NCH Programme 2019/2020

2019/2020 Programme

2019/2020 Programme

The National Concert Hall’s mission is to foster and celebrate the appreciation, knowledge, enjoyment and pure love of music as an integral part of Irish life.

WELCOME/FÁILTE The National Concert Hall’s mission is to foster and celebrate the appreciation, knowledge, enjoyment and pure love of music as an integral part of Irish life.

In order to deliver this mission, we rely on the collaboration and support of many: musicians and creators; educators and institutions; agents and promoters; public funders and sponsors; Friends and Patrons; broadcasters and media; but most of all our audience, with whom we share that vital love of music that gives the NCH its reason for being.

In presenting our programme for 2019/2020 we are mindful of the exciting changes ahead and the central importance of our musicians, audiences and all our stakeholders to our future.

We are proud to have been home to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra since the Hall opened in 1981 and as we work together with the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and RTÉ to secure a new future for the orchestra under the remit of the NCH, we look forward to strengthening and deepening that relationship, ensuring that symphonic music remains central to the musical life of the NCH.

The importance of the NCH’s remit has been recognised by Government in committing major investment to the redevelopment of our facilities. This process in now in the detailed design phase, as we work towards commencement of the physical project on site in 2021/2022. Our mission will continue: our music will carry on, in new and exciting ways, as we take our programme beyond the confines of our site, building new audiences whilst offering our existing and treasured audiences new opportunities to engage with us and the music they love.

Simon Taylor Chief Executive

Maura McGrath Chairperson

Board Of Directors Maura McGrath Chair • James Cavanagh • Rebecca Gageby Gerard Gillen • Eleanor McEvoy • Máire O’Connor Michael O’Donovan • John Reynolds • Don Thornhill Patron Michael D. Higgins President of Ireland

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We are also proud of the relationship we enjoy with our other resident ensembles; Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Crash Ensemble, who enrich the musical programme and daily life of the NCH. Similarly, the presence of Music Network and Music Generation as part of our wider campus adds to the significance of the NCH as the national cultural institution for music and supports our wider statutory remit. That remit is also what underpins our expanding Learning & Participation programme, which makes music an integral part of life for many beyond the formal concert platform.

Music is the raison d’être for the National Concert Hall and our programme and our audiences are at the heart of all that we do.

NCH PROGRAMME 2019/2020 Music is the raison d’être for the National Concert Hall and our programme and our audiences are at the heart of all that we do.

Whilst celebrating and nurturing our existing audiences and the NCH’s unique musical heritage, our policy is to develop and diversify our programme across musical genres, bringing it to life for future creators, performers and audiences; expanding our own and our audience’s musical horizons and encouraging engagement with music as a means of personal development, creative involvement and social inclusion.

We are therefore delighted to bring you our own programme of events for 2019/2020 which I hope demonstrates our commitment to this vision, through our concert programme and our Learning & Participation activities.

The International Concert Series has long been the flagship of the National Concert Hall’s programme, bringing the finest international classical musicians, ensembles and orchestras to Irish audiences as well as showcasing our own leading artists.

But great music is not defined by genre, as our Perspectives series shows, bringing to our stage some of the most innovative and exciting artists from many musical backgrounds, adding contemporary relevance and breadth to our programme.

Relevance to current cultural discourse is also at the heart of our Words+Ideas strand, underlining the importance of culture, the arts and music to our lives.

The importance of music to people’s lives we see demonstrated every day in our Learning & Participation programme, whether in encouraging the next generation of professional musicians, inspiring musical involvement for children and families or bringing the joy of music to those struggling with dementia or mental health issues.

Whatever your musical tastes we hope you find much to enjoy in the NCH programme 2019/2020. As an added incentive, there are a number of concert packages available with savings of up to 15% on full season subscriptions and 20% for the NCH Season Friends, Friends and Patrons.

Our thanks to our media partner The Irish Times for their support, to our Innovation Partner Davy and to Grant Thornton for their generous support.

We look forward to welcoming you to the National Concert Hall and making your visit a special one, whether you are a regular patron or attending for the first time.

Simon Taylor CEO

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Supporting Irish musicians is at the heart of our Chamber Music Series in the Kevin Barry Recital Room, giving audiences an opportunity to enjoy a regular output of recitals and intimate concerts, ranging from baroque to contemporary music.

NCH 2019/2020 PROGRAMME MULTIBUYS, SAVINGS AND DISCOUNTS

FULL INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON PACKAGE 20% discount

Season Friends, Friends and Patrons

15% discount

All other concert bookers

‘MIX AND MATCH’ MULTIBUY DISCOUNTS Want to choose your own concerts but still benefit from the discounts on offer?

Choose your favourite concerts from across the entire 2019/2020 programme and avail of the following discounts: 5% discount

Choose any 4-6 concerts from the programme

10% discount

Choose any 7-10 concerts from the programme

15% discount

Choose any 11+ concerts from the programme

See pages 85-86 for more bespoke and curated concert packages on offer such as ‘Brilliant Baroque’, ‘New to Classical Music’ and ‘Beethoven 250’.

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Friday 31 May, 10am

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PROGRAMME 2019/2020 AT A GLANCE INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2019/2020 Wed. 4 Sept. 2019, 8pm

Staatskapelle Dresden Myung-Whun Chung conductor | Yuja Wang piano

Wed. 16 Oct. 2019, 8pm

London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley piano/conductor

Sun. 10 Nov. 2019, 8pm

Christian Tetzlaff violin | Lars Vogt piano

Sat. 23 Nov. 2019, 8pm

RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle chief conductor Bahar & Ufuk Dördüncü pianos

Mon. 9 Dec. 2019, 8pm

Joseph Calleja tenor | Claudia Boyle soprano RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra | Proinnsías Ó Duinn conductor

Wed. 22 Jan. 2020, 8pm

English Chamber Orchestra | José Serebrier conductor Natalie Clein cello

Thurs. 20 Feb. 2020, 8pm

Simon Trpčeski piano

Mon. 9 Mar. 2020, 8pm

Bach Collegium Japan | Masaaki Suzuki conductor

Sat. 4 Apr. 2020, 8pm

Tenebrae | Aurora Orchestra

Mon. 20 Apr. 2020, 8pm

Emanuel Ax piano

Thurs. 30 Apr. 2020, 8pm

Vienna Chamber Orchestra | Paul Lewis piano

Wed. 13 May 2020, 8pm

Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas piano/conductor Lynn Harrell cello | Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin

Sat. 23 May 2020, 8pm

Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano | Il pomo d’oro Maxim Emelyanychev conductor/harpsichord

Tue. 2 June 2020, 8pm

The Hallé | Sir Mark Elder conductor | Benjamin Grosvenor piano

PERSPECTIVES

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Sun. 29 Sept. 2019, 8pm

Pantha du Prince: Conference of Trees

Sat. 26 Oct. 2019, 6pm Sun. 27 Oct. 2019, 8pm

Philip Glass Residency

Tue. 29 Oct. 2019, 8pm

Swordfishtrombones Revisited

Sat. 28 & Sun. 29 March 2020, 8pm

Laurie Anderson

Sun. 31 May 2020, 8pm

Damon Albarn: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

TRADITION NOW Sat. 5 Oct. 2019, 8pm

Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Brìghde Chaimbeul An evening curated by Geoff Travis

Sun. 6 Oct. 2019, 8pm

Sam Amidon Extended Ensemble & Sounds Like Freedom Niall Vallely, Karan Casey & Harriet Tubman

WORDS+IDEAS Thurs. 6 June 2019, 8pm

Sir Simon Schama - The Wordy Tour

Sat. 2 Nov. 2019, 8pm

Margaret Atwood

Sat. 31 Aug. 2019, 3.30pm (Cork) SinfoNua Orchestra | David Brophy conductor Sun. 1 Sept. 2019, 8pm (NCH) Gerald Peregrine cello Sat. 2 November 2019

Family Day with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Sat. 21 Dec. 2019, 3.30 & 6pm Sun. 22 Dec. 2019, 11.30am, 2pm, 4.30pm, 7pm Mon. 23 Dec. 2019, 11.30am, 2pm, 4.30pm, 7pm

NCH This Way to Christmas featuring The Snowman with NCH Christmas Orchestra and Theatre Lovett

Mini Music | Bring Along a Baby | Family Concerts | Summer Camps: SongSchool, Junior SongSchool | International Master Course

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

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FAMILY / LEARNING & PARTICIPATION

Hugh Tinney Series: Beethoven: Before and After Irish Baroque Orchestra Series Irish Language Art Song Malcolm Proud and Camerata Kilkenny: Bach Sunday String Quartet Series NCH/Sounding the Feminists Series International Guitar Series Young Artist Series Dublin Song Series Chamber Music Gathering 4

CONTENTS

International Concert Series 2019/2020

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Chamber Music Series

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Beethoven 250

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Perspectives Series

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Philip Glass: Reflections on a Cultural Icon

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Tradition Now

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Tradition is Change

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Words+Ideas Series

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Family/NCH Learning & Participation Programme

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Booking & General Information

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Curated Concert Packages 85 89

Booking Forms

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CONTENTS

Seating Plan

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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2019/2020

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Yuja Wang

Myung-Whun Chung

Wednesday 4 September 2019, 8pm

Staatskapelle Dresden Myung-Whun Chung conductor Yuja Wang piano

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €85, €72.50, €55, €39.50 Ticket includes glass of prosecco.

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

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Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30 Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73

A thrilling musical partnership opens the NCH International Concert Series: sensational Chinese pianist Yuja Wang and one of the world’s most distinguished orchestras, Staatskapelle Dresden, with its Principal Guest Conductor, the Korean Myung-Whun Chung.

Musical America’s Artist of the Year in 2017, Yuja Wang performs perhaps the most technically demanding concerto in the standard piano repertoire, the much loved Concerto No. 3 by Rachmaninov. Composed to show off the composer’s own astounding virtuosity at his North American debut in New York in 1909 it will demonstrate why Yuja Wang is one of the most in-demand artists in the world today.

In contrast to the wave of new classical music talent emerging from China in recent decades, the Staatskapelle Dresden traces its roots back to 1548, making it one of the oldest orchestras in the world.

Steeped in tradition, its previous music directors include Heinrich Schütz, Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner; it enjoyed a close association with Richard Strauss and Brahms himself performed as both piano soloist and conductor with the orchestra. So his Symphony No. 2 will have a resounding ring of authenticity!

