NCH Programme Brochure 2019

2019/2020
Programme
2019/2020
Programme
The National Concert Hall’s
mission is to foster and
celebrate the appreciation,
knowledge, enjoyment and
pure love of music as an
integral part of Irish life.
WELCOME/FÁILTE
The National Concert Hall’s mission is to foster and celebrate the appreciation,
knowledge, enjoyment and pure love of music as an integral part of Irish life.
In order to deliver this mission, we rely on the collaboration and support of many:
musicians and creators; educators and institutions; agents and promoters; public
funders and sponsors; Friends and Patrons; broadcasters and media; but most of
all our audience, with whom we share that vital love of music that gives the NCH its
reason for being.
In presenting our programme for 2019/2020 we are mindful of the exciting changes
ahead and the central importance of our musicians, audiences and all our
stakeholders to our future.
We are proud to have been home to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra since the
Hall opened in 1981 and as we work together with the Department of Culture, Heritage
and the Gaeltacht and RTÉ to secure a new future for the orchestra under the remit of
the NCH, we look forward to strengthening and deepening that relationship, ensuring
that symphonic music remains central to the musical life of the NCH.
We are also proud of the relationship we enjoy with our other resident ensembles;
W E LC O M E/FÁ I LT E
Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Crash Ensemble, who enrich
the musical programme and daily life of the NCH. Similarly, the presence of
Music Network and Music Generation as part of our wider campus adds to the
significance of the NCH as the national cultural institution for music and supports
our wider statutory remit. That remit is also what underpins our expanding Learning
& Participation programme, which makes music an integral part of life for many
beyond the formal concert platform.
The importance of the NCH’s remit has been recognised by Government in

committing major investment to the redevelopment of our facilities. This process
in now in the detailed design phase, as we work towards commencement of the
physical project on site in 2021/2022. Our mission will continue: our music will carry
on, in new and exciting ways, as we take our programme beyond the confines of
our site, building new audiences whilst offering our existing and treasured audiences
new opportunities to engage with us and the music they love.
Simon Taylor Maura McGrath

Chief Executive Chairperson
Board Of Directors
Maura McGrath Chair • James Cavanagh • Rebecca Gageby
Gerard Gillen • Eleanor McEvoy • Máire O’Connor
Michael O’Donovan • John Reynolds • Don Thornhill
Patron
Michael D. Higgins President of Ireland
Music is the raison d’être
for the National Concert Hall
and our programme and our
audiences are at the heart
of all that we do.
NCH PROGRAMME 2019/2020
Music is the raison d’être for the National Concert Hall and our programme and our
audiences are at the heart of all that we do.
Whilst celebrating and nurturing our existing audiences and the NCH’s unique musical
heritage, our policy is to develop and diversify our programme across musical genres,
bringing it to life for future creators, performers and audiences; expanding our own
and our audience’s musical horizons and encouraging engagement with music as a
means of personal development, creative involvement and social inclusion.
We are therefore delighted to bring you our own programme of events for 2019/2020
which I hope demonstrates our commitment to this vision, through our concert
programme and our Learning & Participation activities.
The International Concert Series has long been the flagship of the National Concert
Hall’s programme, bringing the finest international classical musicians, ensembles
and orchestras to Irish audiences as well as showcasing our own leading artists.
Supporting Irish musicians is at the heart of our Chamber Music Series in the Kevin
N C H P R O G R A M M E 2 0 1 9/ 2 0 2 0
Barry Recital Room, giving audiences an opportunity to enjoy a regular output of
recitals and intimate concerts, ranging from baroque to contemporary music.
But great music is not defined by genre, as our Perspectives series shows, bringing
to our stage some of the most innovative and exciting artists from many musical
backgrounds, adding contemporary relevance and breadth to our programme.
Relevance to current cultural discourse is also at the heart of our Words+Ideas
strand, underlining the importance of culture, the arts and music to our lives.
The importance of music to people’s lives we see demonstrated every day in our
Learning & Participation programme, whether in encouraging the next generation
of professional musicians, inspiring musical involvement for children and families or
bringing the joy of music to those struggling with dementia or mental health issues.
Whatever your musical tastes we hope you find much to enjoy in the NCH
programme 2019/2020. As an added incentive, there are a number of concert
packages available with savings of up to 15% on full season subscriptions and 20%
for the NCH Season Friends, Friends and Patrons.
Our thanks to our media partner The Irish Times for their support, to our Innovation
Partner Davy and to Grant Thornton for their generous support.
We look forward to welcoming you to the National Concert Hall and making your
visit a special one, whether you are a regular patron or attending for the first time.
Simon Taylor CEO

NCH 2019/2020 PROGRAMME
MULTIBUYS, SAVINGS AND DISCOUNTS
FULL INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON PACKAGE
20% discount Season Friends, Friends and Patrons
15% discount All other concert bookers
‘MIX AND MATCH’ MULTIBUY DISCOUNTS
Want to choose your own concerts but still benefit from the discounts on offer?
Choose your favourite concerts from across the entire 2019/2020 programme and
avail of the following discounts:
5% discount Choose any 4-6 concerts from the programme
10% discount Choose any 7-10 concerts from the programme
15% discount Choose any 11+ concerts from the programme
See pages 85-86 for more bespoke and curated concert

packages on offer such as ‘Brilliant Baroque’,
‘New to Classical Music’ and ‘Beethoven 250’.
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ON-SALE DATES
Ticket Buyer Package Type
Mix and
Full Season Match Individual
Subscription* Multibuy Tickets
11+, 7-10, 4-6
Season Friends, Patrons Tuesday Tuesday Friday

and Supporting Friends 28 May, 10am 28 May, 10am 31 May, 10am
Wednesday Wednesday Friday

Friends
29 May, 10am 29 May, 10am 31 May, 10am
M U LT I B U Y S , S AV I N G S A N D D I S C O U N T S
Friday Friday Friday
General Bookers
31 May, 10am 31 May, 10am 31 May, 10am
*For all Customers who purchased a Full Season Subscription to the International Concert Series
2018-2019 we are delighted to hold the same seat for the upcoming season. This seat will be
held until 14th June 2019.
HOW TO BOOK
Online at www.nch.ie
Phone
Tel: 01 417 00 00 Box Office Monday to Saturday 10am – 6pm.
Post
Return your booking form with payment to the Box Office, National Concert
Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 (cheques and money orders should be made
payable to the National Concert Hall).
In Person at the National Concert Hall (open 10am-6pm Monday to

Saturday. Open two hours prior to Main Stage events and one hour prior to
John Field Room, Kevin Barry Recital Room and Studio events on Sundays
and Bank Holidays).
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PROGRAMME 2019/2020
AT A GLANCE
INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2019/2020
Staatskapelle Dresden
Wed. 4 Sept. 2019, 8pm
Myung-Whun Chung conductor | Yuja Wang piano
Wed. 16 Oct. 2019, 8pm London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley piano/conductor
Sun. 10 Nov. 2019, 8pm Christian Tetzlaff violin | Lars Vogt piano
RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle chief conductor

Sat. 23 Nov. 2019, 8pm
Bahar & Ufuk Dördüncü pianos
Joseph Calleja tenor | Claudia Boyle soprano
Mon. 9 Dec. 2019, 8pm
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra | Proinnsías Ó Duinn conductor
English Chamber Orchestra | José Serebrier conductor
Wed. 22 Jan. 2020, 8pm
Natalie Clein cello
Thurs. 20 Feb. 2020, 8pm Simon Trpčeski piano
Mon. 9 Mar. 2020, 8pm Bach Collegium Japan | Masaaki Suzuki conductor
Sat. 4 Apr. 2020, 8pm Tenebrae | Aurora Orchestra
Mon. 20 Apr. 2020, 8pm Emanuel Ax piano
Thurs. 30 Apr. 2020, 8pm Vienna Chamber Orchestra | Paul Lewis piano
Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas piano/conductor

Wed. 13 May 2020, 8pm
Lynn Harrell cello | Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano | Il pomo d’oro
Sat. 23 May 2020, 8pm
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor/harpsichord
Tue. 2 June 2020, 8pm The Hallé | Sir Mark Elder conductor | Benjamin Grosvenor piano
PERSPECTIVES
Sun. 29 Sept. 2019, 8pm Pantha du Prince: Conference of Trees
Sat. 26 Oct. 2019, 6pm

Philip Glass Residency
Sun. 27 Oct. 2019, 8pm
Tue. 29 Oct. 2019, 8pm Swordfishtrombones Revisited
Sat. 28 & Sun. 29 March

Laurie Anderson
2020, 8pm
Damon Albarn:
Sun. 31 May 2020, 8pm
The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
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TRADITION NOW
Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Brìghde Chaimbeul

Sat. 5 Oct. 2019, 8pm
An evening curated by Geoff Travis
Sam Amidon Extended Ensemble & Sounds Like Freedom
Sun. 6 Oct. 2019, 8pm
Niall Vallely, Karan Casey & Harriet Tubman
WORDS+IDEAS
Thurs. 6 June 2019, 8pm Sir Simon Schama - The Wordy Tour
Sat. 2 Nov. 2019, 8pm Margaret Atwood
FAMILY / LEARNING & PARTICIPATION
P R O G R A M M E 2 0 1 9/ 2 0 2 0 A T A G L A N C E
Sat. 31 Aug. 2019, 3.30pm (Cork) SinfoNua Orchestra | David Brophy conductor
Sun. 1 Sept. 2019, 8pm (NCH) Gerald Peregrine cello
Sat. 2 November 2019 Family Day with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Sat. 21 Dec. 2019, 3.30 & 6pm

Sun. 22 Dec. 2019, 11.30am, NCH This Way to Christmas
2pm, 4.30pm, 7pm featuring The Snowman with NCH Christmas Orchestra
Mon. 23 Dec. 2019, 11.30am, and Theatre Lovett
2pm, 4.30pm, 7pm
Mini Music | Bring Along a Baby | Family Concerts |

Summer Camps: SongSchool, Junior SongSchool | International Master Course
CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
Hugh Tinney Series: Beethoven: Before and After
Irish Baroque Orchestra Series
Irish Language Art Song
Malcolm Proud and Camerata Kilkenny: Bach
Sunday String Quartet Series
NCH/Sounding the Feminists Series
International Guitar Series
Young Artist Series
Dublin Song Series
Chamber Music Gathering

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CONTENTS
International Concert Series 2019/2020 8

Chamber Music Series 37
Beethoven 250 39
Perspectives Series 42
Philip Glass: Reflections on a Cultural Icon 55
Tradition Now 60
Tradition is Change 65
Words+Ideas Series 69
Family/NCH Learning & Participation Programme 72
Booking & General Information 83
Curated Concert Packages 85
Seating Plan 89
Booking Forms 90
CONTENTS
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INTERNATIONAL
CONCERT SERIES
2019/2020
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©Julia Wesely
©Matthias
©Matthias
Creutziger
Creutziger
Myung-Whun Chung
Yuja Wang
Wednesday Staatskapelle Dresden
4 September
2019, 8pm
Myung-Whun Chung conductor
Yuja Wang piano
Pre-concert talk
6.45pm – free to
ticket holders
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30
Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 73
Tickets: €85, €72.50,
€55, €39.50
Ticket includes glass of A thrilling musical partnership opens the NCH International
prosecco.
Concert Series: sensational Chinese pianist Yuja Wang
Up to 20% discount for and one of the world’s most distinguished orchestras,
multibuy packages to Staatskapelle Dresden, with its Principal Guest Conductor,
I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N C E R T S E R I E S 2 0 1 9/ 2 0 2 0
International Concert Series the Korean Myung-Whun Chung.
(for NCH Friends, Season
Friends and Patrons)
Musical America’s Artist of the Year in 2017, Yuja Wang
15% discount for 11+ performs perhaps the most technically demanding
concerts across the
concerto in the standard piano repertoire, the much
programme.
loved Concerto No. 3 by Rachmaninov. Composed
Groups: 8+ tickets for to show off the composer’s own astounding virtuosity
any one concert, get 10%
at his North American debut in New York in 1909 it
discount.
will demonstrate why Yuja Wang is one of the most
Limited student standby in-demand artists in the world today.
tickets available for all
concerts.
In contrast to the wave of new classical music
talent emerging from China in recent decades, the
Staatskapelle Dresden traces its roots back to 1548,
making it one of the oldest orchestras in the world.
Steeped in tradition, its previous music directors include
Heinrich Schütz, Carl Maria von Weber and Richard
Wagner; it enjoyed a close association with Richard
Strauss and Brahms himself performed as both piano
soloist and conductor with the orchestra. So his Symphony
No. 2 will have a resounding ring of authenticity!
“The depth of the Dresden string tone was

outstanding and the brass a marvel of
richness and splendour… Exhilarating”.
The Guardian
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©Sim Canetty-Clarke
London Mozart Players

