CHRISTMAS CONCERT No.1: WEDNESDAY 19 DECEMBER
CHRISTMAS CONCERT No.2: THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER

In response to huge audience demand, this Christmas Madrigal ’75 will present their annual concert of seasonal choral music not once, but twice! Tickets for this magical event have sold out quickly in recent years so please try not to miss out on what has fast become the essential Christmas concert for music lovers in Cork..

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A quintet of Ireland’s finest brass players – Colm Byrne and David Collins (trumpets); Cormac O hAodain (horn); Mick Marshall (trombone); and Francis Magee (tuba) – perform music by J.S. Bach, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill, Michael Kamen and Jim Parker, plus a selection of seasonal gems.

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Cork Orchestral Society is very proud to present a recital by the winner of the inaugural COS Emerging Artist Award, pianist Jordan Bagot. Jordan, a twenty-two year old rising star already honoured by multiple accolades in Ireland and abroad, will perform virtuosic piano works by Scriabin, Liszt, Debussy, Messiaen, Gershwin, Parker and Rautavaara.

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The Fleischmann Choir and CSM Symphony Orchestra perform two great works for chorus and orchestra: Vaughan Williams’ early masterpiece Toward the Unknown Region; and Poulenc’s Gloria, with Mary Hegarty, the internationally celebrated, Cork-born soprano, as the featured soloist. Wagner’s Prelude und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, a new addition, rounds out the unmissable programme. Conor Palliser and Matthew Haddock conduct.

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Conor Palliser and the Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra offer a FREE lunchtime concert with an all Wagner programme of romantic masterpieces including Siegfried Idyll, written as a birthday present to the composer’s wife, Cosima, and first performed on Christmas morning, 1870, by a small ensemble on the stairs of the couple’s villa in Switzerland.

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SPOTLIGHT: Jörg Widmann and the ICO bring their irrepressible energy and insight to a thrilling programme featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Puccini and Stamitz, plus a new work by Irish composer Sebastian Adams. The acclaimed British clarinetist Katherine Spencer is the guest soloist.

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Keith Pascoe and Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra present two perennial Russian masterpieces: Mussorgsky‘s scintillating, Ravel-orchestrated Pictures at an Exhibition, and the dazzling Glazunov violin concerto with rising star soloist Patrick Rafter. A number of short compositions by students of Stephen Parker round out the exciting programme.

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Beethoven: Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 78
Ian Wilson: Stations (2006-7) (Second and Sixth Stations)
Thomas Adès: Darknesse Visible (1992)
Chopin: Berceuse, Op. 57; Barcarolle, Op. 60
Schubert: Sonata in B flat major, D. 960

Hugh Tinney Piano


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György Ligeti: Sonatina (1950)
Franz Schubert: Fantasie in F minor, Op.103
Antonín Dvorák: 6 Slavonic Dances from Op.46: No.1 in C major; No.2 in E minor; No.3 in A flat major; No.5 in A major; No.7 in C minor; No.8 in G minor

Rebecca Čáp Piano
Kirstin Čáp Piano

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The 75 piece Junge Sinfonie Köln visits Cork for a special charity concert in aid of the Cope Foundation. A limited number of tickets will be available for COS members to book at discounted rates. Titled ‘Echte Fründe’, which means ‘real friends’ in German, the concert marks the 30th Anniversary of the twinning of Cork City and Cologne.

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Rossini: An aria from “Adelaide di Borgogna” – soprano and piano
Songs by Reynaldo Hahn – soprano and piano
Eric Ewazen: Songs for trumpet from “to cast a shadow again”
Barber: ‘Souvenirs” for 4 hands on piano
Bottesini: “Tutto che il mondo serra” – soprano, double bass and piano
Teppo Hauot-aho: Kadenza – double bass solo
Serge Lancen: Croquis (sketches) – double bass and piano

Majella Cullagh (soprano), Vivienne Johnston (trumpet), David Whitla (double bass), Denise Crowley (piano), Gabriela Mayer (piano)

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The Vanbrugh and eight very special guests present the annual National String Quartet Foundation Scholarship Gala Fundraiser. This wonderful event is always a spectacular finish to our season and is not to be missed!

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The concluding concert in the Vanbrugh “One by One” series features an eclectic programme that illuminates the multifarious talents of Keith Pascoe (violin/conductor) in works by Brahms, Rachmaninov, Parker and Wilson. The renowned American pianist David Syme and rising Cork-born conductor Tom Crowley guest.

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The Vanbrugh “One by One” series continues with Simon Aspell (viola/conductor) leading a hand-picked chamber ensemble in a programme of exquisite works by Bach, Handel, Telemann, Mozart and Elgar, in the beautiful setting of St. Luke’s Church.

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In the first of a series of three concerts that puts the spotlight on each member of the Vanbrugh, cellist Chris Marwood is joined by the internationally acclaimed pianist Hugh Tinney, and Mairead Hickey, one of Ireland’s most accomplished violinists, in works by Debussy, Beethoven and Schubert.

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