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Rachmaninov Brahms

“The depth of the Dresden string tone was outstanding and the brass a marvel of richness and splendour… Exhilarating”.

The Guardian

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London Mozart Players

Howard Shelley

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Wednesday 16 October 2019, 8pm Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €37.50, €29.50 €25, €19.50

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Groups: 8+ tickets for any one concert, get 10% discount.

Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ‘Classical’ Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503 On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Delius Symphony No. 104 in D major, ‘London’ Haydn Howard Shelley, world-renowned pianist and Conductor Laureate of the London Mozart Players, brings this wonderful orchestra, the UK’s longest established chamber orchestra, to Dublin for a special concert as part of the orchestra’s 70th birthday celebrations. He will perform in the dual role of conductor and soloist.

Late masterpieces by Mozart and his revered older contemporary Haydn feature along with Prokofiev’s witty and affectionate tribute to the classical style: ‘a symphony as Mozart or Haydn might have written it…had either one of them been my contemporary…’ as young Prokofiev put it.

The Mozart concerto in C is one of the last three concertos Mozart wrote at the height of his maturity, with a first movement of almost Beethovenian grandeur. Haydn’s London symphonies represent some of his greatest achievements, with No. 104 being the fitting finale and the last symphony he ever wrote.

The cuckoo in this classical nest is the evocative tone poem On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring by Delius.

Otherwise described as a ‘mood picture for small orchestra’, the piece imitates the natural sounds of the cuckoo which can be heard by the oboe, strings and clarinet. So whilst the literal connection to our ‘Beethoven: Before and After’ strand across the season is Mozart and Haydn, there is more than an echo of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony here.

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London Mozart Players Howard Shelley piano/conductor

“Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players, where classical refinement and ebullience go hand in hand”.

Financial Times

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Christian Tetzlaff

Lars Vogt

Sunday 10 November 2019, 8pm Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €37.50, €29.50 €25, €19.50

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Groups: 8+ tickets for any one concert, get 10% discount.

Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

Part of the Beethoven 250 Multibuy

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 30 No. 1 Shostakovich Sonata for violin and piano in G major,

Op. 134 György Kurtág Tre Pezzi Op. 14e for violin and piano Sonata for violin and piano in A major Franck The German violinist Christian Tetzlaff is one of most exciting musicians on the classical music scene today: his concerts have been described as ‘turning into an existential experience for both the interpreter and the audience where suddenly old familiar works appear in a completely new light’. Much sought after internationally, he has been an artist in residence at the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Wigmore Hall London and at Carnegie Hall New York. In the 2018/2019 season he was Artist in Residence of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dresdner Philharmonie at the same time.

For this recital he joins celebrated pianist Lars Vogt whom Sir Simon Rattle described as “one of the most extraordinary musicians of any age group that I have had the fortune to be associated with”. Together Christian and Lars perform a programme that weaves together 19th and 20th century works. Opening with Beethoven’s sonata in A major, the first of his Op. 30 set and concluding with César Franck’s A major sonata, considered to be one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written.

In between, two 20th century compositions - one by Shostakovich (his second sonata) and the other by György Kurtág - add up to a unique opportunity to hear two critically acclaimed recitalists performing a rich and varied programme.

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Christian Tetzlaff violin Lars Vogt piano

“Tetzlaff, playing as if his life depended on it, transported his audience from the Hungarian gypsy camp to the salons of Vienna. It was the trip of a lifetime” Independent on Sunday

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Justin Doyle

Bahar & Ufuk Dördüncü

RIAS Kammerchor

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Saturday 23 November 2019, 8pm

RIAS Kammerchor Justin Doyle chief conductor Bahar & Ufuk Dördüncü pianos

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €37.50, €29.50 €25, €19.50

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Groups: 8+ tickets for any one concert, get 10% discount.

Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

Part of the New to Classical Music Multibuy

Described as “Wunderbare” by the Tagesspiegel, the Berlin based RIAS chamber choir is a world-renowned ensemble of 35 professional singers that also enjoys an unrivalled reputation amongst Germany’s professional choirs. Founded in 1948 it has been an ongoing partner of both the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic.

For this concert the choir will be joined by Turkish-Swiss piano duo Ufuk and Bahar Dördüncü, described as being ‘equipped with flawless technique, delivering vigorous and evocative performance, displaying breathtaking virtuosity and great creativity, evidenced in every performance’.

The programme is built around Brahms’ two sets of Liebeslieder waltzes, unpretentious and highly attractive vocal pieces, with the accompaniment of piano duo, on the subject of love. Brahms much enjoyed conducting these charming songs himself, recognising their audience appeal as he doffed his cap to both Schubert and the waltzes of Johann Strauss. Interspersed among the Brahms in this concert, specially devised by Justin Doyle, are songs about love by a range of 20th century composers and Dvořák’s exhilarating Slavonic Dances in their original piano duet versions.

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Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52 and Op. 65, interspersed with love songs by Reger, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and Slavonic Dances

by Dvořák.

“The RIAS chamber choir… sings superbly” The Guardian

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Joseph Calleja

RTÉ NSO

Claudia Boyle

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Monday 9 December 2019, 8pm Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €75, €67.50, €54.50, €29.50 Ticket includes glass of mulled wine at reception

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Groups: 8+ tickets for any one concert, get 10% discount.

Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

Popular opera arias and Christmas songs including Verdi, Puccini, Massenet and Gounod.

Blessed with a golden-age voice that routinely inspires comparisons to legendary singers from earlier eras, Maltese-born Joseph Calleja is one of the most acclaimed and sought-after tenors today. His expansive discography and frequent appearances on the world’s leading opera and concert stages prompted National Public Radio to hail him as “arguably today’s finest lyric tenor,” and led to his being voted Gramophone Magazine’s 2012 Artist of the Year.

The celebrated tenor makes a welcome return to the National Concert Hall to perform a programme of arias from the operas he has performed to acclaim at the great opera houses of the world, including Verdi’s Rigoletto and Macbeth; Puccini’s Tosca and La Bohème and Massenet’s Werther. Joined by leading Irish soprano Claudia Boyle and accompanied by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Proinnsías Ó Duinn, with a Christmas song or two as well, this opera gala will make the perfect start to the festive season.

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Joseph Calleja tenor Claudia Boyle soprano RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Proinnsías Ó Duinn conductor

“Only one lyric tenor on the scene today has the honeyed tone and ingratiating style to make comparisons to Pavarotti and Gigli seem serious, and it is Calleja” New Yorker

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English Chamber Orchestra

Natalie Clein

José Serebrier

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Wednesday 22 January 2020, 8pm

English Chamber Orchestra José Serebrier conductor Natalie Clein cello

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €37.50, €29.50 €25, €19.50

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Groups: 8+ tickets for any one concert, get 10% discount.

Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

Part of the New to Classical Music Multibuy

Andante Cantabile (arr. Serebrier) None but the Lonely Heart (arr. Serbrier) Elegie Rococo Variations Serenade for Strings, Op. 48

The English Chamber Orchestra [ECO] is the most recorded chamber orchestra in the world, boasting a discography containing nearly 900 recordings of over 1,500 works by more than 400 composers. Along with these recordings of classical repertoire and its equally busy international touring schedule, the orchestra has recorded many successful film soundtracks including Dario Marianelli’s prize-winning scores for Atonement and Pride and Prejudice.

With Benjamin Britten as the orchestra’s first Patron, the ECO has enjoyed longstanding relationships with some of the world’s leading conductors and recitalists including Pinchas Zukerman, Murray Perahia, Mitsuko Uchida and Daniel Barenboim. For this concert we are delighted to welcome back the celebrated South American maestro José Serebrier ‘one of the most eminent conductors of our time’ (Fonoforum Germany). Joining him in this all-Tchaikovsky programme is leading British cellist Natalie Clein, described by The Times as ‘mesmerising’ and ‘soaringly passionate’.

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“Serebrier and the ECO had the audience jumping to its feet” Bachtrack.com

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Simon Trpčeski

“Anyone with a passion for piano-playing at its most spellbinding should hear Trpčeski whenever they can.”

The Telegraph

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Thursday 20 February 2020, 8pm

Simon Trpčeski piano

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders

Brahms Variations on a Theme by

Robert Schumann Op. 9 Soirées de Vienne Nos 5, 7, 6 Liszt Old Grandmother’s Tales, Op. 31 Prokofiev Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky Korsakov) Night on a Bare Mountain (arr for piano by Konstantin Chernov)

Sonata No. 7, Op. 83 Prokofiev

Tickets: €37.50, €29.50 €25, €19.50

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Groups: 8+ tickets for any one concert, get 10% discount.

Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

The Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski has established himself as one of the most remarkable musicians to have emerged in recent years, praised not only for his powerful virtuosity and deeply expressive approach, but also for his charismatic stage presence. A frequent soloist with the world’s leading orchestras, we are delighted to welcome him back to the NCH, following his concerto performance with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2018.

This eagerly anticipated solo recital allows Irish audiences to experience piano playing at its finest. Works by Brahms, Liszt and Mussorgsky will showcase Trpčeski’s talent for music of the romantic era - he is quoted as saying “I am a romantic person, and, being a Slav, Romantic music is close to my heart”. Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 7 on the other hand will give full reign to his formidable technique and bring us to a very different world, as he plays the second of the composer’s ‘war sonatas’. A work of raw power and emotion it was first performed by the great Sviatoslav Richter in Moscow in 1943 at the height of the Second World War. ‘With this work’ Richter said, ‘we are brutally plunged into the anxiously threatening atmosphere of a world that has lost its balance. Chaos and uncertainty reign....but that does not mean what we lived by before ceases to exist. We continue to feel and love... we sweep everything before us, borne along by the will for victory. In the tremendous struggle we find an irresistible life-force’

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Bach Collegium Japan

“I have never heard period instruments played with such purity of tone, so reliably in tune. The small, precise, dramatically alert chorus breathed fire but also revealed a heart-breaking tenderness�

Los Angeles Times

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Monday 9 March 2020, 8pm Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders

Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki conductor Hana Blažíková soprano Damien Guillon alto James Gilchrist tenor Christian Immler bass

Tickets: €55, €47.50, €37.50, €27.50

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Groups: 8+ tickets for any one concert, get 10% discount.

Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

Part of the Brilliant Baroque Multibuy

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Bach Bach Bach Bach

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BWV1 Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen BWV81 Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht BWV 55 Mass in F major BWV233

Bach Collegium Japan is an ensemble on a mission ‘to enable as many people as possible to share with us the joy of this wonderful music’. Hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “Kings from the East,” Bach Collegium Japan make a welcome return to the NCH to perform as part of their 2020 European Tour which also coincides with their 30th Anniversary.