©Eric Richmond
Howard Shelley
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Wednesday London Mozart Players
16 October
2019, 8pm
Howard Shelley piano/conductor
Pre-concert talk
6.45pm – free to
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ‘Classical’
ticket holders
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503
Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Tickets: €37.50, €29.50
Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D major, ‘London’
€25, €19.50
Up to 20% discount for Howard Shelley, world-renowned pianist and Conductor

multibuy packages to Laureate of the London Mozart Players, brings this
International Concert Series
wonderful orchestra, the UK’s longest established
Friends and Patrons) chamber orchestra, to Dublin for a special concert as
part of the orchestra’s 70th birthday celebrations. He will
15% discount for 11+
perform in the dual role of conductor and soloist.
concerts across the
programme.
Late masterpieces by Mozart and his revered older
Groups: 8+ tickets for
contemporary Haydn feature along with Prokofiev’s witty
discount. and affectionate tribute to the classical style: ‘a symphony
as Mozart or Haydn might have written it…had either one of
Limited student standby them been my contemporary…’ as young Prokofiev put it.
concerts.
The Mozart concerto in C is one of the last three concertos
Mozart wrote at the height of his maturity, with a first
movement of almost Beethovenian grandeur. Haydn’s
London symphonies represent some of his greatest
achievements, with No. 104 being the fitting finale and the
last symphony he ever wrote.
The cuckoo in this classical nest is the evocative tone

poem On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring by Delius.
Otherwise described as a ‘mood picture for small
orchestra’, the piece imitates the natural sounds of the
cuckoo which can be heard by the oboe, strings and
clarinet. So whilst the literal connection to our ‘Beethoven:
Before and After’ strand across the season is Mozart and
Haydn, there is more than an echo of Beethoven’s Pastoral
Symphony here.
“Howard Shelley and the London Mozart

Players, where classical refinement and
ebullience go hand in hand”.
Financial Times MEDIA PARTNER
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©Giorgia Bertazzi
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©Giorgia Bertazzi
Lars Vogt
Christian Tetzlaff
Sunday Christian Tetzlaff violin
10 November
2019, 8pm
Lars Vogt piano
Pre-concert talk
6.45pm – free to
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 30 No. 1
ticket holders
Shostakovich Sonata for violin and piano in G major,
Op. 134
Tickets: €37.50, €29.50
György Kurtág Tre Pezzi Op. 14e for violin and piano
€25, €19.50
Franck Sonata for violin and piano in A major
Up to 20% discount for
multibuy packages to The German violinist Christian Tetzlaff is one of most
exciting musicians on the classical music scene today:
Friends and Patrons) his concerts have been described as ‘turning into an
existential experience for both the interpreter and the
audience where suddenly old familiar works appear in a
concerts across the
programme. completely new light’. Much sought after internationally,
he has been an artist in residence at the Berliner
Philharmoniker, the Wigmore Hall London and at Carnegie
discount. Hall New York. In the 2018/2019 season he was Artist in
Residence of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Limited student standby Dresdner Philharmonie at the same time.
concerts.
For this recital he joins celebrated pianist Lars Vogt
Part of the whom Sir Simon Rattle described as “one of the most
Beethoven 250
extraordinary musicians of any age group that I have had
Multibuy
the fortune to be associated with”. Together Christian and
Lars perform a programme that weaves together 19th and
20th century works. Opening with Beethoven’s sonata in A
major, the first of his Op. 30 set and concluding with César
Franck’s A major sonata, considered to be one of the
finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written.
In between, two 20th century compositions - one by
Shostakovich (his second sonata) and the other by György
Kurtág - add up to a unique opportunity to hear two
critically acclaimed recitalists performing a rich and
varied programme.
“Tetzlaff, playing as if his life depended on it,

transported his audience from the Hungarian
gypsy camp to the salons of Vienna. It was
the trip of a lifetime”
Independent on Sunday MEDIA PARTNER
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©Matthias Heyde
Justin Doyle
©Matthias Heyde
©Matthias Heyde
Bahar & Ufuk Dördüncü
RIAS Kammerchor
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Saturday RIAS Kammerchor
23 November
2019, 8pm
Justin Doyle chief conductor
Bahar & Ufuk Dördüncü pianos
Pre-concert talk
6.45pm – free to
ticket holders
Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52 and Op. 65,
interspersed with love songs by Reger, Holst, Vaughan
Tickets: €37.50, €29.50
€25, €19.50 Williams, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and Slavonic Dances
by Dvořák.
multibuy packages to
International Concert Series Described as “Wunderbare” by the Tagesspiegel, the
(for NCH Friends, Season Berlin based RIAS chamber choir is a world-renowned
Friends and Patrons) ensemble of 35 professional singers that also enjoys an
unrivalled reputation amongst Germany’s professional
concerts across the choirs. Founded in 1948 it has been an ongoing partner of
programme. both the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin
Philharmonic.
discount. For this concert the choir will be joined by Turkish-Swiss
piano duo Ufuk and Bahar Dördüncü, described as being
Limited student standby
tickets available for all ‘equipped with flawless technique, delivering vigorous
concerts. and evocative performance, displaying breathtaking
virtuosity and great creativity, evidenced in every
Part of the New
to Classical
performance’.
Music Multibuy
The programme is built around Brahms’ two sets of
Liebeslieder waltzes, unpretentious and highly attractive
vocal pieces, with the accompaniment of piano duo,
on the subject of love. Brahms much enjoyed conducting
these charming songs himself, recognising their audience
appeal as he doffed his cap to both Schubert and the
waltzes of Johann Strauss. Interspersed among the Brahms
in this concert, specially devised by Justin Doyle, are songs
about love by a range of 20th century composers and
Dvořák’s exhilarating Slavonic Dances in their original
piano duet versions.
“The RIAS chamber choir… sings superbly”

The Guardian
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©Simon Fowler
Joseph Calleja
©Frances Marshall
RTÉ NSO
Claudia Boyle
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Monday Joseph Calleja tenor
9 December
2019, 8pm
Claudia Boyle soprano
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Pre-concert talk Proinnsías Ó Duinn conductor
6.45pm – free to
ticket holders
Tickets: €75, €67.50, Popular opera arias and Christmas songs including
€54.50, €29.50 Verdi, Puccini, Massenet and Gounod.
Ticket includes glass of
mulled wine at reception
Blessed with a golden-age voice that routinely inspires
Up to 20% discount for comparisons to legendary singers from earlier eras,
Maltese-born Joseph Calleja is one of the most acclaimed
(for NCH Friends, Season and sought-after tenors today. His expansive discography
Friends and Patrons) and frequent appearances on the world’s leading opera
and concert stages prompted National Public Radio to
concerts across the
hail him as “arguably today’s finest lyric tenor,” and led to
programme. his being voted Gramophone Magazine’s 2012 Artist of
the Year.
discount. The celebrated tenor makes a welcome return to the
National Concert Hall to perform a programme of arias
from the operas he has performed to acclaim at the great
concerts. opera houses of the world, including Verdi’s Rigoletto and
Macbeth; Puccini’s Tosca and La Bohème and Massenet’s
Werther. Joined by leading Irish soprano Claudia Boyle
and accompanied by the RTÉ National Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Proinnsías Ó Duinn, with a
Christmas song or two as well, this opera gala will make
the perfect start to the festive season.
“Only one lyric tenor on the scene today has

the honeyed tone and ingratiating style to
make comparisons to Pavarotti and Gigli
seem serious, and it is Calleja”
New Yorker
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©Chris Christodoulou
©Julia Wesely
English Chamber Orchestra

©Clive Barda
Natalie Clein
José Serebrier
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Wednesday English Chamber Orchestra
22 January
2020, 8pm
José Serebrier conductor
Natalie Clein cello
Pre-concert talk
6.45pm – free to
ticket holders
Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile (arr. Serebrier)
Tchaikovsky None but the Lonely Heart (arr. Serbrier)
Tickets: €37.50, €29.50
€25, €19.50 Tchaikovsky Elegie
Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
(for NCH Friends, Season The English Chamber Orchestra [ECO] is the most
Friends and Patrons) recorded chamber orchestra in the world, boasting a
discography containing nearly 900 recordings of over
concerts across the 1,500 works by more than 400 composers. Along with
programme. these recordings of classical repertoire and its equally
busy international touring schedule, the orchestra has
any one concert, get 10% recorded many successful film soundtracks including
discount. Dario Marianelli’s prize-winning scores for Atonement and
Pride and Prejudice.
concerts. With Benjamin Britten as the orchestra’s first Patron, the
ECO has enjoyed longstanding relationships with some of
Part of the New
to Classical
the world’s leading conductors and recitalists including
Music Multibuy Pinchas Zukerman, Murray Perahia, Mitsuko Uchida and
Daniel Barenboim. For this concert we are delighted to
welcome back the celebrated South American maestro
José Serebrier ‘one of the most eminent conductors
of our time’ (Fonoforum Germany). Joining him in this
all-Tchaikovsky programme is leading British cellist Natalie
Clein, described by The Times as ‘mesmerising’ and
‘soaringly passionate’.
“Serebrier and the ECO had the audience

jumping to its feet”
Bachtrack.com
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©Benjamin Ealovega
Simon Trpčeski
“Anyone with a passion for piano-playing

at its most spellbinding should hear
Trpčeski whenever they can.”
The Telegraph
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Thursday Simon Trpčeski piano
20 February
2020, 8pm
Pre-concert talk Brahms Variations on a Theme by

