Preparations are now at an advanced stage for the concert to be held by Fermoy Classical Music Society on Saturday, 13th April in Christ Church, Fermoy at 7.30pm. This promises to be a most enjoyable concert featuring a varied programme of classical music and song.
The centrepiece of this evening will be the performance by Amhlaoibh Ó Síocháin Ó Beoláin and Aidan Duggan of Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor BWV 1056 by J.S. Bach with which they won the prestigious Feis Maitiú senior piano concerto competition this year.
Other highlights will include Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata played by Aidan Duggan, Mozart’s Sonata in D for 4 hands K.381 played by Aidan and his former pupil, Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin, Aloys Fleischman’s Mall Siansach from Sraith do Phianó played by Gormfhlaith on piano and tin whistle, the wonderful singing of Orison Carlile, tenor (including Return to Sorrento by Ernesto de Curtis, Una Furtiva Lagrima by Gaetano Donizetti and Dies Bildnis ist Bezaubernd Schön by Mozart), Pauline O’Mahony, soprano (Stizzoso, Mio Stizzoso and Se Tu M’Ami by G.B. Pergolesi) and Micheál Lane, tenor (La Vie en Rose).
YOUNGER PERFORMERS
A distinctive feature of the Musical Society’s concerts is the opportunity they afford to hear young musicians who possess exceptional musical talent. All of these have already gained distinction for their music and some are fast accumulating experience as concert performers.
This year’s concert will feature: Aaron and Elliot Passaquay, Róisín Fleming, Seán Finn, Máiréad O’Donoghue, Mia Tobin, Brigid Mahon, Evan Logue, Ava Hallinan, Ava Rose Moher and Lucia Miao.
The audience can be assured of delightful and varied performances in different styles by these highly talented musicians who will play pieces by Bonis, Charpentier, Chopin, Culleton, Debussy, Kabalevsky, Liszt, Mayerl and Robinson.
Aidan, the Society’s energetic Musical Director, is a pianist, teacher, composer and pen and ink artist living in Fermoy. He is an examiner for the Royal Irish Academy of Music and is widely recognised as one of the leading piano teachers in the country. He studied piano at the Cork School of Music and studied Music to degree level at University College, Cork. He was later awarded a Master’s degree in composition by Waterford Institute of Technology under the supervision of Marian Ingoldsby.
AIDAN DUGGAN, MUSICAL DIRECTOR
His compositions have been included in the exam syllabi of both the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Leinster School of Music, and his works have been performed at New Music festivals and recitals. Aidan is part of an esteemed lineage of master piano teachers, having been taught by Geraldine Neeson, a protégée of Tilly Fleischmann, who studied under Bernhard Stavenhagen, the last disciple of Franz Liszt. This legacy is evident both in Aidan’s own beautiful cantabile touch and in his piano pedagogy.
