History

03.07.06 - 13.07.06   Kyushu, Japan

Cork Children's Chorus Cultural Exchange Programme

3rd International Music Festival for Youth

Cork Children's Chorus, Seraphim, Sonya Keogh

Conductor: John O'Brien

Thursday 06.07.06:   Shibushi-city Cultural Hall

Saturday 08.07.06: Daiichi High School, Kirishima City

Monday 10.07.06: St Xavier's Cathedral, Kagoshima City

Thursday 11.07.06 Ijyuin Culture Hall, Hioki City

Wednesday 31.05.06 8 p.m.   City Hall, Cork

Fundraising Gala Night in support of the Cork Children's Chorus Cultural Exchange Programme 2005 / 2006.

Cork Children's Chorus, Seraphim, Sonya Keogh, Four Star Trio, Fuschia Band, Crawford Piano Trio, Madrigal '75.

Saturday 29.04.06 5 p.m.   St Fin Barre's Cathedral

Cork Children's Chorus, Seraphim, Sonya Keogh

A performance of mixed repertoire as part of the official calendar of the Cork International Choral Festival.

Friday 14.04.06   8 p.m.   Honan Chapel, UCC

Stabat Mater

Conductor: John O'Brien

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater in a new setting for female chorus and Jazz ensemble.

Featuring Seraphim, Karl Rooney, Michael Lynch, Carolyn Goodwin - Saxophones, Derek Cremin - Piano, and Deirdre Frost - Electric Bass.

This performance will support the Cork Children's Chorus Cultural Exchange Programme 2005 / 2006.

Thursday 13.04.06   8 p.m.   Honan Chapel, UCC

Sacred Music Series (V): Honan Mass by John O'Brien

Conductor: John O'Brien

The Works Chorus with Sonya Keogh - Mezzo Soprano, and string quartet perform the premiere of the Honan Mass, commissioned from John O'Brien by the Honan Chapel.

Attendance is free. All welcome.

24.12.05 6.30 p.m.   RTE1

Carols From Cork 2005

Musical Director: John O'Brien

A Cork 2005 and RTÉ production broadcast on Christmas Eve 2005.

The event, recorded in November 2005, with a festive theme and including an array of guest artists including Sir James Galway, Majella Cullagh, Dennis O'Neill, Jean Kelly, and G4, along with Cork Children's Chorus, Seraphim, and Madrigal '75. Mary McAleese, President of Ireland reads, together with a number of well known Cork sporting personalities. Carols From Cork 2005 is presented by Gay Byrne.

The programme is punctuated by performances of Seasonal Carols sung by an audience of massed choirs and including The Works Chorus.

Cork Children's Chorus Cultural Exchange Programme (Part I)

28.11.05 - 04.12.05

The first leg of the Cultural Exchange Programme 2005 / 2006 took place in November / December 2005 with the arrival of 'Little Cherries Tamae' in Cork.

Little Cherries stayed with members of the Cork Children's Chorus, performed and went to school.

Perfromances by Little Cherries included a special concert for Cork Children's Chorus in Millennium Hall, City Hall; paticipation in Carols from Cork 2005, and in the Lord Mayor's Gala Concert in City Hall.

The return trip will take place in the first week of July 2006, when Cork Children's Chorus will perform in three cities in Japan, as part of the 'International Music Festival for Youth' on the southern island of Kyushu.

03.12.05 8 p.m.   City Hall, Cork

Lord Mayor's Christmas Gala Concert

Cork Children's Chorus and Little Cherries Tamae perform as part of the Lord Mayor's Christmas Gala Concert.

12.11.05   Millennium Hall, City Hall, Cork

Criteria?

Cork Opera Works in association with Cork City Council and the Arts Council present The Cork Children's Chorus Composer-in-Residence Programme 2005.

As part of Cork City Council's Criteria? Artist-in-Residence Programme, International Film Composer, C.S.L. Parker is currently resident in Cork and has become an honorary member of Cork Children's Chorus.

Over the past few months the children have shared their stories of the sea with C.S.L. Parker. In return, C.S.L. Parker has created waltzes, inspired by their maritime tales, for them to perform.

Ships and Waltzes, the publication and CD, are currently available for sale in our web shop.

