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Competition Schedule - Tuesday 1 April

RDS Concert Hall

Orchestras

Adjudicator: Richard Yarr

St Bartholomew's Church

Organs

Adjudicator: John Butt

 

RDS Concert Hall

Adjudicator: Richard Yarr

For full schedule details, please refer to the event programme.

5.03 Primary Schools Orchestras

The Peter Killian Cup, presented by the Post-Primary Music Teachers Association. Confined to schools. Minimum players: 15. The following instruments are essential – first violins, second violins, third violins or violas, cellos. All other orchestral instruments are optional.

  1. St. Canice's Junior Orchestra
    Graham Frewer – Vivacious Variations,
    Mary Cohen – Rondosaurus
  2. St. Canice's Senior Orchestra
    Sean O'Loughlin. arr. Tommy Grace – Ironclad,
    Lalo Schifrin, arr. Terry Kenny – Mission Impossible

5.02 Open Orchestra

  1. Count Us In Junior Orchestra
    Evans, arr. Richie Dunne – Wellerman,
    Silvestri, arr. Richie Dunne – Avengers
  2. Young European Strings Chamber Orchestra
    Mozart – Divertimento KV 136, in D, 1st movt.,
    Britten – Simple Symphony, Boisterous Bourrée,
    Johann and Josef Strauss – Pizzicato-Polka

2.30pm - 5.04 Post-Primary Schools Orchestras

  1. St Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School Orchestra
    John William – Hymn to the Fallen,
    Leroy Anderson – The Waltzing Cat,
    Trad, arr. Daniel Dunne – The Coolin,
    Bricusse, arr. Paul Murtha – Pure Imagination
  2. St Mary's College Arklow Orchestra
    Berryman, Buckland, Champion, Martin, arr. Christina Steele – Viva La Vida,
    Strauss – Annen-Polka,
    Trad., arr. C Steele/Swing, arr. Myles Collins – Little Brown Jug
  3. Sandford Park School Orchestra
    Mozart, arr. Meyer – The Abduction from the Seraglio,
    Beethoven, arr. Meyer – Symphony No. 7, 2nd movt.,
    Arr. Johnnie Vinson – Music from Frozen
  4. The High School Orchestra
    Irving Berlin – Puttin' on the Ritz,
    Pietro Mascagni – Intermezzo, from Cavalleria Rusticana,
    Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet Overture
  5. Ursuline Secondary School Orchestra
    Bizet – L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2, 4th movt.,
    Bernstein, arr. Michael Sweeney – Selections from West Side Story

 

St Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road

Adjudicator: John Butt

For full schedule details, please refer to the event programme.

11.00am - 13.03 Senior Organ

  1. Alexander Kelly
  2. Ferdia O' Cairbre
  3. Maeve Ashamar-Hora

12.00pm - 13.05 Stanford Prize

  1. Ferdia O' Cairbre
  2. Edward Harte
  3. Seán Kiernan
  4. Sarah Higgins

1.00pm - 13.01 McCauley Prize Announcement

2.00pm - 13.04 Junior Organ

  1. Sorcha McDermott
  2. Christina Troup
  3. Béibhinn Nic Gabhann
  4. Simone Erestain
  5. Cecilia Henderson
  6. Emily Ashamar-Hora
  7. Aisling Lillis
  8. Seán Kiernan
  9. Aoibhinn Gaughan
  10. Anna Doherty
  11. Myles McCann
  12. Ai Shen Sun
  13. Sarah Higgins
  14. Sadhbh Carey

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