2024 — NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

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Saturday 7 September 2024 to Friday 30 May 2025

60+ Events
International Orchestras and Recitals
National Symphony Orchestra Season
Artists-in-Residence
Bryce Dessner, Tara Erraught, Jessie Grimes
Irish and International Artists, Conductors,
Composers and Choral Ensembles
Family Concerts and Screenings
Music in the Classroom
Professional Development Initiatives
for Singers and Composers
World Premieres/Irish Premieres
NSO performances in Galway,
Limerick, Waterford, Wexford
Full details on www.nch.ie
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CONTENTS

Welcome Page 4

At a Glance Page 8

2024-2025 Season Page 15

Spotlight − Tara Erraught Page 33

Spotlight − Bryce Dessner Page 39

Spotlight − Jessie Grimes Page 49

Package Discounts Page 96

and Benefits

How to Book Page 99

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MAKING MUSIC ACCESSIBLE

A full suite of benefits and discounts are available across the 2024-2025
Season making concerts accessible for all.

• Savings of up to 35% when booking 50 or more concerts as an NCH Friend.

• €15 tickets available on all Main Stage concerts
(seating allocation may vary)
• Multiple Discounts for NCH Friends - Friends receive significant
discounts of up to 35% on package bookings and 10% discount on
individual concert bookings - see page 96
• Discount for Groups - 10% discount for 10-40 tickets and 20% discount
for 40+ tickets.
• Concessions available on all Main Stage concerts - 5% Discount for
Senior Citizens and Unwaged
• Spread The Cost on Concert Packages - spread your payments over a
three month period when purchasing any package before 27th June 2024.
• 50% Discount on all Main Stage concerts for patrons with Disability
& Carers Tickets (Wheelchair users will need to advise at the time of
booking for seating allocation).
• €10 Student Tickets a limited number of free tickets for under 18's are
available on all Main Stage concerts, when purchased with a full price ticket
• Free Child Tickets a limited number of free tickets for under 18's
are available on all Main Stage concerts, when purchased with
a full price ticket.
• Family Friendly Pricing Family tickets available for family concerts.

For full details on all packages and savings across the season, see pages 96-98.

When To Book

NCH Patrons 27th May 2024, 3pm

NCH Season Friends 28th May 2024, 10am

NCH Friends 29th May 2024, 10am
Full Package Subscribers 30th May 2024, 10am
(from 2023-2024 seasons)
General Bookers & Groups 31st May 2024, 10am

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FÁILTE
WELCOME

We are delighted to present the National Concert Hall’s 2024-2025 Season,

our most ambitious to date, comprising some 60 + events to look forward to,
running from September 2024 to May 2025.

This year’s season is particularly special as it realises our long-held ambition

to present one overall season, combining the International Concert Series
and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Season, alongside a suite
of family-friendly, celebratory and anniversary concerts, with excellence,
innovation, and accessibility at its core.

Appealing to the widest possible audience, this new season showcases

some of the world’s most exciting and dynamic musicians and ensembles
from world-renowned orchestras to emerging talent, cutting-edge
ensembles to outstanding soloists, in a programme that boasts an inspiring
and eclectic mix of music spanning the centuries, to include Irish and world
premieres by some of today’s most exciting composers.

Opening the season will be the revered Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
led by Sir Simon Rattle playing Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 and the Irish
premiere of Aquifer by Thomas Adès on the 7th of September, followed a
week later by the National Symphony Orchestra with Dame Sarah Connolly
under the baton of Mihhail Gerts, singing Six Songs by Alma Mahler
alongside Maher’s Symphony No. 1 and Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm.

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A host of stunning performances follow. Highlights include: the Royal Liverpool

Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Domingo Hindoyan and cellist
Guy Johnston playing Elgar’s Cello Concerto; the Philip Glass Ensemble
in Residency playing Glassworks and the Irish premiere of Naqoyqatsi;
the pioneering Paraorchestra with their dynamic conductor and founder
Charles Hazelwood; The Tallis Scholars; recitals by international pianists
Alice Sara Ott, Japanese blind pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, siblings Sheku and
Isata Kanneh-Mason, on cello and piano; Prague Symphony Orchestra and
Alexander Sitkovetsky playing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and many more.

For the first time in the season, we are thrilled to welcome new Artists-in-
Residence – renowned American musician and composer Bryce Dessner
(of The National) and celebrated Irish opera star Tara Erraught - who will
each work with the National Symphony Orchestra to bring their talent and
experience to bear in a number of orchestral performances. Dessner will
perform alongside guitarist David Chalmin in St. Carolyn by the Sea. The
Irish premieres of Dessner’s works, Mari, Concerto for Two Pianos with Katia
and Marielle Labèque, and his Violin Concerto with Pekka Kuusisto as soloist
will also be performed by the NSO. Tara will feature as soloist in two unique
evening performances with the NSO, one featuring popular opera arias, the
other, great works by Haydn and Mozart. In an exciting new development
Tara will also spearhead a week-long professional development programme
Celebrating the Voice, featuring a high-ranking panel of international
experts as well as masterclasses led by Tara, leading to two performances
by the participants.

As the NCH’s Learning & Participation Artist-in-Residence Jessie Grimes

will also present a suite of family-friendly concerts with the NSO that includes
popular screenings of classic children’s stories by Julia Donaldson and Axel
Scheffler, and Roald Dahl - The Snail and the Whale, Stick Man and Revolting
Rhymes, alongside popular orchestral music in the ASD-relaxed setting
for Symphony Shorts, Our Precious Planet, Peter and The Wolf and various
schools concerts aimed at students, young children, and families.

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Following a near sold-out season in 2023-2024, the cherished and

much-loved National Symphony Orchestra present a stellar round-up
of international and Irish conductors and soloists to perform from cellist
Steven Isserlis playing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 to American conductor
Leonard Slatkin leading his 80th birthday celebration in which he conducts
the world premiere of his son Daniel Slatkin’s new work Voyager 130. Other
great musicians featuring throughout the NSO Season include pianists Hugh
Tinney playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Lise de la Salle playing
Rachmaninov’s much-loved Piano Concerto No. 2, Jonathan Biss playing
Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and violinist Simone Lamsma in Brahms’s Violin
Concerto, all popular favourites with audiences the world over. The season
also pays homage to great composers from the past - Puccini, Ravel, Strauss
II, Stanford, Bruckner and Shostakovich - with special anniversary concerts
planned, allowing audiences to revel in performances of their most beloved
works. Choral fans will be treated to the National Symphony Chorus (NSC) and
guests performing Haydn’s great oratorio The Creation as well as Stanford’s
Requiem, Arvo Part’s Berliner Messe, Mozart’s Requiem, and the Irish premiere
of James MacMillan’s St. John Passion with Chamber Choir Ireland.

We are particularly pleased to champion new music and to provide a

platform for new voices as part of this year’s season, showcasing the work of
many of today’s most exciting and innovative composers including Ailís Ní
Ríain, Bryce Dessner, Thomas Adès, Deirdre McKay, Colin Jacobson, Andreia
Pinto-Correia, Roberto Sierra, Anna Meredith, Natalie Klouda, Stephen McNeff,
John Luther Adams, Victoria Polevá and more, some of which will have their
world and or Irish premieres, making this a truly special season. Participants
in the NSO Composer Lab - Amelia Clarkson, Finola Merivale, Barry O'Halpin
and Yue Song - will also see the world premiere of their works at the NCH.

Our aim with this new season is not only to fulfil our remit to promote and
support music as an integral part of Irish life, but to inspire audiences by
offering a wealth of music experiences of the highest standard to look
forward to. We hope you find much in the season to whet your musical
appetite. It is our great wish that everyone can enjoy and have access
to great music, which is why this year we are offering tickets from just €15
for all main stage concerts and have an array of discounts on multi-buy

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packages, options to spread payments on season subscriptions, and have

concessions and student tickets available, including a limited number of
free child tickets when purchased with full price tickets, making it easy and
affordable for all.

Mindful of the many factors that make the presentation of live music
possible we would like to thank the many musicians, composers,
co-commissioning bodies and partner organisations who have worked with
us to make this possible, especially RTÉ and RTÉ lyric fm. We would also like
to acknowledge the generous and committed support of the NCH Patrons,
Friends, Season Friends, and audiences and to thank Minister Catherine
Martin and her team at The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht,
Media, and Sport for their vital and ongoing support.

We look forward to welcoming you to the National Concert Hall over the
coming season and to making your visit a special one.

Robert Read Maura McGrath

CEO Chairperson

NCH BOARD MEMBERS

Maura McGrath (Chairperson)

John Reynolds • Don Thornhill • Rebecca Gageby • James Cavanagh • Cliona Doris
Hilary Hough • Michelle O’Sullivan • Peter McKenna • Niamh Murray

PATRON
Michael D. Higgins President of Ireland

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AT A GLANCE
DATE CONCERT TIME PAGE

07.09.24 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 8pm 15

Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

13.09.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 17

Mihhail Gerts, conductor
Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano

16.09.24 Composer Lab – Public Workshop 10am & 18

1.30pm

17.09.24 Sean Shibe, guitar 8.30pm 19

20.09.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 20

CULTURE NIGHT
Ryan McAdams, conductor
Elaine Clark, violin

National Symphony Orchestra*

27.09.24  7.30pm 21
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Hugh Tinney, piano

29.09.24 Family Concert 2pm 23

Our Precious Planet with the National
Symphony Orchestra Celebrating Nature

04.10.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 24

Dinis Sousa, conductor
Louis Schwizgebel, piano

10.10.24 Philip Glass Ensemble Residency 8pm 26

11.10.24 Philip Glass Ensemble Residency* 7.30pm 27

National Symphony Orchestra
Michael Riesman, conductor
Kate Ellis, cello

* indicates concerts included in the NSO Full Season Package.

INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRAS AND RECITALS NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE FAMILY

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18.10.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 28

Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Luka Faulisi, violin

19.10.24 Family Concert 12.30pm 29

Symphony Shorts - Beethoven
25.10.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 31
Carlo Rizzi, conductor
Gwyn Hughes Jones, tenor
Simon Shibambu, bass-baritone
National Symphony Chorus

01.11.24 NCH Artist-in-Residence Tara Erraught* 7.30pm 35

National Symphony Orchestra
Laurence Cummings, conductor &
harpsichord

02.11.24 Tallis Scholars: Chant 7.30pm 36

15.11.24 NCH Artist-in-Residence Bryce Dessner* 7.30pm 41

National Symphony Orchestra
André de Ridder, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin

22.11.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 42

Gerhard Markson, conductor
Máire Flavin, soprano
Sharon Carty, mezzo-soprano
James Way, tenor
John Molloy, bass
National Symphony Chorus

23.11.24 Brooklyn Rider: The 4 Elements 8.30pm 43

24.11.24 
Family Screening Stick Man and 12.30pm, 44
The Snail and the Whale Live 3pm & 5pm
with the National Symphony Orchestra
29.11.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 45
Patrik Ringborg, conductor
Camille Thomas, cello

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30.11.24 SETU Arena, Waterford 7.30pm 45

National Symphony Orchestra
Patrik Ringborg, conductor
Camille Thomas, cello

30.11.24 Paraorchestra 7.30pm 47

Charles Hazlewood, conductor
Victoria Oruwari, soprano

03.12.24 Music in the Classroom 10.30am, 50

Leaving Certificate Music Guide 12.30pm

06.12.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 51

Hans Graf, conductor
Stefan Jaciw, violin

13.12.24 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 52

Jaime Martín, conductor
Yeol Eum Son, piano

18.12.24- National Symphony Orchestra 7.30pm 53

19.12.24 David Brophy, conductor
Claudia Boyle, soprano
Cór Linn

20.12.24 National Opera House, Wexford 7.30pm 53

National Symphony Orchestra
David Brophy, conductor
Claudia Boyle, soprano
Cór Linn

01.01.25 New Year’s Celebration* 3.30pm 54

Gavin Maloney, conductor
Jennifer Davis, soprano

17.01.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 55

Diego Matheuz, conductor
Lise de la Salle, piano
21.01.25 Composer Lab with the NSO 8pm 56

24.01.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 57

Peter Whelan, conductor
Steven Isserlis, cello

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28.01.25 Veronica Dunne International 7.30pm 58

Singing Competition Final
National Symphony Orchestra
Wyn Davies, conductor

31.01.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 59

Lina Gonzalez-Granados, conductor
Gavan Ring, tenor

01.02.25 Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano 7.30pm 60

07.02.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 61

David Brophy, conductor
Aoife Miskelly, soprano
Gemma Ní Bhriain, mezzo-soprano
Robin Tritschler, tenor
Milan Siljanov, bass-baritone
National Symphony Chorus

09.02.25 Family Concert Peter and the Wolf & 12.30pm, 62

The Young Person’s Guide to the 3pm & 5pm
Orchestra with the National
Symphony Orchestra

10.02.25- Celebrating the Voice: A Professional 65

14.02.25 Development Programme for Singers
NCH Artist-in-Residence Tara Erraught

14.02.25 Celebrating the Voice: Song Recital 1.05pm 66

Dearbhla Collins, piano

14.02.25 Celebrating the Voice: Opera Gala* 7.30pm 67
National Symphony Orchestra
Anu Tali, conductor

16.02.25 Prague Symphony Orchestra 7.30pm 68

Tomáš Brauner, conductor
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin

21.02.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 69

Jessica Cottis, conductor
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Samuel Sakker, tenor

27.02.25 Alice Sara Ott, piano 8pm 70

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27.02.25 Leisureland, Galway 7.30pm 71

National Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Shelley, conductor
Simone Lamsma, violin

28.02.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 71

Alexander Shelley, conductor
Simone Lamsma, violin

04.03.25 Music in the Classroom 10.30am, 72

Junior Cycle Music Guide 12.30pm

07.03.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 73

Speranza Scappucci, conductor
Julie Boulianne, mezzo-soprano
Lionel Lhote, baritone

11.03.25 Music in the Classroom 10.30am, 74

Musical Adventures for Primary Schools 12.30pm

21.03.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 75

Christian Reif, conductor
Anastasia Kobekina, cello

26.03.25 Capucelli 8pm 77

28.03.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 78

Lio Kuokman, conductor
Jonathan Biss, piano

29.03.25 Family Concert 12.30pm 79

Symphony Shorts - Berlioz

11.04.25 NCH Artist-in-Residence: Bryce Dessner* 7.30pm 81

National Symphony Orchestra
André de Ridder, conductor
Bryce Dessner, guitar
David Chalmin, guitar
Katia Labèque, piano
Marielle Labèque, piano

18.04.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 3.30pm 83

David Hill, conductor
Christopher Purves, baritone
National Symphony Chorus
Chamber Choir Ireland

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24.04.25 Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello 8pm 84

Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

01.05.25 University Concert Hall, Limerick 7.30pm 87

NCH Artist-in-Residence: Tara Erraught
National Symphony Orchestra
Clelia Cafiero, conductor

02.05.25 NCH Artist-in-Residence: Tara Erraught* 7.30pm 87

National Symphony Orchestra
Clelia Cafiero, conductor

09.05.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 88

John Storgårds, conductor
Yukine Kuroki, piano

15.05.25 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 8pm 89

Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
Guy Johnston, cello

16.05.25 Dublin International Piano* 7.30pm 90

Competition Final
National Symphony Orchestra
Jonas Alber, conductor

18.05.25 Family Screening Revolting Rhymes Live 12pm, 3pm 91

with the National Symphony Orchestra & 5pm

23.05.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 93

Peter Whelan, conductor
Anna Devin, soprano
Lawrence Kilsby, tenor
William Thomas, bass
National Symphony Chorus

30.05.25 National Symphony Orchestra* 7.30pm 95

Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

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©Oliver Helbig
Sir Simon Rattle

‘A KIND OF VIRTUOSO
CELEBRATION OF WHAT AN
ORCHESTRA CAN DO…
THE COLOURS POP OUT IN
AN EXTRAORDINARY WAY’
SIR SIMON RATTLE

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INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRAS AND RECITALS

SEASON OPENING

BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SIR SIMON RATTLE conductor

Thomas Adès Aquifer Irish Premiere INTERNATIONAL

Bruckner Symphony No. 4, Romantic ORCHESTRAS
AND RECITALS

The National Concert Hall’s most ambitious season Saturday 7 September

ever begins with one of Europe’s great ensembles, 2024, 8pm
the mighty Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conducted by living legend Sir Simon Rattle. Main Stage
National Concert Hall
An epic experience, Bruckner’s Romantic
Symphony marks the 200th anniversary of his birth Pre-Concert Talk:
and launches a season focus on the environment 6.45pm – 7.30pm
and the natural world.
Tickets: €15, €39, €60,
One of today’s leading composers, Thomas Adès €74, €95.For discounts
‘knows exactly what he is doing’ (New York Times). and packages see
In its Irish premiere, Aquifer is inspired by the page 96
natural phenomenon where reserves of water are
held in rock and sediment. Rattle describes it as
‘a kind of virtuoso celebration of what an
orchestra can do… the colours pop out in an
extraordinary way’.

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Dame Sarah Connolly

‘WAGNERIAN IN INTENSITY AND

HARMONY, YET INTIMATE, SENSUAL,
CHARMING AND SURPRISING’
The Guardian

©Kaupo Kikkas

Mihhail Gerts

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NSO SEASON OPENING

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MIHHAIL GERTS conductor
DAME SARAH CONNOLLY
mezzo-soprano

Dvořák In Nature’s Realm NSO SEASON

Alma Mahler Six Songs
(arr. Colin and ‘Die stille Stadt’ Friday 13 September
David Matthews) ‘Laue Sommernacht’ 2024, 7.30pm
‘Licht in der Nacht’
‘Waldseligkeit’ Main Stage
‘In meines Vaters Garten’ National Concert Hall
‘Bei dir ist es traut’
Mahler Symphony No. 1, Titan Pre-Concert Talk:
6.15pm – 7pm

As nature takes centre-stage this season, an Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,

enthralling journey of the senses from dawn’s €39, €45. For discounts
birdsong to a triumphant, transcendent finale in and packages see
Mahler’s First Symphony, the Titan. page 96

Hailed ‘a worthy heir to Janet Baker’, Dame

Sarah Connolly is one of today’s great singers.
‘Whatever she sings, you get singing straight
from the heart’ (The Times). She describes six
songs by Mahler’s wife, Alma Mahler, as
‘voluptuous, coquettish, Wagnerian in intensity
and harmony, yet intimate, sensual, charming
and surprising… [their] word-painting is delicate,
sensual and beautiful’.

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Gavin Maloney

COMPOSER LAB PUBLIC WORKSHOP

National Symphony Orchestra NSO SEASON

Gavin Maloney conductor

Monday
David Fennessy composer mentor 16 September 2024
10am & 1.30pm
A public workshop in which Composer Lab
2024 participants Amelia Clarkson, Finola
Main Stage
Merivale, Barry O'Halpin and Yue Song each
National Concert Hall
explore compositional ideas for their individual
works-in-progress in a live orchestral setting.
This is a free ticketed
event.
Composer Lab is a professional development
initiative delivered in partnership by the National
Symphony Orchestra and the Contemporary
Music Centre, Ireland, in association with RTÉ lyric
fm. Composer Lab 2024 culminates in a public
performance of the final works at the National
Concert Hall on Tuesday 21 January 2025 at 8pm.

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©Iga Gozdowska
SEAN SHIBE guitar

Bach Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 INTERNATIONAL

Barrios Mangoré La Catedral ORCHESTRAS
Barrios Mangoré Julia Florida AND RECITALS
Villa-Lobos Prelude No. 3
Villa-Lobos Selection of 12 Guitar Études Tuesday 17 September
Mompou Excerpts from Suite 2024, 8.30pm
Compostelana: I Prelude; II Coral;
V Canción; VI Muñeira The Studio
Martin Quatre pièces brèves National Concert Hall
Thomas Adès Forgotten Dances Irish Premiere
Tickets: €20.
Widely admired for his recordings of Bach and For discounts and
South American composers, Sean Shibe has been packages see page 96
hailed as ‘the most interesting voice on the guitar
for a generation’ (Gramophone) with a ‘great
gift for painting notes in what seems a thousand
colours’ (The Times).

His wide-ranging recital spans the centuries from

Bach’s tumbling lute Prelude to exquisite Latin
American miniatures by Barrios and Villa-Lobos,
French elegance by Martin, Spanish heat by
Mompou, and the Irish premiere of Thomas Adès’
Forgotten Dances, written for Shibe.

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Ryan McAdams Elaine Clark

CULTURE NIGHT
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Ryan McAdams conductor NSO SEASON

Elaine Clark violin

Friday 20 September
2024, 7.30pm
Philip Glass Violin Concerto No. 1
John Luther Adams Become Ocean
Main Stage
National Concert Hall

Culture Night is permission to try something new.

This is a free ticketed
Something that might astonish you. Like two very
event.
different living American musical giants.

The First Violin Concerto by Philip Glass is a

loving remembrance of his father, as moving as it
is modern.

John Luther Adams describes Become Ocean as

‘a meditation on the vast, deep and mysterious
tides of existence’. The New Yorker said it ‘may be
the loveliest apocalypse in musical history’.

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©Cindy McTee
Leonard Slatkin Hugh Tinney

LEONARD SLATKIN AT 80
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Leonard Slatkin conductor NSO SEASON

Hugh Tinney piano

Friday 27 September
2024, 7.30pm
Daniel Slatkin Voyager 130 World Premiere
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Main Stage
Brahms Symphony No. 3
National Concert Hall

Pre-Concert Talk:
The National Symphony Orchestra welcomes
6.15pm – 7pm
back internationally acclaimed conductor
Leonard Slatkin to celebrate his 80th birthday.
Tickets: €15, €25, €29,
€34.50, €39.
Beethoven’s dramatic Fourth Piano Concerto is a
For discounts and
rich centrepiece alongside Brahms’s mellow but
packages see page 96
majestic Third Symphony.