Under the artistic direction of their founder Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan is renowned for its striking performances of Baroque music with their 55-disc recording of Bach’s church cantatas receiving a 2014 ECHO Klassik award.

We will hear three of these cantatas that date from Bach’s first three years as Cantor at Thomaskirche in Leipzig (1724-26) along with one of his ‘Lutheran’ masses that dates from around 1738/9. Sublime music to commence a Bach focus at the NCH during March.

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Tenebrae

Aurora Orchestra

“You couldn’t have asked for a better performance: plush choral sound, heartfelt solos…rich contributions from the Aurora Orchestra and all immaculately sculpted

by Short” The Times 25

Saturday 4 April 2020, 8pm Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €45, €37.50, €29.50, €24.50

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Groups: 8+ tickets for any one concert, get 10% discount.

Limited student standby tickets available for all concerts.

Part of the Brilliant Baroque Multibuy

Nigel Short conductor Emma Walshe soprano Stephen Kennedy bass Max Baillie violin J. S. Bach

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J. S. Bach Fauré

Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein (Johannes-Passion BWV 245) Partita No. 2 in D, Allemande (BWV 1004) Partita No. 2 in D, Courante (BWV 1004) Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 277i) Partita No. 2 in D, Sarabande (BWV 1004) Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt (BWV 277ii) Partita No. 2 in D, Gigue (BWV 1004) Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden (Matthäus-Passion BWV 244) Ciaconna with chorale themes (BWV 1004) Requiem

Following their sell-out performance at the National Concert Hall in 2017, Tenebrae the renowned English choral ensemble and conductor return with the critically acclaimed Aurora Orchestra. Together they present their interpretation of Fauré’s Requiem, described as “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine) and “simply mind-blowing” (The Scotsman) and Bach’s Partita for Violin No. 2, with chorales interspersed, culminating in the incomparable Chaconne, highlighting the hidden chorale themes within this fascinating work and the church sonata origins of the partita as a whole.

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Tenebrae Aurora Orchestra

It was the death of his wife Maria Barbara that prompted Bach to add the Chaconne to his suite of dance movements and as it ends, its funereal key of D minor is taken up without a break in Fauré’s uniquely consoling masterwork, underlining that work’s individuality and constraint. ‘Someone has called it a lullaby of death’ Fauré said ‘but that’s how I see death: as an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience’.

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Emanuel Ax

“Emanuel Ax is one of the most complete pianists of today – technically solid, deeply intelligent, and with a heart” Independent

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Monday 20 April 2020, 8pm

Emanuel Ax piano

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders

Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven

Beethoven

Tickets: €49.50, €40, €32.50, €25

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“Marvellously articulate and totally unfussy. Nothing is done for effect or to draw attention to the player rather than to what he is playing”, so said The Guardian of eminent pianist Emanuel Ax’s playing. The legendary pianist, whose recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms Sonatas for cello and piano have earned Ax a series of Grammy® Awards, will perform a programme of early works by Beethoven as part of our ‘Beethoven: Before and After’ strand.

Composed in 1794/5, Beethoven dedicated his three Sonatas Op. 2 to his teacher Joseph Haydn, though master and pupil had had a contentious relationship, to say the least. That Beethoven was heading in new directions is already clear from the more intensive emotional content of these works and in their technical demands on the performer. This recital also offers a unique opportunity to hear Beethoven’s popular Für Elise and the rarely heard Variations on Rule Britannia in D major, making it an ideal opportunity to witness the emergence of Beethoven as the composer considered to be one of the greatest of all time.

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Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 Für Elise Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2 Variations in F major, Op. 34 Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1 Variations on Rule Britannia for piano in D major, WoO 79 Sonata in C major, Op. 2, No. 3

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Vienna Chamber Orchestra

Paul Lewis

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Thursday 30 April 2020, 8pm Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €45, €37.50, €29.50, €24.50

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Haydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La Passione’ Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K 595 Divertimento in D major, K. 136 Mozart ‘Salzburg Symphony No. 1’ Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19

In the more than 70 years of its existence, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra has established itself as one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras. Boasting affiliations with renowned conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin and Benjamin Britten, the famed pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim made his debut with this orchestra in 1964.

Performing for the first time as part of the International Concert Series, the orchestra is joined by pianist Paul Lewis in piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, two giants of the Viennese classical music repertoire.

Paul Lewis’s concert performances and recordings of the complete Beethoven Sonatas, concertos and the Diabelli Variations have earned him unanimous acclaim from all over the world, culminating in 2010 with the honour of becoming the first pianist in the history of the BBC Proms to perform all five Beethoven concertos in a single Proms season.

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Vienna Chamber Orchestra Paul Lewis piano

This magical pairing of pianist and orchestra performing a programme of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven ensures a truly superb evening of orchestral music by giants of the classical era.

“Lewis brought his customary intelligence and intensity…with endless shifts in colour and weight. The fearsome technical demands…were met with unshowy dexterity.”

The Guardian

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Camerata Ireland

Barry Douglas

“Douglas’s powerful playing always compels and rewards attention” The Guardian

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Wednesday 13 May 2020, 8pm Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €37.50, €29.50, €25, €19.50

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Penderecki Beethoven Shchedrin Beethoven

Elegy for cello Triple Concerto Amoroso for violin Symphony No. 5 in C minor

Celebrating its 20th anniversary Camerata Ireland returns to the NCH with pianist and founder Barry Douglas, for a residency throughout 2019 and 2020. Established to be a chamber orchestra to equal the best in the world and comprising the finest Irish musicians, Camerata Ireland has performed throughout the USA, Europe, South America and Asia.

This celebratory concert pays homage to Beethoven in this the 250th anniversary of his birth with a performance of his iconic Fifth Symphony and the Triple Concerto.

Joining Barry Douglas as soloists, we are delighted to welcome two other major international artists, the Russian-born violinist and conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky and the American cellist Lynn Harrell, both in the highest echelon of today’s performing artists.

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Camerata Ireland Barry Douglas piano/conductor Lynn Harrell cello Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin

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Joyce Di Donato

Il pomo d’oro

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Saturday 23 May 2020, 8pm Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €85, €72.50, €55, €39.50

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‘My Favourite Things’: Arias by Monteverdi, Gluck, Handel and Purcell Proclaimed as “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by the New Yorker, Joyce DiDonato (née O’Flaherty) is a prolific and Grammy® award-winning mezzo-soprano, in demand the world over. With a voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold” according to The Times, Joyce has soared to the top of the industry both as a performer and a fierce advocate for the arts, gaining international prominence in operas by Handel and Mozart, as well as through her wide-ranging and acclaimed discography.

Following her hugely successfully concert at the NCH in 2017 accompanied by Il pomo d’oro, led by Maxim Emelyanychev, we are delighted to welcome them back for an evening of arias by Monteverdi, Gluck, Handel and Purcell in what will no doubt be another stunning and highly memorable performance.

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Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Il pomo d’oro Maxim Emelyanychev conductor/harpsichord

“The staggering, joyful artistry of Joyce DiDonato reminds us that in any generation there are a few giants. Joyce is not only a great, brave and inspiring artist – one of the finest singers of our time - but she is also a transformative presence in the arts…Joyce sings and the world is suddenly brighter” Gramophone

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The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder

Benjamin Grosvenor

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Tuesday 2 June 2020, 8pm

The Hallé Sir Mark Elder conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm – free to ticket holders Tickets: €80, €67.50, €52.50, €37.50

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Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Piano Concerto in G major Firebird Suite (1945)

To round off the International Concert Series, the Hallé makes a welcome return to the NCH with its esteemed Music Director Sir Mark Elder. Founded in 1858 the Hallé ranks among the UK’s top symphonic ensembles and under the guidance of Sir Mark Elder since 2000 it has reached new heights of artistic achievement.

Multi-award winning British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been described as “one in a million...several million” by The Independent. Benjamin first came to prominence as the winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, and was subsequently invited to perform at the First Night of the BBC Proms, aged just nineteen. He has since received numerous awards including Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year and a Classic Brits Critics’ award, as well as being featured in two BBC television documentaries and in CNN’s Human to Hero series.

For the closing programme in the season we hear three great works from the first half of the 20th century: Rachmaninov’s final orchestral work, a valedictory nostalgic masterpiece written in 1940; Ravel’s jazz influenced Piano Concerto completed in 1931; and Stravinsky’s final re-working in 1945 of his first masterwork, The Firebird, originally composed for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1910.

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Rachmaninov Ravel Stravinsky

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Chamber Music Gathering

Irish Baroque Orchestra

Malcolm Proud

Kevin Barry Recital Room

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES The NCH welcomes a roster of leading Irish and international musicians and ensembles to perform as part of the ‘NCH Chamber Music Series’ 2019/2020.

The series, which takes place in the NCH’s dedicated chamber music space the Kevin Barry Recital Room, sees a range of classical, baroque and contemporary chamber music presented in variety of distinct series.

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Further details of the Chamber Music Series will be announced in June 2019.

Sunday String Quartet Series September-December Sunday afternoon String Quartet concerts featuring Irish and International ensembles, in repertoire ranging from Haydn to contemporary composers.

Presented in association with National String Quartet Foundation.

Beethoven: Before and After Renowned Irish pianist Hugh Tinney curates two, three-concert series focusing on Beethoven, his influences and inspiration, as part of the NCH celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Malcolm Proud and Camerata Kilkenny: Bach March 2020 As part of a month long celebration at the NCH of one of music’s most influential and pre-eminent composers, J.S. Bach, renowned harpsichordist Malcolm Proud curates three evening concerts in which he performs with Camerata Kilkenny.

NCH/Sounding the Feminists Series The NCH and Sounding the Feminists presents the second series of a five year project which seeks to highlight the work of women composers over the centuries, with reference to the context within which they were working.

Supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Creative Ireland.

4th annual Chamber Music Gathering Saturday 4 January 2020 A unique day of wonderful music-making, as a cross-generational assembly of Ireland’s finest classical musicians and rising stars come together to present three concerts of chamber music masterpieces.

Tionscadal na nAmhrán Ealaíne Gaeilge Irish Language Art Song Project January – March 2020 This series presents fifty new art songs in the Irish language, commissioned from twelve Irish and five International composers with funds from An Chomhairle Ealaíon, presented in three concerts featuring top Irish singers including Anna Devin, Jennifer Davis and Rachel Kelly.

