Cloudburst - The Irish Youth Choir Summer Concerts

18 July 2023 19:30 - 20 July 2023 19:00

Sing Ireland is delighted to present the Irish Youth Choir, under the direction of conductor Bernie Sherlock.

This summer, the Irish Youth Choir will perform a very special programme for audiences in Limerick (Tuesday 18 July) and in Dublin (Thursday, 20 July) which includes newly commissioned work by Eoghan Desmond and Eoin Conway.

These concerts are the culmination of this year's Irish Youth Choir Summer Course. At the heart of the programme is Cloudburst by the American composer Eric Whitacre - his exciting, personal response to a cloudburst he experienced in the desert - and Rautavaara’s dramatic Suite de Lorca. This year’s whole programme is infused with human responses to the natural world in beautiful music by Brahms, Morley, Eric Esenvalds, Rosephayne Powel, and Eleanor Daley. The programme also includes the premiere of a specially commissioned new work for choir by CMC represented composer Eoghan Desmond entitled The Last Bird, inspired by the last song of the kaua‘i ‘ō’ō bird in 1967. Also specially commissioned, is a new arrangement of Síos an Sliabh by Eoin Conway.

The Irish Youth Choir is an ensemble made up of singers from ages 18-28 who participate in an intensive summer course each year hosted at the University of Limerick. They perform in two summer concerts each year and recently participated in the 13th European Festival of Youth Choirs in Basel, Switzerland earlier this year.

Programme

Cloudburst Eric Whitacre

Suite de Lorca Einojuhani Rautaavara

The Storm is Passing Over Arr. Barbara Baker

Let Everything That Hath Breath Jeffrey Ames

Esti Dal Zoltan Kodály

My luve is like a red red rose Ēriks Ešenvalds

Grandmother Moon Eleanor Daley

Shenendoah Arr. James Erb

In Stiller Nacht Johannes Brahms

Here comes the sun Arr Kirby Shaw

Now is the Month of Maying Thomas Morley

The Word was God Rosephayne Powell

Síos an Sliabh* Arr. Eoin Conway

The Last Bird* Eoghan Desmond

*World Premiere

Dates, Venues and Ticket Links 

7.30pm, Tuesday 18 July | St.Mary’s Cathedral, Bridge Street, Limerick | Booking on Eventbrite 

7pm, Thursday 20 July | TUD Concert Hall, TU Dublin Conservatoire Grangegorman Dublin | Booking on Eventbrite