Lux Aeterna - Concert, April 20th 2011
Monday, 21 March, 2011 INNSBRUCK MEETS DUBLIN
Wed April 20th, Christ Church Cathedral
Sacred Choral Music – ancient to contemporary
Ireland's international award-winning chamber choir New Dublin Voices joins forces with Vokalensemble Vocappella Innsbruck for a concert of sacred music – ranging from ancient to contemporary – on Holy Wednesday (April 20) in Dublin's Christ Church Cathedral.
Separately and together the two choirs undertake a gripping musical journey, from music long associated with Holy Week – including the famous Miserere by Allegri – to sacred works by living composers currently enjoying huge popularity – including Arvo Pärt, Eric Whitacre and Morten Lauridsen – to exciting new voices, including the Irish premieres of a Crucifixus by Stéphan Nicolay of France, Regina Caeli by the English Cecilia McDowell and O vos omnes by Dublin-born Michael McGlynn.
Claudio Büchler, ConductorOther composers include Gesualdo, Poulenc and Josep Vila i Casañas. The conductors for these performances are Bernie Sherlock and Claudio Büchler – known to Irish audiences from his previous work here with Opera Ireland and the National Chamber Choir – who will also direct the combined choirs in the concert's substantial closing item, the light-filled, multi-part Lux aeterna by Lauridsen with organist David Bremner.
Venue: Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Date: Wednesday, April 20
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €15 (€10 conc) www.tickets.ie or at the door
Programme:
Allegri Miserere
Lauridsen Lux aeterna
Pärt Magnificat
Pärt Nunc dimittis
Whitacre Lux arumque
Gesualdo O vos omnes
McGlynn O vos omnes (Irish premiere)
Nicolay Crucifixus (Irish premiere)
McDowell Regina caeli (Irish premiere)
Vila Sanctus-Benedictus
Bruckner Ave Maria
Bruckner Christus factus est
Poulenc O magnum mysterium
Vokalensemble Vocappella Innsbruck
About Vokalensemble Vocappella Innsbruck:
Vokalensemble Vocappella Innsbruck was founded by conductor Bernhard Sieberer in 1990. The 20 singers - most alumni and current students of the University Mozarteum in Innsbruck - enjoy performing music composed for chamber ensembles. They have performed many concerts in Austria and abroad (Italy, Egypt, Lithuania, Germany and Spain) with music from the medieval to the contemporary. The choir regularly works with Aura Musicale Budapest. Their latest concert was entitled 'Fire, Fire!', with the famous Norwegian guitarist Rolf Lislevand.
About Claudio Büchler:
The son of Argentinian parents, Claudio Büchler was born in Oslo and grew up in Austria. He started studying piano at the age of six and later took up the French horn. From 1973 on, he continued his higher education in conducting, composition and horn at the Faculty of Music in the University of Vienna. He took his diploma in orchestral conducting under Otmar Suitner in 1981. He also participated in conducting courses and master classes with Leonard Bernstein and Gerd Albrecht.
As a conductor and chorus master, Claudio has worked with many different orchestras and choirs, such as the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Hungarian Salieri Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Konzertverein, the NCC and the Kammmerchor Walther von der Vogelweide. His interest lies in music of all times and genres; he has been working mainly in opera and therefore his repertoire of conducted operas is wide. He has held conducting positions in Vienna, Passau, Regensburg, Magdeburg, Dublin and Innsbruck. As guest conductor, he worked at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, at the Opera of Monte Carlo; with the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, at the Opera of La Plata, Argentina; with the National Chamber Choir of Ireland in Dublin and with the Orchestra of Tirana, to name but a few.
Currently, Claudio is the chief conductor of the Innsbruck University Orchestra.
