NCH March April 2023 Calendar of Events

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Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Paul Lewis

WELCOME

Welcome to our Programme for March and April 2023.

Spring is a time of rebirth and renewal. As we emerge from the darkness of winter our senses are more alive to the world around us and our spirits are rejuvenated. At the National Concert Hall our March/ April programme provides a broad range of performances to soundtrack this auspicious time, including events inspired by the season itself, such as Degani Trio’s Voices of Spring on March 3 and Seán Hession’s Seasons of Sinatra: Spring on April 14.

Our International Concert Series returns with a performance by acclaimed British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on March 14 whose programme features favourites by J.S. Bach, Britten and Cassadó. The following month sees revered pianist Paul Lewis take to the NCH stage on April 24 as part of his two-year Schubert Piano Sonata Series which will see him perform works from the composer’s later life at venues around the globe.

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) season continues with visits by

world-renowned artists such as Leonard Slatkin on March 3 and 10, Gemma New on March 24 and Ruth Reinhardt on April 28. On St. Patrick’s Day the Orchestra perform a special tribute to the legendary Shaun Davey under conductor David Brophy and Good Friday sees their lauded interpretation of Bach: St. John Passion.

The St. Patrick’s Day weekend also sees the welcome return of Christy Moore on Saturday 18 (this is the first of three Saturday nights with Christy who also performs on March 25 and April 1) and the Kilfenora Céilí band on Sunday March 19.

Our programme also includes a very special visit by David Gray and his Skellig Choir on March 4 and 5 to showcase songs from his 12th studio record inspired by Skellig Michael, an album launch show by Martin Hayes and the Common Ground Ensemble for their debut Peggy’s Dream on March 26, a much-anticipated concert by Aldous Harding on April 18 and the return of New York’s greatest wit Fran Lebowitz on April 15.

Additional events at this time include several exciting shows by The RTÉ Concert Orchestra who bring us Movies and Musicals on March 9, Thin Lizzy Symphonic on March 29 and the ever-popular Marty in the Evening on April 27. In addition, Fiachra Garvey’s Chamber Series The Natural World continues with recitals including Fiona Kelly and Jean Kelly on March 12 and Yurodny Ensemble on April 16.

Our Learning and Participation programme continues with Primary Ensemble Performance Day on March 28 and new terms for Mini Music, Percussion Lab, Gamelan Ensemble and the Sing Out! Choir.

We hope you enjoy all the events you attend during March and April and look forward to welcoming you back to many more wonderful concerts in 2023.

NCH BOARD MEMBERS

Robert Read  CEO  National Concert Hall

Yurodny Ensemble - Sun. 16 April

Maura McGrath (Chairperson)

John Reynolds • Don Thornhill • Rebecca Gageby • James Cavanagh

Hilary Hough • Michelle O’Sullivan • Peter McKenna • Niamh Murray PATRON

Michael D. Higgins President of Ireland

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh - Sun. 12 March

March

Wed 1 JFR 8pm Chri stine Tobin: Returning Weather

Thurs 2 MS 8pm Finbar Wright & Friends

Fri 3 JFR 1.05pm Voices of Spring

Fri 3 MS 7.30pm National Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin NSO and Leonard Slatkin: Wa gner, Elgar, Mendelssohn & Debussy

Sat 4 & MS 8pm David Gray: Skellig

Sun 5

Thurs 9 MS 8pm RTÉ CO Presents RTÉ Lyric FM Movies and Musicals

Fri 10 JFR 1.05pm Hey Jude: The Swinging Sixties

Fri 10 MS 7.30pm NSO and Leonard Slatkin: Joan Tower, Cindy McTee, Bernstein & Rachmaninov

Sat 11 MS 8pm Concer t for Padre Pio

Sun 12 KBRR 3pm

Sun 12 MS 7.30pm

NCH Chamber Music Series: The Natural World – Fiona Kelly and Jean Kelly

Drawing from the Well –Irish Traditional Music Archive

Tues 14 MS 8pm International Concert Series: Sheku Kanneh - Mason, cello

Fri 17 MS 7.30pm NSO: The Music of Shaun Davey

Sat 18 MS 8pm Christy Moore

Sun 19 MS 7.30pm Kilfenora Céilí Band

Tues 21 MS 10.30am Music in the Classroom: & 12.15pm Junior Certificate Music Guide

Tues 21 KBRR 7.30pm Dublin Song Series 2023: Sir Simon Keenlyside & Dearbhla Collins

MS: Main Stage JFR: John Field Room KBRR: Kevin Barry Recital Room S: Studio

Fri 24 JFR 1.05pm Chopin and Beethoven

Fri 24 MS 7.30pm NSO and Gemma New: Ed Bennett, Beethoven & Tchaikovsky

Sat 25 MS 8pm Christy Moore

Sun 26 KBRR 3pm NCH Chamber Music Series: The Natural World - Cassiopeia Winds

Sun 26 MS 8pm Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble

Tues 28 MS 12.45pm Primary Ensemble Performance Day supported by Walkers

Tues 28 KBRR 7.30pm Dublin Song Series 2023: Nicky Spence & Dearbhla Collins

Wed 29 MS 8pm RTÉ CO: Thin Lizzy Symphonic

Fri 31 JFR 1.05pm Pigalle: Music of Edith Piaf

Fri 31 MS 7.30pm NSO and Alexander Shelley: Richard Strauss, Mozart & Bartók

April

Sat 1 MS 8pm Christy Moore

Sun 2 KBRR 3pm NCH Chamber Music Series: The Natural WorldAilbhe McDonagh, Macdara Ó Seireadáin, Ruth McGinley

Sun 2 MS 7.30pm

Tues 4 MS 8pm

Siansa Gael Linn 2023

UCD Symphony Orchestra: A Night at the Movies IV

Wed 5 KBRR 7.30pm Dublin Song Series 2023: Niamh O’Sullivan & Dearbhla Collins

Fri 7 MS 3.30pm NSO on Good Friday: St John Passion

Sat 8 MS 7.30pm Verdi Aida

A34/A35: Rooms A34/A35 103: Room 103 GR: Gamelan Room VAR: Various

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Sun 9 MS 7.30pm Puccini La Bohème

