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The Dingle New-Music Choir and Orchestra.
ANOTHER festive treat for music lovers is in prospect when the Dingle New-Music Choir and Orchestra come to Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Wednesday, December 18 at 7.30pm.
Tickets are available in Mac Domhnaill Dental, Upper Rock Street, for €10. The Dingle New-Music Choir and Orchestra, which was founded by Gábor Péli in September 2014, began its sixth season in August with over sixty members from the locality.
They mainly concentrate on newly written music and on freshly re-arranged art music. It seeks to preserve the local heritage of poetry, song and folklore involving the commission of local composers and artists with emphasis on the Irish language.
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It promotes, encourages and trains the vocalists and musicians. Simultaneously it fosters a social interaction for its members who support its musical aims and objectives.
Since 2014, compositions based on local poetry have included: ‘Christmas at Mount Melleray’ (Dr. Micheál Fanning), ‘Tír na nÓg’ (Danny Sheehy), ‘In Joy We Sing’, ‘Corca Dhuibhne’ (Dairína Ní Chinnéide), ‘Múscailt na Saoirse’ (Breandán Mac Gearailt), ‘Lament for Thomas Mac Donagh’ (Francis Ledwidge) and ‘An Crann Cuilinn’ (Orna Ní Dhuinnshléibhe).
The Choir and Orchestra have always been part of the community and have welcomed all individuals without exclusion. Equality, social inclusion and mutual respect in a positive environment are fundamental to the ethos of this group.
Gábor Péli, the conductor, and a lover of classical music from a young age is an accomplished instrument maker which he practised in Limerick from 2008-2010.
In 2010 he began his music studies in the Cork Institute of Technology School of Music. He graduated in 2014 with an honours degree after completing his studies of conducting and composition. The Dingle Choir and Orchestra will also perform in Dingle on Friday, December 20 in St Mary’s Church, Dingle at 8.30pm.
