Exhibitions & Events
IRISH PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL AT THE
MUSIC LIBRARY, CORK CITY LIBRARIES
Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 June 2010 at 11 a.m
The Irish Performing Arts Festival is a new national festival established by COPE Foundation in 2009 to provide people with an intellectual disability, opportunities to display their artistic talents at a national level.
Eoin Nash, Artistic Director and founder of the festival, is a Music Therapist working in COPE Foundation and says that “COPE Foundation have been running concerts, shows and performing arts competitions internally as part of an arts development programme for many years. The feedback from these events has always been very positive”. It was from this stepping stone that Eoin contacted other organisations in the country in the hope to set up a national festival.
The 2010 Irish Performing Arts Festival will take place from Tuesday 22nd to Thursday 24th June 2010. All performances on Wednesday June 23rd 2010 are free and open to the public.
Categories in the festival include Dance, Drama, Instrumental and Song. The festival will take place in a number of venues across the city including Cork City Library, the Firkin Crane, the Cork School of Music and the Cork City hall. There will also be street performances on the Grand Parade. Performers from over thirty organisations across the country will travel to Cork for the festival, and just like last year a great atmosphere is expected around the city.
Further details can be obtained about the Irish Performing Arts Festival, performances and timetables on our website: http://www.irishperformingarts.ie/
Competition Timetable
Instrumental Rehearsal Timetable - Cork City Libraries - Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Time Organisations
11.00 St Mary's, Drumcar, St John of God North East Services, Co. Louth
11.10 Rosmini Resource Centre, Bandon, Cork
11.20 St Rapheal's, St John of God Kildare Services, Co. Kildare
11.30 CoAction, Bantry, Co. Cork
11.40 COPE Foundation, Cork
11.50 Kerry Eductional Service, Tralee, Co. Kerry
12.00 Brothers of Charity Services, Belmount Park Waterford
12.10 BREAK
12:40 St Margaret's Centre, Sisters of Charity, Dublin 4
12:50 MIDWAY, Navan, Co. Meath
01:00 Carraigbeag, St John of God Kildare Services, Co. Kildare
01:10 Rush Centre, Prosper Fingal, Rush, Co. Meath
Instrumental Competition Timetable - Cork City Libraries - Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Time Organisations
11.00 St Mary's, Drumcar, St John of God North East Services, Co. Louth
11.10 Rosmini Resource Centre, Bandon, Cork
11.20 St Rapheal's, St John of God Kildare Services, Co. Kildare
11.30 CoAction, Bantry, Co. Cork
11.40 COPE Foundation, Cork
11.50 Kerry Eductional Service, Tralee, Co. Kerry
12.00 Brothers of Charity Services, Belmount Park Waterford
12.10 BREAK
12:40 St Margaret's Centre, Sisters of Charity, Dublin 4
12:50 MIDWAY, Navan, Co. Meath
01:00 Carraigbeag, St John of God Kildare Services, Co. Kildare
01:10 Rush Centre, Prosper Fingal, Rush, Co. Meath
Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble
Wednesday 16 June at 12 p.m
Admission free
All Welcome
BEREA COLLEGE BLUEGRASS ENSEMBLE

The Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble was founded in the fall of 1999 to give Berea College Students with background or potential in bluegrass music an opportunity to play in a “working“ bluegrass band with weekly rehearsals, performances and travel. The group’s founder, Al White, has performed professionally with many bluegrass bands including the Bluegrass Alliance and the McLain Family Band, and teaches Appalachian Instruments at Berea College. Members are selected by audition, and typically remain with the group until they graduate from Berea College. Members also earn academic credit for each semester of participation in the group. The band’s recent tour of Japan marked its second visit there, the first being in 2006. The Bluegrass Ensemble toured Ireland in 2004 and 2007. The group performs for many functions at Berea College and has also performed at Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and at East Tennessee State University. The group has just returned from performing concerts at Glenville State College and in Silver Spring, Maryland. Band members include Will Haizlett, mandolin; Darrin Hacquard, guitar; John Bradley, bass; Andrew Taylor, fiddle; Micah Ruell, lead vocals, and Al White on banjo and fiddle.
CORK ROCKS FOR RORY
Saturday June 12 at 12p.m
Accoustic Set featuring Dave McHugh
Admission Free.