International Guitar Series November 2019 - April 2020 Continuing the annual series of concerts featuring music for guitar, both solo and in ensemble.

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Irish Baroque Orchestra November 2019 Three concerts by the IBO, each one uniquely themed: Handel in Italy; an evening of French Baroque Chamber Works and a concert focusing on Antonio Vivaldi.

Young Artist Series Celebrating outstanding young prize winners, including Sinéad O’Kelly (Bernadette Greevy Award winner 2018).

Beethoven: in His Own Words and Music February - March 2020 A series of three concerts with the Degani Trio with actor Barry McGovern reading from Beethoven’s letters.

Dublin Song Series May 2020 A series of three concerts featuring prominent Irish and international singers in song recitals, curated by pianist and accompanist Dearbhla Collins.

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“You can’t have any idea what it’s like always to hear such a giant marching behind you!”

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Beethoven 250 December 2020 will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. In terms of both his own ground-breaking works and his influence on others, he is probably the most important single figure in the history of music. He single-handedly reshaped the musical language of his time and strode the transition from the 18th to the 19th century like a colossus. His shadow hung over much of the following century: ‘You can’t have any idea what it’s like always to hear such a giant marching behind you!’ as Brahms said.

But Beethoven’s influence went much further than music, affecting the wider artistic, cultural, philosophical and even political world.

The philosopher Isiah Berlin described him as “the great artistic figure of the nineteenth century, who impressed himself deeply upon the imagination of Europe’. Beethoven’s own view of himself as a creative artist was in itself revolutionary, in seeing music and art as having the power to change the world “Music is ... a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”. But perhaps above all Beethoven represents the notion of artistic and personal freedom, telling us to “do all the good that one can; love, above all, freedom, and even for a throne, never deny the truth.”

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Across the International Concert Series and in the Chamber Music Series in 2019/2020 we explore ‘Beethoven: Before and After’ and in the autumn of 2020 we will undertake a survey of a cross-section of his output, culminating in a special series of concerts to mark his 250th anniversary of his birth in December 2020.

Beethoven: Before and After in the 2019/20 season Beethoven: Before and After, places the great composer in the context of his classical period predecessors and his romantic era successors.

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Wednesday 4 September 2019 Staatskapelle Dresden | Myung Whun Chung, conductor Brahms Symphony No. 2 Wednesday 16 October 2019 London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley piano/conductor Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 and Haydn: Symphony No.104 Sunday 10 November 2019 Christian Tetzlaff violin | Lars Vogt piano Beethoven Sonata for piano and violin No. 6 Saturday 23 November 2019 RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle chief conductor Brahms Liebeslieder waltzes Monday 20 April 2020 Emanuel Ax piano Early Beethoven piano music, including the Three Sonatas Op. 2 Thursday 30 April 2020 Vienna Chamber Orchestra | Paul Lewis piano Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart Wednesday 13 May 2020 Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas conductor/piano Lynn Harrell cello | Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin Beethoven Triple Concerto and Fifth Symphony

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES Hugh Tinney curates two series of chamber recitals.

Series 1: October/November focuses on Beethoven and his predecessors: Mozart, Haydn, Clementi and C.P.E. Bach.

Series 2: Spring 2020 pairs Beethoven with both his great classical role models Mozart and Haydn and his Romantic era successors Schubert, Brahms and Schumann Chamber Music Series to be announced June 2015.

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Pantha Du Prince

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Sunday 29 September 2019, 8pm

Pantha Du Prince Conference of Trees

Tickets: €37.50, €32.50, €27.50

In his latest project, techno artist Pantha Du Prince translates the communication of trees into a new electronic piece for ensemble of musicians in this immersive audio visual performance combining club culture, new music, visual poetry and speculative science.

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Hendrik Weber, aka Pantha Du Prince, is one of the popstars of the electronic music scene, and he definitely earned his fame. Born 1975 in Bad Wildungen, Germany, he developed a very unique signature sound over the years. Swirling synths, an always present melancholy and his trademark sound, the bells, all together form what is now known as Eiskristalltechno (Spex). His Albums This Bliss and Black Noise are widely considered to be two of the most beautiful electronic albums of the last years. Always stretching out to more experimental fields, Pantha Du Prince’s last collaboration was with Norwegian percussion group The Bell Laboratory with whom he appeared at the NCH. Conference of Trees will be released on Rough Trade in 2019.

Conference of Trees is co-produced by the International Summer Festival at Kampnagel, the Barbican in London, the Kammerspiele in Munich and the Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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Philip Glass

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Saturday 26 October 2019, 8pm Tickets €65, €55, €45 SOLD OUT

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Philip Glass and his ensemble will perform Music in Twelve Parts one of Glass’s landmark pieces composed for the Philip Glass Ensemble between 1971–74. It is one of the most original and revolutionary works of Glass’s oeuvre. Both a massive theoretical exercise and a deeply engrossing work of art, the score is the culmination of Glass’ explorations and theories on repetition. It is widely considered to be a masterpiece of minimalism and a seminal work of 20th century music.

Philip Glass Residency KOYAANISQATSI Live!

Philip Glass with Philip Glass Ensemble.

Michael Riesman, Music Director Philip Glass and his Ensemble take up a special residency at NCH in October 2019. Glass will perform his iconic works Music in 12 Parts and KOYAANISQATSI as well as curate with NCH one-off events as part of this unique weekend in Dublin.

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Sunday 27 October 2019 8pm

Philip Glass Residency Music in 12 Parts

Philip Glass’s unique music has made him a cultural icon, reaching across generations. His visionary works are known for their hypnotic and dramatic structures and shape-shifting motifs. They are landmarks of modern music. 2019 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Philip Glass Ensemble.

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David Coulter

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Tuesday 29 October 2019, 8pm Tickets: €40, €34.50, €29.50 15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

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Swordfishtrombones Revisited Featuring Nadine Shah, Sarah Blasko, Lisa O’Neill and Dorian Wood

Following on from his remarkable interpretation of Rain Dogs in 2011, British multi-instrumentalist David Coulter now turns to another major opus by Tom Waits, with an impressive team of musicians and special guests - LA singer and performance artist Dorian Wood, acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko, Mercury Prize nominee Nadine Shah and much-acclaimed folk singer Lisa O’Neill. Presented in association with the Barbican, London and Philharmonie de Paris.

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Released in 1983, Swordfishtrombones marked a new chapter in Tom Waits’ career as he drifted away from the piano jazz club atmospheres to find darker inspirations in the gutter and back alleys of the human soul. This radical change of direction towards experimental rock was one of the musical shocks of the 1980s.

David Coulter, whom worked with Waits on the staged production of The Black Rider, is known for his adventurous sonic explorations, both as a master of the musical saw (Gorillaz, Kronos Quartet, Marianne Faithfull or The Pogues) and as a curator of landmark musical perfomances such as In Dreams - David Lynch revisited, Jim Jarmusch revisited and Double Fantasy live.

Some of the UK’s finest musicians will be joining David Coulter on stage: Terry Edwards (horns), Dave Okumu (guitar), Steve Nieve (piano), Tom Herbert (bass), Seb Rochford (drums) and Thomas Bloch (Ondes Martenot).

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Saturday 28 March 2020, 8pm

Laurie Anderson Radio Play

Tickets: €37.50, €32.50, €27.50

Radio Play is a mix of songs, stories, sound effects and electronics that combines the power of poetic language, music and visualization. Like radio, this piece is about using the imagination and interpreting the meaning of ambiguous sounds. Anderson will be joined by an ensemble of musicians headed by bassist and music director Greg Cohen.

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Laurie Anderson Here Comes the Ocean

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Here Comes the Ocean is an evening of improvisation against the backdrop of the drones, a guitar feedback work by Lou Reed performed by his collaborator Stewart Hurwood. Both loud and intimate, the music includes songs by Reed and Anderson as well as improvisation by an ensemble led by bassist and music director Greg Cohen.

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Sunday 29 March 2020, 8pm

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Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers.

Best known for her multimedia presentations, innovative use of technology and first-person style, she is a writer, director, visual artist and vocalist who has created ground-breaking works that span the worlds of art, theatre, and experimental music.

In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA which culminated in her 2004 solo performance The End of the Moon, the second in a series of three ‘story’ performances along with Happiness (2001) and Dirtday (2012) all of which toured extensively internationally. Anderson has published eight books. Her most recent release All the Things I Lost in The Flood (Rizzoli), is a series of essays about pictures, language and codes.

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Her recording career, launched

by O Superman in 1981, includes many records released by Warner Records among them Big Science (1982), the soundtrack to her feature film Home of the Brave (1986) Strange Angels (1989) Life on a String (2001) Homeland (2008) and Landfall (2018) released on Nonesuch which recently won a Grammy Award in 2019 for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.

Anderson’s films include numerous music videos and installation works as well as Carmen (1992), the high definition Hidden Inside Mountains (2005) and Arte-commissioned Heart of a Dog (2015) which was chosen as an official selection of the 2015 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. In 2017 Anderson joined four other artists in Mass MoCA’s Building 6 inaugurating a fifteen year rotating exhibition of work. Anderson will show pieces from her archive as well as new work. Included in the first exhibition cycle are her virtual reality collaborations with Hsin-Chien Huang Chalkroom and Aloft. Chalkroom has been featured in film festivals all over the world including the Venice Film Festival where it won the award for “Best VR Experience” under its Italian title, La Camera Insabbiata. Along with their most recent VR piece, To the Moon all three pieces will be presented at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

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Sunday 31 May 2020, 8pm Tickets: €65, €60, €55 15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

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Damon Albarn The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows

Damon Albarn spends as much time as possible in Iceland, his spiritual home from home where he gains respite and inspiration from the landscape and its surroundings. With this fascination in mind he has created a new audio visual work. What can be more fascinating than the signs of the passage of time and the fragility of nature.

Damon Albarn is a singer, songwriter, composer and producer, and founder member of Blur, Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad and The Queen.

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PHILIP GLASS Reflections on a Cultural Icon

by Seamas O’Reilly

Philip Glass Ensemble

“I explained that I was an artist, but I was sometimes a plumber as well…”

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Some time in the early 1970s, Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes had a dishwasher installed in his SoHo townhouse. He received something of a shock upon noticing the man fixing his dishwasher was Philip Glass. “But you’re an artist” he exclaimed, demonstrating a faith in art’s profitability which, half a century later, seems almost quaint. “I explained” Glass recalls, “that I was an artist, but I was sometimes a plumber as well, and he should go away and let me finish”.

