12 Henrietta St. Dublin 1

16th October 2022 Music 4pm

Doors 3.30pm

Duo Chagall (Gillian Williams, violin; Arun Rao, cello); Marco Ramelli, guitar

Latin Music for Guitar and Strings

Niccolò PAGANINI (1782-1840): Andante Cantabile Op.17 for violin & guitar

Benjamin GODARD (1849-1895): Sonata n B minor Op. 20 (No.1) for solo violin

 Prelude: lento; adagio – Gavotte – Adagio – Menuets 1 & 2

PAGANINI: Variations on one string on a theme from Rossini’s ‘Moses’ transcr. for cello & guitar

Eugène YSAŸE (1858-1931): Sonata Op.28 for solo cello

 Grave – Intermezzo: grazioso – In modo di recitativo (adagio) – Finale con brio 

PAGANINI: Terzetto (MS 69) for violin, cello & guitar

 Allegro con brio – Minuetto & Trio – Andante – Rondo: Allegretto

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One of Ireland’s finest classical music partnership, Duo Chagall came into being in 1991when two music students

at the Guildhall School, London, decided to sight-read Kodaly’s Duo Op.7. Dublin-born violinist Gillian Williams

and French cellist Arun Rao have since collaborated with a host of eminent pianists, string players and Irish

composers in recitals featuring neglected masterpieces from the 19th and 20th centuries, along with a host of world

premieres. They were invited to host their own classical music series in Pezenas, France (2010-12), and instigated,

curated and performed a series commemorating French music in the Great War at The Hugh Lane (2015-16). Duo

Chagall are artistic directors of the classical music series ‘Autumn Sounds’ which takes place every September at the

Ballroom, Farmleigh since 2011, under the patronage of Fingal County Council and OPW; past series presented the

complete chamber music of Schumann (2014-17) & Debussy (2018). The duo released a CD of works by Ravel,

Milhaud & Handel in 2009. In addition, Ms. Williams recently recorded an album of short violin works titled ‘The

French Violin’, which includes the world premiere of the ‘Idyll’ by Marguerite Canal, as well as Ravel’s famous ‘Tzigane’.

Ms Williams and Mr Rao both lecture at the Conservatory of Music, TU Dublin.

Born in Milan, Italian guitarist and composer Marco Ramelli obtained a Doctorate in Music Performance from the

Royal Conservatory of Scotland, having previously studied under Allan Neave (guitar) and Rory Boyle (composition).

First Prize winner at the inaugural ‘Scottish International Guitar Competition’ (Glasgow), the ‘Blas Sánchez

Competition’ (Canary Islands) and the ‘Città di Seveso Competition’ among others, Second Prize at the prestigious

‘International Guitar Competition’ (Sevilla) & ‘Concours de guitare espagnole’ (Albi), his solo career brought him to

numerous international festivals in Italy and the UK (Brighton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, etc). As composer, Marco

won the prestigious ‘World Guitar Composition Competition’ in Serbia with “Im Nebel, homage to Kengiro Azuma”. His

music is performed by internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles including Lorenzo Micheli, Sean Shibe, Andrea

Dieci, Alberto Mesirca, Duo Ricci-Colonna and Juliane Bergemann. He recorded several solo CDs for Nimbus

(‘Energico’, 2013) & BrilliantClassics (‘Gerhardt & Mompou, complete works’, 2018), and works by Manuel Castillo, in

collaboration with various guitarists, for Naxos. He lectures at the Conservatory of Music, TU Dublin.

Ensemble Revelare, formed in 2018, brings together four musicians with a passion for baroque music and expertise in historical performance. The ensemble presents works by seventeenth and eighteenth-century composers, both familiar and lesser-known, many of whom have a connection to Ireland. Repertoire includes vocal and instrumental music, exploring various tonal colours of the group, all with a keen awareness of historically informed performance on period instruments. The ensemble recently performed at The Irish Georgian Society in Dublin; forthcoming engagements include Kaleidoscope Night and @TheDrawingRoom Series in Dublin.

Programme:

Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677–1726) – Idol mio bel tesoro, Cantata 38

Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752) – When Loves soft passion (pub. London 1720) From Six English Cantatas

Henry Purcell (1659–1695) – ‘The Plaint’ from The Fairy Queen, Z. 629

Francesco Saverio Geminiani – Variations on Scottish airs from ‘A Treatise in Good Taste in the Art of Musick’  (pub. London 1749)

Francesco Mancini (1672–1737) – Sonata I in d minor (pub. London 1724)

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678–1741) – All’ombra di Sospetto RV 678

Aisling Kenny – Soprano

Galway soprano, Aisling Kenny, is a soloist and ensemble singer specialising in early music and art song. She performs regularly at home and across Europe. She studied music at Maynooth University, and vocal performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel, with Evelyn Tubb. She has participated in master classes with Paul Farrington, Margreet Honig, Emma Kirkby and Andreas Scholl. Aisling sings regularly as a soloist in oratorio: recent performances include Handel’s Messiah in Cork with Resurgam and the Irish Baroque Orchestra, dir. Monica Huggett and Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Dublin Bach Singers, dir. Blanaid Murphy. An active recitalist of Lieder and lute song, she has presented recitals in Basel, Oxford and in Ireland, most recently in the Hugh Lane Gallery and Music for Galway recital series. Aisling has performed as a soloist in several festivals including the Galway Early Music Festival and Kilkenny Arts Festival. Spring 2018 sees solo engagements in Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Eastbourne) and Messiah (Halle). An experienced ensemble singer, Aisling is a member of Resurgam and Chamber Choir Ireland, and has sung with Ensemble Marsyas, Crux Vocal Ensemble, Atalante, and The Cardinall’s Musick.

