In addition, NDV were awarded 2nd prize in the Fleischmann Competition. We are delighted with this award (with first prize going to the wonderful University of Oregon Chamber Choir, USA). Last, but not least, we were awarded the Perpetual Trophy for the Performance of Irish Contemporary Choral Music for our performance of: Regina Coeli by Rhona Clarke in Ireland’s Choir of the Year Competition.
The full details of the results from the weekend are on the festival's website.
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| Internationally acclaimed and multi-award-winning chamber choir, New Dublin Voices, and its conductor, Bernie Sherlock, return to Christ Church Cathedral Dublin to present an all-French programme of music entitled, “Souvenirs de France”. This performance will commemorate the ensemble’s successful 9-day summer tour to Autun in Burgundy as part of the Musique en Morvan Festival. New Dublin Voices will perform a cappella works by Ravel (Trois Chansons), Debussy (Trois Chansons) and Poulenc (Un Soir de Neige). In the second half, the choir will be joined by renowned organist, David Bremner, to perform the celebrated Duruflé Requiem. |
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International award-winning chamber choir New Dublin Voices will make its Hugh Lane Gallery debut as part of its three-concert Dublin SUMMERTIME tour in June.
2012 has already seen NDV take first prize in both the Culwick and McAuliffe Silver Cups at Feis Ceoil, present joint concerts with international guest choirs from the Philippines and France, and make studio recordings with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. In July the choir joins the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of The Planets by Holst, and gives a series of concerts in the south of France as one of two guest choirs invited to the acclaimed festival Musique en Morvan.
Meanwhile, in June, despite the busy calendar, there's always time for what NDV enjoys most of all: giving rich, wide-ranging and memorable concerts. As always, NDV has come up with a programme designed to reward the seasoned listener but also, and more especially, to appeal to people who wouldn't normally choose to go to choral concerts.
This time the choir will sample composers (Monteverdi, Morley, Victoria) from the Renaissance "golden age" of fabulous choral music, present exciting pieces by Irish composers working right now (Rhona Clarke, Eibhlis Farrell, Kevin O'Connell), and reprise a selection of the breathtaking contrasts experienced last November by alternating movements from masses by Palestrina (b. 1525) and Giles Swayne (b. 1946!).
All that plus three world premieres and a few little surprises, some of them in honour of the season: "Summertime, and the living…."
Sat June 9 @ 8pm
St Thomas’ Church, Mount Merrion,
€15 (€10 conc)
www.newdublinvoices.com/tickets
Fri June 15 @ 8pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
€15 (€10 conc)
www.newdublinvoices.com/tickets
Sun June 17 @ 12pm
Hugh Lane Gallery
Admission free
Full Programme
A Concert of Two Themes – Summer and the Contrast of the Ages
Sumer is a icumen in Anon
Love
A un giro sol Monteverdi (1567-1643)
The Star of the County Down arr Howard Goodall (b. 1958)
Caritas abundat Eibhlis Farrell (b. 1953)
Fyer fyer Morley (1567/8 – 1602)
Birds and Nature
There is another sky Ivo Antognini (b. 1963) (Irish premiere)
Failte don ean Kevin O’Connell (b. 1958)
Prayer
Rorate caeli Rhona Clarke (b. 1958)
O Domine Jesu Christe Victoria (1548-1611)
Pater noster Lorenzo Ondarra (b. 1931) (Irish premiere)
Summertime Gershwin arr. Kirby Shaw (b. 1941)
Palestrina (Missa aeterna Christi munera) & Swayne (Missa Tiburtina) Revisited
Kyrie Giles Swayne (b. 1946)
Gloria Palestrina (1525/26-1594)
Sanctus and Benedictus Giles Swayne
Agnus Palestrina
Danny, Desmond, Molly, and Markets
Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da Lennon/McCartney arr. Bill Ives (b. 1948)
O Danny Boy arr. Philip Lawson (b. 1957)
Beidh Aonach Amarach arr. David Hayes
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The French vocal ensemble La Sestina visits Ireland for a single concert on Saturday, April 28 in Dublin's Unitarian Church, St Stephen's Green.
Fresh from sweeping all six available prizes at Flanders-Maasmechelen, Belgium's elite international choral competition, New Dublin Voices now brings all its energy and colour to the music of Christmas.
Also winners of last year's Lyric fm Choirs for Christmas competition, New Dublin Voices and its conductor Bernie Sherlock honour the spirit and tradition of Christmas with a beautiful selection of carols and songs – lively and quick, or deep and contemplative, very ancient and very new, old favourites, new sounds. There will be the world premieres of new carols by Irish composers Stephen Gardner and Jonathan Nangle, and the centerpiece is Benjamin Britten's moving and sublime A Ceremony of Carols.
New Dublin Voices is home for Christmas, performing in three different Dublin venues beginning December 9th in the National Concert Hall's John Field Room, and continuing on December 14th in Christ Church Cathedral. Music will be interspersed with seasonal readings, and the Saturday Family Matinée – the earlier of two concerts in Draíocht on December 17th – will feature a few surprises for kids (of all ages!).
Details:
Friday, Dec. 9 NCH John Field Room, 1.05 pm
€16 / €12 (conc.)
Wednesday, Dec. 14 Christ Church Cathedral, 8 pm
€15 / €10 (conc.)
(www.newdublinvoices.com/tickets)
Saturday, Dec. 17 Draíocht (Blanchardstown) 3 pm AND 8 pm
€15 / €10 (conc.) / €40 (Family of 4)
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"I'm delighted that New Dublin Voices is giving what I am fairly sure will be the Irish premiere of my Missa Tiburtina - a piece dating from 1984 (the height of the Thatcher years) which looks at a religious ritual with which we are familiar, in the context of the realities of a greedy & divided world." (Giles Swayne)
Fresh from its clean sweep of 6 awards at the 11th International Choir Contest of Flanders-Maasmechelen in Belgium (including Choir of the Festival and Best Contemporary Work), NDV will also pay tribute to Waterford-based composer, Ben Hanlon, who has written two works in the last two years for the choir. New Dublin Voices will also perform a selection of other sacred pieces including Beati Quorum Via by Stanford and Z. Randall Stroope’s The Conversion of Saul, his graphic and electrifying depiction of Paul’s experience on the road to Damascus.
Christ Church Cathedral Waterford, Saturday November 5th at 8pm.
This programme will be repeated in Dublin in St. Ann’s Church Dawson St, on Friday November 11th at 8pm.
Tickets: €15/€10 (conc.) available at the door
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contact info@newdublinvoices.com
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New Dublin Voices, a non-professional chamber choir under the direction of conductor Bernie Sherlock, was competing in the biennial International Choir Contest of Flanders-Maasmechelen where it not only won first prize but also swept all other available prizes: best performance of the specially commissioned set work, best folksong, best performance of a contemporary piece (O frondens virga by the Irish composer Ben Hanlon), the Audience Prize, and Choir of the Festival.
11 choirs in all – from Germany, Russia, Latvia, Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain, as well as Ireland – were selected to take part in the competition which was judged by an international panel of 5 adjudicators. Performances were spread over the two days and the results were announced late on Sunday night. New Dublin Voices, which receives no sponsorship or government funding, amassed close to €4000 in prize money.
"I'm delighted we hit our top form this weekend and did so well," said conductor Bernie Sherlock. "Apart from anything else, New Dublin Voices needs the money! This means we can start planning to travel somewhere else next year."
Click here for the official results.
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