Cork International Choral Festival Opening Gala Concert

The opening Gala Concert of the 2018 Cork International Choral Festival will bring the works of two Irish composers to Cork: Aloys Fleischmann’s Clare’s Dragoons with Band of the Defence Forces (Owen Gilhooly – Baritone) along with Bernard Geary’s In Praise of a City (Mairead Buicke – Soprano and Goethe Institute Choir, Viva Voce Choir and East Cork Choral Society), conducted by Lt. Col. Mark Armstrong.

While originally scored for orchestra, both works have been newly orchestrated for wind band, soprano soloist and mixed voice choir especially for the Opening Gala Concert of the 2018 Festival,