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Patricia Hegarty, conductor of the Tredagh Singers, receiving the CMC Choral Trophy from composer Michael Holohan. Photo: Jimmy Weldon |
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The Tredagh Singers, Drogheda, conducted by Patricia Hegarty, were the first prizewinners of the newly-commissioned Contemporary Music Centre Perpetual Trophy at the Cork International Choral Festival in May this year. The choir won the award for their performance of Michael Holohan's composition, Winter in Meath, to a text by John F. Deane. The Director of the Contemporary Music Centre, Eve O'Kelly, presented the trophy, designed by Annette Lappin, to John Fitzpatrick, Festival Director, on the Saturday night of the Festival in Cork's City Hall. Michael Holohan, as the Irish commissioned composer, was given the honour of presenting the trophy to the Tredagh Singers at the awards ceremony on Sunday, the closing night.
Other works by Michael Holohan were also presented at the Festival. The National Chamber Choir under their new conductor Celso Antures premiered Quis est Deus, a Festival commission, together with Patrick Bulgan's Cry. The DIT Chamber Choir conducted by Bernie Sherlock won the Pilib O'Laoghaire Memorial Trophy with their performance of Holohan's setting of the late Seán O'Riordaín's poem, Bagairt na Marbh, a work which was awarded the Festival's Seán Ó Riada Memorial Trophy when it was first composed in 1982.
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