“…his many yeared stint driving a New York City cab, a job which persisted years into what might be called his ascendancy…”

Since then his output has been prodigious and unrestrained by form, style or breadth. Glass has more than 40 film scores, 12 symphonies, 30 solo pieces, 30 chamber works and numerous other dance, theatrical and commercial works in his repertoire.

His film work alone includes a bewilderingly diverse range of titles, from landmark works like Scorsese’s elegiac study of the 14th Dalai Lama, Kundun, and Godfrey Reggio’s radically inventive Qatsi trilogy, to having composed the original music for cult horror favourite, Candyman or interstitial music for the first series of Sesame St. He has written three symphonies based on David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy, with the third, Lodger, having premiered this year in Los Angeles (Jan 10th) and London (May 9th). It’s a testament to this uncanny range that so many of his works may have slipped popular attention. Arguably the most successful composer alive, it is perhaps only the canniest Glass fanatic who could remind you of Icct Hedral his collaboration with Cornish electronica wunderkind Aphex Twin, or his score for 2015’s Fantastic Four reboot. Glass’ style is at once, recognisable, and yet endlessly mutable.

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This is a story often told, but no less striking for the retelling. Modern artists may be much inured to the quotidian tasks of the working world, but it does seem striking that Glass would have had to busy himself with a daily grind around the time he was making a name for himself as one of the most inventive and sought-after composers in America. There was his plumbing, and his manyyeared stint driving a New York City cab, a job which persisted years into what might be called his ascendancy, crowned with the release of his breakout opera, 1976’s Einstein On The Beach.

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“In order to arrive at a personal style” he once said, “you have to have a technique to begin with… If you don’t have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don’t have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.”

Still, some may look at the more serendipitous moments of the composer’s career and detect there some hidden, guiding hand.

A Zelig-like character who seems to show up in any corner of 1970s New York where art was happening; present in the studio of Richard Serra, where Glass’ work melting lead is said to have inspired the artist to begin the sculpting that would make his name; a partner in the removal company he operated with fellow composer Steve Reich. This many years before the aforementioned installation of white goods in SoHo, by which time he was in the middle of composing another formative work; Music In 12 Parts.

Written between 1971 and 1974, Music In 12 Parts is now considered a landmark in 20th century composition and a touchstone for minimalism, the genre for which Glass is often cited as a founding father. If so, he is a politely deadbeat dad toward that offspring, and disowns the term minimalism entirely in favour of the slightly more pedestrian “music with repetitive structures”. “…he is a politely deadbeat dad toward that offspring, and disowns the term minimalism entirely in favour of the slightly more pedestrian “music with repetitive structures” The title originally referred to the first piece in the series, since it was Glass’s initial intention that it would itself contain 12 lines of counterpoint harmony. The rest of the suite was, as the story goes, only added once a friend asked when the other eleven instalments would be forthcoming. This kind of serendipitous invention is perhaps a further indicator of the paradox at the centre of Glass’ oeuvre; meticulous yet spontaneous; devilishly intricate even when seemingly weightless in its simplicity.

Music In 12 Parts begins in media res, giving the sense of a doorway into an event already in progress. Its opening bars seem merely a development upon a series of notes long since put in place, only now urging you to come in and become acquainted.

The suite revolves around subtle variations, the shifts of which may seem nearly imperceptible through its course, as the ear tracks one phrase or refrain which unspools in multiple overlapping, seemingly infinite, loops.

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It is, perhaps, unsurprising that its first performances were taken in by audiences who were invited to exit and re-join the performance at will, or take in the entire thing whilst lying on their backs. Over the course of its 12 parts, themes and phrases slide in and out of view, obscuring the appearance and disappearance of others, masking each phase in a plunge of hypnotic repetition. Given the range of techniques, pitches, speeds and themes, Glass may be forgiven for refusing the label of minimalism entirely, not least as the full suite of parts comes in at a decidedly maximal four and a half hours, not counting intervals.

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Infinitesimal changes gather so slowly, and in such volume, that they achieve the paradoxical effect of seeming to have changed little at all, as if each section were just one of innumerable waves, breaking and crumbling at a scale imperceptible to those viewing a distant, and outwardly placid, seas. It is immediate in the sense that none of these shifts and developments are, in and of themselves, more important than the whole, the wider work like nothing so much as a perpetually opening door into an eternally stretched present moment.

Having been performed sporadically since its debut, might he play the piece differently now, over half a century after it was first composed? “I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece” he once said in an interview with NPR. “If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime — if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger”.

“I think it’s only after about 20 performances that we begin to understand what the dynamic structure of the piece is.”

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TRADITION NOW In partnership with the Arts Council

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Saturday 5 October 2019, 8pm Tickets: €24.50, €20, €18 Presented in partnership with The Arts Council.

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Lisa O’Neill Ye Vagabonds Brìghde Chaimbeul An evening curated by Geoff Travis Tradition Now takes a unique look at progressive traditional music in a fast-moving Ireland, providing a platform for the most forward-thinking artists playing today.

As folk music flourishes, Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and Brìghde Chaimbeul are brought together for one special show curated by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade and River Lea Records.

“In 2019, British and Irish folk music is more exciting and urgent than it has been for years. Much of it sounds powerfully raw and immediate, with many groups recognising the politics of our time in their songs, and incorporating contemporary stories within more ancient musical motifs. We could call this explosion “woke” folk – though there’s much more to this disparate collection of acts than a slogan.” The Guardian Cavan born Lisa O’Neill now lives in Dublin. Heard A Long Gone Song, her first album for Rough Trade imprint River Lea is a collection of traditional material interspersed with her own. The sense of ownership Lisa imbues in these old songs, coupled with the immutability of her chosen subjects makes it hard to tell which is which. These are folk songs in the original sense of the word.

“We could call this explosion “woke” folk – though there’s much more to this disparate collection of acts than a slogan.”

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Ye Vagabonds are Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn who grew up in the rural town of Carlow on the southeast of Ireland. The Hare’s Lament is an album of traditional songs learned from some of the greats of Irish music; from precious archive recordings of a grandfather they never met; from the unique collection of singer Róise na nAmhrán from Arranmore Island in Donegal (their mother’s

birthplace) and from contemporaries in the singing communities around Dublin, of which Ye Vagabonds are a valued part.

From Skye Brìghde Chaimbeul plays Scottish smallpipes.

Her acclaimed album, The Reeling was recorded live without overdubs in the historic East Church in Cromarty, on the Black Isle. Working closely with Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a completely new way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the tunes River Lea is a collaboration between Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee of independent music champions Rough Trade Records and music journalist Tim Chipping. This new label is dedicated to releasing beautiful and strange traditional folk music from Britain, Ireland and beyond.

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TRADITION NOW

Ye Vagabonds

Lisa O’Neill

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Sunday 6 October 2019, 8pm

Sam Amidon Extended Ensemble & Sounds Like Freedom – Niall Vallely, Karan Casey & Harriet Tubman

Tickets: €27.50, €24.50, €20 Presented in partnership with The Arts Council.

15% discount for 11+ concerts across the programme.

Tradition Now Multibuy – 5% discount.

Tradition Now takes a unique look at progressive traditional music in a fast-moving Ireland, providing a platform for the most forward-thinking artists playing today.

A special double-bill that sees protest song, traditional music and jazz collide. Genre-bending multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Sam Amidon presents a highly unpredictable program of his own music with a cast of improvising musicians. Niall Vallely unveils his new project with NYC power jazz combo, Harriet Tubman.

“Both Irish and African American musics have a long history of speaking out against oppression and injustice. The music in this collaboration will draw on both those traditions…”

Niall Vallely Sam Amidon’s unique reworkings of traditional American folk music have always been collaborative in nature, bringing his innate connection to the high lonesome Appalachian sound in contact with improvising musicians and composers. In this concert Amidon draws the exploratory side of his music out even further, presenting his songs and fiddle tunes in the context of a bespoke ensemble of some of the UK and Ireland’s top jazz and improvising musicians. Amidon and company will dig deep into the hidden connections between disparate corners of the American musical diaspora and see what secrets are hidden therein.

“The seeds for “Sounds Like Freedom” were sown when I met up with guitarist Brandon Ross while we were on tour with Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson’s band in 2017.

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combine well with a long-cherished project that I had been contemplating - this was to create a musical celebration of the connections between the civil rights movements in Ireland and the US. Both Irish and African American musics have a long history of speaking out against oppression and injustice. The music in this collaboration will draw on both those traditions and I hope it will help to re-awaken some of the subversive spirit inherent in Irish traditional music.” Niall Vallely

Sam Amidon

TRADITION NOW

Karan Casey

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Aidan O’Rourke

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TRADITION IS CHANGE

by Toner Quinn

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The late Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin was once asked to speak at a public debate on Irish traditional music. The poster advertising the discussion had the tag-line ‘Tradition versus change’, but when the pianist, composer and director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance started to speak, the first thing he did was to set about countering the idea: ‘Tradition is change’, he said, and he proceeded to make this the basis of his talk.

He was intent on celebrating this change process, but his ideas were often flattened into commercial clichés, or portrayed as a betrayal of the past. Too often misinterpreted, Ó Súilleabháin was pointing to a powerful notion beyond all of this. There are elements of the past that we have to try and steward into the future, but they still change even when we do.

“All we can be is humble when we consider its complexity, and, in fact, humility generally tends to inform the best traditional music work.”

Tradition is change because we cannot possibly hold on to all the music that was played by musicians in the past – even our recorded legacy is infinitesimal if you consider the amount of music played every day, every hour. At the best of times, we have only shards and so we must constantly reimagine.

Tradition is change because we can only conceivably absorb a fraction of the sounds that are available to us into our listening and playing.

T R A D I T I O N A N D I N N OVAT I O N : B R E A K I N G B O U N DA R I E S

Ó Súilleabháin was trying to communicate a simple idea: that whether a genre of music changes or not is not necessarily a decision that we make. Rather, the reason that we have a ‘tradition’ at all is because the music has evolved.

Tradition is change because all the musical opportunities and technological advances that the present and future tend to bring us will move us in new directions.

Somewhere in the middle of this rich and extraordinary process is the balancing act that we call ‘traditional music’ today. All we can be is humble when we consider its complexity, and, in fact, humility generally tends to inform the best traditional music work.

