Farmleigh Music and Arts Festival - Concert 3

Saturday 30th November 2019 | 8pm – 10:30pm | The Ballroom | Ticket €10

Farmleigh Voices with Laura Snowden, Theo Dorgan & David Brophy

Tree of sanctuary and spear,
graveyard haunter, its leaves poison.
No tree gives darker shade. Silence
beneath it is green and black, dense.
– Theo Dorgan (from The Farmleigh Tree Alphabet)

An enchanting evening of classical music and poetry at Farmleigh Ballroom with world-class performers and a premiere from Farmleigh Composer-in-Residence Dave Flynn.

Hailed a ‘string sensation’ by BBC Music Magazine, British-French guitarist and composer Laura Snowden is acclaimed for her ‘poise and intensity’ (Guardian) and playing of ‘extraordinary depth’ (Strings, Classical Music Magazine). She will open the show with a solo guitar recital, before Farmleigh Voices and conductor David Brophy give the Irish premiere of Snowden’s “Evensong”, set to the words of Irish poet Cherry Smyth.

A festival highlight sees Farmleigh Voices give the World Premiere of Flynn’s setting of poet Theo Dorgan’s Farmleigh Tree Alphabet, commissioned by the Office of Public Works. Flynn has planted Dorgan’s dendrological words into a choral forest branched from Arvo Pårt, the Beach Boys, Clannad, Animal Collective and Kate Bush.

Among these musical leaves, Theo Dorgan will disperse his musical poetry.

Farmleigh Voices is developed in association with Stuart Kinsella’s Peregryne Ensemble.

*Doors open at 7pm, refreshments will be on sale.