Tues 11 KBRR 7.30pm Bernadette Greevy Bursary Award-winner Susie Gibbons

Fri 14 JFR 1.05pm Seasons of Sinatra: Spring

Fri 14 MS 8pm The RTÉ Concert Orchestra Presents Heard it Through the Grapevine

Sat 15 A34/ 10.20am Mini Music 35

Sat 15 MS 8pm An Evening with Fran Lebowitz

Sun 16 KBRR 3pm NCH Chamber Music Series: The Natural World – Yurodny Ensemble

Tues 18 MS 8pm Aldous Harding

Mon 24 MS 8pm International Concert Series: Paul Lewis

Tues 25 MS 10.30am & Music in the Classroom: 12.15pm Musical Adventures

Tues 25 103 Percussion Lab

Tues 25 GR Gamelan Ensemble

Tues 25 MS 8pm SYML

Wed 26 103 7pm Sing Out! Choir

Wed 26 MS 7.30pm Feis Ceoil Gala Performance

Thurs 27 MS 8pm Marty in the Evening with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Fri 28 JFR 1.05pm The Singing Harps

Fri 28 MS 7.30pm NSO and Ruth Reinhardt: Webern, Richard Strauss & Mendelssohn

National Concert Hall presents

Kilfenora Céilí Band

SUNDAY 19 MARCH, 7.30PM

With guest singers: Don Stiffe & Fiona Ryan

Dancers: Sinéad Neylon, John Fitzgerald and James Grennan.

An exciting and cutting-edge live performance by one of Ireland’s quintessential Céilí Bands to celebrate St. Patrick’s weekend.

Tickets from €22 (10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more)

MARTIN HAYES & THE COMMON GROUND ENSEMBLE

Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble return to the National Concert Hall on Sunday 26 March for a special performance to mark the release of their debut album Peggy’s Dream. Here Martin talks about band dynamics, the evolution of the new record and what The Common Ground Ensemble means to him.

The Common Ground Ensemble have been playing together since 2020. How has the band evolved in that time?

In March of 2020 the band was little more than some unfinished musical ideas along with some rough recordings from a few days of rehearsal the month previous. With a reasonably clear idea of what we wanted to do we arrived for two days of rehearsal at the NCH on 12 March 2020 in preparation for our first concert on the 14th. We barely had our instruments out of our cases, when the Taoiseach went on television to announce the lockdown that morning. I’d been working on the music and arrangements for the band for a few months, so I was naturally very disappointed as were all the band members. Since we were all already gathered together, we decided to make some use of the free time that

was suddenly now on our hands. Our management booked us into Grouse Lodge where we spent the next few days recording and shaping the musical ideas that have gone on to become the basis for our latest recording.

What was the first song you completed for the album and how did it come together?

The tunes are all traditional tunes but we’ve added a lot of very original arrangements, composition and improvisation, all of which is woven together with the tunes. I was picking melodies and crafting very rough arrangements in the months leading

“One of my guiding principles and aspirations in forming collaborations is that my collaborators be able to find real freedom and become their maximum musical selves in the musical environment I create.”

up to March 2020. I feel like I was simultaneously playing around with many of the tunes so there doesn’t seem to be one specific piece that I could identify as the first one.

Tell us about the creative process in general. Do different people bring ideas and the group works out the song or how does it evolve?

It starts with me picking tunes that I like, recording them with my fiddle on my computer and then playing around with a midi keyboard making very rough sketches of arrangement ideas that I

thought may have potential. I had very rough outlines of parts that I then shared with the other musicians. My idea was to point us in a particular direction but not to lock these arrangements solidly into place. I really just want to provide a general direction for each piece and at the same time create opportunities for these amazing musicians to deploy their own unique talents within this larger architecture. One of my guiding principles and aspirations in forming collaborations is that my collaborators be able to find real freedom and become their maximum musical selves in the musical environment I create.

How have the songs changed since you started playing them live? Have any undergone radical changes born from live performances?

Now that we’ve had the opportunity to perform and go back into the studio to do a proper recording, I feel like all the pieces have settled, all the players have found their place in the mix and the arrangements have been gradually refined to the point where the band now has a definite sound.

Where was the album recorded and what was the process like?

The album was recorded at Grouse Lodge studio in Westmeath. It felt like a reunion after having initially spent those first few days of the pandemic huddled together in that same studio. The whole recording process was a joy and we were also enjoying getting a second bite of the cherry. It really is a great thrill and pleasure to surround yourself with extremely talented musicians. There is a quote that says “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” I think I was in the right room.

What does the Common Ground Ensemble give you that none of your other creative outlets provides?

I’m always looking for new possibilities and musical freedom and this ensemble provides this in buckets. For me each performance and every new collaboration is just another opportunity to get to get to the next level or maybe the next depth, I always want to go deeper with the music.

You regularly perform in the National Concert Hall. What does the venue mean to you?

Well it is the NATIONAL Concert Hall! And therefore has a cultural significance, it has a national remit that makes me take the space very seriously. Anytime I walk on that stage, I do so with both a sense of respect and gratitude, I never take it for granted. On the other hand, it also feels like home, it’s a stage I always look forward to returning to, I just love the acoustics and the audiences.

Are you listening to any new Irish music you would recommend?

There are lots of fine young traditional musicians playing at a very high level such as Sorcha Costello, Saileg Ní Cheannabháin, Daithi Gormley, Cormac Begley and many more.

What does the rest of 2023 hold for you?

I’m looking forward to the release of our new recording and seeing where that takes us.

