Friends receive:
- Complimentary access to all Festival concerts
- Complimentary access to all Pre-Festival concerts
- New: Bring someone else! An extra complimentary ticket to all Pre-Festival concerts
- Drinks reception hosted by Dean Bruce Hayes
- Guided tour of Christ Church Cathedral's organ
- Guided tour of Christ Church Cathedral
Pre Festival Concerts:
23rd March at 6pm
Simon Harden, Resident Organist at Christ Church Cathedral Waterford
“Bach, Brahms and Mendelssohn”
27th April at 6pm
Chris Bragg, University of St Andrews
“The Orchestral Pipe-Organ”
25th May at 6pm
Judit Máté, Organ
Gyula Nagy, Baritone
“Celebrating C.V. Stanford (1852-1924)”
Festival Concerts:
13th June at 8pm (Thursday)
“The lofty heights of Handel and Bach”
with Musici Ireland
Organ: Simon Harden
Soprano: Roisin O’Grady (Waterford)
WIOF Chamber Choir
Programme to include:
GF Handel: Organ Concerto Op 4 No 1 in g-minor, Aria: Eternal source of light etc.
JS Bach: Cantata- Gott soll allein mein Herze haben“ BWV 169
14th June at 8pm (Friday)
“Parisian Prowess”
Solo organ: Eric Lebrun (Paris)
Honouring the 100th anniversary of the deaths of Parisian composers
Gabriel Fauré and Théodore Dubois
15th June at 11am (Saturday)
“Underwater Creatures”
Children’s workshop with compositions by Andreas Willsche
Organ: Simon Harden, Narrator: Jeffrey Cox
3-6pm
Masterclasses with Prof Matthias Havinga (Amsterdam) for organ students – all welcome to apply
6:30pm
Post-masterclass concert
16th June at 10am (Sunday)
Festival Eucharist with Cathedral choir featuring works by CV Stanford (100th anniversary)
4pm
“From one port city to another”
Solo Organ
Prof Matthias Havinga, Amsterdam
Marking the 350th anniversary of Weckmann’s death
