Chamber Choir Ireland: O Radiant Dawn! featuring new music by Eoghan Desmond (Dublin & Carlingford)

26 November 2022 18:30 - 27 November 2022 16:00

Chamber Choir Ireland with guest conductor Eamonn Dougan.

A concert of choral works by James MacMillan, his Renaissance inspirations, and contemporary composers mentored by MacMillan himself: Eoghan Desmond and Kim Porter.

Desmond is an Irish composer and a singer with Chamber Choir Ireland, and was one of three composers selected by MacMillan to be mentored by him while writing a new work for the Genesis Foundation. Porter is an English composer and singer, and alumna of the University of Manchester, where Macmillan taught. As a member of the vocal ensemble The Sixteen, she has given the premiere of several of his major works.

Concerts in Dublin and Carlingford.

Programme

James MacMillan (Scotland, b.1959)—Sedebit Dominus rex noster
William Byrd (England, 1543-1623)—Christe qui lux es et dies
James MacMillan —Bring us, o Lord God
William Byrd—Miserere mihi, Domine
Kim Porter (UK, b.1965)—Pulchra Es Et Decora Irish premiere
Giovanni da Palestrina (Italy, 1525-1594)—Vineam meam
Kim Porter—Pied Beauty Irish premiere
Rafaella Alleotti (Italy, 1575-1620)—Vidi Speciosam
James MacMillan —Dominus Dabit Benignitatem
Rafaella Alleotti —Surge propera
Eoghan Desmond (Ireland, b.1989)—Nothing in vain [Irish premiere]
James MacMillan —O radiant dawn
Thomas Tallis—O nata lux
James MacMillan —Data est mihi

Dates, Venues & Ticket Links

26 November 2022 6:30pm | Pepper Canister Church, Dublin 2

27 November 2022 4:00pm | Carlingford Heritage Centre, Louth