6.45pm – free to Robert Schumann Op. 9
ticket holders Liszt Soirées de Vienne Nos 5, 7, 6
Prokofiev Old Grandmother’s Tales, Op. 31
Tickets: €37.50, €29.50 Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky Korsakov) Night on a Bare Mountain
€25, €19.50 (arr for piano by Konstantin Chernov)
Prokofiev Sonata No. 7, Op. 83
International Concert Series The Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski has established
himself as one of the most remarkable musicians to have
emerged in recent years, praised not only for his powerful
15% discount for 11+ virtuosity and deeply expressive approach, but also for
concerts across the
his charismatic stage presence. A frequent soloist with the
programme.
world’s leading orchestras, we are delighted to welcome
Groups: 8+ tickets for him back to the NCH, following his concerto performance
any one concert, get 10% with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2018.
discount.
Limited student standby This eagerly anticipated solo recital allows Irish audiences
tickets available for all to experience piano playing at its finest. Works by Brahms,
concerts.
Liszt and Mussorgsky will showcase Trpčeski’s talent for
music of the romantic era - he is quoted as saying “I am
a romantic person, and, being a Slav, Romantic music is
close to my heart”. Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 7 on the other
hand will give full reign to his formidable technique and
bring us to a very different world, as he plays the second
of the composer’s ‘war sonatas’. A work of raw power
and emotion it was first performed by the great Sviatoslav
Richter in Moscow in 1943 at the height of the Second
World War. ‘With this work’ Richter said, ‘we are brutally
plunged into the anxiously threatening atmosphere of a
world that has lost its balance. Chaos and uncertainty
reign....but that does not mean what we lived by before
ceases to exist. We continue to feel and love... we sweep
everything before us, borne along by the will for victory. In
the tremendous struggle we find an irresistible life-force’
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©K. Miura
Bach Collegium Japan
“I have never heard period

instruments played with such purity
of tone, so reliably in tune. The small,
precise, dramatically alert chorus
breathed fire but also revealed a
heart-breaking tenderness”
Los Angeles Times
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Monday Bach Collegium Japan
9 March
Masaaki Suzuki conductor
2020, 8pm
Hana Blažíková soprano
Pre-concert talk Damien Guillon alto
6.45pm – free to James Gilchrist tenor
ticket holders Christian Immler bass
Tickets: €55, €47.50,

€37.50, €27.50
J.S. Bach Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BWV1
J.S. Bach Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen BWV81
International Concert Series J.S. Bach Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht BWV 55
(for NCH Friends, Season J.S. Bach Mass in F major BWV233
15% discount for 11+ Bach Collegium Japan is an ensemble on a mission

concerts across the ‘to enable as many people as possible to share with
programme.
us the joy of this wonderful music’. Hailed by BBC Music
Groups: 8+ tickets for Magazine as “Kings from the East,” Bach Collegium Japan
any one concert, get 10% make a welcome return to the NCH to perform as part of
discount. their 2020 European Tour which also coincides with their
30th Anniversary.
concerts. Under the artistic direction of their founder Masaaki
Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan is renowned for its striking
Part of the Brilliant
Baroque Multibuy performances of Baroque music with their 55-disc
recording of Bach’s church cantatas receiving a 2014
ECHO Klassik award.
We will hear three of these cantatas that date from Bach’s

first three years as Cantor at Thomaskirche in Leipzig
(1724-26) along with one of his ‘Lutheran’ masses that
dates from around 1738/9. Sublime music to commence a
Bach focus at the NCH during March.
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©Sim Canetty-Clarke
Tenebrae
©Nick Rutter
Aurora Orchestra
“You couldn’t have asked for a better

performance: plush choral sound, heartfelt
solos…rich contributions from the Aurora
Orchestra and all immaculately sculpted
by Short”
The Times
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Saturday Tenebrae
4 April
2020, 8pm
Aurora Orchestra
Nigel Short conductor
Pre-concert talk Emma Walshe soprano
6.45pm – free to Stephen Kennedy bass
ticket holders Max Baillie violin
Tickets: €45, €37.50,

€29.50, €24.50 J. S. Bach Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein
(Johannes-Passion BWV 245)
multibuy packages to J. S. Bach Partita No. 2 in D, Allemande (BWV 1004)
International Concert Series J. S. Bach Partita No. 2 in D, Courante (BWV 1004)
J. S. Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 277i)
J. S. Bach Partita No. 2 in D, Sarabande (BWV 1004)
15% discount for 11+ J. S. Bach Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt (BWV 277ii)
concerts across the J. S. Bach Partita No. 2 in D, Gigue (BWV 1004)
programme.
J. S. Bach Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden
Groups: 8+ tickets for (Matthäus-Passion BWV 244)
any one concert, get 10% J. S. Bach Ciaconna with chorale themes (BWV 1004)
discount.
Fauré Requiem
tickets available for all Following their sell-out performance at the National
concerts.
Concert Hall in 2017, Tenebrae the renowned English
Part of the Brilliant choral ensemble and conductor return with the critically
Baroque Multibuy acclaimed Aurora Orchestra. Together they present
their interpretation of Fauré’s Requiem, described as
“devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine) and
“simply mind-blowing” (The Scotsman) and Bach’s Partita
for Violin No. 2, with chorales interspersed, culminating
in the incomparable Chaconne, highlighting the hidden
chorale themes within this fascinating work and the
church sonata origins of the partita as a whole.
It was the death of his wife Maria Barbara that prompted

Bach to add the Chaconne to his suite of dance
movements and as it ends, its funereal key of D minor is
taken up without a break in Fauré’s uniquely consoling
masterwork, underlining that work’s individuality and
constraint. ‘Someone has called it a lullaby of death’
Fauré said ‘but that’s how I see death: as an aspiration
towards happiness above, rather than as a
painful experience’.
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Emanuel Ax
“Emanuel Ax is one of the most

complete pianists of today –
technically solid, deeply intelligent,
and with a heart”
Independent
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Monday Emanuel Ax piano
20 April
2020, 8pm
Pre-concert talk Beethoven Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 Für Elise

6.45pm – free to Beethoven Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2
ticket holders Beethoven Variations in F major, Op. 34
Beethoven Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1
Tickets: €49.50, €40, Beethoven Variations on Rule Britannia for piano in
€32.50, €25 D major, WoO 79
Beethoven Sonata in C major, Op. 2, No. 3
“Marvellously articulate and totally unfussy. Nothing is
done for effect or to draw attention to the player rather
15% discount for 11+ than to what he is playing”, so said The Guardian of
concerts across the
eminent pianist Emanuel Ax’s playing. The legendary
programme.
pianist, whose recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the
Groups: 8+ tickets for Beethoven and Brahms Sonatas for cello and piano have
any one concert, get 10% earned Ax a series of Grammy® Awards, will perform a
discount.
programme of early works by Beethoven as part of our
Limited student standby ‘Beethoven: Before and After’ strand.
concerts.
Composed in 1794/5, Beethoven dedicated his three
Part of the Sonatas Op. 2 to his teacher Joseph Haydn, though
Beethoven 250 master and pupil had had a contentious relationship,
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to say the least. That Beethoven was heading in new
directions is already clear from the more intensive
emotional content of these works and in their technical
demands on the performer. This recital also offers a unique
opportunity to hear Beethoven’s popular Für Elise and
the rarely heard Variations on Rule Britannia in D major,
making it an ideal opportunity to witness the emergence
of Beethoven as the composer considered to be one of
the greatest of all time.
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Vienna Chamber Orchestra

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Paul Lewis
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Thursday Vienna Chamber Orchestra
30 April
2020, 8pm
Paul Lewis piano
Pre-concert talk
6.45pm – free to
Haydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La Passione’
ticket holders
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K 595
Mozart Divertimento in D major, K. 136
Tickets: €45, €37.50,
‘Salzburg Symphony No. 1’
€29.50, €24.50
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
In the more than 70 years of its existence, the Vienna
Friends and Patrons) Chamber Orchestra has established itself as one of the
world’s leading chamber orchestras. Boasting affiliations
with renowned conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin and
concerts across the
programme. Benjamin Britten, the famed pianist and conductor Daniel
Barenboim made his debut with this orchestra in 1964.
Performing for the first time as part of the International
discount. Concert Series, the orchestra is joined by pianist Paul Lewis
in piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, two giants
Limited student standby of the Viennese classical music repertoire.
concerts.
Paul Lewis’s concert performances and recordings of the
Part of the complete Beethoven Sonatas, concertos and the Diabelli
Beethoven 250
Variations have earned him unanimous acclaim from all
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over the world, culminating in 2010 with the honour of
becoming the first pianist in the history of the BBC Proms
to perform all five Beethoven concertos in a single Proms
season.
This magical pairing of pianist and orchestra performing

a programme of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven ensures a
truly superb evening of orchestral music by giants of the
classical era.
“Lewis brought his customary intelligence

and intensity…with endless shifts in colour
and weight. The fearsome technical
demands…were met with unshowy dexterity.”
The Guardian
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Camerata Ireland
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Barry Douglas
“Douglas’s powerful playing always

compels and rewards attention”
The Guardian
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Wednesday Camerata Ireland
13 May
2020, 8pm
Barry Douglas piano/conductor
Lynn Harrell cello
Pre-concert talk Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin
6.45pm – free to
ticket holders
Tickets: €37.50, €29.50,

€25, €19.50 Penderecki Elegy for cello
Beethoven Triple Concerto
multibuy packages to Shchedrin Amoroso for violin
International Concert Series Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor
15% discount for 11+ Celebrating its 20th anniversary Camerata Ireland returns
concerts across the to the NCH with pianist and founder Barry Douglas, for a
programme.
residency throughout 2019 and 2020. Established to be
Groups: 8+ tickets for a chamber orchestra to equal the best in the world and
any one concert, get 10% comprising the finest Irish musicians, Camerata Ireland has
discount.
performed throughout the USA, Europe, South America
Limited student standby and Asia.
concerts.
This celebratory concert pays homage to Beethoven in
Part of the New this the 250th anniversary of his birth with a performance
to Classical Music of his iconic Fifth Symphony and the Triple Concerto.
and Beethoven Joining Barry Douglas as soloists, we are delighted
250 Multibuys
to welcome two other major international artists, the
Russian-born violinist and conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky
and the American cellist Lynn Harrell, both in the highest
echelon of today’s performing artists.
Sponsored by Randox and

supported by the Arts Council
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Joyce Di Donato
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Il pomo d’oro
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Saturday Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
23 May
2020, 8pm
Il pomo d’oro
Maxim Emelyanychev
Pre-concert talk conductor/harpsichord
6.45pm – free to
ticket holders
Tickets: €85, €72.50, ‘My Favourite Things’: Arias by Monteverdi,

€55, €39.50 Gluck, Handel and Purcell

multibuy packages to Proclaimed as “perhaps the most potent female singer of
International Concert Series her generation” by the New Yorker, Joyce DiDonato (née
O’Flaherty) is a prolific and Grammy® award-winning
mezzo-soprano, in demand the world over. With a
15% discount for 11+ voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold” according to
concerts across the The Times, Joyce has soared to the top of the industry
programme.
both as a performer and a fierce advocate for the arts,
Groups: 8+ tickets for gaining international prominence in operas by Handel
any one concert, get 10% and Mozart, as well as through her wide-ranging and
discount.
acclaimed discography.
tickets available for all Following her hugely successfully concert at the NCH
concerts.
in 2017 accompanied by Il pomo d’oro, led by Maxim
Part of the Brilliant Emelyanychev, we are delighted to welcome them back
Baroque Multibuy for an evening of arias by Monteverdi, Gluck, Handel and
Purcell in what will no doubt be another stunning and
highly memorable performance.
“The staggering, joyful artistry of Joyce

DiDonato reminds us that in any generation
there are a few giants. Joyce is not only a
great, brave and inspiring artist – one of the
finest singers of our time - but she is also a
transformative presence in the arts…Joyce
sings and the world is suddenly brighter”
Gramophone
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The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder

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Benjamin Grosvenor
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Tuesday The Hallé
2 June
2020, 8pm
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Pre-concert talk
6.45pm – free to
ticket holders
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Tickets: €80, €67.50,
€52.50, €37.50 Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1945)