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Brìghde Chaimbeul

Ye Vagabonds

One of the artists performing in this year’s Tradition Now festival is Brìghde Chaimbeul, who recently released an album titled The Reeling. On the surface, it is a pared down album of traditional tunes played on the Scottish small pipes. But there’s something else as you move through it; it has an edgy aesthetic that surprises us. What is it? Is it the sound of a new generation reimagining an old instrument? The influence of the world of experimental music and even electronica? Has it to do with her collaborator on the album, fiddle player Aidan O’Rourke, whose band Lau has pushed tune-playing right to the edge of experimentation? Is it the subtle Gaelic mouth music that fades in and out?

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It is perhaps all of these things. From the tune ‘O Chadian an Lo’ to ‘Tornala Maika’, Chaimbeul plays nothing but the melody on The Reeling, but somehow, each generation of traditional musicians has to take everything they have heard and rework it into that single line of notes, reflecting their world while holding on to what it is they value about the musical past. We call it ‘traditional music’, but we could equally call it ‘change music’.

In that same talk that Ó Súilleabháin gave over twenty years ago, he also talked about ‘something new emerging’ out of this change process, but he chose his words carefully, suggesting that this was a constant, circular process; we need not become settled on any one point. It is interesting, in that regard, to consider the work of Niall Vallely, who also features in Tradition Now. As a student of Ó Súilleabháin, he was co-founder of the band Nomos, an innovator in concertina playing; then he formed the trio Buille, and minimalist Reichian composition entered his work. Most recently, he has written the first concerto for the Irish concertina, and now we have ‘Sounds Like Freedom’, a musical celebration of the connections between the civil rights movements in Ireland and the US.

T R A D I T I O N A N D I N N OVAT I O N : B R E A K I N G B O U N DA R I E S

Also performing at this year’s festival is the duo Ye Vagabonds.

Their new album, The Hare’s Lament, ends with a version of the traditional song ‘Willie O Winsbury’, a Scottish ballad that dates from the 1700s. It has been recorded many times, but the two brothers, in a sense, set its clock to nought, because this heart-felt version will find new audiences for the song, and set people on their own journey into this music. The understated delivery of Diarmuid Ó Gloin, the intuitive harmonies by his brother Brían as he joins in – this is what traditional music is, – a process of discovery of the musical worlds around us, an enrichment of our lives, but it is still nothing without artistry.

How can we make sense of such diversity in traditional music, when even the change artists keep changing? Tradition Now is appropriately titled, because we can only take the briefest, most humble snapshot of this music at any one time. Tradition is change.

Toner Quinn is Editor of The Journal of Music and a lecturer in publishing at NUI Galway.

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WORDS+IDEAS

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Words+Ideas is a new series by the NCH featuring some of today’s most renowned writers, commentators and thinkers all offering views and insights on today’s topical issues and ideas to inspire reflection, debate and critical thinking.

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Sir Simon Schama

Margaret Atwood

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Thursday 6 June 2019, 8pm

Sir Simon Schama The Wordy Tour

Tickets: €34.50, €29.50

Can words still pack a punch in the reign of Twitter? Have the carriers of thought, the deliverers of argument, the elements of poetry, the sounds that make us human lost their force in the age of short attention span?

Simon Schama has lived in the house of words for half a century - as a historian, art critic, broadcaster and journalist. He has spun the web of words in big books and tight essays; he has done stand-up in Chicago and live cook shows on TV. Now he has a new collection of writing on everything from Falstaff to Leonard Cohen, from pomegranates to populism.

Now hear his words live on stage this June.

Tickets €34.50, €29.50 SOLD OUT

Margaret Atwood

WORDS + IDEAS

Saturday 2 November 2019, 8pm

On September 10th, the wait is over. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s hugely anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, is revealed.

NCH presents an evening with the Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor to celebrate this momentous publication. The appearance of The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985 and the current, Emmy-award winning television series have created a cultural phenomenon, as handmaids have become a symbol of women’s rights, standing against misogyny and oppression. Interviewed live on stage the conversation will span the length of Atwood’s remarkable career, her diverse range of works and why she has returned to her seminal story, 34 years later.

‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book.

Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.’ (Margaret Atwood)

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FAMILY/ LEARNING & PARTICIPATION

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Saturday 21 December 2019 3.30pm | 6pm Sunday 22 December 2019 11.30am | 2pm 4.30pm | 7pm Monday 23 December 2019 11.30am | 2pm 4.30pm | 7pm

Tickets: €25 Adult Child €19.50 Family Tickets: €87 (4 people, max. 2 children) Earlybird offer €82 available until August 27th 2019

This Way to Christmas featuring The Snowman

The magical Christmas show, produced and directed by Theatre Lovett and described by The Irish Times as ‘one of the most imaginative and indispensable companies at work today’, features The Snowman with Howard Blake’s score performed live by the NCH Christmas Orchestra.

In true Christmas spirit the show, featuring Louis Lovett and guest performers, also includes a parade of Christmas treasures including parading Nutcrackers, a Little Match Girl, classic Christmas songs and festive dance. No Christmas is complete without a visit from Santa Claus who will make an appearance adding to the magic and merriment at the NCH this December.

F A M I LY

“Easily the best family entertainment on stage right now” The Irish Times

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SinfoNua

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

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Saturday 31 August 2019, 3.30pm Cork School of Music Tickets: €15

Sunday 1 September 2019, 8pm NCH Dublin Tickets: €20, €15, €10

SinfoNua Gerald Peregrine cello SinfoNua Orchestra David Brophy conductor C. Moriarty Elgar Tchaikovsky

New Commission for SinfoNua Cello Concerto Symphony No. 4

SinfoNua is an NCH initiative: an orchestra for emerging musicians providing an experience mirroring that of a professional orchestra.

Saturday 2 November 2019

Family Day with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Tickets on sale first week in July, see www.nch.ie for further details

Come along to a unique experience for all the family with Ireland’s premier orchestra. Experience the instruments “up close and personal” in a series of interactive workshops with RTÉ NSO musicians; enjoy micro-performances in the foyer spaces; embark on a musical treasure-hunt, and then gather in the main auditorium for a specially-curated family concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and animateur Jonathan James.

Presented by the NCH and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

L E A R N I N G & PA R T I C I PAT I O N

Conducted by David Brophy, one of Ireland’s leading conductors, and featuring Irish cellist Gerald Peregrine playing Elgar’s famous Cello Concerto, SinfoNua will perform in both the NCH and Cork School of Music.

Designed for families with children aged 4-12; all are welcome.

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Female Conductor Programme

Finghin Collins

Female Conductor Programme

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The Female Conductor Programme The Female Conductor Programme returns for 2019/2020 with the continued generous support of Grant Thornton.

This ground-breaking programme is designed to encourage high-calibre female musicians to take up the baton and take the first steps on to the podium to become orchestral conductors.

Working with the best of international and Irish conductors, with professional mentoring by Grant Thornton, the participants embark on an 18-month adventure, culminating with the opportunity to conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

See nch.ie for further details.

NCH International Master Course

L E A R N I N G & PA R T I C I PAT I O N

This programme aims to address the enduring glass ceiling of the classical music world, that of the orchestral conductor: at the end of 2014, music listings website Bachtrack reported that of the top 150 conductors of that year, only five were women. Across US orchestras in 2015, the ratio of male to female conductors was 80:20; in the twenty-two highest budget orchestras, there were twenty-one males and one female conductor.

The inaugural NCH International Master Course for advanced piano and string musicians, led by Artistic Directors Finghin Collins (piano) and Gwendolyn Masin (violin), will run from Tuesday 6 to Sunday 11 of August 2019.

Irish and international participants will have the opportunity to enjoy solo and chamber music coaching at the highest level from a faculty of acclaimed professional musicians; Finghin Collins (piano), Gwendolyn Masin (violin) together with Kirill Troussov (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola) and Louise Hopkins (cello).

The wealth of their combined experience is outstanding, providing a unique and rare opportunity for young musicians.

Concert performances will include faculty, student, and mixed performances – see nch.ie for further details.

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Quavers to Quadratics Music and Science Workshops January 2019 Crossing the boundaries between music and science, Quavers to Quadratics returns to the NCH in January 2019.

This innovative programme has been developed in partnership between the NCH, University College Dublin, and Trinity College Dublin.

Quavers to Quadratics sees primary school children play with ideas common to music and science. They are led in their play by undergraduate students from music and science, working in partnership with the children’s teachers.

Using scientific equipment, musical instruments and recyclable materials, the children explore how sound is made and how it behaves, how musical instruments work, and how to make their own instruments using these concepts.

See nch.ie for further details.

Tea Dance Tunes Our hugely popular dementia-friendly concert series Tea Dance Tunes continues throughout 2019/2020 with 8 events in the intimate surroundings of the John Field Room.

These concerts, for people living with dementia, and their families and carers, are informal and accessible, with active participation encouraged!

Unlock musical memories with popular songs and music from favourite shows, the Irish songbook and classical favourites. Afternoon tea is provided, and a lovely time is promised! See www.nch. ie for upcoming dates.

NCH International Education Series Linked to the NCH International Concert Series, the International Education Series presents masterclasses, workshops and other educational events with some of the world’s greatest musicians.

These events are designed to offer our up and coming musicians the opportunity to interact with those at the top of their field, but are also open to the general public as observers. Watching an expert working with an emerging musician offers a unique insight into the artistic process, and how the best in the world consider their craft.

See nch.ie for upcoming events.

Ray Chen Masterclass

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Events for Young people and Families The NCH offers a wide variety of events throughout the year for families with children as young as a few weeks old, and right through primary and secondary school. All of the following are regular events in our calendar, so if you miss one there’s bound to be another coming up soon! See nch.ie for details of upcoming events.

Bring Along a Baby Bring Along a Baby is an informal, relaxed, accessible chamber music recital, aimed primarily at parents, while babies or very young children sleep, feed and play.

Family Concerts These highly interactive family concerts are held in our smaller venues (John Field Room and The Studio) and are limited in capacity in order to maximise participation. Whether through classical music, jazz, Irish traditional, or world music, we promise a lively and interactive event that the whole family can enjoy.

Songschool Monday 8 - Friday 12 July 2019, 10am - 4pm The Studio Songschool is for secondary school students who are interested in writing and recording songs, performing them at a concert, making a video, learning about music technology, and meeting people who love music as much as they do... not to mention forming bands and having fun! All Songschool students receive a copy of their songs and their videos, and a Songschool certificate of participation. Tickets €150 Junior Songschool Monday 15 - Friday 19 July 2019, 10am - 2pm The Studio Junior Songschool is a chance for 8-12 year olds to spend some time at the NCH, learning about writing, performing and recording songs. Make music and new friends! All Songschool students receive a copy of their songs and their videos, and a Songschool certificate of participation. Tickets €112.50

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Mini Music A weekly action-packed music workshop experience for babies and young children aged 3 months to 8 years old. September term general sales open 10am, 22 June 2019.

