Experience Broadway & West End magic in Clonmel with this musical theatre extravaganza by David Hayes featuring singer Sinead O’Donovan.

Acclaimed musical director David Hayes is bringing the music of Broadway legends including award-winning Jeanine Tessori (Thoroughly Modern Mille, Shrek The Musical), Grammy winner Sara Bareilles (Waitress), Kristen Anderson Lopez (Frozen II), Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde), Zina Goldrich & Marcy Heisler, and many more to the stage for the first time for Finding a Voice. Featuring an ensemble from the CSM BA in Musical Theatre, as well as guest performances from Clonmel-born rising star Sinéad O’Donovan and a live band, this will be a fun night out.

Multi-award winning Musical Director David Hayes has been MD for over 50 musicals and is recognised as one of Ireland’s foremost musical directors. His recording credits include work with Irish luminaries such as Donal Lunny, Davy Spillane, Sinead O Connor, Phil Coulter, Brian Kennedy, Van Morrison, Kate Bush, Sharon Shannon, Gavin James, Tommy Fleming, Paul Walsh (Royseven) and Bressie.

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See full festival programme below and at www.findingavoice.ie.

Thursday 3rd March 2022
Evening concert - Lina Andonovska (flutes) & Michelle O’Rourke (voice)
Music for flutes and voice from two outstanding performers including the world première of a newly commissioned work for the duo by celebrated Irish composer Linda Buckley.
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Friday 4th March 2022
Lunchtime concert - Samantha Ege (piano)
Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Samantha Ege visits Ireland for the first time to give the Irish premières of piano music by Black American composers Florence Price and Margaret Bonds and Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová.
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Evening concert - Broadway Babes & West End Girls - David Hayes (musical director), Sinéad O’Donovan (voice), CSM Musical Theatre Ensemble
Music by Broadway legends including Jeanine Tessori (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek The Musical), Sara Bareilles (Waitress), Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde) and many more.
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Saturday 5th March 2022
Lunchtime concert - Darragh Morgan (violin) & Mary Dullea (piano)
Music for violin and piano from the nineteenth century to the present day, featuring works by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Americans Ruth Crawford Seeger and Florence Price, as well as Irish composer Deirdre McKay.
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Evening concert - Cassiopeia Winds & Fiachra Garvey (piano)
Music by French and American composers including Grammy & Pulitzer Prize winning Jennifer Higdon and Louise Farrenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds, a monument of nineteenth-century chamber repertoire.
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Sunday 6th March 2022
Lunchtime concert - Amanda Feery & Megan Nolan: A Thing I Cannot Name
Screening of Irish composer Amanda Feery’s beautiful video opera A Thing I Cannot Name, commissioned by Irish National Opera.
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Afternoon concert - Pauline Scanlon and band
Singer-songwriter Pauline Scanlon brings her unique voice and emotionally charged material from her new album The Unquiet and more.
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Tuesday 8th March 2022 (International Women’s Day)
Lunchtime concert - Yonit Kosovske (piano), Julie Comparini (contralto), and Jessica Brown (poetry)
A closing recital that brings poetry to life, featuring music by Lili Boulanger and a newly commissioned song cycle by Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain.
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For more, visit www.findingavoice.ie.