Christine Tobin: Returning Weather

Wednesday 1 March 8pm

John Field Room

Christine Tobin vocals and spoken word

Cora Venus Lunny violin and viola

David Power uilleann pipes and whistles

Phil Robson guitar and electronics

Steve Hamilton piano

Multi-award-winning vocalist/songwriter imaginatively weaves song, spoken word, visual effects and a stellar group of musicians from diverse backgrounds together - Cora Venus Lunny, David Power, Phil Robson, Steve Hamilton. A personal journey, this is the music of homecoming and return.

Tickets €20

Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

15% Discount for Groups of 10 or more

Presented by IMC - Improvised Music Company

Finbar Wright & Friends

Thursday 2 March 8pm

Main Stage

Finbar Wright is a favourite with audiences at home and abroad. His unique appeal is the ability to cross many musical genres, from gentle romantic ballads to operatic repertoire. He has performed and recorded with such famous names as Montserrat Caballé and legendary rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis.

Tickets €30, €35, €38, €45

Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Presented by Pat Egan Sound Ltd

Finbar Wright - Thursday 2 March

David Gray - Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 March

Voices of Spring

Friday 3 March 1.05pm

John Field Room

Alan Smale violin

Annette Cleary cello

Rachel Quinn piano

Joan Trimble Phantasy Trio

Marion Ingoldsby Nocturne

Cecile Chaminade Trio in G minor op. 112

Degani Piano Trio present a programme of delightful works for piano trio by female composers Joan Trimble, Cecile Chaminade and Marion Ingoldsby.

Tickets €20

Concessions Available

Presented by Degani Trio

National Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin:

Wagner, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Debussy

Friday 3 March 7.30pm

Main Stage

Leonard Slatkin conductor

Jennifer Johnston soprano

Wagner The Flying Dutchman Overture

Elgar Sea Pictures

Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture

Debussy La Mer

One of the world’s most acclaimed conductors, Leonard Slatkin, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston, possessed of ‘one of the most generous and beautiful voices in the business’ (Prospect), headline an evening of four bejeweled masterpieces.

Tickets €15, €23.50, €31, €38.50

Limited Concessions Available 10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra

David Gray: Skellig

Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 March 8pm

Main Stage

David Gray and his Skellig choir present the songs of Skellig live.

Skellig is David Gray’s twelfth studio album and embarks on a sparser, communal soundscape with the atmospheric songs centering themselves around six-part vocals with Gray trading his signature gravel for a softer tone. Join David and the band for this once in a lifetime intimate evening of music.

Tickets €69.50, €79.50

Presented by MCD

RTÉ CO Presents:

RTÉ Lyric FM Movies and Musicals Live

Thursday 9 March 8pm

Main Stage

RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Stephen Bell conductor

Tim Howar and Juliette Crosbie vocalists

Presented by Aedín Gormley, RTÉ lyric fm

Marking the 75th anniversary of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Aedín Gormley brings to life her RTÉ lyric fm show Movies and Musicals with favourites from the 1950s up to today, with top vocalists Tim Howar of Mike + The Mechanics and Juliette Crosbie.

Tickets €15, €28.50, €42.50

Limited Concession Available 10% Discount for Groups of 10 or more

Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Hey Jude: The Swinging Sixties

Friday 10 March 1.05pm

John Field Room

Alf McCarthy story

Linda Kenny singer

Damian Smith singer

Alan Carney singer/musical director

We delve into the story of the Swinging Sixties, from Kings Road to Carnaby Street, the explosion of creativity that impacted on the entire world. Sing along to classics from The Beatles, Tom Jones, Cliff Richard, Twiggy, Cilla Black, Englebert Humperdinck et al.

Tickets €19

Presented by the Great Singalong Songbook

Aedín Gormley

National Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin: Joan Tower, Cindy McTee, Bernstein, Rachmaninov

Friday 10 March 7.30pm

Main Stage

Leonard Slatkin conductor Olga Kern piano

Joan Tower Made in America

Cindy McTee Adagio for Strings

Bernstein On the Waterfront Symphonic Suite

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3

Proof that lightning can strike twice in the same place: Leonard Slatkin returns with signature music from three American greats and a combustible Russian masterpiece with the ‘immensely talented’ (Washington Post) Olga Kern as soloist.

Tickets €15, €23.50, €31, €38.50

Limited Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra

Red Hurley

Concert for Padre Pio

Saturday 11 March 8pm

Main Stage

Red Hurley

Donna Taggart

Aonghus McAnally

Eugene McCarthy MD

Pat Egan presents a concert in aid of the Capuchin Day Centre, celebrating Ireland’s favourite Saint, Padre Pio.

Tickets €35, €40, €45.50

Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more.

Presented by Pat Egan Promotions

Leonard Slatkin

NCH Chamber Music Series:

The Natural World - Fiona Kelly and Jean Kelly

Sunday 12 March 3pm

Kevin Barry Recital Room

Fiona Kelly flute

Jean Kelly harp

Cécile Chaminade Sérénade aux étoiles op. 142

Arnold Bax Sonata for flute and harp

Toru Takemitsu Toward the Sea III for alto flute and harp

H. Leslie Adams Night Song

William Alwyn Naiades Fantasy - sonata for flute and harp

Sisters Fiona and Jean Kelly present a flute and harp recital inspired by nature, the sea and the night sky featuring Cecile Chaminade’s beautiful miniature Sérénade aux étoiles and American composer H. Leslie Adams’ jazzy, romantic Night Song

Tickets €17.50

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

Presented by NCH

Drawing from the Well

Sunday 12 March 7.30pm

Main Stage

Performers include:

Frankie Gavin fiddle

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh singer

Pádraic Keane uilleann pipes

Yvonne Kane fiddle

Liz Kane fiddle

Catherine McEvoy flute

Sibéal Davitt dance

Aoife Nic Cormaic presenter, fiddle

Drawing From the Well connects Ireland’s leading contemporary traditional performers with the great historical collections housed at ITMA to inspire new work. This is the third major concert in the series presented by the Irish Traditional Music Archive in association with NCH. The concert features an exceptional line-up of soloists, singers, dancers and ensemble musicians.

Tickets €20, €25, €30 10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more.

