Cornucopia and Maire Carroll

Horns and Piano

Programme:

Beethoven: Trio Op.87 (arr. F. Gumbert) 1st movement

Friedrich Kuhlau: Concertino for Two Horns and Orchestra, Op. 45

INTERVAL

Amy Beach: Waltz Op.36 No.3

Andrea Clearfield: Into the Falcon's Eye

Tania Leon: Tumbao

Richard Bissil: Time and Space

Máire Carroll: Radharc and Chuain

MÁIRE CARROLL - PIANO

Dr Máire Carroll is a hugely versatile artist who has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America including performances at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, National Opera

House in Tallinn, Liszt Academy in Budapest, and the Princess Grace Library in Monaco. As

the first pianist in Ireland to be awarded the prestigious RDS Music Bursary, Máire

maintains a diverse wide-ranging programme of solo and collaborative work, from baroque

to twenty-first-century repertoire. Her recently acclaimed album Máire Carroll:The Complete Piano Études of Philip Glass was released on Delphian Records in 2024 and was chosen by The Scotsman as one of the top five classical music records of 2024, “..She does everything Glass asks for, then applies the expert pianist’s touch”. BBC Music Magazine describes the record as “..a testament to her achievement, in performances that also always stay true to the spirit of the composer” while Gramophone hails Máire as “..a most persuasive exponent”.

With collaboration at the core of Máire’s artistic output, exciting partnerships include an

ongoing project of song and literature recitals at Blackwater Valley Opera Festival alongside actor Barry McGovern. Other 2025 collaborations included performances of Jennifer Walshe’ opera MARS with Irish National Opera at Galway International Arts Festival and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and a national tour of Dancehall with Crash Ensemble and LUAIL, Ireland’s national dance company. In 2024, Máire gave a complete performance of the Ros Tapestry Suite alongside pianist Finghin Collins at Kilkenny Arts Festival. Her solo

composition ‘Lavinia Fontana’ was commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland in

celebration of their exhibition, Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rulebreaker.

CORNUCOPIA

Cornucopia is a chamber music collective for French Horn players in Ireland. Cornucopia

have in recent years performed at the Killiney Music Series, FuddleFest music festival in

Wexford, and for the Classical Kids Series at the National Concert Hall. The hornists of

Cornucopia comprise of players from the Irish National Opera Orchestra, Irish Chamber

Orchestra, and who frequent with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTE

Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Wexford Festival Opera Orchestra and who freelance

all over Ireland. They often perform together in orchestral horn sections, and in chamber

music configurations, and for this concert with Music for Wexford, have joined together

with pianist Máire Carroll to present a brilliant programme of Andrea Clearfield, Friedrich

Kuhlau, Richard Bissil, Máire Carroll and Beethoven to show off the horn in all its glory.

DEWI JONES

Dewi Jones is a professional horn player, conductor, and teacher. He enjoys a thriving

performing career, working regularly with the NSO of Ireland and the INO, as well as the RTÉ CO, ICO and the Wexford Festival Opera. He often works with the NSO for their Friday

Concerts and recently performed in productions of Madame Butterfly and Rusalka with the

INO. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in London, he performed on the

West End and all over the UK before moving to Dublin. He often works with touring

productions of West End shows; some of which include The Lion King, Les Miserables,

Wicked, The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppins. He has performed all around the world at

venues such as Sala Sao Paolo, Brazil, Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany, and the Royal Albert

Hall, UK with acclaimed conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Marin Alsop and Carlo

Rizzi,. Alongside orchestral playing, he has toured with Wales’ leading chamber ensemble,

Ensemble Cymru, performing Schubert Octet and the Mozart and Beethoven Quintets for

Piano and Winds. He has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and

Creativity in Canada and Snape Maltings with the Britten Pears Foundation in the UK.

Dewi enjoys an active pedagogical career in Ireland, teaching horn students across Dublin

at Rathfarnham Concert Band and Finglas Concert Band. He has also been conducting the

St Louis' School Orchestra since 2021 and was delighted to perform with the orchestra at

the National Concert Hall, Dublin in 2025.

HANNAH MILLER

Hannah Miller grew up in Wexford, received her Bachelor’s degree from Finland’s Sibelius

Academy and graduated with a Master’s degree from the Juilliard School, where she was

awarded with the William Schuman Prize for outstanding achievement in music and

leadership. Hannah currently works as Principal Horn with the Irish National Opera and

joined the Irish Chamber Orchestra in 2023. She also performs with the RTE Concert

Orchestra, Wexford Festival Opera, Irish Baroque Orchestra and is a former member of the

Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland and the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra in Finland.

With a keen interest in new music, Hannah is a member of the experimental Kirkos

Ensemble, and has performed at a number of festivals including New Music Dublin,

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Sound Festival Aberdeen. As a soloist,

Hannah has performed Anne Dudley's Concitato with the RTE Concert Orchestra, Britten's

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with singer Christopher Bowen and the Hibernian

Orchestra in 2024, the horn obbligato from Mahler's Symphony no. 5 in 2020 in Carnegie

Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra. Hannah is the Festival Director and founder of

‘FuddleFest’, a family-run music festival based at her home in Fuddletown, Wexford, with

the sixth edition taking place on the 15th and 16th August 2026.

PETER MULLEN

Peter Mullen completed his Bachelor in Business and Economics at Trinity College Dublin

in 2019. Wanting to focus on his passion for music, he moved to the Netherlands where in

2021 he completed his Bachelor in French Horn Performance at the Conservatorium van

Amsterdam after an extremely rewarding period with Cormac O'hAodain at the Royal Irish

Academy of Music. He recently finished a contract on principal 2nd horn with the Ulster

Orchestra with whom he has performed at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. He also

regularly engages with the National Symphony Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, Irish

National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and Camerata Ireland. Peter also has a great

involvement in the musical community on the island of Ireland, and regularly teaches and

staffs on the courses for young people including the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin

Youth Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and the Ulster Youth Orchestra.