Summer Proms 2005

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Project Description:
The National Youth Orchestra brought its annual summer proms to Cork with three superb concerts.

Summer Proms 2005 – National Youth Orchestra of Ireland
Date: 2 July 2005
Venue: City Hall

Artists: Gearoid Grant, conductor
Catherine Leonard, violin

Programme:
Ó Riada: ‘Mise Éire’
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

A benefit concert for children's charity, Barnardos.

Summer Proms 2005 – X-NYOI
Date: 3 July 2005
Venue: City Hall

Artists: Robert Houlihan, conductor

Programme
Arnold: ‘Peterloo Overture’, Op. 97
Tchaikovsky: ‘Italian Caprice’
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88

A benefit concert for the children's charity, Barnardos.

Summer Proms 2005 – National Youth Symphony Orchestra
Date: 15 July 2005
Venue: City Hall

Artists: Atso Almila, conductor
Hannah Conway, animateur

Programme:
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major

This programme was repeated at UCH Limerick on 14 July 2006 and at the National Concert Hall Dublin 16 July 2006

Opening the series on 15 July is the National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ireland performing Mahler’s Symphony No.9 with conductor Atso Almila Music and animateur Hannah Conway. Hannah has an interactive and creative approach to introducing music to an audience: it will be a presentation full of surprises and the audience can be guaranteed that they will enjoy the symphony in a completely different way following her introduction.