Name: DUBLIN HANDELFEST 2025 | Artist Spotlight: Tara Viscardi
Start: 2025-08-17T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-17T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

DUBLIN HANDELFEST 2025 | Artist Spotlight: Tara Viscardi

Irish Baroque Orchestra

Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

<h3>Artist Spotlight:</h3><h3>Tara Viscardi, Baroque Triple Harp</h3> Tara Viscardi presents a solo harp recital at Dublin HandelFest 2025, where she will explore keyboard works by Handel on the Italian baroque triple harp alongside early music from Ireland, England and central Europe. The strength of Handel's connections to Dublin sit at the centre of this programme, leading to musical pathways which stretch across Europe. An IBO Associate Artist for 2025, Tara Viscardi hails from the Beara Peninsula in the South-West of Ireland and performs on Irish traditional, classical and baroque harps. Praised for her music being ”exquisitely performed” (The Times) Tara was 1st prize winner of the 2021 London Camac Harp Competition. A graduate of the Royal College of Music, she has performed all over Ireland and the UK, in major venues such as Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall. She’s been featured on BBC Radio 3 and RTÉ Radio; She performed at the 13th World Harp Congress Hong Kong, for The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins; also for HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Hillsborough Castle. Full programme:Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)arr. Tara Viscardi Si dolce è’l tormentoBarbara Strozzi (1619 – 1677) arr. Tara Viscardi Che si può fareLuzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 1607) Toccata del quarto tuono Turlough Carolan (1670 – 1738) arr. Tara Viscardi Miss Fetherston (Carolan’s Devotion)Madame ColeMiss MacDermott (The Princess Royal) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) Prelude in C Major, BWV 846George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV 437arr. Tara ViscardiI. AllemandeII. CouranteIII. SarabandeIV. Gigue Thomas Connellan (c. 1625 – 1698) Cecila Connellanarr. Tara Viscardi Jigg to the JointureTrad. arr. John Parry Through the Wood LaddieHenry Purcell (c. 1659 - 1695) arr. Tara Viscardi Rondeau and Hornpipe (from Abdelazer-Suite Z. 570)Tara Viscardi (b. 1995) Midnight Over Glanmore LakeGeorge Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)arr. Tara Viscardi Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo)George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) arr. Tara Viscardi Keyboard Suite in G minor, HWV 432 VI. PassacaillePlease note that no refunds are possible within 7 days of the event

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