Presented by NCH in association with ITMA

Frankie Gavin - Sunday 12 March

International Concert Series: Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Tuesday 14 March 8pm

Main Stage

Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello

J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008

Gwilym Simcock Prayer for the Senses

Benjamin Britten Cello Suite No. 1, op. 72

Leo Brouwer Sonata No. 2 for solo cello

Edmund Finnis Five Preludes for solo cello

Gaspar Cassadó Suite for solo cello

Described as a ‘compelling musical storyteller’ (The New York Times) Sheku

Kanneh-Mason won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016 before performing at the wedding of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2018. For his NCH debut, he performs a special programme featuring favourites by J.S. Bach, Britten and Cassadó.

Pre-Concert Talk for ticketholders 6.45pm

Tickets €15, €19.50, € 29.50

10% Discount for NCH Friends & Groups of 8 or more

15% Discount when booking 3 or more concerts in the series

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by NCH

National Symphony Orchestra: The Music of Shaun Davey

Friday 17 March 7.30pm

Main Stage

David Brophy conductor

Sinéad O’Halloran cello

Mark Redmond uilleann pipes

Shaun Davey Refuge, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra WORLD PREMIERE

Shaun Davey The Brendan Voyage

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day steeped in the music of one of Ireland’s finest composers, Shaun Davey, with the world premiere of his new Cello Concerto and his timeless and epic contemporary classic, The Brendan Voyage.

Tickets €20, €29.50, €37.50, €45

Limited Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra

David Brophy - Friday 17 March

SHEKU KANNEHMASON

Award-winning cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his National Concert Hall debut on Tuesday 14 March at 8pm. For what will hopefully be the first of many visits to the NCH Sheku will perform a special programme featuring favourites by J.S. Bach, Britten and Cassadó.

Here are ten things to know about the rising star

1. Sheku began learning the cello at the age of six with Sarah Huson-Whyte and then studied with Ben Davies and Hannah Roberts at the Royal Academy of Music. A proud graduate, he has recently been appointed the first Menuhin Visiting Professor of Performance Mentoring at the Academy.

2. Sheku’s family - The Kanneh-Masons - comprises seven brothers and sisters all of whom play either violin, piano or cello. The family appeared in the December 2019 Royal Variety Show and released their first album Carnival on Decca Classics in October 2020.

3. Sheku won the 2016 BBC Young Musician Competition, the first black musician to take the title. In 2018, he became a household name after performing at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Windsor Castle.

4. His first two solo albums on the Decca Classics label were Inspiration in 2018 and Elgar in 2020. The latter reached Number 8 in the overall UK Official Album Chart, making Sheku the first cellist in history to reach the UK Top Ten.

5. Sheku has made debuts with orchestras such as the Seattle Symphony, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Stockholm Philharmonic, The Atlanta

Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Ochester Berlin, Barcelona Symphony and Baltimore Symphony.

6. In June 2018, Sheku received the Male Artist of the Year and the Critics’ Choice Awards at the Classic BRIT Awards. In July of that year, he became the first artist to receive the new BRIT Certified Breakthrough Award, having sold over 30,000 copies of his debut album in the UK and surpassing 100,000 album sales worldwide.

7. Sheku also performs with his sister, Isata and brother, Braimah, as a member of the Kanneh-Mason Trio. They have performed extensively throughout the U.K. and also in the USA and the Caribbean. In 2018 they won the Royal Academy of Music Harold Craxton Chamber Music Prize.

8. Sheku was named one of Time Magazine’s 2018 Next Generation Leaders which recognises young people poised to shape the future. The Awards aim to elevate those who are working in different fields across the globe to build a better world.

9. In the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours, Sheku was awarded an MBE for his services to music. He has been outspoken about music education and is currently an Ambassador of London Music Masters, a music education charity that supports young musicians in classical music.

10. He released his most-recent solo album Song on Decca Classics in September. The album sees Sheku perform music from Bach to Bacharach and beyond. It also includes Sheku’s version of the Irish ballad ‘Star of the County Down’.

©Jake Turney

Christy Moore

Saturday 18 March 8pm

Main Stage

Intimate and masterful, Christy Moore’s concerts at the National Concert Hall are amongst the most special concerts of the year. Christy has released more than 30 solo albums, from Paddy on the Road in 1969 to Flying into Mystery in 2021. We are delighted he will return to Earlsfort Terrace in March 2023.

Tickets €40, €45, €50, €55

10% Discount for Friends of the NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Presented by NCH

Kilfenora Céilí Band

Sunday 19 March 7.30pm

Main Stage

Kilfenora Céilí Band

Don Stiffe and Fiona Ryan guest singers

Sinéad Neylon , John Fitzgerald and James Grennan dancers

Winners of a host of awards since their formation in 1909 along with numerous recordings, concerts and television appearances, this eclectic group of musicians will be joined by singers Don Stiffe and Fiona Ryan as well as dancers for their much-anticipated return to NCH.

Tickets €22, €28.50, €32.50, €38.50

10% Discount for Friends of the NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Presented by NCH

Music in the Classroom:

Junior Certificate Music Guide

Tuesday 21 March 10.30am and 12.15pm

Main Stage

Presented by Tom Redmond

David Brophy conductor

Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps

Timothy Jackson Passacaglia

Florence Price Symphony No. 1

iii. Juba Dance

John Williams ‘Rey’s Theme’ from Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Grieg ‘Aase’s Death’ from Peer Gynt

Beethoven Symphony No. 7 – Allegretto

Terry Riley In C

Sibelius Symphony No. 5 – Finale

This year’s Junior Certificate Music Guide concert has been built around the new Junior Cycle Music Learning Outcomes.

Tickets €10 Student. Accompanying teachers go free.

