Workshop

2.30pm – 4pm

Strings Workshop

With Michael d’Arcy, Leader of Camerata Ireland and other members of the orchestra, 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

Concert

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 Book Tickets

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Workshop

10am – 12pm

Orchestral 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

Talk

12.15pm – 1.15pm

Palladian Architecture and Music

Dr Rhona Clarke, composer, 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

Concert

3pm

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 internationally accomplished 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, entitled 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 Book Tickets

Location: Long Gallery

Concert

8pm

Alex Kobrin, piano & Sophie Cashell, piano

Since winning the prestigious 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, young Russian pianist Alex Kobrin engagements include performing with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. He replaces David Quigley who has cancelled due to a hand injury.

Sophie Cashell, winner of the 2007 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.

The programme, originally intended to explore the legacy of Field, Chopin and Clementi, has been altered as follows:

Haydn Sonata in D major Hob 16/37 (Alex Kobrin)
Haydn Sonata in E minor Hob XVI:34 (Alex Kobrin)
Beethoven Sonata No 13 in E flat major (Alex Kobrin)
Liszt Ballade No 2 in B minor (Sophie Cashell)
Field Nocturne No 5 in B flat (Sophie Cashell)
Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor (Sophie Cashell)
Chopin Nocturne in D flat Op 27 No 2 (Sophie Cashell)

Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor (Sophie Cashell)

*Please note that this programme is changed since Friday 28th August, 2009

Tickets €20 Book Tickets

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