The Irish Chamber Choir of Paris

Newsflash: 19 April 2010

Due to the Icelandic Volcanic Ash in our skies, the Irish Chamber Choir of Paris will not be able to travel to Ireland this week. Hence the following programme which was to take place in the College Chapel at Maynooth has been cancelled.

We sincerely hope that the programme can be rescheduled, and will take place at another time.

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You are invited to celebrate
"Foundation Day"
of
Saint Patrick's College
Maynooth, when
The Irish Chamber Choir of Paris
Centre Culturel Irlandais
will perform in
The College Chapel
at Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth
1.10 p.m., 23 April 2010

Pietro Paolo BENCINI : Missa de Oliveria

Henry MADIN : Missa Vivat Rex

Musical Director: Jean-Charles Léon

Vocal Training: Martina Cuvereau-Niernhaussen

Programme:

Pietro Paolo Bencini:

ASSUMPTA ES MARIA
KYRIE
GLORIA

Armand-Louis Couperin

EGO SUM

Pietro Paolo Bencini

CREDO

Henri Madin

SANCTUS
AGNUS DEI

Pietro Paolo Bencini

BEATUS VIR

CENTRE CULTUREL IRLANDAIS
The Centre Culturel Irlandais, or Irish College, is located in a magnificent building in the heart of Paris, in the Latin Quarter. Since reopening to the public in October 2002 the College has presented a diverse mix of Irish literary, visual and performance work, highlighting the best of Irish arts in one of the world's most culturally diverse cities. With a chapel, médiatheque, gallery and studios in addition to the unique Old Library, the centre thrives as a meeting place and residence for Irish students, artists, researchers and visitors to Paris. www.centreculturelirlandais.com.

PIETRO PAOLO BENCINI (1675 - 1755)
Born into a musical Roman family, in 1705 Bencini was appointed maestro in the German church in Rome, La Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Anima. In 1706 he was appointed to the important position of guardiano of the society of musicians. In 1743, he became maestro di cappella in the Pope’s private chapel.

HENRY MADIN (1698 - 1748)
Madin’s family left Ireland in the early 1690s with the Wild Geese, and Henry was born in Verdun in 1698. He had a brilliant career which culminated in his appointment to the Chapel Royal where he was one of the best-known musicians of his time in France. The Irish Chamber Choir of Paris will sing extracts from the three masses for which he is best known.

JEAN-CHARLES LEON
Jean-Charles Léon is a teacher and musicologist. He specialises in original baroque music and is an associate researcher at the Centre for Baroque Music at Versailles. He has arranged and conducted little-known music of the baroque period in a series of concerts Polyphonies sacrées in Versailles and, with Christophe Corp and La Sinfonie d’Orphée, in Tours. He has also arranged and published the work of Nicolas Formé, master of music at the court of Louis XIII.

MARTINA NIERNHAUSSEN
Director of orchestras and choirs, musical therapist Martina Niernhaussen has a profound belief in the restorative powers of music. From Holland, she has lived in Paris since 1984 where her work included productions in the Opéra Comique and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. She is vocal coach to choirs in Paris and throughout France, as well as to Dublin-based Cantóirí.

Soprano                                  Mezzo Soprano                      Alto

Chantal De Barra                      Adèle Audureau                     Françoise Cristin

Céline Bohnert                        Aube-Violaine Devic                Linda de Nazelle

Marion Guyot                          Marie-Françoise Dromigny       Sybille Ducheine-Debs

Judith Le Blanc                       Angela Naud                          Laura Brinas Herce

Francine Louis                        Yolaine Tardy                         Nicole Paramythioti

Catherine Treilhou-Balaudé                                                  Catherine Paufichet