Special concert evening in Calary

MUSIC in Calary is delighted to host a special event on Saturday, September 17.

Calary Church supports Sister Mary Killeen’s work for street children in Mukuru in Nairobi and will hold a concert at 8 p.m. featuring mezzo soprano, Edel O’Brien, who will be singing arias from Rossini’s the Barber of Seville, Mozart’s the Marriage of Figaro and Bizet’s Carmen. She will be accompanied by Reflecting Strings (harpist Geraldine O’Doherty, violinist David O’Doherty and cellist Moya O’Grady), who will also perform instrumental interludes, including an arrangement of the famous adagio from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

Edel O’Brien is a winner of the Margaret Burke Sheridan at the Feis Ceoil, the gold medal at the Trinity College of Music, London and the Prix Lyrique in Paris where she performed with Opera Bastille.

Moya O’Grady from Enniskerry was co-principal cellist in the National Symphony Orchestra and is much admired as both soloist and chamber musician.

David O’Doherty won the Premier Prix de Virtuosite at the Lausanne Conservatoire and has given innumerable solo performances across Ireland and abroad. Geraldine O’Doherty studied the harp at the Guildhall school in London and in Zurich. She has performed as soloist with many international orchestras and plays regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra and with Sinfonia.

As part of this special evening, an optional fork supper will be served at 6.30 p.m. in the Church Room.

Tickets for the concert and supper are €40 while concert-only tickets are €18 (€15 for concessions). Requests for tickets should be sent to John at (01) 2818146 or derekneilson@eircom.net. There will also be raffle tickets available on the night of the concert with all proceeds going to the project in Mukuru.