To round off the International Concert Series, the Hallé
International Concert Series makes a welcome return to the NCH with its esteemed
(for NCH Friends, Season Music Director Sir Mark Elder. Founded in 1858 the Hallé
Friends and Patrons) ranks among the UK’s top symphonic ensembles and
under the guidance of Sir Mark Elder since 2000 it has
concerts across the reached new heights of artistic achievement.
programme.
Multi-award winning British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has

any one concert, get 10% been described as “one in a million...several million” by
discount. The Independent. Benjamin first came to prominence as
the winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young
tickets available for all Musician of the Year Competition, and was subsequently
concerts. invited to perform at the First Night of the BBC Proms, aged
just nineteen. He has since received numerous awards
Part of the New
to Classical
including Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year and a
Music Multibuy Classic Brits Critics’ award, as well as being featured in
two BBC television documentaries and in CNN’s Human to
Hero series.
For the closing programme in the season we hear

three great works from the first half of the 20th century:
Rachmaninov’s final orchestral work, a valedictory
nostalgic masterpiece written in 1940; Ravel’s jazz
influenced Piano Concerto completed in 1931; and
Stravinsky’s final re-working in 1945 of his first masterwork,
The Firebird, originally composed for Diaghilev’s Ballets
Russes in 1910.
“Roaring jubilation and radiant beauty from

Elder and the Hallé”
The Guardian
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Chamber Music Gathering Malcolm Proud
Irish Baroque Orchestra Kevin Barry Recital Room
The NCH welcomes a roster of leading Irish and international

musicians and ensembles to perform as part of the ‘NCH Chamber
Music Series’ 2019/2020.
The series, which takes place in the NCH’s dedicated chamber

music space the Kevin Barry Recital Room, sees a range of
classical, baroque and contemporary chamber music presented
in variety of distinct series.
Further details of the Chamber Music Series will be announced

in June 2019.
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Sunday String Quartet Series Young Artist Series
September-December Celebrating outstanding young prize
Sunday afternoon String Quartet winners, including Sinéad O’Kelly
concerts featuring Irish and International (Bernadette Greevy Award winner 2018).
ensembles, in repertoire ranging from
Haydn to contemporary composers. 4th annual Chamber Music Gathering
Presented in association with National String Saturday 4 January 2020
Quartet Foundation. A unique day of wonderful
music-making, as a cross-generational
Beethoven: Before and After assembly of Ireland’s finest classical
Renowned Irish pianist Hugh Tinney musicians and rising stars come together
curates two, three-concert series to present three concerts of chamber
focusing on Beethoven, his influences music masterpieces.
and inspiration, as part of the NCH
celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Tionscadal na nAmhrán
the composer’s birth. Ealaíne Gaeilge
Irish Language Art Song Project
Irish Baroque Orchestra January – March 2020

November 2019 This series presents fifty new art songs in the
Three concerts by the IBO, each one Irish language, commissioned from twelve
uniquely themed: Handel in Italy; an Irish and five International composers
evening of French Baroque Chamber with funds from An Chomhairle Ealaíon,
Works and a concert focusing on presented in three concerts featuring top
Antonio Vivaldi. Irish singers including Anna Devin, Jennifer
Davis and Rachel Kelly.
Malcolm Proud and Camerata
Kilkenny: Bach International Guitar Series
March 2020 November 2019 - April 2020
As part of a month long celebration at Continuing the annual series of concerts
the NCH of one of music’s most influential featuring music for guitar, both solo and
and pre-eminent composers, J.S. Bach, in ensemble.
renowned harpsichordist Malcolm Proud
curates three evening concerts in which Beethoven: in His Own Words and Music
he performs with Camerata Kilkenny. February - March 2020
A series of three concerts with the
NCH/Sounding the Feminists Series Degani Trio with actor Barry McGovern
The NCH and Sounding the Feminists reading from Beethoven’s letters.
presents the second series of a five year
project which seeks to highlight the work Dublin Song Series
of women composers over the centuries, May 2020
with reference to the context within A series of three concerts featuring
which they were working. prominent Irish and international singers
Supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage in song recitals, curated by pianist and
and the Gaeltacht and Creative Ireland.
accompanist Dearbhla Collins.
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“You can’t have
any idea what
it’s like always
to hear such a
giant marching
behind you!”
Brahms
Beethoven 250
December 2020 will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of

Ludwig van Beethoven. In terms of both his own ground-breaking
works and his influence on others, he is probably the most
important single figure in the history of music. He single-handedly
reshaped the musical language of his time and strode the
transition from the 18th to the 19th century like a colossus. His
shadow hung over much of the following century: ‘You can’t
have any idea what it’s like always to hear such a giant marching
behind you!’ as
Brahms said.
But Beethoven’s influence went much further than music, affecting

the wider artistic, cultural, philosophical and even political world.
The philosopher Isiah Berlin described him as “the great artistic
figure of the nineteenth century, who impressed himself deeply
upon the imagination of Europe’. Beethoven’s own view of himself
as a creative artist was in itself revolutionary, in seeing music and
art as having the power to change the world “Music is ... a higher
revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”. But perhaps above all
Beethoven represents the notion of artistic and personal freedom,
telling us to “do all the good that one can; love, above all,
freedom, and even for a throne, never deny the truth.”
Across the International Concert Series and in the Chamber Music

Series in 2019/2020 we explore ‘Beethoven: Before and After’ and
in the autumn of 2020 we will undertake a survey of a cross-section
of his output, culminating in a special series of concerts to mark his
250th anniversary of his birth in December 2020.
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Beethoven: Before and After
in the 2019/20 season
Beethoven: Before and After, places the great composer in the

context of his classical period predecessors and his romantic
era successors.
INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2019/2020
Wednesday 4 September 2019

Staatskapelle Dresden | Myung Whun Chung, conductor
Brahms Symphony No. 2
Wednesday 16 October 2019
London Mozart Players | Howard Shelley piano/conductor
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 and Haydn: Symphony No.104
Sunday 10 November 2019
Christian Tetzlaff violin | Lars Vogt piano
Beethoven Sonata for piano and violin No. 6
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Saturday 23 November 2019
RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle chief conductor
Brahms Liebeslieder waltzes
Monday 20 April 2020
Emanuel Ax piano
Early Beethoven piano music, including the Three Sonatas Op. 2
Thursday 30 April 2020
Vienna Chamber Orchestra | Paul Lewis piano
Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart
Wednesday 13 May 2020
Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas conductor/piano
Beethoven Triple Concerto and Fifth Symphony
Hugh Tinney curates two series of chamber recitals.
Series 1: October/November focuses on Beethoven and his

predecessors: Mozart, Haydn, Clementi and C.P.E. Bach.
Series 2: Spring 2020 pairs Beethoven with both his great classical
role models Mozart and Haydn and his Romantic era successors
Schubert, Brahms and Schumann
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Pantha Du Prince
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Sunday Pantha Du Prince
29 September
2019, 8pm
Conference of Trees
Tickets: €37.50, €32.50, €27.50 In his latest project, techno artist Pantha Du Prince
translates the communication of trees into a new
concerts across the electronic piece for ensemble of musicians in this
programme. immersive audio visual performance combining club
culture, new music, visual poetry and speculative science.
Perspectives Multibuy –
5% discount.
Hendrik Weber, aka Pantha Du Prince, is one of the
popstars of the electronic music scene, and he definitely
earned his fame. Born 1975 in Bad Wildungen, Germany,
he developed a very unique signature sound over the
years. Swirling synths, an always present melancholy and
his trademark sound, the bells, all together form what is
now known as Eiskristalltechno (Spex). His Albums This Bliss
and Black Noise are widely considered to be two of the
most beautiful electronic albums of the last years. Always
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stretching out to more experimental fields, Pantha Du
Prince’s last collaboration was with Norwegian percussion
group The Bell Laboratory with whom he appeared at the
NCH. Conference of Trees will be released on Rough Trade
in 2019.
Conference of Trees is co-produced by the International

Summer Festival at Kampnagel, the Barbican in London,
the Kammerspiele in Munich and the
Schauspielhaus Bochum.
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Philip Glass
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Saturday Philip Glass Residency
26 October
2019, 8pm
Music in 12 Parts
Tickets €65, €55, €45

SOLD OUT Philip Glass and his ensemble will perform Music in
Twelve Parts one of Glass’s landmark pieces composed
for the Philip Glass Ensemble between 1971–74. It is one
of the most original and revolutionary works of Glass’s
oeuvre. Both a massive theoretical exercise and a deeply
engrossing work of art, the score is the culmination of
Glass’ explorations and theories on repetition. It is widely
considered to be a masterpiece of minimalism and a
seminal work of 20th century music.
Sunday Philip Glass Residency

27 October
2019 8pm
KOYAANISQATSI Live!
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Tickets €55, €47.50, €40, €35
SOLD OUT Philip Glass with Philip Glass Ensemble.
Michael Riesman, Music Director
Philip Glass and his Ensemble take up a special residency

at NCH in October 2019. Glass will perform his iconic works
Music in 12 Parts and KOYAANISQATSI as well as curate
with NCH one-off events as part of this unique weekend
in Dublin.
Philip Glass’s unique music has made him a cultural

icon, reaching across generations. His visionary works
are known for their hypnotic and dramatic structures
and shape-shifting motifs. They are landmarks of modern
music. 2019 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Philip
Glass Ensemble.

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David Coulter
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Tuesday Swordfishtrombones Revisited
29 October
2019, 8pm
Featuring Nadine Shah, Sarah Blasko,
Tickets: €40, €34.50, €29.50
Lisa O’Neill and Dorian Wood
concerts across the
programme.
Following on from his remarkable interpretation of Rain
Perspectives Multibuy – Dogs in 2011, British multi-instrumentalist David Coulter
5% discount.
now turns to another major opus by Tom Waits, with an
impressive team of musicians and special guests - LA
singer and performance artist Dorian Wood, acclaimed
Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko, Mercury Prize
nominee Nadine Shah and much-acclaimed folk singer
Lisa O’Neill. Presented in association with the Barbican,
London and Philharmonie de Paris.
Released in 1983, Swordfishtrombones marked a new

chapter in Tom Waits’ career as he drifted away from the
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piano jazz club atmospheres to find darker inspirations in
the gutter and back alleys of the human soul. This radical
change of direction towards experimental rock was one of
the musical shocks of the 1980s.
David Coulter, whom worked with Waits on the staged

production of The Black Rider, is known for his adventurous
sonic explorations, both as a master of the musical saw
(Gorillaz, Kronos Quartet, Marianne Faithfull or The Pogues)
and as a curator of landmark musical perfomances such
as In Dreams - David Lynch revisited, Jim Jarmusch revisited
and Double Fantasy live.
Some of the UK’s finest musicians will be joining David

Coulter on stage: Terry Edwards (horns), Dave Okumu
(guitar), Steve Nieve (piano), Tom Herbert (bass), Seb
Rochford (drums) and Thomas Bloch (Ondes Martenot).

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Saturday Laurie Anderson
28 March
2020, 8pm
Radio Play
Tickets: €37.50, €32.50, Radio Play is a mix of songs, stories, sound effects and
€27.50
electronics that combines the power of poetic language,
15% discount for 11+ music and visualization. Like radio, this piece is about
concerts across the using the imagination and interpreting the meaning
programme.
of ambiguous sounds. Anderson will be joined by an
Perspectives Multibuy – ensemble of musicians headed by bassist and music
5% discount. director Greg Cohen.
Sunday Laurie Anderson
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29 March
2020, 8pm
Here Comes the Ocean
Tickets: €37.50, €32.50, Here Comes the Ocean is an evening of improvisation

€27.50
against the backdrop of the drones, a guitar feedback
15% discount for 11+ work by Lou Reed performed by his collaborator Stewart
concerts across the Hurwood. Both loud and intimate, the music includes
programme.
songs by Reed and Anderson as well as improvisation by
Perspectives Multibuy – an ensemble led by bassist and music director
5% discount. Greg Cohen.