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra

Christy Moore

A festival of new music for curious minds

20th-23rd April

25+ live performances across Dublin

Find out more at newmusicdublin.ie

Dublin Song Series 2023:

Sir Simon Keenlyside & Dearbhla Collins

Tuesday 21 March 7.30pm

Kevin Barry Recital Room

Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone Dearbhla Collins piano

Sir Simon Keenlyside, baritone and Dearbhla Collins bring you on a beautiful journey of love, loss and the magic of nature in songs by Schubert, Wolf, Duparc and Faure among others.

Tickets €25

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

Presented by NCH

Chopin and Beethoven

Friday 24 March 1.05pm

John Field Room

Anthony Byrne piano

Chopin Military Polonaise in A Major op. 40 No. 1

Beethoven Appassionata Sonata op. 57

Debussy Clair de Lune

Poulenc Mouvements perpétuels

Ireland The Island Spell

Chopin Heroic Polonaise in A Flat op. 53

Anthony Byrne returns to the John Field Room to play Chopin, Beethoven and some of his favourite piano pieces.

Tickets €18

Concessions Available

Presented by Anthony Byrne Piano

Sir Simon Keenlyside & Dearbhla Collins

©Robert

Workman/©Frances

Marshall

National Symphony Orchestra

and Gemma New:

Ed Bennett, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

Friday 24 March 7.30pm

Main Stage

Gemma New conductor

Eoín Fleming piano

Ed Bennett Freefalling

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

‘A conductor whose renown is sure to grow’ (The Plain Dealer), Gemma New leads the National Symphony Orchestra in three compelling works by very different composers fired by high-octane energy, intense emotions and blistering impact.

Tickets €15, €23.50, €31, €38.50

Limited Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra

Christy Moore

Saturday 25 March 8pm

Main Stage

Intimate and masterful, Christy Moore’s concerts at the National Concert Hall are amongst the most special concerts of the year. Christy has released more than 30 solo albums, from Paddy on the Road in 1969 to Flying into Mystery in 2021. We are delighted he will return to Earlsfort Terrace in March 2023.

Tickets €40, €45, €50, €55

10% Discount for Friends of the NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Presented by NCH

Gemma New

©Roy Cox

INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2023 SPRING

SHEKU KANNEH-MASON CELLO

TUES. 14 MARCH 8PM

Programme: Bach, Simcock, Britten, Brouwer, Finnis and Cassadó

“Sheku plays as though born to his instrument… talent like this comes along rarely”

Los Angeles Times

Tickets from €15 (10% discount for NCH Friends & Group of 8+)

PAUL LEWIS PIANO

MON. 24 APRIL 8PM

Programme: Schubert Piano Sonatas, 7, 14 & 17.

“A superlative interpreter of his (schubert’s) work”

The Guardian

Tickets from €19.50 (10% Discount for NCH Friends & Groups of 8+)

AKADEMIE FÜR ALTE

MUSIK BERLIN

CHRISTINA LANDSHAMER SOPRANO

SUN. 7 MAY 7.30PM

Programme: Mozart, Gluck, Haydn, Telemann

“A magnificent chameleon of an ensemble” The New York Times

Tickets from €19.50 (10% Discount for NCH Friends & Groups of 8+)

MICHAEL COLLINS CLARINET

MICHAEL

MCHALE PIANO

WIGMORE SOLOISTS

SUN. 21 MAY 7.30PM

Programme: Brahms, Robert & Clara Schumann, Mozart

“A world class clarinettist”

BBC Music Magazine

Tickets from €17.50 (10% Discount for NCH Friends & Groups of 8+)

THE SIXTEEN

HARRY CHRISTOPHERS CONDUCTOR

TUES. 20 JUNE 8PM

Programme: A Celebration of Byrd

“For 40 years…the Sixteen has set the gold standard” The Times

Tickets from €27.50 (10% Discount for NCH Friends & Groups of 8+)

NCH Chamber Music Series: The Natural World - Cassiopeia Winds

Sunday 26 March 3pm

Kevin Barry Recital Room

Giulio Briccialdi Wind Quintet No. 1 in D Major, op. 124

Philip Hammond Ho Hum Hill , N.H.

Jennifer Higdon Autumn Music

Francis Poulenc Novelette in C Major

Valerie Coleman Umoja The First Day of Kwanzaa 1997

Paul Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik op. 24, no. 2

Herald spring! Let Cassiopeia Winds breeze you away from your everyday to a gentle sound-world of sonorous classics, coupled with atmospheric works reflecting diverse cultural and historical perspectives of composers hailing from distant continents connected by the flow of the west wind.

Tickets €17.50

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

Presented by NCH

Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble

Sunday 26 March 8pm

Main Stage

Martin Hayes fiddle

Cormac McCarthy piano

Kate Ellis cello

Kyle Sanna guitar

Brian Donnellan bouzouki, harmonium & concertina

Martin Hayes and The Common Ground Ensemble return to the National Concert Hall for a special performance to mark the release of their debut album Peggy’s Dream.

Tickets €25, €32.50, €38.50, €42.50

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Presented by NCH

Primary Ensemble Performance Day

Tuesday 28 March 12.45pm

Main Stage

Presented in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy of Music and generously supported by Walkers, the Primary Ensemble Project is aimed at developing key areas of early ensemble playing. For this collaborative performance day students from our RIAM workshops and other participating schools come together on the NCH main stage.

Tickets will be allocated through the participating schools initially, please email education@nch.ie for further information. Remaining tickets will be available from 21 March at 10am.

Presented by NCH in partnership with Royal Irish Academy of Music with the generous support of Walkers

Primary Ensemble Project

Dublin Song Series 2023: Nicky Spence & Dearbhla Collins

Tuesday 28 March 7.30pm

Kevin Barry Recital Room

Nicky Spence tenor

Dearbhla Collins piano

Nicky Spence and Dearbhla Collins explore settings of Shakespearean texts in music in English and German ranging from Purcell through Haydn and Schubert to Britten and Tippett.

Tickets €25

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

Presented by NCH

RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Thin Lizzy Symphonic

Wednesday 29 March 8pm

Main Stage

RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Stephen Bell conductor

A huge success in Collins Barracks last summer, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra now brings its amazing Thin Lizzy show to the National Concert Hall. Special guests join the orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor Stephen Bell for classics from the Thin Lizzy back catalogue with arrangements by John Metcalfe.

