Saturday October 26, 8pm NATIONAL CONCERT HALL
Robert Ames, conductor
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Stephen Bell Principal Guest Conductor • Gavin Maloney Associate Principal Conductor • Proinnsías Ó Duinn Conductor Laureate • Guy Barker Associate Artist • Zoë Conway Associate Artist • Mia Cooper Leader
Robert Ames, conductor
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra perform classic gaming scores, from Final Fantasy VIII to Fallout 4, journeying through orchestral story arcs and capturing the thrill of gameplay.
With its complex worlds and adventurous storylines, video gaming goes handin-hand with orchestral music and epic soundtracks, with games like Kingdom Hearts, The Shadow of the Colossus and Skyrim inspiring some of the most inventive contemporary sounds and suspenseful scores.
Experience the music of gaming as it breaks out from its screens and speakers into full orchestra sound, with conductor Robert Ames, who led the first Gaming Prom at the BBC Proms. Taking the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on a quest through universes, they perform iconic scores from games like The Legend of Zelda, through to Jessica Curry’s haunted soundscapes in Dear Esther, and to the new worlds of Hildur Guðnadóttir’s critically acclaimed Battlefield 2042.
Presented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Concert programme subject to change.
First violins
Mia Cooper
David McElroy
Eileen Comer
Hugh Murray
Lidia Jewloszewicz-Clarke Christopher Quaid István Barnácz Anita Vedres
Double basses
Trumpets
Quigley
Ní Ghríófa Camille Farrar
Robyn Bell
Niamh McGowan
Violas
Lisanne Melchior
David Kenny
Elizabeth O’Neill
Gawain Usher
Craig Pecherek
Cellos
Margaret Doris Annette Cleary Delia Lynch
Paula Hughes
Murnaghan
Bassoons
O’Rourke
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Clíona Warren
Horns Cormac Ó hAodáin
Declan McCarthy Fearghal Ó Ceallacháin
André Kavanagh
Foster
Kevin Corcoran
Brian Dungan
Chris Goody
Harp
Geraldine O’Doherty
Piano & Keys
Shane McVicker
Acting General Manager
Andrew Smith
Acting Orchestra Manager
Conor Byrne
Planning & Event
Co-ordinator
Mary Sexton
PR Executive
Angela Rohan
Marketing Executive
Frances Wilde
Librarian
Mary Adams
Senior Orchestral
Assistant
John Nugent
Orchestral Assistant
Gavin O’Sullivan