"Music this uncalculatedly beautiful leaves you almost desperate with gratitude."

 - The New Yorker, 2023 

Choir-In-Residence Chamber Choir Ireland will once again grace the Festival with its presence for a concert in the beautiful surrounds of St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral. 

In Forgotten Peoples, Chamber Choir Ireland and Guest Director Gabriel Crouch explore issues of homelessness, migration, and belonging. In his work Forgotten Peoples, Veljo Tormis attempted to preserve the musical heritage of the minority groups that live along the shores of the Gulf of Finland, whose languages and ways of life are in danger of disappearing. Michael Gordon's Anonymous Man follows the composer's changing New York changing, from industrial warehouse district to residential area, and the impact on his unhoused neighbours. Erasure poetry is created by blacking out portions of a pre-existing text to create a new work. Melissa Dunphy's N-400 Erasure Songs uses and reshapes text from the Unites States naturalisation forms, illustrating both the alienating process of migration and the relief of a warm welcome.

Programme 

• Veljo Tormis (Estonia, 1930-2017)—Selections from ‘Forgotten Peoples’ 
• Michael Gordon (USA, b.1956)—Selections from ‘Anonymous Man’ 
• Emma O’Halloran (Ireland, b.1985)—New Commission World Premiere 
• Francisco del Piño (Argentina, b.1980)—New Commission World Premiere 
• Winning Entry in Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition 2025—World Premiere ‘Babel’ by Donnchadh Mac Aodha

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