All Welcome
Bookscape
A day of live electronic sound interventions
by Francis Heery and Piaras Hoban
Saturday 29th May, Central Library, GrandParade, Cork
10 a.m - 5 p.m

Francis Heery
Francis Heery is a composer and performer living in Cork. He writes for both intrumental and electronic media and his works have been performed and broadcast on numerous occasions in Ireland and England. He holds a Masters degree in Music and Media Technology and is currently studying for a PhD in Composition in UCC. Francis was the winner of the first Fleischmann Composition Prize in 2010.
Piaras Hoban
Piaras Hoban is a composer currently based in Cork, where he is pursuing postgraduate studies at the School of Music, UCC. Recent performances include 'all pennies are the same' for guitar orchestra and 'ná bac leis an seanfhuaim' for violin and cello. His work has been performed at various festivals including the International Computer Music Conference, Gaudeamus Music Week, Sonorities Festival, DEAF and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Fleischmann Composition Prize 2010
FESTIVAL OF AFRICA
SPONSORED BY IRISH AID
21st - 23rd May Cork City 2010
FRIDAY 21st MAY - 1.00 pm (Free)
FESTIVAL OPENING CEREMONY
Cork City Library - Grand Parade
Unity drums with Raj Padam
Cork School students display their West African drumming skills featuring the following bands:
North Monastery CBS Secondary School
Scoil Padre Pio, Churchfield
Coláiste an Chroí Naofa, Carraig na bhFear
and Cork City African School children demonstrate their Irish Language skills
Official opening ceremony with Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Martin.
Fleischmann Centenary Events
A Life's Work: Pilib Ó Laoghaire Ceoltoir
Pilib Ó Laoghaire was born in 1909 and he was educated in Eason’s Hill School, the North Monastery and later at UCC. He taught Irish and through his teaching he fostered a love of singing amongst his students, this led to the beginnings of the Kilumney Choir in 1932. He then became a supervisor with the VEC and travelled some 250 miles each week by bicycle to organize some 23 choirs all over the county. It was Pilib’s ambition to set up amateur choirs all over the county and ultimately the whole country, performing to the highest standards. Pioneering music and singing in the Ireland of the time was a mammoth task as there wasn’t a tradition of choral singing and Pilib spent much of his time and energy into realising his ambition. In 1946 Coachford hosted the first choral festival in Ireland of which Pilib was an integral part. Cór Cois Laoi came in to being in 1947 and it was founded with the aim of promoting singing amongst ordinary people, and to convince them that music was not the preserve of the elite. In 1954 the first Cork International Choral Festival took place and it featured twenty of Pilib Ó Laoghaire’s choirs. Cór Cois Laoi grew in reputation and was very central to Pilib’s musical life until his retirement from the choir in 1972.
Lecture presented by Colom Ní Laoghaire on Pilib’s pioneering work on choral music in Cork.
Thursday, 13 May at 7.00 p.m.
Admission Free
The Herr & Cork’s Most Famous Choir

Herr Aloys Fleischmann who came to Cork in 1906 from Dachau was organist and choirmaster at the North Cathedral, Cork. His large choir became justifiably famous winning Feis Maitiu with full marks . The choir made many broadcasts on Radio Eireann, and the BBC. Joe Cunningham, a choir member and scholar of Aloys Fleischmann Snr, will outline the history of the choir and talk to other choir members including Bob Barry, Jim McKeon, David McInerney
The evening will include a performance by the present North Cathedral Choir
Conductor: Anne Roche and organist Joe Higgins
Tuesday, 18 May at 7.00 p.m.
Admission Free
Cork International Choral Festival
Liedertafel
at 12 p.m
On 3 October 1879 the tradition of the Liedertafel-style choirs established by Friedrich Zelter in 1808 found its way to
From 1987, when Peter Frank became choirmaster, the Liedertafel took a great leap forward in the development of its musical skills. Frank forged new paths by introducing the choir to the great works for choir and orchestra. Since 1989 the Liedertafel Dachau has performed Charpentier's Te Deum and other sacred music composed by Vivaldi, Mozart, Salieri and J. S. Bach, the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons by Haydn, Mozart's Requiem and Davide penitente, J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio and St John's Passion, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Brahms's Zigeunerlieder and Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, all in the Renaissance Banqueting Hall of Dachau Palace. In 2003 the choir participated in a memorial concert given by
ONDRASEK YOUTH CHOIR, CZECH REPUBLIC
Thursday April 29th at 2 p.m.