The World Premiere of Voyager 130 by Slatkin’s son,

Daniel, tributes humanity’s greatest adventure.
Inspired by Beethoven’s 13th String Quartet, it ‘tells
the story of Voyager’s journey through space, with
the Cavatina providing thematic material.’

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‘MARVEL AT THE BEAUTY

AND FRAGILITY OF OUR
WORLD IN A FAMILY
CONCERT OF SOUND
AND STORYTELLING’

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FAMILY CONCERT
OUR PRECIOUS PLANET
Celebrating Nature
With The National Symphony Orchestra

Gavin Maloney conductor FAMILY

Grégoire Pont illustrator & animator

Sunday 29 September
Jessie Grimes narrator 2024, 2pm
Catriona Ryan flute
Main Stage
Messiaen Extract from Les Offrandes oubliées National Concert Hall
Rautavaara ‘Swans migrating’ from
Cantus Arcticus Designed for children
Saariaho ‘Terrestre l’oiseau dansant’ from aged 5 and up and
L’aile du songe their families.
Dani Howard Argentum Irish Premiere All are welcome.
Anna Meredith Nautilus (arr. for orchestra)
Irish Premiere Tickets: Full Price €30,
Adams ‘Panic’ from Doctor Atomic Child €23, Restricted
Symphony Irish Premiere View €15, Family Ticket
Britten ‘Storm’ from Four Sea Interludes €94 (4 tickets, maximum
(Peter Grimes) 2 adults)
Ginastera ‘Danza del trigo’ from Estancia
Poulenc La baigneuse de Trouville

Marvel at the beauty and fragility of our world

in a family concert of sound and storytelling,
with Grégoire Pont’s drawings projected live
alongside thrilling music from the National
Symphony Orchestra.

Explore the chaos of the Big Bang and the

wonders of Mother Earth, meeting a magnificent
array of birds, insects, animals and even a few
dinosaurs along the way. Dramatic, moving and
at times laugh-out loud funny.

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©Marco Borrgreve
Louis Schwizgebel

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Dinis Sousa conductor NSO SEASON

Louis Schwizgebel piano

Friday 4 October 2024,
7.30pm
Anna Clyne Masquerade
Grieg Piano Concerto
Main Stage
Elgar Enigma Variations
National Concert Hall

Two rising stars with two much-loved works, and

Tickets: €15, €25,
an ‘intense but enlightening five-minute gem’
€29, €34.50, €39.
(Limelight) from Anna Clyne’s epic-in-miniature
For discounts and
Masquerade.
packages see page 96

With its thunderous timpani roll opening, the

melting melody of its spell-binding slow movement
and effusive finale, Grieg’s Piano Concerto is
simply irresistible.

The noble anthem ‘Nimrod’ at its heart, Elgar’s

Enigma Variations unforgettably blends fondness,
love and raw emotion in a glorious celebration
of friendship.

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Members of the National Symphony Orchestra

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PHILIP GLASS
ENSEMBLE
RESIDENCY

©Danny Clinch
Philip Glass Ensemble INTERNATIONAL
ORCHESTRAS
Philip Glass Glassworks AND RECITALS
Philip Glass Excerpts from Satyagraha, Akhnaten
and The Photographer Thursday 10 October
2024, 8pm
In the first of two concerts dedicated to the
music of legend in his lifetime, Philip Glass, the Main Stage
Philip Glass Ensemble showcase his dazzling National Concert Hall
display of minimalism turned up to the max,
in Glassworks, and from three of his mesmeric, Tickets: €15, €30, €42.50,
ground-breaking operas. €54, €65. For discounts
and packages see
The antique and the modern brilliantly collide page 96
in hypnotic portraits of an ancient Egyptian
pharaoh, Akhnaten, Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘truth
force’, Satyagraha, and The Photographer
Eadweard Muybridge.

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‘THE ANTIQUE
AND THE MODERN
BRILLIANTLY COLLIDE’

National Symphony Orchestra INTERNATIONAL

ORCHESTRAS
Philip Glass Ensemble
AND RECITALS
Michael Riesman conductor
Kate Ellis cello Friday 11 October 2024,
7.30pm
Philip Glass Naqoyqatsi
Irish Premiere. Co-commissioned by Los Angeles Main Stage
Philharmonic, Barbican, London, Edinburgh National Concert Hall
Festival and the National Concert Hall.
Tickets: €15 (Restricted
A major event. The Philip Glass Ensemble and View), €30, €42.50, €54,
close Philip Glass associate Michael Riesman €65. For discounts and
partner with the NSO for the Irish premiere of a packages see page 96
compelling new orchestral score from Glass’s
stunning soundtrack for Geoffrey Reggio’s 2002
film, Naqoyqatsi (‘life as war’).

Emotive and romantic, it’s also a scorching

wake-up call to the mounting threat to the
environment. The prominent cello at its heart
celebrates humanity’s vitality and suggests that
all might not yet be lost.

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Jonathon Heyward

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jonathon Heyward conductor NSO SEASON

Luka Faulisi violin

Friday 18 October 2024,
7.30pm
Unsuk Chin Subito con forza Irish Premiere
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Main Stage
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
National Concert Hall

Two unmissable NSO debuts – Luka Faulisi, violinist

Tickets: €15, €25,
with ‘a million-dollar sound’ (Pinchas Zukerman),
€29, €34.50, €39.
and conductor Jonathon Heyward, ‘a genius that
For discounts and
will illuminate concert halls for decades to come’
packages see page 96
(Baltimore Sun) – with two towering masterpieces
in the rich romance of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto
and explosive rush of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony,
and the Irish premiere of Unsuk Chin’s spiky, sassy
Subito con forza, a thrilling miniature putting
Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture through the
wringer to brilliant effect.

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©Frances Marshall
Jessie Grimes

FAMILY CONCERT
SYMPHONY SHORTS - BEETHOVEN

National Symphony Orchestra FAMILY

Jonathon Heyward conductor

Saturday 19 October
Jessie Grimes presenter 2024, 12.30pm

Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Main Stage
National Concert Hall
Da Da Da DUUMM! Four notes spelling out the
morse code V for Victory… it could only be
Tickets: Full Price: €20,
Beethoven’s infamous Fifth Symphony.
Child: €15, Family Ticket
€65 (4 tickets, max. 2
Designed and presented by our superstar
adults)
Learning & Participation Artist-in-Residence,
Jessie Grimes, experience the highlights of one
of the most iconic pieces of orchestral music
ever composed, up close and personal with the
National Symphony Orchestra and conductor
Jonathon Heyward, known for his ‘exuberant’ and
‘exhilarating’ performances of Beethoven’s music.

Perfect for ages 5 and up, including those with ASD,

this relaxed event promises musical delights for all.

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National Symphony Chorus

©Chris Gloag

‘BASS-BARITONE SIMON
SHIBAMBU...A HUGE,
RESONANT TONE.’
The Guardian

Simon Shibambu

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NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

PUCCINI 100
Carlo Rizzi conductor
Gwyn Hughes Jones tenor
Simon Shibambu bass-baritone
National Symphony Chorus
David Young choral director

Fanny Mendelssohn Overture in C NSO SEASON

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, Italian
Puccini Messa di Gloria Friday 25 October 2024,
7.30pm

In the centenary year of Puccini’s death, a rare Main Stage

chance to hear his Messa di Gloria, a sacred National Concert Hall
choral work of immense power showcasing the
National Symphony Chorus and soloists Gwyn Pre-Concert Talk:
Hughes Jones – ‘a voice of adamantine brilliance’ 6.15pm – 7pm
(Seen and Heard International) – and Simon
Shibambu, a singer with ‘a huge, resonant tone.’ Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
(The Guardian) and a finalist in Plácido Domingo’s €39, €45. For discounts
Operalia competition. Mendelssohn’s vivacious and packages see
Italian Symphony is a colourful picture postcard page 96
celebrating a joyful holiday visit.

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TARA
ERRAUGHT
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SPOTLIGHT
and Puccini and the lavish bel
canto of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini
(Limerick, May 1; Dublin, May 2).
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2024-2025
Celebrating the Voice – a week-long
professional development
Hailed as ‘one of opera’s chosen’
programme of vocal coaching,
(Arts Desk) and ‘the new bel canto
seminars, discussions and
queen’ (Frankfurter Allgemeine
performances – will see Tara lead an
Zeitung), Tara Erraught is a
in-depth focus on an area close to
mezzo-soprano at the very top of
her heart: guiding and supporting
her game.
young artists in the early stages of
their career. With several events
open to the public, it promises to
be a fascinating opportunity to
eavesdrop on the behind-the-scenes
considerations and everyday
concerns involved in building a
singing career, from accountancy
With a repertoire stretching from
and personal business management
the Baroque to bel canto, Tara’s
to vocal health, the employment
outstanding voice has taken her to
landscape, and audition technique.
the world’s leading opera houses
and concert halls. This season she
Guest contributors include experts
will sing in France, Germany, Spain,
from various important sides of the
England, America and Hong Kong.
business: pianists Dearbhla Collins
and Morgane Fauchois-Prado,
As an NCH Artist-in-Residence this
Opéra National de Paris director
season, Tara returns home for three
Alexander Neef, artist manager
major events spotlighting her own
Andreas Massow, and vocal
outstanding talent and allowing
health expert Paul Kwak. The week
audiences and young artists to
culminates with opportunities to
explore the world of opera with
hear young artists performing in
creative and practical insights.
piano-accompanied song recital
and with the National Symphony
Her dazzling coloratura will be heard
Orchestra (February 10-14).
in virtuosic works by Mozart, Haydn
and the pioneering Marianne von
Martínez (November 1), her lyrical
and dramatic gifts in arias by Mozart

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©Kristin Hoebermann
Tara Erraught

‘TAKING THE WORLD

BY STORM’
The Arts Review

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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
TARA ERRAUGHT
National Symphony Orchestra
Laurence Cummings conductor & harpsichord

Martínez Cantata Berenice, ah che fai? ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Haydn Symphony No. 25
Haydn Scena di Berenice, Berenice, che fai? Friday 1 November
Mozart Exsultate, jubilate 2024, 7.30pm
Mozart Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Main Stage
National Concert Hall

New NCH Artist-in-Residence, mezzo-soprano Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,

Tara Erraught, is ‘taking the world by storm’ €39, €45. For discounts
(The Arts Review). Hear why as she partners with and packages see
the NSO and Laurence Cummings, acclaimed page 96
for his work in historical performance, for the
electrifying coloratura of Mozart’s Exsultate,
jubilate and virtuoso cantatas by Haydn and
his magnificent peer, Marianne von Martínez.
Haydn’s stately, melody-filled Symphony No. 25
and Mozart’s mighty Jupiter promise music to
captivate and charm.

