Flower Children
Pictured left: Afternoon Flower Bearers Aoife Mulcahy and Laura Glynn. Aoife: “I had a fantastic day backstage meeting all the crew for the 20th Festival. It was a great honour...
Category: 20th Festival at the NCH
The Concert Programme
Performances take place at 3pm and 8pm featuring four orchestras in each concert. You can read all the pieces to be played in this post.
ConCorda: The Primavera String Quartet
Allegro vivace from String Quartet in F Major Op.41 No.2 by Robert Schumann Jessica O’Shea (violin), Maggie O’Shea (violin), Róisín Donohoe (viola), Aoife Rodgers (guest cellist). All members of the Primavera String...
Grace Coughlan
Grace is a Transition Year student at Loreto Secondary School Fermoy, County Cork, a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, Cork Youth Orchestra, the Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra and ConCorda.
ConCorda
ConCorda offers talented string players aged between 14 and 21 an inspiring and transforming musical experience in chamber music, string orchestra and music improvisation. Participants study chamber music intensively at...
IAYO Festival Orchestra
For many years, Professor James Cavanagh of the Royal Irish Academy of Music has suggested bringing players from member orchestras throughout the country together to perform at the Festival of...
Coole Music Youth Orchestra
Coole Music Youth Orchestra (CMYO) was founded in the autumn of 2006 with fifteen young string players. From there it has more than doubled its numbers and developed a mature...
Young Orchestral Pops Orchestra
Performing Planxty Fanny Power & Cork Hornpipe (arr. Leo Rowsome) with Mark Lysaght on Uilleann Pipes. The Young Orchestral Pops (YOPS) Orchestra was set up in 2002 under the direction of...