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Laurie Anderson is one of Anderson’s films include
America’s most renowned numerous music videos
and daring creative pioneers. and installation works as
Best known for her multimedia well as Carmen (1992),
presentations, innovative use the high definition Hidden
of technology and first-person Inside Mountains (2005) and
style, she is a writer, director, Arte-commissioned Heart of a
visual artist and vocalist who Dog (2015) which was chosen
has created ground-breaking as an official selection of the
works that span the worlds 2015 Venice and Toronto Film
of art, theatre, and Festivals. In 2017 Anderson
experimental music. joined four other artists in Mass
MoCA’s Building 6 inaugurating
Her recording career, launched a fifteen year rotating exhibition
by O Superman in 1981, includes of work. Anderson will show
many records released by pieces from her archive as well
Warner Records among as new work. Included in the first
them Big Science (1982), the exhibition cycle are her virtual
soundtrack to her feature reality collaborations with
film Home of the Brave (1986) Hsin-Chien Huang Chalkroom
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Strange Angels (1989) Life on a and Aloft. Chalkroom has been
String (2001) Homeland (2008) featured in film festivals all over
and Landfall (2018) released on the world including the Venice
Nonesuch which recently won a Film Festival where it won the
Grammy Award in 2019 for Best award for “Best VR Experience”
Chamber Music/Small under its Italian title, La Camera
Ensemble Performance. Insabbiata. Along with their
most recent VR piece, To the
In 2002, Anderson was Moon all three pieces will be
appointed the first presented at the 2019 Cannes
artist-in-residence of NASA Film Festival.
which culminated in her 2004
solo performance The End of
the Moon, the second in a series
of three ‘story’ performances
along with Happiness (2001)
and Dirtday (2012) all of
which toured extensively
internationally. Anderson has
published eight books. Her most
recent release All the Things I
Lost in The Flood (Rizzoli), is a
series of essays about pictures,
language and codes.
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Sunday Damon Albarn
31 May
2020, 8pm
The Nearer the Fountain,
Tickets: €65, €60, €55
More Pure the Stream Flows
concerts across the
programme.
Damon Albarn spends as much time as possible in
Perspectives Multibuy – Iceland, his spiritual home from home where he gains
5% discount.
respite and inspiration from the landscape and its
surroundings. With this fascination in mind he has created
a new audio visual work. What can be more fascinating
than the signs of the passage of time and the fragility
of nature.
Damon Albarn is a singer, songwriter, composer and

producer, and founder member of Blur, Gorillaz and
The Good, The Bad and The Queen.
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PHILIP GLASS
Reflections on a Cultural Icon
by Seamas O’Reilly
Philip Glass Ensemble
“I explained that I was an

artist, but I was sometimes a
plumber as well…”
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Some time in the early 1970s, Time magazine art critic Robert
Hughes had a dishwasher installed in his SoHo townhouse. He
received something of a shock upon noticing the man fixing his
dishwasher was Philip Glass. “But you’re an artist” he exclaimed,
demonstrating a faith in art’s profitability which, half a century
later, seems almost quaint. “I explained” Glass recalls, “that I was
an artist, but I was sometimes a plumber as well, and he should go
away and let me finish”.
This is a story often told, but no less striking for the retelling. Modern
artists may be much inured to the quotidian tasks of the working
world, but it does seem striking that Glass would have had to
busy himself with a daily grind around the time he was making a
name for himself as one of the most inventive and sought-after
composers in America. There was his plumbing, and his many-
yeared stint driving a New York City cab, a job which persisted
years into what might be called his ascendancy, crowned with the
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release of his breakout opera, 1976’s Einstein On The Beach.
“…his many yeared stint driving a New York

City cab, a job which persisted years into
what might be called his ascendancy…”
Since then his output has been prodigious and unrestrained by

form, style or breadth. Glass has more than 40 film scores, 12
symphonies, 30 solo pieces, 30 chamber works and numerous
other dance, theatrical and commercial works in his repertoire.
His film work alone includes a bewilderingly diverse range of titles,
from landmark works like Scorsese’s elegiac study of the 14th
Dalai Lama, Kundun, and Godfrey Reggio’s radically inventive
Qatsi trilogy, to having composed the original music for cult
horror favourite, Candyman or interstitial music for the first series
of Sesame St. He has written three symphonies based on David
Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy, with the third, Lodger, having premiered
this year in Los Angeles (Jan 10th) and London (May 9th). It’s a
testament to this uncanny range that so many of his works may
have slipped popular attention. Arguably the most successful
composer alive, it is perhaps only the canniest Glass fanatic who
could remind you of Icct Hedral his collaboration with Cornish
electronica wunderkind Aphex Twin, or his score for 2015’s Fantastic
Four reboot. Glass’ style is at once, recognisable, and yet
endlessly mutable.
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“In order to arrive at a personal style” he once said, “you have
to have a technique to begin with… If you don’t have a basis on
which to make the choice, then you don’t have a style at all. You
have a series of accidents.”
Still, some may look at the more serendipitous moments of the

composer’s career and detect there some hidden, guiding hand.
A Zelig-like character who seems to show up in any corner of
1970s New York where art was happening; present in the studio
of Richard Serra, where Glass’ work melting lead is said to have
inspired the artist to begin the sculpting that would make his
name; a partner in the removal company he operated with fellow
composer Steve Reich. This many years before the aforementioned
installation of white goods in SoHo, by which time he was in the
middle of composing another formative work; Music In 12 Parts.
Written between 1971 and 1974, Music In 12 Parts is now considered

a landmark in 20th century composition and a touchstone for
minimalism, the genre for which Glass is often cited as a founding
father. If so, he is a politely deadbeat dad toward that offspring,
and disowns the term minimalism entirely in favour of the slightly
more pedestrian “music with repetitive structures”.
“…he is a politely deadbeat dad toward that

offspring, and disowns the term minimalism
entirely in favour of the slightly more pedestrian
“music with repetitive structures”
The title originally referred to the first piece in the series, since it
was Glass’s initial intention that it would itself contain 12 lines of
counterpoint harmony. The rest of the suite was, as the story goes,
only added once a friend asked when the other eleven instalments
would be forthcoming. This kind of serendipitous invention is
perhaps a further indicator of the paradox at the centre of Glass’
oeuvre; meticulous yet spontaneous; devilishly intricate even when
seemingly weightless in its simplicity.
Music In 12 Parts begins in media res, giving the sense of a

doorway into an event already in progress. Its opening bars seem
merely a development upon a series of notes long since put in
place, only now urging you to come in and become acquainted.
The suite revolves around subtle variations, the shifts of which may
seem nearly imperceptible through its course, as the ear tracks one
phrase or refrain which unspools in multiple overlapping, seemingly
infinite, loops.
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Koyaanisqatsi
Infinitesimal changes gather so slowly, and in such volume, that

they achieve the paradoxical effect of seeming to have changed
little at all, as if each section were just one of innumerable waves,
breaking and crumbling at a scale imperceptible to those viewing
a distant, and outwardly placid, seas. It is immediate in the
sense that none of these shifts and developments are, in and of
themselves, more important than the whole, the wider work like
nothing so much as a perpetually opening door into an eternally
PERSPECTIVES
stretched present moment.
It is, perhaps, unsurprising that its first performances were taken in

by audiences who were invited to exit and re-join the performance
at will, or take in the entire thing whilst lying on their backs. Over
the course of its 12 parts, themes and phrases slide in and out of
view, obscuring the appearance and disappearance of others,
masking each phase in a plunge of hypnotic repetition. Given the
range of techniques, pitches, speeds and themes, Glass may be
forgiven for refusing the label of minimalism entirely, not least as
the full suite of parts comes in at a decidedly maximal four and a
half hours, not counting intervals.
Having been performed sporadically since its debut, might he

play the piece differently now, over half a century after it was first
composed? “I consider the first 20 performances just learning the
piece” he once said in an interview with NPR. “If you think about a
pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime — if
you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later
in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that
music, and how differently they must have played it when they
were younger”.
“I think it’s only after about 20 performances that we begin to

understand what the dynamic structure of the piece is.”
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TRADITION NOW
In partnership with
the Arts Council

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Saturday Lisa O’Neill
5 October
2019, 8pm
Ye Vagabonds
Brìghde Chaimbeul
Tickets: €24.50, €20, €18 An evening curated by Geoff Travis
Presented in partnership with
The Arts Council.
15% discount for 11+ Tradition Now takes a unique look at progressive traditional
concerts across the music in a fast-moving Ireland, providing a platform for the
programme.
most forward-thinking artists playing today.
Tradition Now Multibuy –
5% discount. As folk music flourishes, Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and
Brìghde Chaimbeul are brought together for one special
show curated by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade and River
Lea Records.
“In 2019, British and Irish folk music is more exciting and
urgent than it has been for years. Much of it sounds
powerfully raw and immediate, with many groups
recognising the politics of our time in their songs, and
incorporating contemporary stories within more ancient
musical motifs. We could call this explosion “woke” folk –
though there’s much more to this disparate collection of
acts than a slogan.” The Guardian
Cavan born Lisa O’Neill now lives in Dublin. Heard A Long

Gone Song, her first album for Rough Trade imprint River
Lea is a collection of traditional material interspersed
with her own. The sense of ownership Lisa imbues in these
old songs, coupled with the immutability of her chosen
subjects makes it hard to tell which is which. These are folk
songs in the original sense of the word.
“We could call this explosion “woke” folk –

though there’s much more to this disparate
collection of acts than a slogan.”
The Guardian
Ye Vagabonds are Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn who

grew up in the rural town of Carlow on the southeast
of Ireland. The Hare’s Lament is an album of traditional
songs learned from some of the greats of Irish music;
from precious archive recordings of a grandfather they
never met; from the unique collection of singer Róise na
nAmhrán from Arranmore Island in Donegal (their mother’s
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birthplace) and from contemporaries in the singing
communities around Dublin, of which Ye Vagabonds are
a valued part.
From Skye Brìghde Chaimbeul plays Scottish smallpipes.

