TO celebrate love:live music in Limerick on Friday April 16, a day of free music organised by Music Network, there are three pubic concerts taking place in three venues. RTE lyricfm is sponsor to this national day of simultaneous recitals, broadcasts, recordings and events.
CoMA Limerick creates “a weird and wonderful” lunchtime concert, 1.10pm-1.50pm at Hunt Museum. Expect Irish premiers by living composers for the half-hour show organised by Fiona Linnane and Belltable Art Centre.
The flagship event is a concert opening with pianist Greg Felton and his trio band mates Cormac O’Brien on double bass and Seán Carpio, drums, teaming with guest vocalist Isa Wiss.
The venue is St John’s Church, Daghdha, 2pm-4pm for Friday 16, and RTE lyric fm is cosponsor. John Kelly’s Ensemble programme will broadcast live extracts of this diverse couple of hours.
The three exciting young talents of Syrius Trio (Elizabeth Cooney, violin; Jane Cords-O’Hara, cello and Bobby Chen piano) join the Daghdha force, presenting their repertoire for piano trio.
Complementing the concert is early music duo Tonos (Róisín O’Grady, soprano and Eamon Sweeney, baroque guitar) who specialises in the little-known 17th and 18th centuries’ repertoire for voice and guitar.
Friday 16’s love:live music national music day closes with an elegant piano concert of Chopin’s work at All Saints Church, Castleconnell. Concert pianist Stuart O’Sullivan, who has made his name internationally, plays Chopin’s four Ballades and a selection of waltzes and nocturnes, 8pm.
Book in advance for tickets by email on admin@musicnetwork.ie
Stuart O’Sullivan has won the RTE Musician of the Future (Chamber Music Category), The Brennan Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition and the prestigious Italian Government Scholarship.