Theresa Burton – Recorder

Theresa is a recorder player and choral singer based in Dublin, Ireland. Theresa gained her bachelor’s degree in music at Dartington College of Arts, and went on to study Recorder for the Masters music performance degree at Utrecht Conservatorium,The Netherlands with Leo Meilink, Baldrick Deerenburg, and Heiko ter Schegget. She was subsequently awarded the Nuffic scholarship in 1998 and 1999 for her Recorder studies. Theresa has participated in recorder masterclasses, Early and Contemporary chamber music courses with Sebastien Marc, Renemarie Verhagen, Peter van Heijghen, Walter Van Hauwe, Marion Verbruggen, Peter Holtslag, Philip Thorby, and Wilbert Hazelzet and Harry Spaarnaay. Theresa plays regularly in diverse ensembles in Oxford, London, Edinburgh, Israel and the Netherlands. She has given performances in diverse clubs and festivals including Utrecht Early Music Festival fringe, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Vredenburg Lunch concert series, Concert series at St Michael the Northgate, Oxford, Engelsekerk Amsterdam, and the Dartington Music Festival. In 2017 she made a tour of Israel with a Jewish baroque programme, and workshops for schools with Israeli Recorder Player Adi Silberberg. New works for recorder have been written for Theresa and her ensembles by composers Nuno Corte Real, Dimitris Andrikopoulos and Jaap Visser. Theresa improvised the soundtrack to Channel 4 film ‘Laws of Nature’ (Tony Hill,1997). Theresa particularly enjoys playing 17th and 18th century vocal chamber music with singers and recently played with Marlborough Baroque orchestra and Dublin Bach Singers. Highlights this summer and beyond include a programme of cantatas by Handel and his contemporaries at the Irish Georgian Society in Dublin with soprano Aisling Kenny, and with Ensemble Chant21, and tenor Jacek Wislocki for a 17th century programme of unpublished Polish and Italian works directed by Jurek Zak.

Rachel Factor – Harpsichord

Rachel is a graduate of The Royal Irish Academy of Music and NUI Maynooth. She has performed with many of Ireland’s leading ensembles including The Irish Chamber Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, The Orchestra of St. Cecilia amongst others. Rachel has also held solo engagements in London most recently at Handel House. Rachel is harpsichord professor at DIT Conservatory of Music and holds the position of local centre examiner at The Royal Irish Academy of Music. In 2010 Rachel was the recipient of The Arts Council Music Network Capital Scheme award. This afforded her the opportunity to commission a harpsichord. She now plays a single manual ‘petit ravelmant’ Flemish harpsichord crafted by Andrew Wooderson after Ioannes Ruckers 1628. Rachel is also recipient of The Arts Council 2017 Artist Bursary. She gratefully acknowledges the support of both Music Network and The Irish Arts Council.

Margaret Doris- Cello

Margaret Doris is a cellist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and an assistant lecturer in cello at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. She is a graduate of The Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and Indiana University, Jacob’s School of Music, where she studied the cello with Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and baroque cello with Stanley Ritchie. Margaret has a keen interest in music research and completed a PhD in early British cello treatise studies and its link to provincial cello playing at DIT Conservatory of Music of Drama, Dublin.

• Mozart Divertimento in D (K136)
• Finegan ‘..Against Adding a Single Note’
• Janacek Suite for Strings
• Grieg Holberg Suite Op.40.

The World Doctors’ Orchestra was founded in 2008. Since their first concert in the Berlin Philharmonie, they have played 57 concerts in some of the greatest halls across the globe, to over 50,000 people. They have had the pleasure of accompanying world class soloists, and providing musical and medical outreach to those in need. Whilst bringing together like-minded professionals from every corner of the world, the WDO aims to use quality music making to raise as much money as possible for good causes.

Out of this is born a new ensemble, focusing on the joy of string repertoire. The WDO Strings are excited to explore this genre together whilst taking the WDO to new horizons.

‘Lights, Camera, Affiniti’ celebrates the best loved music from the movies. From ‘Love Actually’s’ Portuguese Love Theme to Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffanys, and the many guises of Gabriel’s Oboe, the show spans all eras and styles, delivered in Affinití’s unique classical crossover style.

Affinití is made up of Emer Barry (Soprano), Aisling Ennis (Harp) and Mary Mc Cague (Violin). All three are classically trained and Masters of their instruments but it is their unique combination of Classical, Celtic and Chart music and their genuine ‘affinity’ with one another that makes them truly special. In 2014, The Boston Globe described them as “full of soul, sass and sophistication, as well as exquisite technique”

Affiniti has become popular on the Irish Corporate and Concert Market with their haunting sound and their commitment to providing showstopping performances. They have been backed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in concert at Mooney Tunes in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre and the FILMharmonic orchestra Prague for their charity single O Holy Night which reached Number 1 in the Irish download charts at Christmas 2014 and has garnered over a million hits on YouTube.

Affiniti made their American debut in 2014 taking in Texas, Washington State, New York, Oregon, Chicago and Boston. This kickstarted an ‘affinity’ with the American audience and they have since returned to tour the States in December 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 to sold out shows in the North West and New York.