HLG Sunday Concert Series – Ficino Octet with Mark Redmond
Booking available HERE from 10am Sunday 3rd May
Venue – Abbey Presbyterian Church www.abbeychurch.ie/
Sunday, May 10 • 1 PM – 2 PM
Ficino Octet with guest Mark Redmond on Uilleann pipes
Programme to include:
Kevin Volans – Jubal’s Air Octet with Uilleann pipes
Felix Mendelssohn – The String Octet in E♭ major, Op. 20
Violins: Elaine Clark, Lynda O’Connor, Siobhán Doyle, Danny McCann-Williams
Violas: Nathan Sherman, Alex Koustas
Cellos: Ailbhe McDonagh, Yseult Cooper-Stockdale
Uilleann Pipes: Mark Redmond
Jubal is probably best known in the words of ‘Oh, had I Jubal’s lyre!’ from Handel’s oratorio Joshua. Depending on the translation of Genesis, Jubal is credited as being the inventor of music, as ‘the father of all such as handle the harp and organ’ in the King James Version, and in the New International Version of the Bible, Jubal is given as the father of stringed instruments and pipes. Ficino Ensemble with special guest piper Mark Redmond will present Jubal’s Air by Kevin Volans in an exciting programme which includes Felix Mendelssohn’s jubilant String Octet.
