2009 Programme
Friday 18th September
10am – 1200
Piano Masterclass
Barry Douglas gives his insights into performance and interpretation to piano
students of the Department of Music, Maynooth University at a public piano
masterclass. All welcome to come and listen.
Admission Free
Location: Long Gallery
1pm - 1.45pm
Concert: Lunchtime Concert in the Courtyard
An open-air and free recital by players from Camerata Ireland.
Admission Free
Location: West Courtyard
8pm
Concert: Barry Douglas and Camerata Ireland
The freshness of these piano works by Mozart express perfectly the beauty of
nature. By contrast, the Elegy for Strings by Carter has the sensuality and
coolness of a southern landscape, tinged with sadness and nobility.
Mozart
Piano Concerto No 18 in B flat K456
Elliott Carter
Elegy for Strings
Mozart
Symphony No 33 in B flat K 319
Tickets €30, €40
Location: Long Gallery
Saturday 19th September
1430 - 1600
Strings Workshop
With Michael d’Arcy, Leader of Camerata Ireland and other members of
Camerata Ireland, working with music students of Maynooth University studying
violin, viola, cello or double bass. All welcome to come and listen.
Admission Free
Location: The Nursery
8pm
Barry Douglas and Camerata Ireland
Tchaikovsky was a nationalistic composer but was not limited by this – his visit to
Florence inspired this string sextet “Souvenir de Florence”, arranged for string
orchestra. Mendelssohn wrote music of great depth and spirituality from a very
early age and his String Sinfonia was quite remarkably written in his teens.
Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No 10 in B minor for strings
Bartók: Divertimento for Strings
Kinsella: Nocturne for Strings
Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D minor ‘Souvenir de Florence’ Op 70
Tickets: €40, €30
Location: Long Gallery
Sunday 20th September
10am – 12pm Workshop
Barry Douglas, Michael d’Arcy and members of Camerata Ireland give an open
rehearsal to the Kildare County Orchestra. All welcome to come and listen.
Admission Free
Location: Long Gallery
1215 - 1315
A Talk on Palladian Architecture and Music
Dr Rhona Clarke, composer and member of Aosdána, and artist Marie Hanlon
give a talk on the relationship between music and architecture of the classical
period in the Palladian style, of which Castletown is one of Ireland’s greatest
examples.
Admission Free
Location: The Nursery
3pm
Concert: Ensemble Avalon
Ioana Petcu-Colan, violin
Gerald Peregrine, cello
Michael McHale, piano
All members of the Camerata Ireland family, Ensemble Avalon features three of
Ireland’s best known soloists and chamber musicians. Established to discover
and perform new and existing piano trio repertoire together, their début CD
recorded with producer Jonathan Allen of Abbey Road, London, has been
described as ‘sunlit playing’ by The Strad and ‘In the front rank of modern
versions on disc’ by Classical Music Magazine. The Ensemble have recently
inaugurated their own festival in Wexford: the Ensemble Avalon Chamber Music
Winter Festival.
Haydn
Piano Trio in E flat Major Hob:XV 30
Mendelssohn
Piano Trio no 1 in D minor Op 49
Shostakovich
Piano Trio no 2 in E minor Op 67
Tickets €20 (Location: Long Gallery)
8pm
Concert: Field and His Contemporaries
David Quigley, piano
Sophie Cashell, piano
The Irish composer John Field’s creation of the nocturne inspired the composer Frederick Chopin
to develop the genre further. Camerata Ireland invites two of Ireland’s most talented young
pianists to celebrate the legacy of this great Irish composer in a programme of Field, Chopin and
Clementi, another contemporary and friend of John Field.
David Quigley, the 2002 Camerata Ireland/ Accenture Young Musician of the year, is also founder
and Director of the Birmingham International Piano Academy. David has performed as recitalist
and concerto soloist worldwide in many major concert halls including Carnegie Hall (New York),
Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and the Musikverein (Vienna). Sophie Cashell, winner of the
2008 BBC Classical Star, has just launched her first recording of Liszt, Chopin, Kapustin,
Debussy, Ravel and Martin while completing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in
London.
Clementi: Fantasy and Variations on the air “Au Clair de Lune”
Field: Nocturne No 5 in B flat
Field: Nocturne No 7 in C
Dussek: Sonata in E flat Op 44 “Farewell to Clementi”
Dussek: Sonata in B flat Op 38 (piano duet)
Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor Op 27 No 1
Chopin: Nocturne in D flat Op 27 No 2
Chopin: Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor
Tickets €20
Location: Long Gallery