (c.1567–1630)Christus Factus est

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901)Mass for Double Choir, op.109 Kyrie

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)Pater Noster

John Tavener (1944–2013)Funeral Ikos

INTERVALFranz Schubert (1797–1828)Mass No. 2 in G major Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Benedictus Agnus Dei

DkIT Choir

Directors: David Connolly, David Stalling SopranoKatie Bolger, Margaret Brady, Rebecca Byrne, Ling Wei Chua, Adèle Commins*, Emer Corcoran, Josephine Freund, Lora Gilbert, Caitríona Graham, Aisling Kenny*, Jessica Hui Sze Lee, Christina Lynn, Fiona McErlane, Eimear McGeough, Theresa McKenna, Ellie McGinley, Marie Mooney, Naoimhe Mulroy, Edel Murray, Rachel Murray, Rachel O’Brien, Victoria Olaoye, Robyn Brennan Scorr, Rebecca Sillery, Orla Smith, Róisín Timoney, Amy Walsh, Kala Whelan, Stephanie WintersAltoSarah Blacoe-Dyas, Samantha Connolly, Joanne Cusack, Siobhán Denton, Lauren Farquharson, Saidhbhín Gorham, Catherine Kelly, Laura Kenny, Suzanne Kierans, Rachel Loscher, Brianna Madden, Carrie McCarthy, Damhnait McKenna, Jennifer McKenna, Avril Miller, Catherine Morgan, Sarah Moynihan, Lauren Murphy, Marian O’Brien, Aoife O’Connor, Leanne O’Doherty, Emma Quinlan, Tegan Thomas, Silvia VeverovaTenorDavid Bellew, Choon Mon Lee, Niall Clarke, James Crehan, Matthew Devlin, Gary Doyle, Brian Dunne, Jonathan Fahy, Cathal Faughnan, Raymond Guckian, Seán Haugh, Michael Hyland, David Joyce, Shane Keeley, Edward Lynch, Ryan McAuley, James McGeehan, Fiachra Meek, Oscar Montague, Seán O’Brien, Matthew O’Kane, Niall O’Reilly, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Josh Quinn, Diarmuid Rooney, Eoghan Ryan, Seán StringerBassStuart Anderson, David Burke, Stephen Byrne, Brendan Cleary, Éamonn Coleman, Robert Essmeier, Anthony Healy, Lee Kearney, Sebastian Marquez Blanc, Brendan McNamee, Liam Molloy, Keith Mooney, Ciaran O’Brien, Kieran Parker, John Quigley, Robert Sinclair, Brian Slattery, Gary Smyth, Daire Stanley, Harry Stover, Daniel Whelan

DkIT Choral Society

Chairperson: Rachel O’BrienDeputy Chair: Eoghan Ryan

Librarian: Brendan Cleary

Public Relations: James Crehan

Stage Management: Robyn Brennan-Scorr, Tadhg O’Sullivan

Committee Members: Niall Clarke, Siobhan Denton, Laura Kenny,

Christina Lynn,Leanne O’Doherty, Róisín Timoney

DkIT Chamber Orchestra

Director: David StallingViolin: Clara Taylor**, Ciara O’Neill**, Gráinne Ní Ír**, Jessica Hui Sze Lee, Orla Smith, Ling Wei Chua, Peig McAufield**, Viola: N.N.Cello: Lynsey O’Neill**, Kevin O’Brien**Double Bass: Bryan Quigley, Thomas McConville***Continuo: Goh Wei Jing****Staff Member

** DkIT Graduate

***Postgraduate Research Student

The Oriel Consort

Directors: Aisling Kenny, David StallingSoprano

Adèle Commins, Lora Gilbert, Aisling Kenny, Christina Lynn, Eimear McGeough, Róisín Timoney,

Jessica Hui Sze Lee Alto

Katie-Anne Bolger, Fiona McErlane, Ellie McGinley, Leanne O’Doherty, Emma Quinlan

TenorShane Keeley, Choon Mon Lee, Tadhg O’Sullivan,

Diarmuid Rooney, David Stalling Bass

Brendan Cleary, James Crehan, Sebastian Marquez-Blanc, John Quigley,

Gary Smyth, Daire Stanley

David Connolly is a graduate of NUI Maynooth with a first-class honours degree in music and mathematics, a first class honours MA in performance and musicology and a higher diploma in education. He is a former organ scholar of Maynooth College and Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral as a student of Professor Gerard Gillen. In 2013 he was awarded a PhD from DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, specialising in French organ music. David has served as a member of the committee of Pipeworks, the Dublin Diocesan Advisory commission on church music and the Irish committee of the Royal School of Church Music, for which he has served as honorary secretary. From 2005 to 2007, he was director of the Maynooth University Chamber Choir and in 2009 he was appointed the first director of the NUI Maynooth Ladies’ Choir. He is an organist, tutor and conductor with the Irish Church Music Association. In 2006 he was appointed organist and director of music at St Michael’s Church Dún Laoghaire. He is a multiple contributor to The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland.

