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Vanbrugh & Friends

April 11, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

A fundraising concert for the National String Quartet Foundation
The Vanbrugh and special guests present a celebration of string playing in Cork, featuring two of the best loved chamber works ever written, together with four spectacular arrangements for eight cellos, presented by no less than nineteen of Cork’s finest string players. This concert marks sixty years since the first performance of the RTE String Quartet Residency in summer 1959.

Dvorak: String Quintet in E flat major, Op.97

Mairead Hickey, violin
David McElroy, violin
Ed Creedon, viola
Cian O’Duill, viola
Christopher Marwood, cello

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (1st mmt)
Faure:
Pavane
Schubert:
Standchen (from Schwanengesang)
Popper:
Polonaise de Concert

Aoife Burke, cello
Eugene Lamy, cello
Yseult Stockdale Cooper, cello
Zoe Nagle, cello
Callum Owens, cello
Maria O’Connor, cello
Aoife nic Athlaoich, cello
Grace Coughlan, cello

Tchaikovsky: “Souvenir de Florence”, Op. 70

Elizabeth Cooney, violin
Keith Pascoe, violin
Simon Aspell, viola
David Kenny, viola
Brian O’Kane, cello
Sinead O’Halloran, cello