Please Note: This is a free ticketed event, however, places are limited so early booking is advised

RTÉ Cór Na nÓg and RTÉ Cór Linn
Mary Amond O’Brien Conductor
RTÉ Contempo Quartet

Elaine Agnew Wait and See
Elaine Agnew God of Rain (Text by Matthew Sweeney) World Premiere
Elaine Agnew Smile (Text by Matthew Sweeney) World Premiere
Stephen Hatfield Dubula
Madukayan Folk Song arr. Maria Theresa Vizconde-Roldan Orde-e
Eric Whitacre The Seal Lullaby
Ernani Aguiar Salmo 150 (Psalm 150)
Text by W.B. Yeats music by RTÉ Cór Linn member Ferdia Ó Cairbre The Everlasting Voices World Premiere
Sue Furlong Our Deepest Fear (Text by Marianne Williamson)

Don’t miss the combined young voices of RTÉ Cór na nÓg and RTÉ Cór Linn when they perform a new commission by acclaimed Belfast composer Elaine Agnew. Her celebrated BBC Proms Commission ‘Dark Hedges’ has been praised for being ‘compelling from beginning to end”

County Antrim composer Elaine Agnew studied music at Queen’s University Belfast and followed with postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Her many works have been performed and commissioned worldwide by artists such as the Škampa Quartet, the RTÉ National Symphony and Concert Orchestras, Concorde, the Scottish and Irish Chamber Orchestras, pianists Isabelle O’Connell and Angela Hewitt and and Chamber Choir Ireland.

Her music has featured at many major festivals including the BBC London Proms, London BMIC Cutting Edge, the Spitalfields and Slovenian Unicum Festival and in many world-class venues: the Carnegie and Wigmore Halls and the Konzerthaus Berlin. In 2012 her BBC Proms Commission Dark Hedges was premiered by the Ulster Youth Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and flautist Sir James Galway in London’s Royal Albert Hall, one reviewer describing it as ‘compelling from beginning to end’.

Elaine was appointed as the first RTÉ lyric fm Composer-in-Residence in association with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in 2008 and her two commissioned Carols from this time have been released on Lyric fm’s Choirs for Christmas CD. A CD of her orchestral music, performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, is due for release on the RTÉ lyric fm label as part of the Composers of Ireland series, promoting the orchestral works of Irish composers and funded by RTÉ and The Arts Council.

Elaine was elected to Aosdána in March 2015.