Chamber Choir Ireland

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“Music this uncalculatedly beautiful leaves you almost desperate with gratitude.”

 – The New Yorker, 2023 

Ireland’s flagship vocal ensemble and the festival’s choir-in-residence, Chamber Choir Ireland, will once again grace the Festival with its presence with a concert under the direction of acclaimed conductor Gabriel Crouch. 

Celtic Sentinel

Ireland’s national chamber choir conjures images of ageless Celtic landscapes in Celtic Sentinel.

The programme features music by four great composers from the Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany.

Eoghan Desmond’s Guthanna ar an gCnoc (Voices on the Hill) is a choral epic, taking the listener on a climb up Mt Brandon. This setting of 6 Irish language poems by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin invites the listener on a spiritual journey away from the modern, industrial world, returning to a state of harmony with nature.

The programme also features unpublished music by revered Welsh composer, Grace Williams; rarely heard settings of Scottish folksongs by Breton composer and 20th-century Druid, Paul Ladmirault; and a song by pre-eminent Scottish composer James MacMillan about the 18th-19th-century Highland clearances.

Gabriel Crouch conducts Chamber Choir Ireland in this celebration of shared Celtic heritage.

Programme

James Macmillan (Scotland, b. 1959)  – O, chì, chì me na mòrbheanna 

Grace Williams (Wales, 1906-1977) – The Vale of Llanberis  
– Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands 

Eoghan Desmond (Ireland, b. 1989) – Guthanna ar an gCnoc

Paul Ladmirault (France, 1877-1944) – Selections from Chansons Écossaises 

                                                                        Marie de Castlecary
                                                                        Marie Morison
                                                                        Le Batelier
                                                                        L’Enclos

Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition Winner – world premiere

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