Tickets €35, €45, €55

Limited Concessions Available

10% Discount for Groups of 10 or more

Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Wednesday 29 March

10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT…

Paul Lewis

On Monday 24 April pianist Paul Lewis makes a welcome return to the National Concert Hall for an evening of Schubert Sonatas as part of the International Concert Series. Here are ten things to know about the award-winning musician:

1. Born in Liverpool, Paul Lewis studied at Guildhall School of Music in London and took master classes with Alfred Brendel who befriended him and gave him private instruction.

2. He performs regularly as soloist with the world’s great orchestras and is a frequent guest at the most prestigious international festivals, including Lucerne, Mostly Mozart (New York), Tanglewood, Schubertiade, Salzburg and Edinburgh.

3. Paul’s numerous awards include the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison awards, three Gramophone awards, the Diapason D’or de l’Annee, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana and the South Bank Show Classical Music award.

4. In 2016 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

5. His recital career takes him to venues such as London’s Royal Festival Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York, Vienna’s Musikverein, the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Berlin Philharmonie, Oji Hall in Tokyo and Melbourne’s Recital Centre.

6. Lewis has a long association with Beethoven. He performed all 32 of his piano sonatas on tour in the United States and Europe between 2005 and 2007. In summer 2010 Lewis became the first pianist to perform all five Beethoven Concertos in a single season of The BBC Proms.

7. The pianist is also closely associated with Schubert, he has released several acclaimed core works by the composer including the complete sonatas from the last years of his life plus the song cycles Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise with tenor Mark Padmore.

8. This National Concert Hall performance sees Lewis undertake Schubert’s Piano Sonatas Numbers 7, 14 and 17. It is part of a two-year Schubert Piano Sonata Series which will see the pianist perform the completed sonatas from the last 12 years of the composer’s life at venues around the world.

9. Each June Paul and his wife Bjørg Lewis run an annual chamber music festival, the Midsummer Music Festival, in Buckinghamshire.

10. In 2021 Paul Lewis became an Irish citizen.

Pigalle: Music of Edith Piaf

Friday 31 March 1.05pm

John Field Room

Derby Browne

Pigalle Ensemble

Chanteuse Derby Browne performs her personal tribute to The Little Sparrow –Edith Piaf, with performances of ‘La Vie En Rose’, ‘No Regrets’, ‘Autumn Leaves’ and ‘Under The Bridges of Paris’.

Tickets €18

Concessions Available

Presented by Derby Browne

National Symphony Orchestra and Alexander Shelley: Richard Strauss, Mozart, Bartók

Friday 31 March 7.30pm

Main Stage

Alexander Shelley conductor Sebastian Manz clarinet (replacing Andreas Ottensamer)

Richard Strauss Don Juan Mozart Clarinet Concerto Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Conductor Alexander Shelley, ‘a natural communicator, both on and off the podium’ (Daily Telegraph), leads the National Symphony Orchestra and multi-award-winning Sebastian Manz, the first clarinettist in 40 years to win the prestigious ARD International Music Competition in his native Germany, in three thrilling masterpieces.

Tickets €15, €23.50, €31, €38.50

Limited Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra

Sebastian Manz - Friday 31 March

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Christy Moore

Saturday 1 April 8pm

Main Stage

Intimate and masterful, Christy Moore’s concerts at the National Concert Hall are amongst the most special concerts of the year. Christy has released more than 30 solo albums, from Paddy on the Road in 1969 to Flying into Mystery in 2021. We are delighted he will return to Earlsfort Terrace in March 2023.

Tickets €40, €45, €50, €55

10% Discount for Friends of the NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Presented by NCH

NCH Chamber Music Series: The Natural WorldAilbhe McDonagh, Macdara Ó Seireadáin, Ruth McGinley

Sunday 2 April 3pm

Kevin Barry Recital Room

Ailbhe McDonagh cello

Macdara Ó Seireadáin clarinet

Ruth McGinley piano

Edith Hemenway Questions of Travel

Nino Rota Trio for clarinet, cello and piano

Johannes Brahms Clarinet trio in A minor op. 114

This special performance celebrates the closing chapters in the compositional journeys of Brahms, Hemenway and Rota and the return to their roots and early influences. The programme includes Brahms’ autumnal clarinet trio and Hemenway’s Questions of Trave l.

Tickets €17.50

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

Presented by NCH

The Natural World - Sunday 2 April

Siansa Gael Linn 2023Craobhchomórtas

Sunday 2 April 7.30pm

Main Stage

Scoth-cheolchoirm le hocht ngrúpa thraidisiúnta a bheidh san iomaíocht do dhuaischiste €4,500.

Eight young traditional Irish music groups compete for a prize fund of €4,500 in what promises to be a fantastic grand finale concert!

Tickets €20

Child €10

Sponsored by RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and Irish Music Magazine

Presented by Gael Linn

UCD Symphony Orchestra: A Night at the Movies IV

Tuesday 4 April 8pm

Main Stage

UCD Symphony Orchestra

UCD Philharmonic Choir

Ciarán Crilly conductor

Kevin Boushel associate conductor

Winifred Massey (UCD Ad Astra

Performing Arts Scholar) solo piano

Holst ‘Mars & Jupiter’ from The Planets

Offenbach ‘Barcarolle’ from Tales of Hoffmann

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

Beck ‘Heimr Àrnadalr’ & ‘Vuelie’ from Frozen

Orff ‘Ave Formosissima’ & ‘O Fortuna’ from Carmina Burana

Williams ‘Flying Theme’ from E.T.

Prokofiev ‘The Birth of Kijé’ from Lieutenant Kijé

Shostakovich Finale (Symphony No. 5)

To celebrate its twentieth anniversary season, the UCD Symphony Orchestra brings its hugely successful Night at the Movies series to the National Concert Hall.