Her acclaimed album, The Reeling was recorded live
without overdubs in the historic East Church in Cromarty,
on the Black Isle. Working closely with Aidan O’Rourke,
Brìghde has devised a completely new way of arranging
for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones
of the smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a
trance-like quality in the tunes
River Lea is a collaboration between Geoff Travis and

Jeannette Lee of independent music champions Rough
Trade Records and music journalist Tim Chipping. This
new label is dedicated to releasing beautiful and strange
traditional folk music from Britain, Ireland and beyond.
TRADITION NOW
©Myles O Reilly
Ye Vagabonds Lisa O’Neill
MEDIA PARTNER
Brìghde Chaimbeul
INNOVATION PARTNER
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Sunday Sam Amidon Extended Ensemble &
6 October
2019, 8pm
Sounds Like Freedom – Niall Vallely,
Karan Casey & Harriet Tubman
Tickets: €27.50, €24.50, €20
Presented in partnership with
The Arts Council.

concerts across the
programme. Tradition Now takes a unique look at progressive traditional
music in a fast-moving Ireland, providing a platform for the
Tradition Now Multibuy –
5% discount.
most forward-thinking artists playing today.
A special double-bill that sees protest song, traditional

music and jazz collide. Genre-bending multi-instru-
mentalist and vocalist Sam Amidon presents a highly
unpredictable program of his own music with a cast of
improvising musicians. Niall Vallely unveils his new project
with NYC power jazz combo, Harriet Tubman.
“Both Irish and African American musics have a

long history of speaking out against oppression
and injustice. The music in this collaboration
will draw on both those traditions…”
Niall Vallely
Sam Amidon’s unique reworkings of traditional American

folk music have always been collaborative in nature,
bringing his innate connection to the high lonesome
Appalachian sound in contact with improvising musicians
and composers. In this concert Amidon draws the
exploratory side of his music out even further, presenting
his songs and fiddle tunes in the context of a bespoke
ensemble of some of the UK and Ireland’s top jazz and
improvising musicians. Amidon and company will dig
deep into the hidden connections between disparate
corners of the American musical diaspora and see what
secrets are hidden therein.
“The seeds for “Sounds Like Freedom” were sown when

I met up with guitarist Brandon Ross while we were on
tour with Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson’s band in 2017.
When I heard Brandon’s band “Harriet Tubman’s” fiery
politically-charged music I thought that this could
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combine well with a long-cherished project that I had
been contemplating - this was to create a musical
celebration of the connections between the civil rights
movements in Ireland and the US. Both Irish and African
American musics have a long history of speaking out
against oppression and injustice. The music in this
collaboration will draw on both those traditions and I
©Niclas Weber
hope it will help to re-awaken some of the subversive spirit

inherent in Irish traditional music.” Niall Vallely
Sam Amidon
TRADITION NOW
Melvin Gibbs Karan Casey
©Peter Mcnally
MEDIA PARTNER
Aidan O’Rourke
INNOVATION PARTNER
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TRADITION IS CHANGE
by Toner Quinn
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The late Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin was once asked to speak at a
public debate on Irish traditional music. The poster advertising the
discussion had the tag-line ‘Tradition versus change’, but when
the pianist, composer and director of the Irish World Academy of
Music and Dance started to speak, the first thing he did was to set
about countering the idea: ‘Tradition is change’, he said, and he
proceeded to make this the basis of his talk.
Ó Súilleabháin was trying to communicate a simple idea: that

whether a genre of music changes or not is not necessarily
a decision that we make. Rather, the reason that we have a
‘tradition’ at all is because the music has evolved.
T R A D I T I O N A N D I N N OVAT I O N : B R E A K I N G B O U N DA R I E S
He was intent on celebrating this change process, but his ideas
were often flattened into commercial clichés, or portrayed as a
betrayal of the past. Too often misinterpreted, Ó Súilleabháin was
pointing to a powerful notion beyond all of this. There are elements
of the past that we have to try and steward into the future, but they
still change even when we do.
“All we can be is humble when we consider its

complexity, and, in fact, humility generally
tends to inform the best traditional music work.”
Tradition is change because we cannot possibly hold on to all

the music that was played by musicians in the past – even our
recorded legacy is infinitesimal if you consider the amount of music
played every day, every hour. At the best of times, we have only
shards and so we must constantly reimagine.
Tradition is change because we can only conceivably absorb a

fraction of the sounds that are available to us into our listening
and playing.
Tradition is change because all the musical opportunities and

technological advances that the present and future tend to bring
us will move us in new directions.
Somewhere in the middle of this rich and extraordinary process is

the balancing act that we call ‘traditional music’ today. All we can
be is humble when we consider its complexity, and, in fact, humility
generally tends to inform the best traditional music work.
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Brìghde Chaimbeul
Ye Vagabonds
One of the artists performing in this year’s Tradition Now festival is

Brìghde Chaimbeul, who recently released an album titled The
Reeling. On the surface, it is a pared down album of traditional
tunes played on the Scottish small pipes. But there’s something
else as you move through it; it has an edgy aesthetic that surprises
us. What is it? Is it the sound of a new generation reimagining an
old instrument? The influence of the world of experimental music
and even electronica? Has it to do with her collaborator on the
album, fiddle player Aidan O’Rourke, whose band Lau has pushed
tune-playing right to the edge of experimentation? Is it the subtle
Gaelic mouth music that fades in and out?
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It is perhaps all of these things. From the tune ‘O Chadian an Lo’ to
‘Tornala Maika’, Chaimbeul plays nothing but the melody on The
Reeling, but somehow, each generation of traditional musicians
has to take everything they have heard and rework it into that
single line of notes, reflecting their world while holding on to what it
is they value about the musical past. We call it ‘traditional music’,
but we could equally call it ‘change music’.
Also performing at this year’s festival is the duo Ye Vagabonds.

Their new album, The Hare’s Lament, ends with a version of the
traditional song ‘Willie O Winsbury’, a Scottish ballad that dates
from the 1700s. It has been recorded many times, but the two
T R A D I T I O N A N D I N N OVAT I O N : B R E A K I N G B O U N DA R I E S
brothers, in a sense, set its clock to nought, because this heart-felt
version will find new audiences for the song, and set people on
their own journey into this music. The understated delivery of
Diarmuid Ó Gloin, the intuitive harmonies by his brother Brían as he
joins in – this is what traditional music is, – a process of discovery of
the musical worlds around us, an enrichment of our lives, but it is
still nothing without artistry.
In that same talk that Ó Súilleabháin gave over twenty years ago,
he also talked about ‘something new emerging’ out of this change
process, but he chose his words carefully, suggesting that this was
a constant, circular process; we need not become settled on any
one point. It is interesting, in that regard, to consider the work of
Niall Vallely, who also features in Tradition Now. As a student of Ó
Súilleabháin, he was co-founder of the band Nomos, an innovator
in concertina playing; then he formed the trio Buille, and minimalist
Reichian composition entered his work. Most recently, he has
written the first concerto for the Irish concertina, and now we have
‘Sounds Like Freedom’, a musical celebration of the connections
between the civil rights movements in Ireland and the US.
How can we make sense of such diversity in traditional music,

when even the change artists keep changing? Tradition Now is
appropriately titled, because we can only take the briefest, most
humble snapshot of this music at any one time. Tradition is change.
Toner Quinn is Editor of The Journal of Music and a lecturer in publishing

at NUI Galway.
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WORDS+IDEAS
Words+Ideas is a new series by the NCH

featuring some of today’s most renowned
writers, commentators and thinkers all offering
views and insights on today’s topical issues and
ideas to inspire reflection, debate and
critical thinking.
©Oxford Film and Television Ltd
Sir Simon Schama

©Oxford Film and Television Ltd
Margaret Atwood
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Thursday Sir Simon Schama
6 June
2019, 8pm
The Wordy Tour
Tickets: €34.50, €29.50

Can words still pack a punch in the reign of Twitter? Have
the carriers of thought, the deliverers of argument, the
elements of poetry, the sounds that make us human lost
their force in the age of short attention span?
Simon Schama has lived in the house of words for half

a century - as a historian, art critic, broadcaster and
journalist. He has spun the web of words in big books
and tight essays; he has done stand-up in Chicago and
live cook shows on TV. Now he has a new collection of
writing on everything from Falstaff to Leonard Cohen, from
pomegranates to populism.
Now hear his words live on stage this June.
WORDS + IDEAS
Saturday Margaret Atwood
2 November
2019, 8pm
On September 10th, the wait is over. The Testaments,
Tickets €34.50, €29.50 Margaret Atwood’s hugely anticipated sequel to The
SOLD OUT Handmaid’s Tale, is revealed.
NCH presents an evening with the Canadian novelist,

poet, literary critic and inventor to celebrate this
momentous publication. The appearance of The
Handmaid’s Tale in 1985 and the current, Emmy-award
winning television series have created a cultural
phenomenon, as handmaids have become a symbol
of women’s rights, standing against misogyny and
oppression. Interviewed live on stage the conversation
will span the length of Atwood’s remarkable career, her
diverse range of works and why she has returned to her
seminal story, 34 years later.
‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about

Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book.
Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world
we’ve been living in.’ (Margaret Atwood)
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FAMILY/
LEARNING &
PARTICIPATION
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Saturday This Way to Christmas
21 December 2019
3.30pm | 6pm
featuring The Snowman
Sunday
22 December 2019
11.30am | 2pm
The magical Christmas show, produced and directed by
4.30pm | 7pm
Theatre Lovett and described by The Irish Times as ‘one of
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the most imaginative and indispensable companies at
23 December 2019
work today’, features The Snowman with Howard Blake’s
11.30am | 2pm
score performed live by the NCH Christmas Orchestra.
4.30pm | 7pm
In true Christmas spirit the show, featuring Louis Lovett and

guest performers, also includes a parade of Christmas
Tickets: €25 Adult
treasures including parading Nutcrackers, a Little Match
Child €19.50
Family Tickets: €87 Girl, classic Christmas songs and festive dance. No
(4 people, max. 2 children) Christmas is complete without a visit from Santa Claus
Earlybird offer €82 available who will make an appearance adding to the magic and
until August 27th 2019
merriment at the NCH this December.
F A M I LY
“Easily the best family entertainment
on stage right now”
The Irish Times
MEDIA PARTNER
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SinfoNua
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
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Saturday SinfoNua
31 August
2019, 3.30pm
Cork School of Music Gerald Peregrine cello
Tickets: €15 SinfoNua Orchestra
David Brophy conductor
Sunday
1 September C. Moriarty New Commission for SinfoNua
2019, 8pm Elgar Cello Concerto
NCH Dublin Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Tickets: €20, €15, €10 SinfoNua is an NCH initiative: an orchestra for emerging
musicians providing an experience mirroring that of a
professional orchestra.
Conducted by David Brophy, one of Ireland’s leading

conductors, and featuring Irish cellist Gerald Peregrine
L E A R N I N G & PA R T I C I PAT I O N
playing Elgar’s famous Cello Concerto, SinfoNua will
perform in both the NCH and Cork School of Music.
Saturday Family Day with the RTÉ National

2 November
2019
Symphony Orchestra
Tickets on sale first week

Come along to a unique experience for all the family
in July, see www.nch.ie for
further details with Ireland’s premier orchestra. Experience the
instruments “up close and personal” in a series of
Presented by the NCH and interactive workshops with RTÉ NSO musicians; enjoy
the RTÉ National Symphony
Orchestra.
micro-performances in the foyer spaces; embark on
a musical treasure-hunt, and then gather in the main
auditorium for a specially-curated family concert with
the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and animateur
Jonathan James.
Designed for families with children aged 4-12;

all are welcome.
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Female Conductor Programme
Finghin Collins
Female Conductor Programme
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The Female Conductor Programme
The Female Conductor Programme returns for 2019/2020 with the continued
generous support of Grant Thornton.
This ground-breaking programme is designed to encourage high-calibre

female musicians to take up the baton and take the first steps on to the
podium to become orchestral conductors.
Working with the best of international and Irish conductors, with professional
mentoring by Grant Thornton, the participants embark on an 18-month
adventure, culminating with the opportunity to conduct the RTÉ National
Symphony Orchestra.
This programme aims to address the enduring glass ceiling of the classical
music world, that of the orchestral conductor: at the end of 2014, music
listings website Bachtrack reported that of the top 150 conductors of that
year, only five were women. Across US orchestras in 2015, the ratio of male to
female conductors was 80:20; in the twenty-two highest budget orchestras,
there were twenty-one males and one female conductor.
See nch.ie for further details.
NCH International Master Course

The inaugural NCH International Master Course for advanced piano
and string musicians, led by Artistic Directors Finghin Collins (piano) and
Gwendolyn Masin (violin), will run from Tuesday 6 to Sunday 11 of August 2019.
Irish and international participants will have the opportunity to enjoy

solo and chamber music coaching at the highest level from a faculty of
acclaimed professional musicians; Finghin Collins (piano), Gwendolyn
Masin (violin) together with Kirill Troussov (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola) and
Louise Hopkins (cello).
The wealth of their combined experience is outstanding, providing a unique

and rare opportunity for young musicians.
Concert performances will include faculty, student, and mixed

performances – see nch.ie for further details.
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Quavers to Quadratics Tea Dance Tunes
Music and Science
Our hugely popular dementia-friendly
Workshops concert series Tea Dance Tunes
continues throughout 2019/2020 with 8
January 2019
events in the intimate surroundings of the
Crossing the boundaries between music
John Field Room.
and science, Quavers to Quadratics
returns to the NCH in January 2019.
These concerts, for people living with
This innovative programme has been
dementia, and their families and carers,
developed in partnership between the
are informal and accessible, with active
NCH, University College Dublin, and
participation encouraged!
Trinity College Dublin.
Unlock musical memories with popular

