Concert
Kindersang

As part of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival

Tue, 03.07.2018
8:00 PM - 22:30 St. Brendan's Church

Kindersang
The world premiere of Deirdre Gribbin´s ‘Kindersang’ will take place as part of the main evening concert of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival on 3 July 2018. Gribbin´s ‘Kindersang’ marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the development of the Kindertransport movement that rescued over 10,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust. The work is being composed especially for Caroline Melzer and Nurit Stark and was commissioned by West Cork Music, the Wigmore Hall and the Goethe-Institut Irland with contributions from PRS Open Call.
The concert contains of three parts, Khojaly 613, Kindersang and Schwanengesang D.957.
 
West Cork Chamber Music Festival
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival was established in Bantry in 1995. Once a small voluntary organization, it has since grown to an important event in the Irish music calendar. This year’s festival runs from 29 June until 8 July and presents the opportunity to hear, among others, all three of Beethoven´s Razumovsky Quartets, five hidden gems by Mozart as well as all of Brahms’ violin sonatas. The Festival programme also includes exotic quintets, piano solo recitals and rare song cycles.
 
Caroline Melzer was born in Kronberg and studied various courses in singing and song interpretation in Germany. She also won several scholarships including the Händel-Akademie Karlsruhe and Steans Institute for Young Artists, Ravinia Festival, Chicago. From 2007 to 2010 she had her first permanent engagement at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she sang numerous roles including Countess/Le Nozze di Figaro. Since then she has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Vienna Volksoper and she has appeared as a concert singer at a large number of festivals including the Rheingau Musik Festival.
 
The violinist Nurit Stark was born in Tel Aviv and studied at Rubin Academy Tel Aviv, Juilliard School of Music New York, Musikhochschule Cologne and at Universität der Künste Berlin. As a soloist she has appeared with symphony orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.  She won several prizes including the International Ibolyka Gyarfas Competition Berlin and the International George Enescu Competition Bucharest.
 
Deirdre Gribbin is an award-winning composer who was born in Belfast. She is a graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast, Guildhall School of Music, London and she received her doctorate from Royal Holloway, London. In 2001 her orchestral work ‘Unity of Being’ opened the ‘UK with NY' Festival in New York City after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Her latest work for dance is ‘Invitation to a Journey’ featuring the work of architect Eileen Gray premiered in 2016 at Galway Arts Festival and at Project Arts Centre in Dublin.
 
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