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THE TALLIS SCHOLARS: CHANT

Peter Phillips director INTERNATIONAL
ORCHESTRAS
Hildegard von Bingen In principio AND RECITALS
Arvo Pärt Triodion
Hildegard von Bingen O Virtus Sapientiae Saturday 2 November
Arvo Pärt Sieben Magnificat- 2024, 7.30pm
Antiphonen
Allegri Miserere mei, Deus Main Stage
Hildegard von Bingen O ignis Spiritus paracliti National Concert Hall
Arvo Pärt Magnificat
Arvo Pärt Da Pacem Domine Tickets: €15, €27.50, €36,
Hildegard von Bingen O Ecclesia €44, €55. For discounts
Arvo Pärt …which was the son of… and packages see
page 96
One of the world’s leading choral ensembles and
‘rock stars of Renaissance vocal music’ (New York
Times) The Tallis Scholars bring their unique sound
to sublime, centuries-spanning music.

Hildegard von Bingen’s voice from the Middle

Ages speaks of luminous spiritual rapture. Allegri’s
heavenly Miserere mei, Deus, a deeply moving
prayer and plea, is exquisite. ‘The world’s greatest
living composer’ (Daily Telegraph), Arvo Pärt, is a
voice for the ages, his entrancing music caught
between the secular and the sacred.

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Members of the National Symphony Orchestra

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

BRYCE
DESSNER

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SPOTLIGHT
music, and concertos for electric
guitar, trombone and two pianos;
all marked by boundary-defying
innovation. No wonder Gramophone
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2024-2025
magazine described him as speaking
with ‘a multitude of voices’.
Straddling the worlds of rock music,
classical music and film, Bryce Dessner
is the very model of a modern major
composer.

Achieving fame as the multi-instru-

mentalist linchpin and co-writer
for the Grammy Award-winning
American rock band The National,
Get to know Dessner’s music this
the Cincinnati, Ohio-born Dessner is
season with four Irish premieres:
also one of today’s most original and
Mari, named after the Basque
successful classical composers.
forest goddess; his Violin Concerto
meditating on pilgrimage and
The son of a jazz drummer father,
the sea, played by its dedicatee,
Dessner’s early musical education was
Pekka Kuusisto (November 15); his
eclectic, his later at the prestigious
re-imagining of Pérotin, The Forest,
Yale University. An encounter with the
courtesy of Gautier Capuçon’s cello
music of minimalist guru Steve Reich
ensemble Capucelli (March 26);
was transformative.
and his Concerto for Two Pianos
performed by Katia and Marielle
To mention his collaborations with pop
Labèque, for whom it was written (April
royalty Taylor Swift and Paul Simon,
11). That same concert will also see
and classical elites such as Philip
Dessner himself as guitarist in his Jack
Glass, Steve Reich, the Kronos Quartet,
Kerouac-inspired St. Carolyn
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the
by the Sea.
Edinburgh International and Sydney
Festivals, only scratches the surface of
As part of this residency, Dessner will
a remarkable and unmatched talent.
also compose a newly commissioned
Cello Symphony which will receive its
Away from stadium-filling rock
world premiere in November 2025 with
concerts, Dessner has scored the
cellist Anastasia Kobekina and the
Oscar-nominated film The Revenant,
National Symphony Orchestra.
composed for ballet, solo classical
instruments, award-wining chamber

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‘DESSNER’S VIOLIN
CONCERTO, INSPIRED BY
THOUGHTS OF PILGRIMAGE
AND THE SEA, IS A FIERCE,
FIERY JOURNEY TOWARDS A
BLAZING END’

Bryce Dessner
©Felix Broede

Pekka Kuusisto

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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
BRYCE DESSNER
National Symphony Orchestra
André de Ridder conductor
Pekka Kuusisto violin

Bryce Dessner Mari Irish Premiere ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Bryce Dessner Violin Concerto Irish Premiere
Dvořák Symphony No. 7 Friday 15 November
2024, 7.30pm

Main Stage
An exciting occasion: new music from new NCH National Concert Hall
Artist-in-Residence, The National guitarist and
leading composer, Bryce Dessner. Tickets: €15, €27.50,
€35, €42.50, €49.
Named after the Basque forest goddess, For discounts and
Mari borrows from Dvořák and Mahler for an packages see page 96
immersive ‘reflection on the pastoral’. Written for
‘fantastically exciting violinist’ (The Times) Pekka
Kuusisto, Dessner’s Violin Concerto, inspired by
thoughts of pilgrimage and the sea, is a fierce,
fiery journey towards a blazing end. Dvořák’s
masterpiece Seventh Symphony is a thing of
orchestral wonders.

Post-concert talk and performance*

©Jens Koch

Bryce Dessner, André de Ridder and Pekka

Kuusisto in conversation with John Kelly. Event to
include a performance by Pekka Kuusisto of solo
violin music by Dessner.
*This event will commence approximately 15
minutes after the main stage performance ends.

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National Symphony Chorus

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

STANFORD 100

Gerhard Markson conductor NSO SEASON

Máire Flavin soprano

Friday 22 November
Sharon Carty mezzo-soprano 2024, 7.30pm
James Way tenor
John Molloy bass Main Stage
National Symphony Chorus National Concert Hall

David Young choral director

Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
€39, €45. For discounts
Stanford Requiem
and packages see
page 96
Former NSO Principal Conductor Gerhard
Markson returns to conclude the NSO’s centenary
commemorations of Dublin-born Charles Villiers
Stanford’s death with one of his crowning glories:
the monumental and moving Requiem.

Admired by Verdi and cast on the grandest of

scales, it is a heartfelt and tender work of involving
intimacy and blazing faith in which Stanford’s
mastery of drama, opera, song and orchestration
come triumphantly together.

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©Marco Giannavola
BROOKLYN RIDER: THE 4 ELEMENTS

Colin Jacobsen A Short While to Be Here… INTERNATIONAL

Irish Premiere ORCHESTRAS
Akshaya Tucker Hollow Flame Irish premiere AND RECITALS
Andreia Pinto-Correia Aere senza stelle
Irish premiere Saturday 23 November
Dutilleux String Quartet Ainsi la nuit 2024, 8.30pm
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
Golijov Tenebrae The Studio
National Concert Hall

A must-see, must-hear appearance by America’s Tickets: €25.

most exciting string quartet, Brooklyn Rider, with a For discounts and
deep dive into the four elements – Earth, Air, Fire packages see page 96
and Water. Colin Jacobsen’s A Short While to Be
Here… finds earthiness in frontier songs, Dutilleux’s
Ainsi la nuit seemingly filled by popping bubbles
of air, Pinto-Correia’s Aere senza stelle moving
from air to the fire that flares in Akshaya Tucker’s
Hollow Flame, and Shostakovich’s Eighth String
Quartet. Golijov says his Tenebrae ‘sounds like an
orbiting spaceship that never touches ground’.

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FAMILY SCREENING
STICK MAN AND
THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE LIVE
WITH THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Terry Davies conductor FAMILY

Two enchanting films based on the books by Julia Sunday 24 November

Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Watch on a big 2024, 12.30pm, 3pm
screen the tales of a happy-go-lucky father’s epic & 5pm
journey for Christmas and the unlikely friendship
between The Snail and the Whale with René Main Stage
Aubry’s inspired score performed live by the National Concert Hall
National Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets: Full Price €30, Child
Stick Man: © Orange Eyes Limited 2015 €23, Restricted View €15,
The Snail and the Whale: © Magic Light Pictures Family Ticket €94 (4 tickets,
Limited 2019 maximum 2 adults)

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Camille Thomas

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Patrik Ringborg conductor NSO SEASON

Camille Thomas cello

Friday 29 November
2024, 7.30pm
Judith Ring Everything was asleep as if the
Main Stage
universe was a vast mistake
National Concert Hall
Dvořák Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Saturday 30 November
2024, 7.30pm
Affairs of the heart are to the fore in two
SETU Arena, Waterford
compelling masterpieces. Dvořák’s passionate
In association with
Cello Concerto fits the instrument’s voice like a
Symphony Club of
glove. The tragic force of Tchaikovsky’s dark and
Waterford
dramatic Fifth Symphony is matched by his gift
for melody.
Pre-Concert Talk Friday
29 Nov: 6.15pm – 7pm
Judith Ring’s first full orchestral piece, Everything
was asleep… is a startling depiction of nature
NCH Tickets: €15, €25,
recovering from a man-made catastrophe to
€29, €34.50, €39. For
reclaim and repair the environment.
discounts and packages
see page 96

Waterford ticket details

will be available at
garterlane.ie

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‘ONE EXTRAORDINARY,
EXPLORATORY, ADVENTUROUS
ORCHESTRA... REACHING OUT
INTO THE LIVES OF ITS PLAYERS
AND PERFORMERS.’
The Observer

Paraorchestra

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PARAORCHESTRA
Charles Hazlewood conductor
Victoria Oruwari soprano

Schubert/Mahler String Quartet No. 14, INTERNATIONAL

Death and the Maiden ORCHESTRAS
Górecki Symphony of Sorrowful AND RECITALS
Songs
Saturday 30 November
Cathartic and hauntingly beautiful, Henryk 2024, 7.30pm
Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is an
astonishing meditation on loss and transcendence. Main Stage
National Concert Hall
Performed by Paraorchestra’s pioneering
ensemble of disabled and non-disabled musicians Pre-Concert Talk:
with acclaimed soprano Victoria Oruwari, Charles 6.15pm – 7pm
Hazlewood conducts this harmonic ‘spiritual
minimalist’ composition. Tickets: €15, €25,
€29, €34.50, €39.
Each of the three movements of Symphony of For discounts and
Sorrowful Songs features a Polish lament, taking packages see page 96
audiences on an uplifting journey through grief
and solace.

Górecki’s masterpiece is preceded by a

performance of Schubert's Death and the Maiden:
a melancholic, iridescent, and urgent piece
realised for a full string orchestra by Mahler.

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

JESSIE
GRIMES

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SPOTLIGHT
This season’s Family Concerts,
Symphony Shorts and Music in the
Classroom strands underline there
is more to classical music than just
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2024-2025 sitting back and listening.

Jessie Grimes is many things: a

musician, presenter, teacher,
workshop leader, all-round
enthusiast for music-making, and
now Artist-in-Residence with the
National Concert Hall’s Learning
& Participation Programme. ‘Everyone has a talent that just needs
encouragement. Helping others to
The two are a perfect fit. Both are find their creativity and build their
committed to removing barriers, confidence is what the Learning &
making music accessible to all ages Participation Department does.’
and abilities, sharing the benefits
that being involved with music ‘Everyone who comes to one of
brings in self-development, health our concerts or sessions is already
and wellbeing, and building lasting a musician,’ says Grimes. ‘Given
bonds between families, neighbours the opportunity and permission to
and strangers who become friends. be involved, they discover so much
about music and about themselves.’
The department’s reach is
nationwide. 1,500 events last year Family Concerts: Our Precious Planet
in the National Concert Hall, (29 Sept.); Stick Man/The Snail and The
in schools, children’s hospitals, Whale Live (24 Nov.); Peter and the
dementia day centres, and mental Wolf/The Young Person’s Guide to the
health associations saw more than Orchestra (9 Feb.); Revolting Rhymes
44,000 people engage nationwide (18 Mar.)
with the programme.
Symphony Shorts: Beethoven’s Fifth
For Grimes, it’s about ‘sharing, Symphony (19 Oct.); Berlioz’s Symphonie
having fun, unlocking talent and fantastique (29 Mar.)
building confidence. It’s thrilling to
hear a symphony orchestra live. Music in the Classroom: Leaving Certificate
Even more exciting to find yourself, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy
whatever your experience or talent, Overture (3 Dec.); Junior Cycle Music
involved in making music’. (4 Mar.); Musical Adventures (11 Mar.)