In 1992, Josef Zajiček, one of the first members of the choir, assumed the conductor’s baton of the Ondrasek Czech Youth Choir. Thus began a whole new chapter in the life of the choir; with great successes at home and followed by many prizes at international choir competitions and festivals. Now the name Ondrášek can be heard on the most prominent stages around
At home, the choir works with many major Czech composers (Otmar Mácha, Petr Eben, Ilja Hurník, Antonín Tučapský). Ondrášek has become a notable promoter of choral singing, and the choir organises musical programmes for children and young people, workshops for young conductors and, since 1996, a regular nationwide children’s choir competition. Over the 40 years, Ondrášek has become an inseparable part of musical life in the region of Nový Jičín. The concerts of the choir as a whole, i.e. performed by all sections of the choir, and New Year’s concerts, where the best of Czech and world’s ensembles, orchestras and interprets are presented, rank among the genuine cultural events of the town.
Since its beginnings Ondrášek has worked with radio and television studios. The choir has shot several series of musical youth programmes, for Czech Television and also recorded 6 CDs.
Ondrášek choir comes from the town of
Ondrášek and its leadership have been awarded many prestigious prizes and awards for their long-standing and systematic work in the fields of culture and education.
VOCALIS, NORWAY
Friday April 30th at 1 p.m.
Vocalis is one of Norway’s best female choirs. The choir was founded in 1987. The choir now has 32 voices, ranging in age between 18 – 51 years old.
Vocalis is well known for its rich, soft sound and has won many prices for its performances, both nationally and abroad. The choir’s most recent win was in Cantonigros, Spain, where the choir won 1st prize in the female choirs’ competition.
The repertoire is classical (mainly contemporary music), folk music, jazz and popular music. Vocalis has recorded three CDs; one with popular music (Øyeblikk – Moments), one with Christmas music (O Sanctissima) and the last one with mainly contemporary music ( Månekveld – Night of the moon).
Conductor Tone Bianca Dahl studied to be a singer and a pianist, and later a conductor. She finished her studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in 1991, as Master of Arts in choral conducting.
She is now associate professor in choral conducting at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, the conductor of the chamber choir Schola Cantorum and the female choir Vocalis, and is a frequent guest lecturer for choirs and choral conductors in the Nordic countries.
Many of the arrangements on the CD O Sanctissima are made by Tone Bianca, for female choir and cello. Tone Bianca has also composed a Requiem for equal voices, solo voices and percussion.
Music Library, Cork City Libraries,
Lifelong Learning Festival Programme
March 22 – 28 2010
Month of April “Fleischmann, Family and Friends” Exhibition.
Cork City celebrates Aloys Fleischmann’s life and work.
Monday 22 March
11 a.m.
"Town and Gown": The Contribution of Aloys Fleischmann to Cork’s Musical Life”. Lecture by Dr Susan O’ Regan CIT School of Music, on Professor Fleischmann's unique and lasting contribution to music in Cork.
2.00 – 3.30p.m
"Bodhran for Beginners" (Adults). Bring your bodhran and join Colm Murphy for a class. Colm is an acclaimed bodhran player and tutor who has performed and recorded with musicians including De Dannan, Seamus Creagh and Jackie Daly.
Places limited. Booking essential. Maxium no. 5 (BOOKED OUT)
Tuesday 23 March
11.a.m.
“What Sibelius Can Do For You” Stephen Lane, CIT School of Music a self confessed addict to Sibelius , presents an introduction to Sibelius software. This notation software has been described as the word processor for music. Stephen Lane currently works in the CIT Cork School of Music teaching ear training and music theory. He has a real interest in teaching people of all ages how to read, write and perform music and has developed a successful adult musicianship class in the CIT Cork School of Music which is open to the general public in the evenings.