Summer Camps

SongSchool

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Health and Wellbeing Programmes The NCH’s Learning & Participation work extends far beyond the walls of the NCH. Through our programme of music for Health & Wellbeing we aim to enrich the lives of those living with long-term health difficulties, and to contribute to physical and emotional wellbeing through participation in music making. Our work in this area is built on our belief in the power of music to effect positive, holistic outcomes across a broad range of areas connected to health and wellbeing.

Music for Mental Health Music in Mind is a programme of participative music workshops for people in the community living with mental health difficulties. Either singing in a choir, or playing percussion as part of an ensemble; the focus is on participation and enjoyment.

Music for Dementia Health and Harmony brings music performance to people living with dementia, and their families and carers, in a programme of accessible and informal performances in Alzheimer’s day and respite care centres.

Music for Recovery from Physical and Cognitive Disabilities Our work in the National Rehabilitation Hospital brings music into the wards, common rooms, and chapel of the hospital, aiming to contribute to improvements in quality of life for people recovering from, or living with, life-altering cognitive or physical injuries.

L E A R N I N G & PA R T I C I PAT I O N

Bringing music into Paediatric Healthcare With our partners Kids’ Classics, we deliver music programmes in eight paediatric hospitals around Ireland, consisting of music on the wards, workshops in the classroom, and concerts for special occasions.

“The Health & Harmony programme lifts our clients’ spirits and brings them on a journey of joy, which is fantastic for those who have found themselves on such a difficult journey without knowing why.”

Dementia Care Centre Manager

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BOOKING INFORMATION Book Online at www.nch.ie By telephone Tel: 00 353 (1) 417 0000 Dedicated Friends Booking Line Tel: 00 353 (1) 408 6777 In Person at the National Concert Hall Opening Hours: • Open 10am – 6pm Monday to Saturday • Open two hours prior to Main Stage performances on Sundays and Bank Holidays • Open one hour prior to Kevin Barry Recital Room, John Field room and Studio performances on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

Post Return your booking form with payment to the National Concert Hall Box Office, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2. D02 N527 (cheques and money orders should be made payable to the National Concert Hall).

Ticket Exchange Ticket exchange is an exclusive benefit for Multibuy Package Buyers in the 2019/2020 season. Bookers can exchange tickets in their package for another event listed within this programme only, subject to availability.

Where tickets are exchanged for a higher priced ticket, the difference in price will be charged to you. Refunds are not available on this offer. To offer tickets for exchange, the NCH requires the original concert ticket(s) at least one week before the concert date.

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Resale In the case of a sold-out performance, if you are no longer able to attend, you may return the tickets to the NCH for resale. Ticket exchanges and resales are subject to availability and the usual conditions of sale apply. For more Information see www.nch.ie Visitor Information For information on services and facilities at the NCH including the Terrace Restaurant and transport options please see www.nch.ie For restaurant reservations call 00 353 (1) 417 0090 or e-mail nch@withtaste.ie Conditions of Sale Once purchased, tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged. Programme and artists are subject to change.

The resale of tickets through a third party vendor/and or agent is strictly prohibited.

Data Protection The information you provide us with on booking forms is used to process your order and to provide you with the service you have requested. If you ticked Yes to receive further communications from us on your booking form this will be detailed on your customer record and adhered to. You can change your preference for communication with the NCH at any point which will be recorded immediately. You will be given the opportunity to opt-out of any direct marketing campaigns, which we may engage in from time to time.

Young NCH Aged 18-29? Avail of discounted tickets across the NCH presented programme of concerts to include the NCH International Concert Series, Perspectives Series, Words+Ideas Series, Tradition Now Series, Chamber Music Series and more. For more information on Young NCH visit www.nch.ie

NCH Friends National Concert Hall Friend Members enjoy many benefits including: • Ticket discounts • Priority booking on selected concerts • Dedicated booking line • Invitations to special events • Access to bespoke cultural tours at home and abroad • Advance notice for concert announcements • Discounts in the NCH Music Box shop and Terrace Café Restaurant For more information on becoming a Friend of the NCH e-mail friends@nch.ie or see www.nch.ie.

B O O K I N G I N F O R M AT I O N

Scheduled Payment Plan Option Spread your payments for any International Concert Season package across three months.

Conditions of scheduled payments: 1. Payments will be scheduled over three month instalments.

2. Payments will be collected from Debit or Credit Card only.

3. NCH will automatically debit the same card used to pay the initial payment.

4. No tickets will be issued until receipt of final payment.

5. The date of the final scheduled payment must not be later than Wednesday 7 August 2019.

Groups Offer Book 8 or more tickets for the same concert in the programme and receive a 10% discount.

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“NEW TO CLASSICAL MUSIC” MULTIBUY - 10% DISCOUNT New to classical music and not sure what to attend? We’ve picked the following concerts which offer popular classical music by well-known composers which you might recognize with a mix of orchestras, chamber ensembles, choral groups and piano duos to experience. Book a ticket for all four concerts and receive a 10% discount.

RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle conductor Bahar and Ufuk Dördüncü pianos

Sat. 23 Nov. 2019, 8pm

English Chamber Orchestra | José Serebrier conductor Natalie Clein cello

Wed. 22 Jan. 2020, 8pm

Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas piano/conductor Lynn Harrell cello | Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin

Wed. 13 May 2020, 8pm

The Hallé | Sir Mark Elder conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano

Tues. 2 June 2020, 8pm

“BEETHOVEN 250” MULTIBUY - 10% DISCOUNT To celebrate Beethoven’s 250th Birthday in 2020, we have picked the following concerts featuring Beethoven works. Purchase a ticket to all four concerts and receive a 10% discount plus priority booking on the Hugh Tinney Beethoven: Before and After Series as part of the NCH Chamber Music Series (to be announced).

Christian Tetzlaff violin | Lars Vogt piano

Sun. 10 Nov. 2019, 8pm

Emanuel Ax piano

Mon. 20 Apr. 2020, 8pm

Vienna Chamber Orchestra | Paul Lewis piano

Thurs. 30 Apr. 2020, 8pm

Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas piano/conductor Lynn Harrell cello | Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin

Wed. 13 May 2020, 8pm

“BRILLIANT BAROQUE” MULTIBUY - 10% DISCOUNT For fans of baroque music, we have picked the following concerts featuring baroque pieces. Purchase a ticket to all three concerts and receive a 10% discount off the total plus priority booking on the Irish Baroque Orchestra Series and the Malcolm Proud Harpsichord Series as part of the NCH Chamber Music Series (to be announced).

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Bach Collegium Japan | Masaaki Suzuki conductor

Mon. 9 Mar. 2020, 8pm

Tenebrae | Aurora Orchestra

Sat. 4 Apr. 2020, 8pm

Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano | Il pomo d’oro Maxim Emelyanychev conductor/harpsichord

Sat. 23 May 2020, 8pm

PERSPECTIVES 2019 - 5% DISCOUNT Book tickets to 5 concerts in Perspectives Series and save 5%. (excludes Philip Glass Residency) TRADITION NOW 2019 - 5% DISCOUNT Book tickets to 2 main stage concerts listed for Tradition Now 2019 and save 5%.

THIS WAY TO CHRISTMAS FAMILY SHOW 2019 Family Tickets: €87 (4 people, max. 2 children) Earlybird offer €82 available until August 27th 2019.

REWARDS All ticket holders for the opening concert of the International Concert Series 2019/2020 by Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra on 4 September 2019 are welcome to a complimentary glass of prosecco on the night to celebrate the start of the season!

STUDENT STANDBY €5 Student Standby Ticket Offer on all concerts in the NCH programme 2019/2020 (open to 2nd and 3rd level students). Limited tickets are offered on a first come, first served basis, and are available for purchase in person at the Box Office from one hour prior to the concert.

S AV I N G S A N D D I S C O U N T S

All ticket holders for the Joseph Calleja and Claudia Boyle concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra on 9 December 2019 are invited to an interval reception with a complimentary glass of mulled wine! (Non-alcoholic beverages will also be on offer).

NCH MUSIC FANS - AGED 18-29?

Sign up online, free, to receive ticket offers and priority booking on a wide selection of NCH concerts throughout the year. Get regular updates and insights on masterclasses, pre-concert talks, workshops, podcasts, playlists and much more.

Discounted tickets apply across the NCH presented programme of concerts to include the NCH International Concert Series, Perspectives, Words+Ideas, Tradition Now, Chamber Music Series and more.

For more information on Young NCH visit www.nch.ie

GROUPS OFFER Book 8 or more tickets for the same concert in the programme and receive a 10% discount.

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NCH PROGRAMME 2019/2020 Concert

Series

Date

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Zone D

Words+Ideas

Thurs. 6 Jun. 2019

€34.50

€29.50

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ICS

Wed. 4 Sept. 2019

€85

€72.50

€55

€39.50

Pantha Du Prince Conference of Trees

Perspectives

Sun. 29 Sept 2019

€37.50

€32.50

€27.50

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Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Brìghde Chaimbeul An Evening Curated by Geoff Travis

Tradition Now

Sat. 5 Oct. 2019

€24.50

€20

€18

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Sam Amidon Extended Ensemble and Sounds Like Sun. 6 Tradition Now Freedom – Niall Vallely, Karan Oct. 2019 Casey and Harriet Tubman.

€27.50

€24.50

€20

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London Mozart Players Howard Shelley, piano/conductor

Sir Simon Schama – The Wordy Tour Dresden Staatskapelle Myung-Whun Chung, conductor Yuja Wang, piano

ICS

Wed. 16 Oct. 2019

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Perspectives

Tue. 29 Oct. 2019

€40

€34.50

€29.50

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Christian Tetzlaff, violin Lars Vogt, piano.