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

Jessie Grimes

MUSIC IN THE CLASSROOM

LEAVING CERTIFICATE MUSIC GUIDE

National Symphony Orchestra SCHOOLS

Jessie Grimes presenter

Tuesday 3 December
2024, 10.30am &
Tchaikovksy Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
12.30pm

The dynamic NCH Learning & Participation

Main Stage
Artist-in-Residence Jessie Grimes and the National
National Concert Hall
Symphony Orchestra present a step-by-step
guide to Tchaikovksy’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy
Tickets: €10 student.
Overture. Highlighting key themes and sections
Accompanying
and presented with musical illustrations, this will
teachers go free.
conclude with a full orchestral performance.

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©Sophie Zhai
Hans Graf Stefan Jaciw

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BRUCKNER 200

Hans Graf conductor NSO SEASON

Stefan Jaciw violin

Friday 6 December
2024, 7.30pm
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish
Bruckner Symphony No. 7
Main Stage
National Concert Hall
Two orchestral showpieces and the welcome returns
of conductor Hans Graf and violinist Stefan Jaciw.
Tickets: €15, €25, €29,
€34.50, €39.
Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto is an invitation to
For discounts and
fantasy, moving from virtuosity to tenderness
packages see page 96
to carefree abandonment, echoes of ‘Turkish’
military music adding a splash of exotic colouring.

Our Bruckner 200 commemorations continue with

the most popular symphony in his lifetime and still
today, the dark, dreamlike Seventh.

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Jaime Martín Yeol Eum Son

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jaime Martín conductor NSO SEASON

Yeol Eum Son piano

Friday 13 December
2024, 7.30pm
Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
Main Stage
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite
National Concert Hall

The ‘extraordinary, immensely impressive’ (Get the

Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
Chance) Yeol Eum Son performs Chopin’s Second
€39, €45. For discounts
Piano Concerto, a work of galvanizing youthful
and packages see
passion, its memorable second movement ‘a kind
page 96
of reverie in the moonlight on a beautiful spring
evening’.

Expect musical fireworks in Dukas’ dazzling

cartoonish portrait of a lazy pupil, unstoppable
bassoon-voiced brooms, and an angry
Wizard. Love triumphs over evil in Tchaikovsky’s
enchanting Swan Lake.

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Claudia Boyle

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CHRISTMAS GALA

David Brophy conductor NSO SEASON

Claudia Boyle soprano

Wednesday 18
Cór Linn December 2024, 7.30pm
Ciarán Kelly choral director Thursday 19 December
2024, 7.30pm
Star soprano Claudia Boyle returns for a Christmas
cracker of a concert bursting with festive favourites. Main Stage
National Concert Hall
Indulge in the comfort of traditional carols
including The Holly and the Ivy and The Twelve Friday 20 December
Days of Christmas, and wallow in the hushed 2024, 7.30pm
magic of year’s end in the timeless Silent Night,
O Holy Night and glorious Disney classic When National Opera House,
You Wish Upon A Star. Wexford
In association with the
Time, too, for merry-making with Leroy Anderson’s A National Opera House
Christmas Festival and the exquisite tinsel-delicate
Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky’s perennially NCH Tickets: €15, €27.50,
popular ballet, The Nutcracker. €35, €42.50, €49. For
discounts and packages
see page 96

Wexford ticket details

will be available at
nationaloperahouse.ie

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©Marshall Light
Jennifer Davis

NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION

STRAUSS 200

National Symphony Orchestra NSO SEASON

Gavin Maloney conductor

Wednesday 1 January
Jennifer Davis soprano 2025, 3.30pm

Programme includes: Johann Strauss II, Lehár,

Main Stage
Heuberger, Josef Hellmesberger II, Richard Strauss
National Concert Hall
and Josef Strauss
Tickets: €15, €27.50,
With an extraordinary radiance (hers really is
€35, €42.50, €49.
a most beautiful voice)… the blaze in her tone
For discounts and
is simply breathtaking’ (The Guardian), Jennifer
packages see page 96
Davis, fresh from success in English National
Opera’s Jenůfa, joins conductor Gavin Maloney
and the NSO for a New Year Celebration ushering
in Johann Strauss II’s 200th birthday year.

Vocal gems include the Czárdás from Die

Fledermaus, Heuberger’s ‘Im chambre séparée’, a
relishable rarity by Lehár’s Millöcker and the master of
romance Franz Lehar’s ever-popular ‘Meine Lippen’.

Greatest hits by the Waltz King include the

Die Fledermaus Overture, Frühlingsstimmen,
Thunder and Lightning Polka, and On the
Beautiful Blue Danube.

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©Stéphane Gallois
Lise de la Salle

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SHOSTAKOVICH 50

Diego Matheuz conductor NSO SEASON

Lise de la Salle piano

Friday 17 January 2025,
7.30pm
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich Symphony No. 7, Leningrad
Main Stage
National Concert Hall
Teeming with heart-stopping melodies, romance
pours out of every note of Rachmaninov’s vibrant
Tickets: €15, €25,
Second Piano Concerto, Lise de la Salle the
€29, €34.50, €39. For
‘wonderfully gifted’ (Gramophone) soloist.
discounts and packages
see page 96
Fifty years after his death, Shostakovich’s Seventh
Symphony, Leningrad, remains a colossal work.
An epic struggle against threatening darkness,
it packs a gut-wrenching punch for our times. A
stark warning to resist oppression that has never
seemed more relevant.

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©Jannah Bell

Amelia Clarkson Finola Merivale Barry O’Halpin Yue Song

COMPOSER LAB WITH THE

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Gavin Maloney conductor NSO SEASON

David Fennessy composer mentor

Tuesday 21 January
2025, 8pm
Amelia Clarkson New work
Finola Merivale New work
Main Stage
Barry O’Halpin New work
National Concert Hall
Yue Song New work

This is a free ticketed

Composer Lab 2024 culminates with the world
event.
premiere performances of four works, developed
as part of Composer Lab 2024, by up-and-coming
composers Amelia Clarkson, Finola Merivale,
Barry O’Halpin and Yue Song.

Composer Lab is a professional development

initiative delivered in partnership by the National
Symphony Orchestra and the Contemporary Music
Centre, Ireland, in association with RTÉ lyric fm.

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Peter Whelan Steven Isserlis

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Peter Whelan conductor NSO SEASON

Steven Isserlis cello

Friday 24 January 2025,
7.30pm
Mozart The Magic Flute Overture
Haydn Cello Concerto No. 2
Main Stage
Dvořák Serenade for Wind Instruments
National Concert Hall
Mozart Symphony No. 36, Linz

Pre-Concert Talk:
Peter Whelan, ‘an artist of delicate but
6.15pm – 7pm
unmistakable mastery’ (San Francisco
Chronicle) and one of the most dynamic and
Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
versatile exponents of historical performance
€39, €45.
of his generation, makes the first of two NSO
For discounts and
appearances this season with the charming
packages see page 96
old-world beauty of Dvořák’s Serenade for Wind
Instruments and Mozart’s majestic Magic Flute
Overture and grandiose but intimate
Linz Symphony.

Master cellist Steven Isserlis has made Haydn’s D

major Cello Concerto his own, with sparkling solo
passages and playful exchanges surrounding a
singing central movement.

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Grisha Martirosyan

VERONICA DUNNE INTERNATIONAL

SINGING COMPETITION FINAL

National Symphony Orchestra NSO SEASON

Wyn Davies conductor

Tuesday 28 January
2025, 7.30pm
In its 30th year, the Final of the Veronica Dunne
International Singing Competition promises a
Main Stage
night of thrilling operatic talent.
National Concert Hall

Each of the six finalists sing three arias, competing

Tickets: €15, €25,
in front of a jury made up of the world’s premier
€29, €34.50, €39.
opera experts, chaired by Sir Thomas Allen, and
For discounts and
supported by the National Symphony Orchestra
packages see page 96
under the baton of Wyn Davies.

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©Todd Rosenberg

©Frances Marshall
Lina Gonzalez-Granados Gavan Ring

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Lina Gonzalez-Granados conductor NSO SEASON

Gavan Ring tenor

Friday 31 January 2025,
7.30pm
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi
d’une faune
Main Stage
Stephen McNeff The Celestial Stranger
National Concert Hall
Irish Premiere.
NSO co-commission with
Pre-Concert Talk:
BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
6.15pm – 7pm
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2

Tickets: €15, €25,

Melodies pour out of Rachmaninov’s Second
€29, €34.50, €39. For
Symphony, one of the great orchestral love songs.
discounts and packages
Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’une faune
see page 96
is a spellbinding portrait of a faun on a blissful
Spring afternoon. Stephen McNeff’s song cycle
The Celestial Stranger, composed for Gavan Ring,
conjures in its Irish premiere a 17th-century mystic’s
vision of aliens visiting Earth and falling under the
spell of ‘this little star, so wide and full of mysteries’,
only to realise that dangerous shadows are falling
across the fragile blue planet.

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

NOBUYUKI TSUJII
Nobuyuki Tsujii piano INTERNATIONAL
ORCHESTRAS
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21, Waldstein AND RECITALS
Liszt En rêve
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Saturday 1 February
Chopin Nocturne No. 7 2025, 7.30pm
Chopin Nocturne No. 8
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 Main Stage
National Concert Hall
The young Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii,
who has been blind from birth, is ‘one of the Pre-Concert Talk:
most unique classical pianists performing today’ 6.15pm – 7pm
(Classical Voice), as you’ll hear in music by three
giants of the piano. Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
€39, €45. For discounts
Beethoven’s virtuosic Waldstein Sonata is fierce and packages see
and fiery, Liszt’s First Mephisto Waltz a helter-skelter page 96
dance with the devil. Two lyrical Nocturnes by
Chopin complement the tortured grandeur of his
Third Piano Sonata, like a coiled spring that bursts
into vibrant life.

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©Sven Germann
Gemma Ní Bhriain Milan Siljanov

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

David Brophy conductor NSO SEASON

Aoife Miskelly soprano

Friday 7 February 2025,
Gemma Ní Bhriain mezzo-soprano 7.30pm
Robin Tritschler tenor
Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Main Stage
National Symphony Chorus National Concert Hall

David Young choral director

Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
€39, €45. For discounts
Deirdre McKay New work World Premiere.
and packages see
NSO commission.
page 96
Arvo Pärt Berliner Messe
Mozart Requiem

Two sides of the same spiritual coin celebrate faith

and anticipate death. Arvo Part’s Berliner Messe is
a luminous expression of joy written in response to
the re-claiming of religious freedoms following the
collapse of the Soviet Union. Mozart’s Requiem is
the most personal and rousing of declarations of
a composer contemplating his own end.