Tickets €14, €18

Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Sponsored by UCD School of Music and UCD Estate Services

Presented by UCD Symphony Orchestra

Siansa Gael Linn 2023

UCD Symphony Orchestra

Dublin Song Series 2023: Niamh O’Sullivan & Dearbhla Collins

Wednesday 5 April 7.30pm

Kevin Barry Recital Room

Niamh O’Sullivan mezzo-soprano

Dearbhla Collins piano

The moving song cycle Frauenliebe-und-leben by Robert Schumann forms the cornerstone for this recital with Niamh O’Sullivan and Dearbhla Collins which also includes some of Schubert’s most beloved songs and a little nostalgic journey down an English / Irish country lane.

Tickets €25

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

Presented by NCH

National Symphony Orchestra on Good Friday: St. John Passion

Friday 7 April 3.30pm

Main Stage

David Hill conductor

James Gilchrist Evangelist

Aoife Miskelly soprano

James Hall countertenor

Dean Power tenor

Bernhard Hansky Christus and bass arias

Rory Dunne Pilate

National Symphony Chorus

Bach St. John Passion

Bach’s St John Passion is one of the most moving, sublime and towering creations in all music. A stellar line-up guarantees an experience to remember with one of the great Evangelists of our times, James Gilchrist, partnered with the expressive voices of Aoife Miskelly, James Hall and Dean Power.

Tickets €20, €30, €36, €42.50

Limited Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra

Niamh O’Sullivan

National Symphony Orchestra - Friday 7 April

Verdi Aida

Saturday 8 April 7.30pm

Main Stage

Senbla presents Opera International’s award-winning Ellen Kent Production featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv, with international soloists, highly praised chorus and full orchestra. Welcoming back the fabulous Korean soprano Elena Dee, French soprano Olga Perrier, and Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Natalia Matveeva*

Sung in Italian with English surtitles. *Cast subject to change

Tickets €28, €37, €43

Concessions Available

20% Discount for Friends of NCH

Senbla presents Opera International’s award-winning Ellen Kent Production.

Puccini La bohème

Sunday 9 April 7.30pm

Main Stage

Senbla presents Opera International’s award-winning Ellen Kent Production featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv, with international soloists, highly praised chorus and full orchestra. Starring Ukrainian soprano Alonya Kistenyova, Korean soprano Elena Dee, and French soprano Olga Perrier*

Sung in Italian with English surtitles. *Cast subject to change.

Tickets €28, €37, €43

Concessions Available

20% Discount for Friends of NCH

Senbla presents Opera International’s award-winning Ellen Kent Production.

Aida

Bernadette Greevy Bursary

Award-winner Susie Gibbons

Tuesday 11 April 7.30pm

Kevin Barry Recital Room

Suzie Gibbons soprano

Joanna Kacperek accompanist

Join 2019 winner of the Bernadette Greevy Bursary, Susie Gibbons for an evening of song. Susie’s winning performance included Mahler’s Lob des Hohen Verstands , Handel’s V’adoro, Pupille (Giulio Cesare) and Philip Martin’s The Lake Isle of Innisfree. This programme will feature Alma Mahler, Clara Schumann, Ina Boyle and a selection of arias.

The National Concert Hall wishes to acknowledge the Department of Culture, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht for its kind support of the Bernadette Greevy Bursary for Singers.

Tickets €15 | Concession €13 Friends of NCH €12.50

Presented by NCH

Seasons of Sinatra: Spring

Friday 14 April 1.05pm

John Field Room

Seán Hession vocals

Myles Drennan piano

Dave Fleming double bass

Tom Dunne drums

Punctuate the year ahead with a selection of seasonally themed Frank Sinatra interludes. In this first of four performances, leading Sinatra exponent Sean Hession hosts a lunchtime concert of verdant springtime classics, an Ode to Spring which promises to delight.

Tickets €20

Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

Presented by Seán Hession & Devised by Michele Rock

Susie Gibbons Seán Hession

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Presents Heard it Through the Grapevine

Friday 14 April 8pm

Main Stage

RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Gavin Murphy conductor

With vocalists Dana Masters and Connor McKeon

They say that if you can remember the 1960s you weren’t really there… Whether you were really there or want to see what you missed, join us for timeless pop classics from a golden decade performed by fantastic vocalists Dana Masters and Connor McKeon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra!

Tickets €12, €22, €27, €33, €39.50

Limited Concessions Available 10% Discount for Groups of 10 or more

Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Mini Music

Saturday 15 April 10.20am

A34/35

Start of 10-week Term

Mini Music is an action-packed music workshop experience for youngsters aged 3 months to 8 years old.

30-minute class tickets €120 for 10-week term

Mini Maestro workshop tickets €155 per 10-week term

Presented by NCH

An Evening with Fran Lebowitz

Saturday 15 April 8pm

Main Stage

Following her sold-out 2022 show, renowned satirist and author Fran Lebowitz makes a welcome return to the NCH. In a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads, Fran stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators.

Tickets €28.50, €36, €45

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Presented by NCH

Fran Lebowitz

Dana Masters

NCH Chamber Music Series: The Natural WorldYurodny Ensemble

Sunday 16 April 3pm

Kevin Barry Recital Room

Founded in 2007 by saxophonist and composer Nick Roth, the Yurodny Ensemble performs contemporary interpretations of traditional music from around the world alongside new works by composers inspired by these traditions. The group will create a new piece especially for this concert.

Tickets €17.50

10% Discount for Friends of NCH

Presented by NCH

Aldous Harding

Tuesday 18 April 8pm

Main Stage

For her latest album Warm Chris , New Zealand musician Aldous Harding reunited with producer John Parish. All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield Studios and include contributions from H. Hawkline, Seb Rochford, Gavin Fitzjohn, John and Hopey Parish and Jason Williamson (Sleaford Mods).

