There is sweet music: CCI at Cork International Choral Festival (STREAMED EVENT)

Chamber Choir Ireland is delighted to return as Choir-in-Residence at Cork International Choral Festival and, once again, perform in the magnificent St Fin Barre's Cathedral on Friday 30 April at 8pm.   As is tradition, CCI will perform the premiere of Amanda Feery’s Longwave using text from the Shipping Forecast – originally commissioned for the 2020 Cork International Choral Festival and also two prize-winning entries from the Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition: Norah Constance Walsh’s On a quiet day in the future (2021 winning entry) and Peter Leavy’s It will not depart (2020 winning entry). The rest of the concert will invite the audience to luxuriate in some glorious British choral music by Tippett, Elgar and Holst taking Elgar's There is sweet music as the title of the concert.   This concert has been programmed by CCI’s Artistic Director, Paul Hillier who, due to current restrictions, can’t be with us in Ireland for this year’s festival. However, we warmly welcome Andrew Synnott as guest director who has had close connections with the Festival in the past as a former winner of the Séan Ó Riada Composition Competition in 1991!   We also continue our residency at the festival with a number of education and outreach events: CCI singers, working with conductor Bernie Sherlock will deliver a choral clinic where all your burning choral questions will be answered on Sunday 2 May at 1pm; CCI singers delivering a number of online workshops to CICF participant choirs, and in place of our usual seminar on new choral music, Festival Director - Peter Stobart - will be in conversation with CCI Artistic Director - Paul Hillier, Guest Director - Andrew Synnott, and commissioned composer - Amanda Feery, as a pre-concert talk before the concert on Friday 30 April at 7.15pm.