Be the first to hear a new work by Deirdre McKay,

‘exceptionally imaginative in the sound world she
creates’ (Irish Examiner).

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FAMILY CONCERT
PETER AND THE WOLF & THE YOUNG
PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA
WITH THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jessie Grimes presenter FAMILY

Maeve Clancy shadow puppetry
Sunday 9 February 2025,
Neasa Ní Chuanaigh shadow puppetry
12.30pm, 3pm and 5pm
Gavin Maloney conductor
Main Stage
Get set for an immersive experience for all ages, National Concert Hall
blending storytelling, puppetry and orchestral
brilliance into a magical fusion of sight and sound. Tickets: Full Price €30,
Child €23, Restricted
Be enchanted by Prokofiev’s beloved Peter and the View €15, Family Ticket
Wolf, newly reimagined with specially commissioned €94 (4 tickets, maximum
shadow puppetry by Maeve Clancy, bringing the 2 adults)
story to life in a whole new light. Explore Britten's
masterful The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
as Learning & Participation Artist-in-Residence
Jessie Grimes unveils the beauty and diversity
of orchestral sounds.

Designed for children aged 5 and up and their

families, all are welcome.

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David Young, Choral Director, National Symphony Chorus

Ciarán Kelly, Choral Director, Cór Linn

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Anu Tali

‘CHARISMATIC,
BRILLIANT, ENERGETIC’
(ANU TALI)
Herald Tribune

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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
TARA ERRAUGHT
CELEBRATING THE VOICE:
A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME FOR SINGERS

NSO Artist-in-Residence Tara Erraught and a team ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

of international guest artists and industry experts
lead an immersive professional development Monday 10 February –
programme comprising vocal coaching, Friday 14 February 2025
seminars, discussions and performances. This
intensive programme is uniquely tailored to Main Stage
classical singers, giving them the supports and National Concert Hall
resources they need both on and off the stage to
navigate their professional careers.

Guest international artists and industry experts

include:
• Morgane Fauchois-Prado pianist
• Dearbhla Collins pianist
• Alexander Neef Director of Opéra National
de Paris
• Paul Kwak world authority on vocal health and
ENT specialist working with opera singers
• Andreas Massow Artist Manager and former
Casting Director at Bayerische Staatsoper,
Munich

RTÉ lyric fm’s Liz Nolan will host panel discussions,

©Kaupo Kikkas

Q&A events and performances during the week.

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Dearbhla Collins

CELEBRATING THE VOICE:

SONG RECITAL

Selected participating performers in the ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Celebrating the Voice programme will present
a song recital with pianist Dearbhla Collins. Friday 14 February 2025,
1.05pm
Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm
John Field Room
National Concert Hall

Tickets: €15
For discounts and
packages see page 96

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CELEBRATING THE VOICE:

OPERA GALA

National Symphony Orchestra ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Anu Tali conductor

Friday 14 February 2025,
7.30pm
Selected participating performers in the
Celebrating the Voice programme will join
Main Stage
the NSO for an Opera Gala featuring some
National Concert Hall
of the repertoire's best-loved arias, duets
and ensembles.
Tickets €15, €19.50,
€22.50, €26, €30.
For discounts and
packages see page 96

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Tomáš Brauner conductor INTERNATIONAL
Alexander Sitkovetsky violin ORCHESTRAS
AND RECITALS
Dvořák The Noonday Witch
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Sunday 16 February
Dvořák Symphony No. 9, From the New World 2025, 7.30pm

The wonderful Prague Symphony Orchestra and Main Stage

Chief Conductor Tomáš Brauner pay tribute to National Concert Hall
their Bohemian heritage with two sides of Dvořák.
Pre-Concert Talk:
The Ninth Symphony is a nostalgic, homesick 6.15pm – 7pm
anthem, a tuneful meeting of two cultures as
American spirituals blend with Czech folk songs. Tickets: €15, €27.50, €36,
The Noonday Witch is a tragic tale of an errant son, €44, €55. For discounts
a scolding mother, and a demanding demon. and packages see
page 96
Alexander Sitkovetsky is the soloist for
Tchaikovsky’s hi-octane, melody-packed
Violin Concerto.

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Ailís Ní Ríain

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jessica Cottis conductor NSO SEASON

Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano

Friday 21 February 2025,
Samuel Sakker tenor 7.30pm

Ailís Ní Ríain The Land Grows Weary of its Own

Main Stage
Irish Premiere.
National Concert Hall
NSO co-commission with BBC Radio 3
and Manchester International Festival.
Pre-Concert Talk:
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of
6.15pm – 7pm
the Earth)
Tickets: €15, €25, €29,
Two works which speak of a deep love of life and
€34.50, €39.
living and of the world in all its riches. Three superb
For discounts and
artists include Jessica Cottis and Karen Cargill,
packages see page 96
both widely praised on the operatic stage.

Mahler’s The Song of the Earth is a profound and

exquisitely beautiful song cycle from a man facing
his own end and recognising how precious this
world is. Inspired by the lyrics of U2’s A Sort of
Homecoming, Ailís Ní Ríain imagines ‘a
world that is wearied by the actions and inactions
of its human destructors’, and in particular, ‘the
effects of climate change on birds’.

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©Yvonne Schmedemann
ALICE SARA OTT
Alice Sara Ott piano INTERNATIONAL
ORCHESTRAS
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 19 AND RECITALS
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14, Moonlight Thursday 27 February
Field Selection of Nocturnes 2025, 8pm

‘The energy propelling her playing seems Main Stage

unstoppable’ (The Guardian). Alice Sara Ott, National Concert Hall
an exciting and groundbreaking artist, performs
three of Beethoven’s most distinctive Piano Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
Sonatas – the deeply affecting 19th, the intimate €39, €45. For discounts
and lyrical 30th, and the Moonlight, an awesome and packages see
work, its calm middle movement described page 96
by Liszt as a ‘flower between two abysses’.
Interspersed with these, a selection of
watercolour-delicate Nocturnes by the
Irish composer John Field.

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Simone Lamsma

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Alexander Shelley conductor NSO SEASON

Simone Lamsma violin

Thursday 27 February
2025, 7.30pm
Brahms Violin Concerto
Schumann Symphony No. 3, Rhenish
Leisureland, Galway
In association with Music
With the ‘impeccable’ (Bachtrack) Alexander
for Galway
Shelley on the podium, two major works by
Brahms and Schumann. In the soul-bearing
Friday 28 February 2025,
Violin Concerto by Brahms two rugged outer
7.30pm
movements frame a bewitchingly beautiful
slow movement with the ‘absolutely stunning’
Main Stage
(Chicago Tribune) Simone Lamsma as soloist.
National Concert Hall
Schumann’s simmering, slow-burning Rhenish
Symphony is a romance-filled celebration of
Pre-Concert Talk Friday 28
the Rhineland’s natural beauty that bursts into
February: 6.15pm – 7pm
exuberant life.

NCH Tickets: €15, €25,

€29, €34.50, €39. For
discounts and packages
see page 96

Galway ticket details

will be available at
musicforgalway.ie

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MUSIC IN THE CLASSROOM

JUNIOR CYCLE MUSIC GUIDE

National Symphony Orchestra SCHOOLS

Jessie Grimes presenter

Tuesday 4 March 2025,
10.30am & 12.30pm
Built around the new Junior Cycle Music
Learning Outcomes, and using some of the
Main Stage
greatest orchestral music ever written, the NSO,
National Concert Hall
Learning & Participation Artist-in-Residence Jessie
Grimes will explore how live music can provoke
Tickets: €10 student.
emotion, change mood and
Accompanying
illustrate a scene.
teachers go free.

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Speranza Scappucci

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

RAVEL: A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Speranza Scappucci conductor NSO SEASON

Julie Boulianne mezzo-soprano

Friday 7 March 2025,
Lionel Lhote baritone 7.30pm

Ravel programme.
Main Stage
National Concert Hall
On the very day of the 150th anniversary of
his birth, we celebrate the genius of Maurice
Pre-Concert Talk:
Ravel with a veritable ‘greatest hits’ selection of
6.15pm – 7pm
evergreen works.
Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
There’s fairy-tale magic and mayhem in Ma
€39, €45. For discounts
mère l’Oye (Mother Goose); comic fantasy in
and packages see
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée – with ‘the beautiful
page 96
and wide baritone’ (Ôlyrix) of Lionel Lhote;
exotic romance in Shéhérazade – with ‘refined
and elegant’ (The Independent) soprano Julie
Boulianne; and, of course, the mesmerising
rhythms of Boléro.

We welcome another exciting conductor, the

sensational Speranza Scappucci, Principal Guest
Conductor at the Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden and the first woman to conduct at Teatro
alla Scala Milan.

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MUSIC IN THE CLASSROOM

MUSICAL ADVENTURES
FUN CONCERTS FOR CHILDREN AGED 8-12

National Symphony Orchestra SCHOOLS

Jessie Grimes presenter

Tuesday 11 March 2025,
10.30am & 12.30pm
Join in the adventure and fun with the National
Symphony Orchestra!
Main Stage
National Concert Hall
Let Learning & Participation Artist-in-Residence
Jessie Grimes be your guide on an exciting
Tickets: €10 student.
musical journey. From soaring strings to thundering
Accompanying
timpani, discover the wonders of orchestral music
teachers go free.
and unlock the secrets of symphonic storytelling!

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Anastasia Kobekina

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Christian Reif conductor NSO SEASON

Anastasia Kobekina cello

Friday 21 March 2025,
7.30pm
Richard Strauss Metamorphosen
Schumann Cello Concerto
Main Stage
Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
National Concert Hall

Brimming over with vibrant images and scents of the

Pre-Concert Talk:
countryside, Beethoven’s joyful Pastoral Symphony is
6.15pm – 7pm
a glorious depiction of the natural world.

Tickets: €15, €25,

Schumann’s Cello Concerto, with the ‘unrivalled’
€29, €34.50, €39. For
(Le Figaro) Anastasia Kobekina as soloist, finds
discounts and packages
cello and orchestra as equals in the most personal,
see page 96
immediate and enigmatic of statements.

A lyrical lament for the war-time bombing of

Dresden, the 23 strings of Richard Strauss’s
Metamorphosen borrow a motif from the
funeral march of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.
Late-Romanticism at its most personal, immediate
and affecting.

