New Music Dublin 2025: A Child of the Universe

Featuring: Cór Linn; Cór na nÓg; Mary Amond O’Brien:  conductor Cór na nÓg ; Ciarán Kelly:  conductor Cór Linn; Carole O’Connor:  accompanist; Leinster String Quartet: Deirdre Reddy, Rachel Grimes violin ; Niamh Roche viola; Aoife Dennedy cello); Andreja Malír: harp.

The NCH Youth Choirs return for their seventh consecutive New Music Dublin performance, including two world premieres commissioned for the Festival. 

This year’s programme has young people as its focus, encouraging them, and their audience, to be true to themselves in an ever-changing world. Seán Doherty and Marian Ingoldsby’s pieces are light in style, yet thoughtful, while both choirs combine for A Child of the Universe, a setting of the moving Desiderata text by Max Ehrmann—now almost 100 years old but as relevant today as ever.

Presented by New Music Dublin.
Sponsored by RTE/NCH/Arts Council Ireland.

Programme

Seán Doherty - All the Things Magicians Do (text by C.S. Lewis)
Sue Furlong - Peace Songs from County Wexford
Marian Ingoldsby - Mol an Óige (World Premiere) (texts: Irish proverb, Emily Dickinson, commissioned by New Music Dublin)
Sue Furlong - Mo Ghile Mear 
Ciarán Kelly / Carl Corcoran - A Child of the Universe (World Premiere) (text by Max Ehrmann, commissioned by New Music Dublin)

Tickets

€15. Booking at New Music Dublin.