Classical concerts at Tuam Arts Festival

Date Published: 11-Aug-2011

ST Mary’s Cathedral Tuam will host two classical concerts next week in association with Tuam Arts Festival.

The first puts the focus on Spanish music and song, while the second is a concert of classic opera arias as well as contemporary music, which features local performers Eoin Hynes and Richard McGrath.

Pianist Maria McGarry and soprano Sylvia O’Brien are first up, on Tuesday next, August 16 in a concert entitled Sketches of Spain. The event is part of the Church Classics series in St Mary’s Cathedral. The duo will perform Spanish songs by Manuel de Falla and Fernando J. Obradors, and Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos.

The programme will also include solo piano works by Enrique Granados (from Goyescas) and Manuel de Falla.

Maria McGarry and Sylvia O’Brien have both performed in St Mary’s with other artists, but this is the first time the two have collaborated and they are looking forward to performing this Spanish programme in Tuam.

On Friday next, August 19, it’s the turn of Tuam tenor Eoin Hynes and Dublin baritone David Scott, who will be accompanied by Tuam pianist Richard McGrath for a concert of classic opera arias and more contemporary musical and movie themes. That event is

also part of this year’s Tuam Arts Festival.

The concert will include works from Ennio Morricone, Leonard Bernstein, Mozart and Fauré as well as popular classics from Rogers and Hammerstein, Barbra Streisand and Elton John.

For more details on the Tuam Arts Festival see this week’s Connacht Tribune