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‘AMONG THE
GREATEST OF
CELLISTS’
The Arts Desk

Gautier Capuçon

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CAPUCELLI
Gautier Capuçon and his cello ensemble
Killian White guest cellist

Piazzolla La muerte del Angel INTERNATIONAL

(arr. by Sébastien Walnier) ORCHESTRAS
Delibes Flower Duet (Lakmé) AND RECITALS
(arr. by Sébastien Walnier)
Bryce Dessner The Forest. Sederunt Wednesday 26 March
Principes – Perotin 2025, 8pm
Irish Premiere
Bartók Romanian Dances Main Stage
(arr. Cornelius Zirbo) National Concert Hall
Dvořák Lasst mich allein
(arr. Gautier Capuçon) Tickets: €15, €25,
Tchaikovsky ‘Waltz of the Flowers’ €29, €34.50, €39. For
(arr. Samuel Parent) (The Nutcracker) discounts and packages
R. Dubugnon Heptasyllabes see page 96
Grieg In the Hall of the
(arr. Jérôme Ducros) Mountain King (Peer Gynt)
Guillaume Connesson Trois jardins
Bacharach South American Getaway
J. Martínez Campos Fantaisie pour la
classe d’excellence
Ravel Bolero
(arr. Jérome Ducros)
Bernstein Mambo (West Side Story)
(arr. Jérôme Ducros)

Gautier Capuçon, acclaimed for his expressive

©Anoush Abrar

musicianship and exuberant virtuosity, brings

his Capucelli Ensemble to perform an exciting
programme of music to seduce and surprise.

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Jonathan Biss

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Lio Kuokman conductor NSO SEASON

Jonathan Biss piano

Friday 28 March 2025,
7.30pm
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Main Stage
National Concert Hall
Infatuated by the Irish actress Harriet Smithson,
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique blazes with all the
Tickets: €15, €25,
intensity of an opium-induced phantasmagoria.
€29, €34.50, €39. For
Desire and delirium go hand in hand in music as
discounts and packages
surreal and savage as it is sensual.
see page 96

‘An eloquent interpreter with a powerful

technique’ (New York Times), Jonathan Biss is the
soloist for Brahms’s vigorous and flamboyant First
Piano Concerto, one of the most popular and
frequently performed of all piano concertos.

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Lio Kuokman

FAMILY CONCERT
SYMPHONY SHORTS − BERLIOZ

National Symphony Orchestra FAMILY

Lio Kuokman conductor

Saturday 29 March 2025,
Jessie Grimes presenter 12.30pm

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

Main Stage
National Concert Hall
What do you get when you take an imaginative
Frenchman’s wild and tragic dream about true
Tickets: Full Price: €20,
love at a fancy ball, throw in some shepherds
Child: €15, Family Ticket
and witches, and bring it all together with a huge
€65 (4 tickets, max.
90-piece orchestra? It’s Symphonie fantastique!
2 adults)

Embark on a mesmerising journey guided

by our exuberant presenter and Learning &
Participation Artist-in-Residence, Jessie Grimes.
In this interactive family-friendly show, you’ll sing,
dance and play along with the outrageous story,
exploring all the amazing sounds a giant orchestra
can make in Berlioz’s riotously colourful orchestral
masterpiece.

Designed for children aged 5 and up, including

those with ASD, and their families, this relaxed
event promises a rollicking musical adventure for
all. All are welcome.

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Katia and Marielle

Labèque

THE REMARKABLE
PIANO DUO OF SISTERS
KATIA AND MARIELLE
LABÈQUE

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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
BRYCE DESSNER
National Symphony Orchestra
André de Ridder conductor
Bryce Dessner guitar
David Chalmin guitar
Katia Labèque piano
Marielle Labèque piano

Bryce Dessner St. Carolyn by the Sea ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Bryce Dessner Concerto for Two Pianos
Irish Premiere Friday 11 April 2025,
Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version) 7.30pm

An exciting opportunity to hear the Irish premiere Main Stage

of Artist-in-Residence Bryce Dessner’s athletic and National Concert Hall
animated Concerto for Two Pianos played by its
dedicatees, the remarkable piano duo of sisters Tickets: €15, €27.50,
Katia and Marielle Labèque. €35, €42.50, €49.
For discounts and
Beat Generation guru Jack Kerouac is the packages see page 96
inspiration for St. Carolyn by the Sea featuring the
composer himself on guitar.

Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka is a nightmarish tale

of puppets coming murderously to life in music of
burlesque brilliance.

Post-concert talk*
Bryce Dessner, André de Ridder, Katia and
Marielle Labèque in conversation with John Kelly.
*This event will commence approximately 15
minutes after the main stage performance ends.

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‘A LANDMARK
FOR CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC’
Rowan Williams

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NSO: JAMES MCMILLAN’S

ST JOHN PASSION
National Symphony Orchestra
David Hill conductor
Christopher Purves baritone
National Symphony Chorus
David Young choral director
Chamber Choir Ireland

James MacMillan St. John Passion NSO SEASON

Irish Premiere
Friday 18 April 2025,
The Irish premiere of a Good Friday Passion for 3.30pm
our times: James MacMillan’s St. John Passion,
hailed by Rowan Williams as ‘a landmark for Main Stage
contemporary music’. National Concert Hall

Echoes of Latin motets, Gregorian chant and Tickets: €15, €27.50,

Bach chorales can be heard alongside Scottish €35, €42.50, €49. For
folk accents in a striking, modern re-telling discounts and packages
with Christ portrayed by ‘extraordinary’ (Sinfini) see page 96
baritone Christopher Purves, and the Evangelist
by Chamber Choir Ireland, with the National
Symphony Chorus giving voice to other roles in
this dramatic story.

Presented in association with

Chamber Choir Ireland.
©Brian A Jackson

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©Ollie Ali

©David Venni
Sheku Kanneh Mason Isata Kanneh Mason

SHEKU KANNEH-MASON
ISATA KANNEH-MASON
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello INTERNATIONAL
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano ORCHESTRAS
AND RECITALS
Fauré Cello Sonata No. 1
Poulenc Cello Sonata Thursday 24 April 2025,
Natalie Klouda New Work Irish Premiere 8pm
Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 1
Main Stage
Superstar musicians Sheku and Isata National Concert Hall
Kanneh-Mason have taken the musical world
by storm, staking a claim to the world’s great Pre-Concert Talk:
concert houses and making history with their 6.45pm – 7.30pm
performances and recordings.
Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
Both artists make a much-anticipated and €39, €45. For discounts
welcome return to the NCH with rarely heard and packages see
treasures by Fauré, Poulenc and Mendelssohn. page 96

Written for the siblings, Natalie Klouda’s new work

receives its Irish premiere.

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Members of the National Symphony Orchestra

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‘A MODEL OF
PRECISION AND ATTENTION
GIVEN TO SINGERS’
Forum Opéra

Tara Erraught
©Cyril Cosson

Clelia Cafiero

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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
TARA ERRAUGHT
National Symphony Orchestra
Clelia Cafiero conductor
Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano

Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Overture ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Mozart ‘Come scoglio’ (Così fan tutte)
Mozart ‘Giunse alfin il momento... Deh, vieni, Thursday 1 May 2025,
non tardar’ (Le nozze di Figaro) 7.30pm
Donizetti Maria Stuarda Overture
Donizetti ‘O nube! che lieve per l’aria’ University Concert Hall,
(Maria Stuarda) Limerick
Puccini I crisantemi
Puccini ‘O mio babbino caro’ (Gianni Schicchi) In association with the
Bellini Norma Overture University Concert Hall
Bellini ‘Casta Diva’ (Norma)
Rossini The Barber of Seville Overture Friday 2 May 2025,
Rossini 'Ah se è ver che in tal momento’ 7.30pm
(Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Rossini The Thieving Magpie Overture Main Stage
Rossini ‘Tanti affetti’ (La donna del lago) National Concert Hall

An unmissable event as NCH Artist-in-Residence Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,

and acclaimed mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught €39, €45. For discounts
ventures into repertoire which showcases another and packages see
©Kristin Hoebermann

side of her remarkable voice and artistry. page 96

A gala recital of arias full of emotion and lit up by Limerick ticket details will
coloratura splendour from operatic heroines by be available at uch.ie
Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini.

Bristling, bright Overtures add brilliant ballast with

Clelia Cafiero, ‘a model of precision and attention
given to singers’ (Forum Opéra), on the podium.

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©Marco Borggreve
John Storgårds Yukine Kuroki

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SHOSTAKOVICH 50

John Storgårds conductor NSO SEASON

Yukine Kuroki piano

Friday 9 May 2025,
7.30pm
Sibelius The Oceanides
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of
Main Stage
Paganini
National Concert Hall
Victoria Vita Polevá Symphony No. 3, White
Interment Irish Premiere
Pre-Concert Talk:
Shostakovich Symphony No. 1
6.15pm – 7pm

‘Earthy, powerful, passionate’ (New Listener) John

Tickets: €15, €25,
Storgårds is renowned for his interpretations of
€29, €34.50, €39.
Scandinavian and Russian music.
For discounts and
packages see page 96
Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody is a mesmerising
musical kaleidoscope of gleaming styles with 2022
Dublin International Piano Competition winner
Yukine Kuroki the virtuosic soloist.

Fifty years after his death, Shostakovich’s First

Symphony still bursts with energy and lacerating
wit. Ukrainian Victoria Polevá’s Third Symphony
is desolate but darkly beautiful, Sibelius’s The
Oceanides is a tempestuous tribute to the
power of the sea.

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©Gareth Jones
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Domingo Hindoyan conductor INTERNATIONAL

ORCHESTRAS
Guy Johnston cello
AND RECITALS

Roberto Sierra Fandangos Irish Premiere

Thursday 15 May 2025,
Elgar Cello Concerto
8pm
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances

Main Stage
From Dublin’s twin city comes the Royal Liverpool
National Concert Hall
Philharmonic with its Chief Conductor Domingo
Hindoyan and exceptional cellist Guy Johnston
Pre-Concert Talk:
for Elgar’s bleak but beautiful Cello Concerto,
6.15pm – 7pm
an emotion-filled high-watermark of modern
English music.
Tickets: €15, €30, €42.50,
€54, €65. For discounts
Dance dominates Roberto Sierra’s Fandangos
and packages see
in a set of vibrant orchestral variations with
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distinctive Spanish trumpets and castanets to
the fore. Quoting from several of his major works,
Rachmaninov’s leave-taking Symphonic Dances
wrestles with death in music to put you through
the emotional wringer.

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DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL PIANO

COMPETITION FINAL

National Symphony Orchestra NSO SEASON

Jonas Alber conductor

Friday 16 May 2025,
7.30pm
Three finalists, each performing a popular piano
concerto, compete before a distinguished
Main Stage
international jury in the final of this prestigious
National Concert Hall
piano competition.

Tickets: €15, €25,

€29, €34.50, €39.
For discounts and
packages see page 96

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FAMILY SCREENING
REVOLTING RHYMES LIVE
WITH THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Terry Davies conductor FAMILY

‘Fabulous animations with hilarious brilliance’ Sunday 18 May 2025,

(The Sun). 12pm, 3pm & 5pm

Based on the much-loved rhymes written by Main Stage

Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, National Concert Hall
Revolting Rhymes is two half-hour films ingeniously
interweaving five of Dahl’s retellings of classic fairy Tickets: Full Price: €30,
tales with playful twists and surprising endings. Child: €23, Restricted
Watch them on the big screen with the NSO View: €15, Family Tickets:
performing music composed by Ben Locket and €94 (4 tickets, maximum
additional music composed by Terry Davies. 2 adults)

Recommended age: 6-11 years (and parents).