ICS

Sun. 10 Nov. 2019

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

RIAS Kammerchor Justin Doyle, conductor Bahar and Ufuk Dördünchü, pianos

ICS

Sat. 23 Nov. 2019

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Joseph Calleja, tenor Claudia Boyle, soprano RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Prionnsías Ó Duinn, conductor

ICS

Mon. 9 Dec. 2019

€75

€67.50

€54.50

€29.50

This Way to Christmas featuring The Snowman

Family

Sat. 21 Sun. 22 Mon. 23 Dec. 2019

€25 Adult €19.50 Child

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Swordfishtrombones Revisited

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ICS

Wed. 22 Jan. 2020

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Simon Trpčeski, piano

ICS

Thurs. 20 Feb. 2020

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki, conductor and guests

ICS

Mon. 9 Mar. 2020

€55

€47.50

€37.50

€27.50

Laurie Anderson: Radio Play

Perspectives

Sat. 28 Mar. 2020

€37.50

€32.50

€27.50

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Laurie Anderson: Here Comes the Ocean

Perspectives

Sun. 29 Mar. 2020

€37.50

€32.50

€27.50

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Tenebrae and Aurora Orchestra Nigel Short, conductor

ICS

Sat. 4 Apr. 2020

€45

€37.50

€29.50

€24.50

Emanuel Ax, piano

ICS

Mon. 20 Apr. 2020

€49.50

€40

€32.50

€25

Vienna Chamber Orchestra Paul Lewis, piano

ICS

Thurs. 30 Apr. 2020

€45

€37.50

€29.50

€24.50

Camerata Ireland Barry Douglas, piano/conductor Lynn Harrell, cello Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin

ICS

Wed. 13 May 2020

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano il pomo d’oro Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor/harpsichord

ICS

Sat. 23 May 2020

€85

€72.50

€55

€39.50

Damon Albarn: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.

Perspectives

Sun. 31 May 2020

€65

€60

€55

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The Hallé Sir Mark Elder, conductor Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

ICS

Tue. 2 Jun. 2020

€80

€67.50

€52.50

€37.50

N C H P R O G R A M M E 2 0 1 9/ 2 0 2 0

English Chamber Orchestra.

José Serebrier, conductor Natalie Clein, cello

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International Concert Series Seating Plan

Note:

Stalls seating starts to elevate from row L. Hand rail from Y until row F.

Zone A Zone B Zone C

Steps

Zone D

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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2019/2020 – FULL SEASON

20% saving for Patrons, Season Friends, Supporting Friends and Friends of the NCH 15% saving for Concert Bookers for the full International Concert Series 2019/2020 Concert

Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Zone D

Dresden Staatskapelle Myung-Whun Chung, conductor Yuja Wang, piano

Wed. 4 Sept. 2019

€85

€72.50

€55

€39.50

London Mozart Players Howard Shelley, piano/conductor

Wed. 16 Oct. 2019

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Christian Tetzlaff, violin | Lars Vogt, piano.

Sun. 10 Nov. 2019

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle, conductor Bahar and Ufuk Dördünchü, pianos

Sat. 23 Nov. 2019

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Joseph Calleja, tenor Claudia Boyle, soprano RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Prionnsías Ó Duinn, conductor

Mon. 9 Dec. 2019

€75

€67.50

€54.50

€29.50

English Chamber Orchestra José Serebrier, conductor Natalie Clein, cello

Wed. 22 Jan. 2020

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Simon Trpčeski, piano

Thurs. 20 Feb. 2020

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki, conductor & guests

Mon. 9 Mar. 2020

€55

€47.50

€37.50

€27.50

Tenebrae and Aurora Orchestra Nigel Short, conductor

Sat. 4 Apr. 2020

€45

€37.50

€29.50

€24.50

Emanuel Ax, piano

Mon. 20 Apr. 2020

€49.50

€40

€32.50

€25

Vienna Chamber Orchestra Paul Lewis, piano

Thurs. 30 Apr. 2020

€45

€37.50

€29.50

€24.50

Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas piano/ conductor | Lynn Harrell cello Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin

Wed. 13 May 2020

€37.50

€29.50

€25

€19.50

Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano il pomo d’oro Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor/harpsichord

Sat. 23 May 2020

€85

€72.50

€55

€39.50

The Hallé | Sir Mark Elder, conductor Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Tues. 2 Jun. 2020

€80

€67.50

€52.50

€37.50

Full Price Before Discounts Applied

€744.50

€619.50

€496

€364.50

Concert Bookers (with 15% Saving)

€632.82 €526.57 €421.60 €309.82

Patrons, Supporting Friends, Season Friends and Friends (with 20% Saving)

€595.60 €495.60 €396.80 €291.60

BOOKING FORMS

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Package Cost in Chosen Zone

Preferred Row/Area

No. of Packages Required

Sub-Total

A

€595.60

Row A & Main Balcony

2

€1,191.20

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For package costs in your preferred zone please refer to previous page

Total

€

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Telephone: E-Mail: I would like to receive details of events at the National Concert Hall and information of how I can support the Hall by post. ❒ Yes ❒ No I would like to receive details of events at the National Concert Hall and information ofhow I can support the Hall by email. ❒ Yes ❒ No Tick here to choose scheduled payment plan  (for details of payment plan see page 84) Please Charge my Credit or Debit Card: Visa  Amex  Mastercard  Card Number: Expiry: Signature:

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BEETHOVEN 250 MULTIBUY – 10% Information on what concerts are in this multibuy - page 85 STEP 1: Indicate Chosen Zone (Refer to NCH Seating Map for Zone options) STEP 2: Indicate preferred Row/Area from Seating Map STEP 3: Indicate Ticket price and Number of tickets required Zone A

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€152.55

€122.85

€100.80

€79.65

Chosen Zone

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Price

No. of Tickets

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STEP 2: Indicate preferred Row/Area from Seating Map STEP 3: Indicate Ticket price and Number of tickets required Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Zone D

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€173.25

€140.40

€114.75

€86.40

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Price

No. of Tickets

Sub Total

BOOKING FORMS

STEP 1: Indicate Chosen Zone (Refer to NCH Seating Map for Zone options)

BRILLIANT BAROQUE MULTIBUY – 10% Information on what concerts are in this multibuy - page 85 STEP 1: Indicate Chosen Zone (Refer to NCH Seating Map for Zone options) STEP 2: Indicate preferred Row/Area from Seating Map STEP 3: Indicate Ticket price and Number of tickets required Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Zone D

Multibuy Price

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€109.80

€82.35

Chosen Zone

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No. of Tickets

Sub Total

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BEETHOVEN 250, NEW TO CLASSICAL MUSIC AND BRILLIANT BAROQUE MULTIBUY BOOKING FORM Payment Details Friends Number: Title:

First Name:

Surname:

Address:

Telephone: E-Mail: I would like to receive details of events at the National Concert Hall and information of how I can support the Hall by post. ❒ Yes ❒ No I would like to receive details of events at the National Concert Hall and information ofhow I can support the Hall by email. ❒ Yes ❒ No Tick here to choose scheduled payment plan  (for details of payment plan see page 84) Please Charge my Credit or Debit Card: Visa  Amex  Mastercard  Card Number: Expiry: Signature:

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PERSPECTIVES MULTIBUY – 5% Information on what concerts are in this multibuy - page 86 STEP 1: Indicate Chosen Zone STEP 2: Indicate preferred Row/Area from Seating Map STEP 3: Indicate Ticket price and Number of tickets required Zone A

Zone B

Zone C

Multibuy Price

€206.63

€182.40

€158.65

Chosen Zone

Preferred Row/Area

Price

No. of Tickets

Zone D

Sub Total

TRADITION NOW MULTIBUY – 5% Information on what concerts are in this multibuy - page 86 STEP 1: Indicate Chosen Zone (Refer to NCH Seating Map for Zone options) STEP 2: Indicate preferred Row/Area from Seating Map STEP 3: Indicate Ticket price and Number of tickets required Zone B

Zone C

Multibuy Price

€49.40

€42.28

€36.10

Chosen Zone

Preferred Row/Area

Price

No. of Tickets

Zone D

Sub Total

Payment Details Friends Number: Title:

First Name:

Surname:

BOOKING FORMS

Zone A

Address:

Telephone: E-Mail: I would like to receive details of events at the National Concert Hall and information of how I can support the Hall by post. ❒ Yes ❒ No I would like to receive details of events at the National Concert Hall and information ofhow I can support the Hall by email. ❒ Yes ❒ No Tick here to choose scheduled payment plan  (for details of payment plan see page 84) Please Charge my Credit or Debit Card: Visa  Amex  Mastercard  Card Number: Expiry: Signature: Or cheque/money order made payable to the National Concert Hall for the sum of: Ticket Delivery Post Tickets (Tick Box)*  *A €1 postage charge applies

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MIX AND MATCH MULTIBUY Want to choose your own concerts but still benefit from the discounts on offer?

STEP 1: Choose your favourite concerts from across the programme and avail of the following discounts: Choose any 4-6 concerts from the table below and receive a 5% discount Choose any 7-10 concerts from the table below and receive a 10% discount Choose any 11+ concerts from the table below and receive a 15% discount STEP 2: Indicate your choice of concert by putting a ‘tick’ in the ‘chosen concert’ column making sure you choose a minimum of four concerts.

STEP 3: Indicate the chosen zone and preferred row/area (Refer to NCH seating plan for Preferred Row/Area) STEP 4: Indicate ticket price in chosen zone and number of tickets required.

Concert Sir Simon Schama – The Wordy Tour Dresden Staatskapelle Myung-Whun Chung, conductor Yuja Wang, piano Pantha Du Prince Conference of Trees Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Brìghde Chaimbeul An Evening Curated by Geoff Travis Sam Amidon Extended Ensemble and Sounds Like Freedom – Niall Vallely, Karan Casey and Harriet Tubman.

London Mozart Players Howard Shelley, piano/conductor Swordfishtrombones Revisited Christian Tetzlaff, violin Lars Vogt, piano.

RIAS Kammerchor Justin Doyle, conductor Bahar and Ufuk Dördünchü, pianos 95

Chosen Concert

Chosen Zone

Preferred Row/Area

Ticket Price

No. of Tickets

Sub Total

Joseph Calleja, tenor Claudia Boyle, soprano RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Prionnsías Ó Duinn, conductor English Chamber Orchestra.

José Serebrier, conductor Natalie Clein, cello Simon Trpčeski, piano Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki, conductor and guests Laurie Anderson: Radio Play Laurie Anderson: Here Comes the Ocean

Emanuel Ax, piano Vienna Chamber Orchestra Paul Lewis, piano Camerata Ireland Barry Douglas, piano/conductor Lynn Harrell, cello Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin

BOOKING FORMS

Tenebrae and Aurora Orchestra Nigel Short, conductor

Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano il pomo d’oro Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor/harpsichord Damon Albarn: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.

The Hallé Sir Mark Elder, conductor Benjamin Grosvenor, piano -15% Discount -10% Discount -5% Discount TOTAL 96

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