1st Sept @ 8pm in the Main Space, Smock Alley.
Tickets €15/8

Fishamble Sinfonia’s official launch concert, conducted by David Brophy (former principal conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra), introduces the first Irish youth orchestra devoted to unearthing gems from the early Classical period.

The concert will include symphonies from two of the lesser-known Viennese pioneers of the symphony, Wagenseil and Dittersdorf. The evening opens with a Sinfonia from Wagenseil, whose exhilarating music helped bridge the gap between the Baroque and Classical periods, and closes with two symphonies by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, The Four Ages of Man and The Fall of Phaeton. Between these three symphonies international soloist William Dowdall will join us for the Flute Concerto in A minor by JS Bach’s revolutionary (and most famous) son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Tickets are limited, get yours from the following websites:

http://smockalley.com/fishamble-sinfonia/

http://entertainment.ie/show-Music/Smock-Alley-Theatre/Fishamble-Sinfonia/Music-2724591.htm

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Fishamble Sinfonia was founded in August 2013 by a group of student musicians who wanted to provide some of Ireland’s most talented pre-professional orchestral players with a chance to play orchestral music to an extremely high standard and gel as musicians in an orchestra that aims to produce a unified orchestral sound. Fishamble Sinfonia bring in top professional conductors, soloists and concertmasters, making our concerts a top class experience for the audience as well as a deeply educational process for the players.

The orchestra’s other main aim is to explore the criminally neglected music from the very beginnings of the Classical period, with a focus starting in the time of Wagenseil and continuing until the death of Haydn. Mozart and Haydn dominate this period so much that incredible composers like Dittersdorf, Wagenseil and Vanhal are unknown to most fans of classical music. Fishamble Sinfonia intend to change this.