Aisling Kenny lectures in musicology, analysis and vocal studies at DkIT. She studied music at NUI Maynooth and completed her PhD in 2010. Active as a researcher and performer, Aisling has studied singing with Mary Brennan and Aylish Kerrigan and has participated in master classes with Paul Farrington and Evelyn Tubb. Aisling currently studies with Ansy Boothroyd in the UK focussing on early and baroque music. A member of Mark Duley’s professional chamber choir, Resurgam, Aisling performs frequently as a soloist and ensemble singer in Ireland. She is co-founder-director of the Oriel Consort, co-director of the DkIT Music Theatre Group, and musical director of DkIT Staff Choir.

David Stalling is a composer, sound artist, improviser, creative researcher and conductor. His works have been performed and exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally. They include instrumental and electroacoustic music for concert performance, dance and film, as well as site specific and gallery based audiovisual installations. David has received numerous commissions and awards from the Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Screentraining Ireland. He is a recipient of the 2014 Artist-in-Residence award at the University College Dublin School of Science, and a participant in the PEEK Program for Arts-based Research, awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (2014–2017). He is musical director of the DkIT Choir and Chamber Orchestra, and former director of the Maynooth Chamber Choir and the NUI Maynooth Guitar Ensemble. He is artistic director of the Hilltown New Music Festival. David is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre Ireland.

BuíochasDerek Farrell, Alice Hoey, Ann Coffey,

Stefanie Ratzky, Murt Ó Séaghdha, Fr Mark O’Hagan

Rannóg an Cheoil

Ceannasaí, Roinn Ceoil agus Meán Cruthaitheach, Stiúrthóir, Ionad Taighde Ceoil Head of Department of Music and Creative Media, Director, Centre for Research in Music

Eibhlís Farrell BMus (Hons) (QUB), MMus (Bristol), PhD (Rutgers), LLCM, FRSA, Member of Aosdána

Ceannasaí Rannóg an Cheoil

Head of Section of Music Adèle Commins BA (Hons) (NUIM), PhD (NUIM), HDipEd (NUIM), ALCM, LGSMD

Dámh Ceoil

Music Faculty

Mark Clarke BEng (DCU), MSc (London), DipEE (DkIT), CEng (IEI) Niall Coghlan MA (QUB)

David Connolly BA (Hons) (NUIM), MA (NUIM), PhD (DIT), HDipEd (NUIM)Una Hunt BMus (QUB), Konzertfach Diplom (Hochschüle Für Musik, Vienna),

PhD (NUIM), DMus (QUB honoris causa)Daithí Kearney BA (UCC), PhD (UCC), HDipED (UCC)

Sean Keegan BMus (TCML), MA (UL) Aisling Kenny BMus (NUIM), PhD (NUIM), DipABRSM, ALCM

Helen Lawlor BMusEd (TCD), MMus (UCD), PhD (UCD)Patrick McCaul BSc (QUB), MA (DkIT)

Paul McIntyre BMus (Hons) (UU), PhD (UU), PGCHEP (UU), DipMus (OU), LTCL Caitríona McEniry BA (Hons), MA (NUIM), MA (York), LRIAM, ARIAM *

Paul McGettrick BEd, BMus (Hons) (NUI), MSc (York) Hilary Mullaney BA (Hons) (NUIM), MA (DIT), PhD (Plymouth)

Neil O’Connor BA (IADT), MA (TCD), PhD (TCD)Siubhán Ó Dubháin BMus (Hons) (QUB), MA (DkIT), PGCE (QUB), ALCM

Ciarán Rosney BA (Hons) (WIT), MA (DIT), MMus (DIT) * David Stalling BA (Hons) (NUIM), MA (NUIM)

Rory Walsh BMus (Hons) (NUIM), MA (NUIM), HDip Mus Tech

* Career Break

Cláracha Acadúla i Rannóg an CheoilBA Music and Audio ProductionBA (Hons) Applied MusicMA/MSc/PgDip Music TechnologyMA/PgDip Traditional Music StudiesMA/MSc by ResearchPhD by Research

Dátaí do do Dhialann Guitar Ensemble Lunchtime Concert,

1 May 2014, MacAnna Theatre

Some Enchanted Evening, 25 May 2014, Birr Castle

Music and Audio Production End of Year Showcase

28 May 2014, The Spirit Store, Dundalk

Comóradh Deich mBliana

A CONCERT OF CHORAL MUSIC

Featuring the DkIT Choir and the Oriel Consort

Thursday10 April 2014at 7.30 p.m. in St. Patrick’s Church

Dundalk

By kind permission of the Parish Pastoral Council of St Patrick’s, Dundalk

Programm

e Design: Sinéad DuffyProgram

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Adèle Comm

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