Quavers to Quadratics sees primary
songs and music from favourite shows,
school children play with ideas common
the Irish songbook and classical
to music and science. They are led in
favourites. Afternoon tea is provided, and
their play by undergraduate students
a lovely time is promised! See www.nch.
from music and science, working in
ie for upcoming dates.
partnership with the children’s teachers.
Using scientific equipment, musical

instruments and recyclable materials, NCH International
the children explore how sound is made Education Series
and how it behaves, how musical
instruments work, and how to make their Linked to the NCH International Concert
own instruments using these concepts. Series, the International Education Series
See nch.ie for further details. presents masterclasses, workshops and
other educational events with some of
the world’s greatest musicians.
These events are designed to offer

our up and coming musicians the
opportunity to interact with those at the
top of their field, but are also open to the
general public as observers. Watching
an expert working with an emerging
musician offers a unique insight into the
artistic process, and how the best in the
world consider their craft.
See nch.ie for upcoming events.
Ray Chen Masterclass
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Events for Young people and Families
The NCH offers a wide variety of events Summer Camps
throughout the year for families with
Songschool
children as young as a few weeks
Monday 8 - Friday 12 July 2019,
old, and right through primary and
10am - 4pm The Studio
secondary school. All of the following
Songschool is for secondary school
are regular events in our calendar, so
students who are interested in writing
if you miss one there’s bound to be
and recording songs, performing them
another coming up soon! See nch.ie for
at a concert, making a video, learning
details of upcoming events.
about music technology, and meeting
people who love music as much as they
Mini Music
do... not to mention forming bands and
A weekly action-packed music
having fun! All Songschool students
workshop experience for babies and
receive a copy of their songs and their
young children aged 3 months to 8 years
videos, and a Songschool certificate of
old. September term general sales open
participation. Tickets €150
10am, 22 June 2019.
Junior Songschool
Bring Along a Baby Monday 15 - Friday 19 July 2019,
Bring Along a Baby is an informal, 10am - 2pm The Studio
relaxed, accessible chamber music Junior Songschool is a chance for 8-12
recital, aimed primarily at parents, while year olds to spend some time at the
babies or very young children sleep, NCH, learning about writing, performing
feed and play. and recording songs. Make music and
new friends! All Songschool students
Family Concerts receive a copy of their songs and their
These highly interactive family concerts videos, and a Songschool certificate of
are held in our smaller venues (John participation. Tickets €112.50
Field Room and The Studio) and are
limited in capacity in order to maximise
participation. Whether through
classical music, jazz, Irish traditional, or
world music, we promise a lively and
interactive event that the whole family
can enjoy.
SongSchool
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Health and Wellbeing Programmes
The NCH’s Learning & Participation work extends far beyond the walls of
the NCH. Through our programme of music for Health & Wellbeing we aim
to enrich the lives of those living with long-term health difficulties, and to
contribute to physical and emotional wellbeing through participation in
music making. Our work in this area is built on our belief in the power of
music to effect positive, holistic outcomes across a broad range of areas
connected to health and wellbeing.
Music for Mental Health

Music in Mind is a programme of participative music workshops for people
in the community living with mental health difficulties. Either singing in
a choir, or playing percussion as part of an ensemble; the focus is on
participation and enjoyment.
Bringing music into Paediatric Healthcare
With our partners Kids’ Classics, we deliver music programmes in eight
paediatric hospitals around Ireland, consisting of music on the wards,
workshops in the classroom, and concerts for special occasions.
Music for Dementia

Health and Harmony brings music performance to people living with
dementia, and their families and carers, in a programme of accessible and
informal performances in Alzheimer’s day and respite care centres.
Music for Recovery from Physical and Cognitive Disabilities

Our work in the National Rehabilitation Hospital brings music into the
wards, common rooms, and chapel of the hospital, aiming to contribute
to improvements in quality of life for people recovering from, or living with,
life-altering cognitive or physical injuries.
“The Health & Harmony programme lifts our

clients’ spirits and brings them on a journey
of joy, which is fantastic for those who have
found themselves on such a difficult journey
without knowing why.”
Dementia Care Centre Manager
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BOOKING INFORMATION
Book Online at www.nch.ie Resale

In the case of a sold-out performance,
By telephone Tel: 00 353 (1) 417 0000 if you are no longer able to attend, you
Dedicated Friends Booking Line may return the tickets to the NCH for
Tel: 00 353 (1) 408 6777 resale. Ticket exchanges and resales
are subject to availability and the
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Return your booking form with payment Once purchased, tickets cannot be
to the National Concert Hall Box Office, refunded or exchanged. Programme
National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, and artists are subject to change.
Dublin 2. D02 N527 (cheques and money The resale of tickets through a third party
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benefit for Multibuy Package Buyers your order and to provide you with the
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Where tickets are exchanged for a and adhered to. You can change your
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Spread your payments for any National Concert Hall Friend Members
International Concert Season package enjoy many benefits including:
across three months. • Ticket discounts
Conditions of scheduled payments: • Priority booking on selected concerts
1. Payments will be scheduled over • Dedicated booking line
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2. Payments will be collected from Debit • Access to bespoke cultural tours at
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Wednesday 7 August 2019. Friend of the NCH e-mail friends@nch.ie
or see www.nch.ie.
Young NCH
Aged 18-29? Avail of discounted
tickets across the NCH presented
programme of concerts to include
the NCH International Concert Series,
Perspectives Series, Words+Ideas Series,
Tradition Now Series, Chamber Music
Series and more. For more information on
Young NCH visit www.nch.ie
Groups Offer
Book 8 or more tickets for the same
concert in the programme and receive
a 10% discount.
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“NEW TO CLASSICAL MUSIC” MULTIBUY - 10% DISCOUNT
New to classical music and not sure what to attend? We’ve picked the following
concerts which offer popular classical music by well-known composers which
you might recognize with a mix of orchestras, chamber ensembles, choral groups
and piano duos to experience. Book a ticket for all four concerts and receive
a 10% discount.
RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle conductor

Sat. 23 Nov. 2019, 8pm
Bahar and Ufuk Dördüncü pianos
English Chamber Orchestra | José Serebrier conductor
Wed. 22 Jan. 2020, 8pm
Natalie Clein cello
Wed. 13 May 2020, 8pm
The Hallé | Sir Mark Elder conductor
Tues. 2 June 2020, 8pm
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
“BEETHOVEN 250” MULTIBUY - 10% DISCOUNT
To celebrate Beethoven’s 250th Birthday in 2020, we have picked the following

concerts featuring Beethoven works. Purchase a ticket to all four concerts and
receive a 10% discount plus priority booking on the Hugh Tinney Beethoven:
Before and After Series as part of the NCH Chamber Music Series (to be announced).
Christian Tetzlaff violin | Lars Vogt piano Sun. 10 Nov. 2019, 8pm
Emanuel Ax piano Mon. 20 Apr. 2020, 8pm
Vienna Chamber Orchestra | Paul Lewis piano Thurs. 30 Apr. 2020, 8pm

Wed. 13 May 2020, 8pm
“BRILLIANT BAROQUE” MULTIBUY - 10% DISCOUNT
For fans of baroque music, we have picked the following concerts featuring
baroque pieces. Purchase a ticket to all three concerts and receive a
10% discount off the total plus priority booking on the Irish Baroque Orchestra
Series and the Malcolm Proud Harpsichord Series as part of the NCH Chamber
Music Series (to be announced).
Bach Collegium Japan | Masaaki Suzuki conductor Mon. 9 Mar. 2020, 8pm
Tenebrae | Aurora Orchestra Sat. 4 Apr. 2020, 8pm

Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano | Il pomo d’oro
Sat. 23 May 2020, 8pm
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor/harpsichord
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PERSPECTIVES 2019 - 5% DISCOUNT
Book tickets to 5 concerts in Perspectives Series and save 5%.

(excludes Philip Glass Residency)
TRADITION NOW 2019 - 5% DISCOUNT
Book tickets to 2 main stage concerts listed for Tradition Now 2019 and save 5%.
THIS WAY TO CHRISTMAS FAMILY SHOW 2019

Family Tickets: €87 (4 people, max. 2 children) Earlybird offer €82 available until
August 27th 2019.
REWARDS
All ticket holders for the opening concert of the International Concert Series
2019/2020 by Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra on 4 September 2019 are welcome to
a complimentary glass of prosecco on the night to celebrate the start of the season!
S AV I N G S A N D D I S C O U N T S
All ticket holders for the Joseph Calleja and Claudia Boyle concert with the RTÉ
National Symphony Orchestra on 9 December 2019 are invited to an interval
reception with a complimentary glass of mulled wine! (Non-alcoholic beverages will
also be on offer).
STUDENT STANDBY
€5 Student Standby Ticket Offer on all concerts in the NCH programme 2019/2020
(open to 2nd and 3rd level students). Limited tickets are offered on a first come, first
served basis, and are available for purchase in person at the Box Office from one
hour prior to the concert.
NCH MUSIC FANS - AGED 18-29?

Sign up online, free, to receive ticket offers and priority booking on a wide selection
of NCH concerts throughout the year. Get regular updates and insights on
masterclasses, pre-concert talks, workshops, podcasts, playlists and much more.
Discounted tickets apply across the NCH presented programme of concerts to
include the NCH International Concert Series, Perspectives, Words+Ideas, Tradition
Now, Chamber Music Series and more.
For more information on Young NCH visit www.nch.ie
GROUPS OFFER
Book 8 or more tickets for the same concert in the programme and receive a
10% discount.
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NCH PROGRAMME 2019/2020
Concert Series Date Zone A Zone B Zone C Zone D
Sir Simon Schama – Thurs. 6

Words+Ideas €34.50 €29.50 - -
The Wordy Tour Jun. 2019
Dresden Staatskapelle
Myung-Whun Chung, Wed. 4
ICS €85 €72.50 €55 €39.50
conductor Sept. 2019
Yuja Wang, piano
Pantha Du Prince Sun. 29

Perspectives €37.50 €32.50 €27.50 -
Conference of Trees Sept 2019
Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds,

Brìghde Chaimbeul Sat. 5
Tradition Now €24.50 €20 €18 -
An Evening Curated by Oct. 2019
Geoff Travis
Sam Amidon Extended

Ensemble and Sounds Like Sun. 6
Tradition Now €27.50 €24.50 €20 -
Freedom – Niall Vallely, Karan Oct. 2019
Casey and Harriet Tubman.

