Visual Art Exhibition Foyer in oils and charcoal by Philip Murphy, from 16:00.
It is a mix of figurative and landscape art, exploring music, musicians and the art they create from the perspective of another art form. The landscapes explore our impact - either great or insignificant and transitory or permanent - on land (in this case the Iveragh peninsula in Kerry), the marks we make in it through the generations.
Part of the Pause series, MTU Cork School of Music is honoured to host a new visual art exhibition. Free admission and no booking required.
BA in Theatre & Drama Studies Actor Showcase | Stack Theatre, 19:00 - 20:00.
Featuring recent graduates and current students of the BA in Theatre and Drama Studies degree at MTU Cork School of Music. Presenting scenes and monologues from a range of theatre writers and much more.
Free admission but ticketed. Details to follow.
Classical Music Recitals | Curtis Auditorium, 20:00 - 21:30
A variety of classical music performance from current students at MTU Cork School of Music.
Deirdre Cadogan, Clarinet (accompanied on piano by Billy O’Brien)
Tara Malone, Flute (accompanied on piano by Criostóir Ó Loingsigh)
Cillian Ó Cathasaigh, Violin (accompanied on piano by Ciara Moroney)
Deirdre Cadogan, Clarinet
Billy O’Brien, Piano
Programme:
Carl Maria von Weber - Grand Duo Concertant for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 48,
I. Andante con moto
II. Rondo
Béla Kovács - Hommage à Manuel de Falla
Deirdre Cadogan is a fourth-year BMus student at MTU Cork School of Music (CSM), studying clarinet with Pat O’Keeffe and double bass with David Whitla.
Deirdre has performed with various ensembles, including the IYWE, NYOI, CSM Project Orchestras, Cork Concert Orchestra, and participated in side-by-side projects with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra. Since 2019, she has been the principal clarinettist of the CSM Symphony Orchestra, and recently performed Stravinsky’s Firebird at the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
Deirdre started playing clarinet at age six with Eamonn Cahill in Kilkenny, and has since won numerous awards, including the Senior Clarinet Competition twice at the Kilkenny Music Festival. She has also competed in the CSM Advanced Concerto and Advanced Recital Competitions. In 2019, she received an Arts Award for Music from the LOETB.
As a chamber musician, Deirdre has performed in clarinet trios, baroque ensembles, and recently played part of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet at the Ortús Chamber Music Festival. She also plays clarinet and tenor saxophone with the CSM Jazz Big Band, performing at events like the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival and in Woolwich Works in London, where the band received a masterclass from Callum Au.
Tara Malone, Flute
Criostóir Ó Loingsigh, Piano
Programme:
Johann Sebastian Bach - Flute Sonata in E Major BWV 1035:
I.Adagio ma non tanto
Claude Debussy (Arr. Gustav Samazeuilh) - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Malcolm Arnold - Flute Concerto, Op. 45
I. Allegro
Eldin Burton - Sonatina (1948)
I.Allegretto grazioso
II.Andantino Sognando
III.Allegro giocoso quasi fandango
Tara Malone is in her fourth year of her BMus degree at the MTU Cork School of Music studying the flute under the tutelage of Sabine Ducrot. This year, she was awarded the “Crowley Perpetual Cup” in the Senior Woodwind Category of Feis Maitiú. Tara has also performed and been awarded commendations in the Advanced Recital and Senior Concerto Competitions at MTU CSM.
Tara enjoys engaging in ensemble playing which she grew to love from her years as a member of Clonmel’s youth band, Banna Chluain Meala (2013-2020), where she had the opportunity to travel and perform around the country at various events and competitions, perform at Fourth of July celebrations in Illinois, USA in 2015 and in Costa Masnaga, Italy in 2017.
While studying in Cork, Tara has also enjoyed advancing her piccolo playing with Aoife O’Donovan and plays both flute and piccolo with ensembles such as MTU CSM Symphony Orchestra, CAFE Cork Flute Ensemble and Cork Concert Orchestra. She has also performed with the MTU CSM Symphonic Wind Ensemble as an ensemble musician and had the opportunity to perform as a soloist (Phillip Sparke’s A Lindisfarne Rhapsody) in 2023.
Cillian Ó Cathasaigh, Violin
Ciara Moroney, Piano
Programme:
Jean Marie Leclair - Sonata No.3 in D Major “Tombeau”
I.“Un poco andante”
II.“Allegro – Adagio”
Sam Perkin - Nine Snapshots
“Free Chinese”
Henri Vieuxtemps - 6 Morceaux de salon, Op.22
III.Reverie
Henryk Wieniawski - Scherzo Tarantelle
Cillian Ó Cathasaigh from Cork is a violin student of Katherine Hunka, currently studying for his BMus degree in MTU Cork School of Music. Cillian is a multi-prizewinner in various competitions, including 1st prize in the Houlihan Memorial Cup, John O Sullivan Memorial Cup and Shanahan & Co. Perpetual Cup in Feis Maitiu, 2nd prize in the Terry O’Connor Cup in Feis Ceoil and most recently a finalist in MTUCSM’s Advanced Recital competition. Cillian has performed in masterclasses for Raquel Castro, Amanda Nesa, Felice Bauer and Ilona Sie Dhian Ho.
Cillian is a former member of first violins with the NYOI, former leader of CYO most notably leading for their 2023 concert tour in Italy and former principal second violin of Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra. He is currently a member of the Haydn Symphony Series Orchestra, the IYBO and the MTU CSM Symphony Orchestra for which he was principal second violin last year.
Cillian is an avid chamber musician. Having led the Pernambuco and Siciliana quartets, with which he had masterclasses and performed in the Órtus Chamber Music Festival, he is now a member of an oboe quartet in MTU CSM, who were recent prizewinners at Feis Ceoil. In June Cillian performed in the Vanburgh and Friends Gala concert, performing Mendelssohn’s Octet led by Mia Cooper.
Cillian was also awarded the most distinguished student in Senior Cycle Strings for his Grade 8 violin in MTUCSM in 2021 and received the Nina Dalby sight reading award for his Grade 8 piano in 2021.
Cillian is an accomplished traditional Irish musician and has achieved five All Ireland titles on fiddle, and also received the Michaél Ó hEidhin Medallion for his Grade 8 SCT (Scrúdú Ceol Tíre) in 2021.