Revolting Rhymes: © Magic Light Pictures Limited 2016

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A
COMPELLING AND
DRAMATIC CHORAL
MASTERPIECE

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NSO: HAYDN THE CREATION

National Symphony Orchestra
Peter Whelan conductor
Anna Devin soprano
Lawrence Kilsby tenor
William Thomas bass
National Symphony Chorus
David Young choral director

Haydn The Creation NSO SEASON

Nature at its beginning. A compelling and Friday 23 May 2025,

dramatic choral masterpiece relating the Biblical 7.30pm
story of the making of the world. Orchestra,
soloists and chorus combine in one of the most Main Stage
astounding declarations of faith and joy in the National Concert Hall
natural world. Celebration and wonder abound,
as do dazzling depictions of the creation of Pre-Concert Talk:
light, the land and seas, birdlife, animals, and 6.15pm – 7pm
ultimately, man and woman.
Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
€39, €45. For discounts
and packages see
page 96

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Anja Bihlmaier

‘PASSIONATE
AND EVER-ENERGETIC’
Bachtrack

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SEASON FINALE
National Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier conductor

Mahler Symphony No. 9 NSO SEASON

The 2024-2025 Season ends with a monumental Friday 30 May 2025,

work, the ‘ferocious outburst of fiendish laughter 7.30pm
at the futility of everything’ (Deryck Cooke) that
is Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. At the helm, the Main Stage
‘passionate and ever-energetic’ Anja Bihlmaier National Concert Hall
who gave audiences ‘a night to remember’
(Bachtrack) with Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony Pre-Concert Talk:
last season. 6.15pm – 7pm

Raging against the dying of the light, Mahler’s Tickets: €15, €26.50, €33,
colossal last work is a mercurial struggle between €39, €45. For discounts
his lust for life and fear of encroaching death. and packages see
The result is heart-breaking and filled with page 96
exultant tongue-in-cheek humour, the blackest
of moods, and the slow, serene leave-taking of
its hushed ending.
©Nikolaj Lund

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PACKAGE DISCOUNTS
AND BENEFITS
MAKING MUSIC ACCESSIBLE

National Concert Hall 2024-2025 Season Multi-buy Packages

Book multiple concerts from across the season to and save up to 35%

No. of Concerts Discount

5 – 10 concerts 10% discount
11 – 16 concerts 15% discount
17 – 25 concerts 20% discount
25% discount for NCH Season
Friends, Friends & Patrons
26 – 49 concerts 25% discount
30% discount for NCH Season
Friends, Friends & Patrons
50 or more concerts 30% discount
35% discount for NCH Season
Friends, Friends & Patrons

National Symphony Orchestra Concert Package

Love the National Symphony Orchestra? Avail of savings of up to 30%

when you book 31 NSO concerts in the season.

No. of Concerts Discount

31 concerts 25% discount
See pages 8-13 for full listing of 30% discount for NCH Season
concerts included Friends, Friends & Patrons

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Early Booking Benefits

Opening Night Reception

To reward early booking, the first 50 package* bookers will be invited to an
interval drinks reception on the opening night of the season (7th September)

*Package to include the opening night – Saturday 7th September

Spread the cost

For concert bookers who purchase a package before the 27th of June 2024
and wish to avail of the option to spread the cost over three months, that
facility will be made available at no extra cost.

See page 98 for terms and conditions.

General Package Benefits

Ticket exchange
The NCH understands that sometimes plans can change which is why
we’re happy to offer all package buyers the opportunity to exchange their
ticket(s) to another event across the 2024-2025 season. See www.nch.ie for
terms and conditions

Same Seat from the Previous Seasons

If you are a current National Symphony Orchestra and/or NCH International
Concert Series Full Season Subscriber and wish to avail of same seat when
purchasing a subscription to the 2024-2025 season, the NCH is happy to offer
that to you.

This seat will be held for current subscribers until 27th June 2024.

17 or more Concerts Benefits

Purchase a ticket to 17 or more concerts across the 2024-2025 season and
you will receive an invitation to a special event during the season and a
complimentary pair of tickets to an event to share with friends or family*.

*Event within the season to be selected by NCH, tickets will be issued in

advance of opening of the season.

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How to Spread Your Payments Over

Three Consecutive Months

Package buyers purchasing before 27th June 2024 can avail of spreading
the cost across three consecutive months at no extra cost.

Terms & Conditions:

• Scheduled payment option applies to packages only and does not

apply to single concert purchases.

• Payments will be scheduled over three consecutive monthly instalments.

• Payments will be collected from credit or debit cards only.

• NCH will automatically debit the same card used to pay the
initial payment.

• Credit or debit card must not expire before 09/26 in order to allow
payments to complete.

• In the event the card is lost or stolen during this period, it is the
responsibility of the Customer to advise NCH in order for us to manage
any remaining payments.

• No tickets will be issued until receipt of the final payment.

• The date of the final scheduled payment must not be later than
27th August 2024.

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Individual Concert Discounts

For further information on individual concert discounts, see page 3.

Become a Friend of the NCH

Want to become an NCH Friend, Season Friend or Patron and avail of

discounts and priority booking periods for the Season? You can do so by
contacting the NCH Friends Membership Office or join online today.
See details below.

How To Book

ONLINE: www.nch.ie

PHONE: NCH Box Office Tel: +353 (0)1 417 0000

Phone line is open Monday to Friday 10am – 2pm

IN PERSON: NCH Box Office Opening Hours 10am – 6pm,

Monday to Friday

NCH Friends Dedicated Booking Line:

Tel: +353 (0)1 408 6777

NCH Friends Membership Office Tel:

+ 353 (0)1 417 0067

E-mail: [email protected]

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RTÉ lyric Live, presented by Paul Herriott on RTÉ lyric fm.
Listen live or listen back: www.rte.ie/lyricfm/lyric-live

WHERE LIFE SOUNDS BETTER

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Members of the National Symphony Orchestra

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CONCERTS
MAKE
CONNECTIONS
Become an NCH Friend today
and avail of discounts of up to
35% off tickets.
NCH Friends membership includes:
– Access to priority booking & dedicated booking line
– Concert discounts and exclusive ticket packages
– Exclusive events, tours & behind the scenes access
– Advanced calendar mailout
and much more...

Join and support the NCH from €125 per annum

Call (01) 408 6777 or email [email protected]
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THANK YOU TO OUR CORPORATE AND

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS
We would like to acknowledge with appreciation and gratitude the generous support of our Corporate
Partners, Corporate Members, Patrons, John Field Society Members and Friends.

PROGRAMME PARTNERS

TRUST & FOUNDATION PARTNERS

CORPORATE MEMBERS

OVATION ENCORE

APPLAUSE

PATRONS & JOHN FIELD SOCIETY MEMBERS

Deirdre Baneham • Frank & Ivy Bannister • William Barton • James Billet • Michael Bourke
Sharon Burke • Brid Cannon & Juan Pablo Cortes Ocampo • Dr Tom Carey • Dorothy Clements
Bernadette Coggins • Mary Costello Ryan • Monica Cullinan • Louis & Mary Fitzgerald • Mary Fletcher
Dr Crona Gallagher & Jim Clery • Gerard Gillen • Brian Kingham • Mary Mac Aodha • Deirdre Mc Connell
Brian Mc Elroy • Sinead Nic Oireachtaigh • Prof Deirdre O Grady • Tiernan O hAlmhain
Dr Rachel Patton • John Pollard Foundation • Beverly Sperry • Kieran Tobin • Dr Peter & Elva Wyatt

FRIENDS, SEASON FRIENDS AND SUPPORTING FRIENDS

Please get in touch with a member of the Partnerships & Philanthropy Team to learn more and find out
how you can support your National Concert Hall today:

Aisling Kennedy Emmet McSwiney

Corporate Development Executive Individual Giving Executive
[email protected] [email protected]

#SupportYourNCH RCN. 200011987

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NCH SEATING PLAN

Choir Balcony

Organ
1

1
2

2
Stage
3

3
4

4
(stage height: 95cm/3ft.)
5

5
6

6
7

7
8

8
9

9
10 11 12 13

10

Green Side Balcony

14 13 12 11
Red Side Balcony

A 29 A
28
27 3
26 4
25
14 15 16 17

B 30 24 5 B
29 23 6 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 3

18 17 16 15
27 4
26 5
C 31 3 25 6 1 C
0 29 24 7 2
28 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
D 31 3 26 5 D
25 6 1
18

0 29 24 23 7 2

Exit Only
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
E 31 3 25 7
6 1 E
0 29 24 8 2
28 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 3
27 4
31 26 5
19 20 21 22 23 24 25

F 6 F
57 56 55 54 53 52 51

22 21 20 19
25

54 55 56 57
30 24 23 7 2
29 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
28 4
27 5
G 31 3 26 6 1 G
0 25 7 2
29 24 23 8 3
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 4
27 5
H 31 3 26 6 1 H
0 25 7 2

27 26 25 24 23
29 24 23

49 50 51 52 53
28 20 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
J 31 3 25 6 1 J
0 29 24 7 2
28 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
26 27

K 31 3
50 49

25 6 1 K
0 29 24 7 2
28 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
31 26 5
L 30 25 6 1 L
29 24 7 2
28 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
5
28 29 30 31 32 33 34
48 47 46 45 44 43 42

M 31 3 26 31 30 29 28

46 47 48
25 6 1 M
0 29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
N 31 3 25 6 1 N
0 2 24 23 7 2
9 28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
4
41 42 43 44 45

27 5
P 31 3 26 6 1 P
25
36 35 34 33 32

0 29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
Q 31 3 25 6 1 Q
0 29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
35 36

5
41 40

R 31 3 26 6 1 R
0 25 7 2
29 24 23 9 8 3
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10
Exit Only

27 4
26 5
S 31 3 25 6 1 S
0 7
37 38 39

29 24 23 8 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 3 31
27 4 31
T 31 26 5 T
30 25 6 1
29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3 31
27 5
4 31
U 31 3 26 6 U
0 25 7 1
29 24 8 2
28 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 3
27 4
26 5
V 31 3 25 6 1 V
0 29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
W 31 3 25 6 1 W
0 29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
X 31 3 25 6 1 X
0 29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
Y 25 6 Y
24 23 7
22 21 11 10 9 8
27 5
26 Sound Desk 6
25 7
24 23 8
22 21 10 9

Stalls
A 29 2 A
8 27
26 3
B 31 3 25 4 B
0 24 5 1
29 23 22 6 2
28 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 3
27 4
C 31 3 26 5 C
0 25 6 1
29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
D 31 3 26 5 D
0 25 6 1
29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
E 31 3 26 5 E
0 25 6 1
29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
F 31 3 26 5 F
0 25 6 1
29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
G 31 3 26 5 G
0 25 6 1
29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
H 31 3 26 5 H
0 25 6 1
29 24 23 7 2
28 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 3
27 4
26 5
Note: J 29 2
25
24 23
22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8
7
6
3 J
Stalls start to elevate 8 27 4
26 5
from row L. 25 6
24 23 7
K 28 2 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 K
7 4
26 5
Hand rail from Y 25 6
24 23 7
until row F. 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8

Steps.
Main Balcony

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