Wed. 16
Howard Shelley, ICS €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Oct. 2019
piano/conductor
Swordfishtrombones Tue. 29
Perspectives €40 €34.50 €29.50 -
Revisited Oct. 2019
Christian Tetzlaff, violin Sun. 10

ICS €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Lars Vogt, piano. Nov. 2019
RIAS Kammerchor
Justin Doyle, conductor Sat. 23
ICS €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Bahar and Ufuk Dördünchü, Nov. 2019
pianos
Joseph Calleja, tenor

Claudia Boyle, soprano
RTÉ National Symphony Mon. 9
ICS €75 €67.50 €54.50 €29.50
Orchestra Dec. 2019
Prionnsías Ó Duinn,
conductor
Sat. 21 €25
This Way to Christmas Sun. 22 Adult
Family - - -
featuring The Snowman Mon. 23 €19.50
Dec. 2019 Child
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English Chamber Orchestra.
Wed. 22
José Serebrier, conductor ICS €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Jan. 2020
Natalie Clein, cello
Thurs. 20
Simon Trpčeski, piano ICS €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Feb. 2020

Mon. 9
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor ICS €55 €47.50 €37.50 €27.50
Mar. 2020
and guests
Sat. 28
Laurie Anderson: Radio Play Perspectives €37.50 €32.50 €27.50 -
Mar. 2020
Laurie Anderson: Here Sun. 29

Perspectives €37.50 €32.50 €27.50 -
Comes the Ocean Mar. 2020
Tenebrae and
N C H P R O G R A M M E 2 0 1 9/ 2 0 2 0
Sat. 4
Aurora Orchestra ICS €45 €37.50 €29.50 €24.50
Apr. 2020
Nigel Short, conductor
Mon. 20
Emanuel Ax, piano ICS €49.50 €40 €32.50 €25
Apr. 2020
Vienna Chamber Orchestra Thurs. 30

ICS €45 €37.50 €29.50 €24.50
Paul Lewis, piano Apr. 2020
Camerata Ireland
Barry Douglas,
Wed. 13
piano/conductor ICS €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
May 2020
Lynn Harrell, cello
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Joyce DiDonato,
mezzo-soprano
Sat. 23
il pomo d’oro ICS €85 €72.50 €55 €39.50
May 2020
Maxim Emelyanychev,
conductor/harpsichord
Damon Albarn: The Nearer

Sun. 31
the Fountain, More Pure the Perspectives €65 €60 €55 -
May 2020
Stream Flows.
The Hallé
Tue. 2
Sir Mark Elder, conductor ICS €80 €67.50 €52.50 €37.50
Jun. 2020
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
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Seating Plan
Zone A
Note:
Stalls seating starts
to elevate from row L. Zone B
Hand rail from Y
until row F.
Zone C
Steps
Zone D
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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2019/2020 – FULL SEASON
20% saving for Patrons, Season Friends, Supporting Friends and Friends of the NCH
15% saving for Concert Bookers for the full International Concert Series 2019/2020
Concert Date Zone A Zone B Zone C Zone D
Wed. 4
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor €85 €72.50 €55 €39.50
Sept. 2019
Yuja Wang, piano
London Mozart Players Wed. 16

€37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Howard Shelley, piano/conductor Oct. 2019
Sun. 10
Christian Tetzlaff, violin | Lars Vogt, piano. €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Nov. 2019
RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle, conductor Sat. 23
€37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Bahar and Ufuk Dördünchü, pianos Nov. 2019

Claudia Boyle, soprano Mon. 9
€75 €67.50 €54.50 €29.50
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Dec. 2019
Prionnsías Ó Duinn, conductor
English Chamber Orchestra

Wed. 22
BOOKING FORMS
José Serebrier, conductor €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Jan. 2020
Thurs. 20
Simon Trpčeski, piano €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
Feb. 2020
Bach Collegium Japan Mon. 9
€55 €47.50 €37.50 €27.50
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor & guests Mar. 2020
Tenebrae and Aurora Orchestra Sat. 4
€45 €37.50 €29.50 €24.50
Nigel Short, conductor Apr. 2020
Mon. 20
Emanuel Ax, piano €49.50 €40 €32.50 €25
Apr. 2020
Vienna Chamber Orchestra Thurs. 30
€45 €37.50 €29.50 €24.50
Paul Lewis, piano Apr. 2020
Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas piano/

Wed. 13
conductor | Lynn Harrell cello €37.50 €29.50 €25 €19.50
May 2020
Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano

il pomo d’oro Sat. 23
€85 €72.50 €55 €39.50
Maxim Emelyanychev, May 2020
The Hallé | Sir Mark Elder, conductor Tues. 2
€80 €67.50 €52.50 €37.50
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano Jun. 2020
Full Price Before Discounts Applied €744.50 €619.50 €496 €364.50
Concert Bookers (with 15% Saving) €632.82 €526.57 €421.60 €309.82
Patrons, Supporting Friends, Season Friends

€595.60 €495.60 €396.80 €291.60
and Friends (with 20% Saving)
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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2019/2020 BOOKING FORM
Chosen Package Cost in Preferred No. of Packages

Sub-Total
Zone Chosen Zone Row/Area Required
Example A €595.60 Row A & Main Balcony 2 €1,191.20
Fill out
your choice
in this row
For package costs in your preferred zone please refer

Total €
to previous page
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BEETHOVEN 250 MULTIBUY – 10%
Information on what concerts are in this multibuy - page 85
STEP 1: Indicate Chosen Zone (Refer to NCH Seating Map for Zone options)
STEP 2: Indicate preferred Row/Area from Seating Map
STEP 3: Indicate Ticket price and Number of tickets required
Zone A Zone B Zone C Zone D
Multibuy Price €152.55 €122.85 €100.80 €79.65
Preferred Row/
Chosen Zone Price No. of Tickets Sub Total
Area
NEW TO CLASSICAL MUSIC MULTIBUY – 10%

BOOKING FORMS
Multibuy Price €173.25 €140.40 €114.75 €86.40
Preferred Row/ No. of

Chosen Zone Price Sub Total
Area Tickets
BRILLIANT BAROQUE MULTIBUY – 10%

Multibuy Price €166.50 €141.75 €109.80 €82.35
Preferred Row/ No. of

Chosen Zone Price Sub Total
Area Tickets
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BEETHOVEN 250, NEW TO CLASSICAL MUSIC AND
BRILLIANT BAROQUE MULTIBUY BOOKING FORM
Payment Details
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Address:
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Card Number:
Expiry: Signature:
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PERSPECTIVES MULTIBUY – 5%
STEP 1: Indicate Chosen Zone
Multibuy Price €206.63 €182.40 €158.65
Chosen Zone Preferred Row/Area Price No. of Tickets Sub Total
TRADITION NOW MULTIBUY – 5%

Multibuy Price €49.40 €42.28 €36.10
Chosen Zone Preferred Row/Area Price No. of Tickets Sub Total
BOOKING FORMS
Payment Details
Friends Number:
Address:
Telephone: E-Mail:

Card Number:
Expiry: Signature:
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MIX AND MATCH MULTIBUY
Want to choose your own concerts but still benefit from the discounts on offer?
STEP 1: Choose your favourite concerts from across the programme and avail of
the following discounts:
Choose any 4-6 concerts from the table below and receive a 5% discount
Choose any 7-10 concerts from the table below and receive a 10% discount
Choose any 11+ concerts from the table below and receive a 15% discount
STEP 2: Indicate your choice of concert by putting a ‘tick’ in the ‘chosen concert’ column
making sure you choose a minimum of four concerts.
STEP 3: Indicate the chosen zone and preferred row/area
(Refer to NCH seating plan for Preferred Row/Area)
STEP 4: Indicate ticket price in chosen zone and number of tickets required.
Chosen Chosen Preferred Ticket No. of Sub

Concert
Concert Zone Row/Area Price Tickets Total
Sir Simon Schama –
The Wordy Tour
Myung-Whun Chung,
conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
Pantha Du Prince
Conference of Trees
Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds,

Brìghde Chaimbeul
An Evening Curated by
Geoff Travis
Sam Amidon Extended

Ensemble and Sounds Like
Freedom – Niall Vallely, Karan
Casey and Harriet Tubman.

Howard Shelley,
piano/conductor
Swordfishtrombones
Revisited
Christian Tetzlaff, violin

Lars Vogt, piano.
RIAS Kammerchor
Justin Doyle, conductor
Bahar and Ufuk Dördünchü,
pianos
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Claudia Boyle, soprano
RTÉ National Symphony
Orchestra
Prionnsías Ó Duinn,
conductor
English Chamber Orchestra.
José Serebrier, conductor
Simon Trpčeski, piano

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
and guests
Laurie Anderson: Radio Play
Laurie Anderson:
Here Comes the Ocean
Tenebrae and
Aurora Orchestra
Nigel Short, conductor
BOOKING FORMS
Emanuel Ax, piano
Vienna Chamber Orchestra

Paul Lewis, piano
Camerata Ireland
Barry Douglas,
piano/conductor
Lynn Harrell, cello
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Joyce DiDonato,
mezzo-soprano
il pomo d’oro
Maxim Emelyanychev,
Damon Albarn: The Nearer

the Fountain, More Pure the
Stream Flows.
The Hallé
Sir Mark Elder, conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
-15% Discount
-10% Discount
-5% Discount
TOTAL
96
MIX AND MATCH MULTIBUY BOOKING FORM
Payment Details
Friends Number:
Address:
Telephone: E-Mail:
Card Number:
Expiry: Signature:
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2019/2020

The importance of the NCH’s remit has been recognised by Government in

Simon Taylor Maura McGrath

Simon Taylor CEO

FULL INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON PACKAGE

20% discount Season Friends, Friends and Patrons

15% discount All other concert bookers

‘MIX AND MATCH’ MULTIBUY DISCOUNTS

5% discount Choose any 4-6 concerts from the programme

10% discount Choose any 7-10 concerts from the programme

15% discount Choose any 11+ concerts from the programme

See pages 85-86 for more bespoke and curated concert

Ticket Buyer Package Type

Season Friends, Patrons Tuesday Tuesday Friday

Wednesday Wednesday Friday

In Person at the National Concert Hall (open 10am-6pm Monday to

INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES 2019/2020

RIAS Kammerchor | Justin Doyle chief conductor

Thurs. 20 Feb. 2020, 8pm Simon Trpčeski piano

Sat. 4 Apr. 2020, 8pm Tenebrae | Aurora Orchestra

Mon. 20 Apr. 2020, 8pm Emanuel Ax piano

Camerata Ireland | Barry Douglas piano/conductor

Sun. 29 Sept. 2019, 8pm Pantha du Prince: Conference of Trees

Sat. 26 Oct. 2019, 6pm

Tue. 29 Oct. 2019, 8pm Swordfishtrombones Revisited

Sat. 28 & Sun. 29 March

Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Brìghde Chaimbeul

Sat. 2 Nov. 2019, 8pm Margaret Atwood

FAMILY / LEARNING & PARTICIPATION

Sat. 21 Dec. 2019, 3.30 & 6pm

Mini Music | Bring Along a Baby | Family Concerts |

CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

Hugh Tinney Series: Beethoven: Before and After

Irish Baroque Orchestra Series

Irish Language Art Song

Malcolm Proud and Camerata Kilkenny: Bach

Sunday String Quartet Series

NCH/Sounding the Feminists Series

International Guitar Series

Young Artist Series

Dublin Song Series

Chamber Music Gathering

International Concert Series 2019/2020 8

“The depth of the Dresden string tone was

London Mozart Players

Up to 20% discount for Howard Shelley, world-renowned pianist and Conductor

The cuckoo in this classical nest is the evocative tone

“Howard Shelley and the London Mozart

“Tetzlaff, playing as if his life depended on it,

Bahar & Ufuk Dördüncü

“The RIAS chamber choir… sings superbly”

“Only one lyric tenor on the scene today has

English Chamber Orchestra

“Serebrier and the ECO had the audience

“Anyone with a passion for piano-playing

Pre-concert talk Brahms Variations on a Theme by

Bach Collegium Japan

“I have never heard period

Tickets: €55, €47.50,

15% discount for 11+ Bach Collegium Japan is an ensemble on a mission

We will hear three of these cantatas that date from Bach’s

“You couldn’t have asked for a better

Tickets: €45, €37.50,

It was the death of his wife Maria Barbara that prompted