Tickets €30

Presented by Foggy Notions

Aldous Harding

©Emma Wallbanks

International Concert Series: Paul Lewis, piano

Monday 24 April 8pm

Main Stage

Schubert Piano Sonata No. 7 in E flat major, D568

Schubert Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor, D784

Schubert Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, D850

UK pianist Paul Lewis returns to the NCH stage offering audiences an opportunity to journey with him on his latest performance project; a two-year Schubert Piano Sonata Series. The series sees him perform the complete sonatas from the last 12 years of the composer’s life.

Pre-Concert Talk for ticketholders at 6.45pm

Tickets €19.50, €27.50, € 34.50

10% Discount for NCH Friends & Groups of 8 or more

15% Discount when booking 3 or more concerts in the series.

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by NCH

Music in the Classroom: Musical Adventures

Tuesday 25 April 10.30am and 12.15pm

Main Stage

Jessie Grimes presenter

David Brophy conductor

Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon Overture

John Williams ‘Imperial March’ from Star Wars

Beethoven Symphony No. 6, iv. Thunderstorm

Britten ‘Four Sea Interludes’ from Peter Grimes – Storm

Florence Price Symphony No. 1 –Juba Dance

Stravinsky ‘Infernal Dance’ from The Firebird

Grace Williams Sea Sketches –Sailing Song

Randy Newman ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ from Toy Story (Singalong)

Michael Giacchino Jurassic Park World Dominion

Musical Adventures, the fun concerts for children aged 8-12 are back, boasting dramatic appearances by dinosaurs, Darth Vader, a magical bird made of fire, bone-shaking storms on land and sea, and a joyful singalong celebration of friendship.

Tickets €10 Student. Accompanying teachers go free.

Presented by National Symphony Orchestra

Jessie Grimes - Tuesday 25 April

Paul Lewis - Monday 24 April

Percussion Lab

Tuesday 25 April

Room 103

Start of 8-week Term

Percussion Lab is a drumming ensemble for anyone over the age of 16. There are no entry requirements, and no previous experience is required – all you need to bring is your enthusiasm!

Course fee: €65 per 8-week term

Presented by NCH

Gamelan Ensemble

Tuesday 25 April

Gamelan Room

Start of 8-week Term

The Gamelan is a terrific instrument for both learning and performing. We encourage anyone to join our beginners’ group, where there is no requirement of previous musical experience.

Course Fee €65 for the 8-week term

Presented by NCH

Tuesday 25 April 8pm

Main Stage

SYML is the solo venture of artist Brian Fennell. His forthcoming record, The Day My Father Died , due out February 2023 features collaborations with artists like Guy Garvey (Elbow), Lucius, Sara Watkins, Charlotte Lawrence, and is a document of growth and healing charting Fennell’s journey forward after a fundamental shift in his life.

Tickets €28

Presented by Foggy Notions

SYML

SYML - Tuesday 25 April

2O22 2O23 NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FRIDAY 5 MAY, 7.30pm

RACHMANINOV 15O

FLORENCE PRICE Ethiopia’s Shadow in America

RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1

orch. Schoenberg with Martin James Bartlett

Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

FRIDAY 12 MAY, 7.30pm

IAN WILSON Man-o’-War

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 with Kirill Gerstein

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

Chief Conductor Jaime Martín

FRIDAY 26 MAY, 7.30pm • SEASON FINALE

RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead

EDUARD TUBIN Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs

RACHMANINOV The Bells

Mihhail Gerts, conductor • Mirjam Mesak, soprano

Valentyn Dytiuk, tenor • Andrei Bondarenko, baritone

National Symphony Chorus • David Young, chorus director

Feis Ceoil - Wednesday 26 April

NCH Sing Out! Choir

Wednesday 26 April 7pm Room 103

Start of 8-week Term

Come together and find your voice! There are no auditions or other criteria for enrolment, other than an open mind and the will to sing. Book early to avoid disappointment!

Course fee: €65 per 8-week term

Presented by NCH

Feis Ceoil Gala Performance

Wednesday 26 April 7.30pm

Main Stage

A number of outstanding winners from Feis Ceoil 2023 will perform at this Gala Showcase which will round off the 2023 Festival. The concert will feature the winner of the Feis Ceoil Choir of the Year, along with orchestras, ensembles and soloists representing a wide variety of styles. Suitable for the whole family!

Tickets €15, Children €12, Family €40 (4 tickets, maximum 2 adults)

Concessions Available

20% Discount for Friends of NCH

Groups of 10 or more €12

Presented by Feis Ceoil

Marty in the Evening with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Thursday 27 April 8pm

Main Stage

RTÉ Concert Orchestra & guests

Stephen Bell conductor

Presented by Marty Whelan RTÉ lyric fm

This evening capturing the flavour of Marty Whelan’s much-loved breakfast programme on RTÉ lyric fm is back with a new selection of favourites! Marty introduces classical, popular, film, musicals and more performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Bell and guests.

Tickets €15, €28.50, €42.50

Limited Concessions Available

10% Discount for Groups of 10 or more

Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

The Singing Harps

Friday 28 April 1.05pm

John Field Room

Claire Roche harp and vocals

Popular Irish Songs of yesteryear, W.B Yeats’s poems set to music and Claire’s original songs with harp accompaniment.

Tickets €15

Presented by Claire Roche

Marty Whelan

National Symphony Orchestra

and Ruth Reinhardt: Webern, Richard Strauss, Mendelssohn

Friday 28 April 7.30pm

Main Stage

Ruth Reinhardt conductor

Webern Passacaglia

Richard Strauss Four Last Songs

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’

Ruth Reinhardt, ‘an incisive musician of real depth’ (Dallas Morning News), and rising star Jennifer Davis, ‘a star being born’ (The Telegraph), perform three works that decorously cloth the new in the old, celebrate the marriage of voice and orchestra, and hymn a rugged landscape of wild, untamed beauty.

Tickets €15, €23.50, €31, €38.50

Limited Concessions Available

10% Discount for Friends of NCH and Groups of 10 or more

Limited €10 Student Tickets Available

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra

Ruth Reinhardt

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