26.11.05   Millennium Hall, City Hall Cork

Fujiwaria Chorus

Cork Children's Chorus host the chorus of the Fujiwara Opera, the National State Opera of Japan, in a private concert where the choruses perfromed for each other, and perform together works from the Cork Children's Chorus repertoire.

08.11.05 8 p.m.   Honan Chapel UCC

Sacred Music Series (IV): Requiem by John Rutter

Mezzo Soprano: Sonya Keogh

Conductor: John O'Brien

The Works Chorus with chamber ensemble of flute, oboe, cello, harp, organ and percussion perform Rutter Requiem. In association with the Honan Chapel UCC, and the UCC Student's Union.

This performance takes place in a liturgical setting.

27.10.05 7.30 p.m.    Silver Springs Moran Hotel

An Evening with Cara O'Sullivan and Guests

Cork Children's Chorus join Cara O'Sullivan on stage along with Mairead Hickey, violin, and the Carlow Young Artists Choir.

Tickets are €20 and are available from Pro Musica, Oliver Plunkett Street. Tel: 021 427 1659

21.10.05 8 p.m.   Cork Opera House

24 Songs by C.S.L. Parker

Sonya Keogh
Seraphim
With String Orchestra, Piano and Harp

Conductor: John O'Brien

Experience the sound world of international film composer C.S.L. Parker. Journey through a galaxy of vivid dreams, colours and emotions, of soaring melodies and rich, lush harmonies.

Cork Opera Works, in association with Cork Opera House, present 12 Songs for Seraphim, and Twelve Songs for Sonya, commissioned by Cork Opera Works from composer-in-residence C.S.L. Parker.

www.corkoperahouse.ie

20.05.05  - 22.05.05   Cork Opera House

Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck

Cork Opera Works in association with Cork Opera House present Engelbert Humperdinck's fairytale opera for children as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of Cork Opera House.

Hansel: Catrin Johnsson
Gretel: Yvette Bonner
Mother / Witch: Sonya Keogh
Father: Adrian Powter

Director: Helen Eastman
Conductor: John O'Brien

Cork Children's Chorus
Cork Opera Works Orchestra

Wednesday 18th May 7.30 p.m.
Thursday 19th May 12 Mid-day (Schools Performance)
Friday 20th May 7.30 p.m.
Saturday 21st May 8 p.m.
Sunday 22nd May 3 p.m. (Cork Opera House 150th Anniversary Celebrations)

www.corkoperahouse.ie

30.04.05   St Fin Barre's Cathedral

Judith & Holofernes by John Gibson

Judith: Julia Canavan
Holofernes: Martin Higgins
Uzziah: Sonya Keogh
Achior: Gerry Noonan

Director and Musical Director: John O'Brien

Cork Opera Works, in association with Cork 2005, and the Cork International Choral Festival, present a single performance of John Gibson's Judith & Holofernes.

Judith & Holofernes is a chamber opera commission by Cecil Hurwitz to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the PEACE movement in Cork. It tells the Biblical story of the beheading of Holofernes by Judith.

The opera is set for a chamber ensemble of piano, recorder, trumpet and percussion, soloists and chorus. The performance, as part of Cork International Choral Festival 2005, was the first staged production of this work.

www.cork2005.ie www.corkchoral.ie www.johncgibson.com

21.04.05 - 30.04.05   Everyman Palace Theatre

Madame T adapted by Johnny Hanrahan with music by Cormac O'Connor

Director: Johnny Hanrahan
Musical Director: John O'Brien

'Meridian Theatre Company and Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture in association with Cork Opera Works present Madam T. Based on Maupassant's comic masterpiece The House of Madam Tellier this large-scale production will bring together chorus, musicians, opera singers and actors to create a music-theatre piece that celebrates the holy in the unholy.'

www.meridiantheatre.com www.cork2005.ie

26.03.05 Honan Chapel, UCC

Sacred Music Series (III)

Conductor: John O'Brien.

Cork Children's Chorus, Cork Opera Works String Orchestra with wind and organ, and soloists perform Mass No.2 in G by Schubert, in an arrangement for young voices.

16.03.05 Honan Chapel, UCC

Sacred Music Series (II)

Soloists: Deirdre Moynihan, Soprano; Sonya Keogh, Alto; Tim Fouhy, Tenor; John Dempsey, Bass.

Conductor: John O'Brien.

The Works Chorus, Cork Opera Works String Orchestra and soloists perform Solemn Vespers by Mozart.