Dublin, 20-29 June 2008Celebrating the king of instrumentsPipeworks presents a diverse and exciting programme for its thirteenth festival. This year’s programme includes performances by organ virtuosi from the UK, France, Germany, the USA and Sweden; sees sixteen young, aspiring organists from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Russia, South Korea, the UK and the USA compete to win the Dublin International Organ Competition; features beautifully programmed concerts performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the National Chamber Choir; and presents a silent film with live organ accompaniment. |
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2008 sees the festival expanding to include recital trips to Dundalk and the beautiful cathedral city of Kilkenny with associated recitals in Galway and Wexford. Performances by the Silesian University choir from Gliwice, Poland and the National Chamber Choir acknowledge the great choral traditions of Eastern Europe.
The festival also presents Ireland’s major celebration of the centenary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth, performing all of his organ works as well as some of his choral and orchestral music. In short, a wonderful array of concerts, recitals, and masterclasses in the country’s finest churches, cathedrals and concert halls. Read on to discover the musical feast awaiting you in June, and find out how you can be associated with one of Ireland’s most innovative and distinctive musical events.
Download the full Pipework Festival 2008 brochure here (1MB PDF file).
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Reviews of the Pipeworks Festival, 20-29 June 2008
20 June, Pipeworks Festival Fanfare, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
"Visit the You Tube website and search under "improvisation". Among the thousands of videos you shall find, those devoted to art music are dominated by organists, especially from France. So it was appropriate that the opening concerts of the pipeworks festival of organ and choral music should showcase improvisation..."
"The National Chamber Choir [...] gave a technically assured and expressively intense performance of Messiaen's demanding Cinq Rechants (1948) for 12 solo voices. The songs were interspersed with improvisations from the virtuoso British organist, David Briggs. His Messiaen-esque textures [...] epitomised the flamboyance and control that can make French liturgical improvisation such a compelling experience."
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2008/0623/1214047001032.html
Martin Adams, Irish Times, 23 June 2008
23 - 28 June, Messiaen Centenary
Messiaen's "output for the organ is substantial, amounting to over seven hours' worth of music and Mark Duley, the artistic director of the Pipeworks festival, included a complete survey as a strand in this year's programme... The pipeworks survey gave listeners an unusal opportunity to sample the music in its entirety... David Leigh's late-night handling of the Livre du Saint sacrement in a darkened St Patrick's Cathedral was the highlight of the series"
"Margareta Hürholz's recital at St Michael's, Dún Laoghaire, where her incisive handling of the Offrande et Alléluia which rounds off the Livre du Saint Sacrement had a youngster in front of me beaming and bouncing with glee."
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2008/0630/1214764285566.html
Michael Dervan, Irish Times, 30 June 2008
Morning Ireland Interview, 20 June 2008
Listen to the Morning Ireland Interview of Pipeworks' Artistic Director Mark Duley and Chairwoman Kate Manning.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0620/morningireland.html
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