The music notation software Sibelius allows people to produce professional printed versions of their music for publishing and general use. The software also plays back your music giving you instant feedback on the notes you type in from a simple piano piece to full orchestra. It is used by amateurs and professionals alike who wish to compose new music or simply make arrangements of existing music - all with the click of a mouse!! It is a fascinating and versatile piece of software, enjoyable to use with many valuable functions.
1.00p.m
iPods for the Terrified. A beginner’s guide to ipods, itunes, the istore and podcasts. Learn how to transfer music from a CD to your computer and ipod. Learn how to purchase music from the istore and subscribe to podcasts. Tutor Paul Devane. Places limited. Booking essential. (BOOKED OUT)
Friday 26 March
11.00a.m
Donizetti: The spirit of the man & his music: Gramophone Recital by Joan kennelly. Relax and enjoy a programme of vocal, classical and orchestral music.
2.00 - 3.30p.m
Bodhran for Beginners (Adult) Join Colm Murphy for a class.
*Booking Essential (PLACES STILL AVAILABLE)
Programme of Alois Fleischmann's Turmmusik for brass quartets
Monday, 21 December
3.00p.m.: Quartet from The Butter Exchange Band Church of St. Anne, Shandon, Cork.
Friday, 25 December
11.40a.m.: James Fitzgerald Memorial Band: Steps of the Church of Our Lady, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork.
Friday, 25 December
12.00 noon: Ballincollig Concert Band: Church of St. Mary & St. John, Ballincollig, Co. Cork.
Wednesday, 6 January
7.00 p.m.: Quartet from First Southern Brigade, Collins Barracks Central Library, Grand Parade, Cork
Herr Alois Fleischmann arrived in Cork in 1906.
“Before he left Dachau Fleischmann arranged a number of folk melodies, old Christmas carols, for wind ensemble and organized for them to be played from the steeple of the parish church on Christmas Eve each year. This lovely custom, which gives good insight into the nature and quality of his imagination, continued annually until 1945. It is said that the players of the Turmmusik (steeple music), as it was called, were asked to direct the music towards his mother’s house as a special greeting from her son in Ireland. He undoubtedly found the move from his native place very difficult. ‘Since then’, he remarked towards the end of his life, ‘I have been living in the past, dreaming of the old times, of the shadow play of youth, of the distant sun of home’
Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann: Field day Publications, Dublin, 2006
Other useful links
CIT Cork School of Music
Cork International Choral Festival
Cork Folk Festival
Cork Gigs
Cork Opera House
Cork Orchestral Society
Cork Symphony Orchestra
Crawford Art Gallery
East Cork Early Music Festival 2008
Everyman Palace Theatre
Guinness Jazz Festival
Guinnes Jazz Festival Fringe Events
Triskel Arts Centre
West Cork Chamber Music Festival
Whazon
Admission Free
All Welcome
Aloys Fleischmann
Cork City Libraries celebrate the life of Aloys Fleischmann Jnr. at the Central Library, Grand Parade, Cork
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 at 7.00 pm
• Opening of exhibition “Fleischmann, Family, & Friends”
• Launch of book The Fleischmanns: A Remarkable Cork Family – A Companion to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebration published by Cork City Libraries 2010
• Launch of The Fleischmann Centenary Programme Brochure : published by Cork City Council Fleischmann Working Group.
Keynote address by Emeritus Professor John A. Murphy.
The 52-page book includes well illustrated biographies on Tilly, Aloys Snr and Professor Aloys Fleischmann with many rare photographs. Text by Séamas de Barra, Ruth Fleischmann, and Patrick Zuk. The book is on sale for €10.
The exhibition tells the story of Prof Aloys Fleischmann - his childhood, his parents Tilly & Aloys, his career in UCC and in the city and is illustrated with photographs and other images. Digital selections of his letters, diaries, photographs, Dachau paintings, recordings and manuscript scores will be available for viewing.
The exhibition will remain in the Central Library until April 2010 and then tour other libraries and venues in Cork and around the country.
The Fleischmann Centenary Programme Brochure
Aloys Fleischmann is without doubt one of the most important figures in music in Ireland in the last century and to mark his centenary celebration a host of concerts, recitals, exhibitions, dance performances, public lectures, conferences and special tributes are taking place in Ireland, Germany, England, America and China throughout 2010..
All Welcome
