TU Dublin Chamber Choir Concert 13th December 2023
Date of Event: Wednesday, 13th December 2023
A Festive Christmas! - TU Dublin Chamber Choir
Venue:
Concert Hall, TU Dublin Conservatoire, East Quad, Grangegorman Lower, Dublin 7, D07 XFF2
Time:
19:30 hrs
Tickets:
€15, €10 Concessions, €5 Students - To book tickets please click here
Conductor:
Bernie Sherlock
Accompanist:
Mairéad Hurley
Join the TU Dublin Chamber Choir and Bernie Sherlock in their 2023 Christmas concert featuring a gorgeous selection of carols and Christmas songs, with some solos by advanced TU Dublin performance students.
The TU Dublin Chamber Choir is an award-winning ensemble at the heart of choral music-making in the TU Dublin Conservatoire. It provides singing students and instrumentalists with essential development and experience in numerous areas including ensemble, blend and vocal control, musicianship, style, and performance The choir has enjoyed success at many of Ireland’s major choral competitions, including both 2nd prize in the Fleischmann International Trophy Competition and Ireland’s Choir of the Year at the 2018 Cork International Choral Festival, as well as multiple prizes at Feis Ceoil in Dublin over the years. The TU Dublin Chamber Choir also travels abroad, making its international debut in 2019 as guests of the ChorAlp summer festival in Briançon, France.
Director Bernie Sherlock has an international profile as a conductor, jury-member, workshop leader, and teacher of conducting. She has won a number of international prizes for her conducting and interpretation. Her award-winning chamber choir New Dublin Voices is a consistent prize-winner at international competitions. Bernie is a Lecturer in Music at the TU Dublin Conservatoire and Artistic Director of the Irish Youth Choirs. She holds Masters and Doctorate degrees in conducting from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music/DCU respectively.
Mairéad Hurley studied piano under Rhona Marshall at the RIAM and music at UCD, graduating from there with a BMus. Further studies include the répétiteur course at the London National Opera Studio and a First Class Honours MMus degree (performance) at TU Dublin Conservatoire. She has recently completed a Masters in Psychotherapy at Turning Point Institute. She continues her work in the Conservatoire as répétiteur in the vocal department officiates at many music festivals and Masterclasses. Mairéad was Head of Music at Opera Ireland from 1998 to 2010 and has a repertoire of over seventy operas.
