Irish Youth Choir Summer Concerts featuring works by Seán Doherty and Charles Villiers Stanford (Cork, Limerick, Dublin)

“Birds do sing, Hey ding-a-ding-ding….” Composers like birds!

Sing Ireland presents the Irish Youth Choir, conducted by Bernie Sherlock for a series of summer concerts in Cork, Limerick and Dublin. The concert programme features a work by Charles Villiers Stanford, and two works Seán Doherty including the world premiere of 'The Peace You Hold'.

Whether pieces are from the 1400s or 2021, or by Panufnik or Brahms, there’s a bird in there, somewhere. They appear in music that profoundly celebrates the whole wide world of nature. Sometimes they just sit above, wry observers of the canoodling behaviour of human lovers, and at other times they are feathered symbols of freedom or longing. And sometimes they are simply themselves, the stars in beautiful music that’s all about them.

Concerts take place in Cork (17 August), Limerick (19 August) & Dublin (20 August) - for venues and ticket links see below.

Programme

Roxanna Panufnik - Celestial Bird (Irish premiere)
Jacob Archadelt - Il bianco e dolce cigno
Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow
Brahms - O schöne Nacht
Jake Runestad - Why the Caged Bird Sings (Irish premiere)
Arr. Robert Sund - Alouette
Michael McGlynn - Eirí na Gréine
Rutter - Sing a Song of Sixpence
Monteverdi - Quel augellin che canta
Arr. Eoin Conway - *Sweet Lemany (World premiere)
Seán Doherty - Under-Song
Seán Doherty *The Peace You Hold (World premiere)
Stanford - The Blue Bird

*Commissioned by the Irish Youth Choir 2021.

Venues, Dates & Tickets 

CORK | Wednesday, August 17th, 19:00 | Curtis Auditiorium, MTU Cork School of Music | Booking here

LIMERICK | Friday, August 19th, 19:00 | St Marys Cathedral, Limerick | Booking here

DUBLIN | Saturday, August 20th, 20:00 | Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8 | Booking here