Jeudi, 08 mars 2007 à 20h00

 Sous le patronage de l’Ambassade d’Irlande

 «ZELTIK 2007»: Prélude celtique pour orgue et cornemuse irlandaise
Orgue: Catherine Ennis
Cornemuse: Peter Browne

Programme

Organ solo Sinfonia from Cantata 29 (“Wir danken dir, Gott”)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Arr. Marcel Dupre

Uilleann Pipes solos Slow air and dance tunes:
The Wounded Hussar and Sliabh Luachra Slides (from the south west of Ireland)Traditional.
Hornpipes The Plains of Boyle and The Rights of Man, Traditional

Uilleann Pipes and Organ Theme from The Brendan Voyage, Shaun Davey

Set Dance: The Downfall of Paris, Traditional

Tin Whistle and Organ O'Carolan's Concerto, Turlough O’Carolan

Organ solo Variations on "Laudes spirituali" David Briggs (2004)
Commissioned for 25th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries, 2004, and the first performance given by Catherine Ennis.

Uilleann Pipes solos Double Jig: The Silvermines, Traditional

Descriptive Piece, Máirseáil Alasdruim, Traditional

Uilleann Pipes and organ The Waterford Waltz,Traditional,

Rondeau, Mouret

Tabhair Dom do Lámh, Ruairí Dall Ó Catháin

Fanny Power, Turlough O’Carolan

Easter Snow, Traditional

 

Catherine ENNIS

At the IAO (Incorporated Association of Organists) Congress 2005 in Nottingham in July, Catherine Ennis, organist and director of music at St Lawrence Jewry, City of London, was installed as President of the Incorporated Association of Organists in 2005 for a two-year term. Catherine succeeds Dr Simon Lindley.
Catherine Ennis is known for her persuasive enthusiasm and her dedication to the organ, as well as her wide international experience and her educational activities.
Her series of Tuesday lunchtime recitals at St Lawrence Jewry continue a century-long tradition of organ music as midday respite for all, whether city workers, tourists, or aficionados. The series has been enhanced by the fine new Klais organ, installed in 2001.
Her teaching schedule is busy, recently giving Master Classes at Oundle International Festival; the London Organ Summer School and Eton Summer Course as well as individual tuition at Trinity College of Music, London; St Giles International Organ School, London; and Shrewsbury School.
Catherine Ennis has established an international recital career, with tours taking her throughout Europe and the USA, with concerts in major UK venues including the Proms and the Royal Festival Hall series. Recordings have been well received - her disc of English organ music from Münster Cathedral in Germany (on the IFO label) was released in 2003 to much acclaim. As well as her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations at St Lawrence Jewry on the small organ (2004), another disc, of the main organ ("Homage to Schweitzer") will be released shortly - both on the Mollterz label. Catherine Ennis broadcasts frequently for BBC radio, both as player and presenter.
Uniquely, she has been the catalyst behind three major instruments in London: at St Marylebone (Rieger) in 1987, St Lawrence in 2001, and the William Drake organ for Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, installed in 2003. She is currently involved in two other organ advisory projects.
Catherine Ennis is a Trustee of the Nicholas Danby Trust, writes for various organ journals, and publishes the London Organ Concerts Guide, which seeks to persuade a wider audience that the organ can be of more than minority interest. A passionate advocate for the organ and its music, whether playing, talking about, writing about or teaching the organ, or advising on organ design or restoration, her contribution is increasingly sought after.

Peter BROWNE

Peter Browne was born in Dublin in 1953 and commenced playing traditional music at the age of 6. He received tuition in the playing of the uilleann pipes from three of the great players of modern times; Séamus Ennis, Leo Rowsome and Willie Clancy and on reaching his 'teens was already acknowledged as a leading player of that instrument. In his youth he attended many of the major traditional music events of the time with his family and frequently visited Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, home of Willie Clancy and Lisheen, Gneeveguilla, Co Kerry staying in the home of Denis Murphy the famous Sliabh Luachra fiddle player who was a family friend.
In the early 1970's he played with the group 1691 which was a forerunner of The Bothy Band and later spent two periods playing on both pipes and flute with The Bothy Band who were much celebrated for their skilled and energetic approach to the playing of traditional Irish music.
He has played music in many countries in Europe and in North America at concerts, lectures and recitals and made two groundbreaking albums of music and song in the 1980's together with Philip King on the Gael-Linn label - Rince Gréagach and Seacht Nóiméad Déag chun a Seacht. These discs were combined and reissued in 2001 as Seacht Nóiméad Déag chun a Seacht on Gael-Linn CEFCD 097.
He has played as a session musician on recordings by such people as Paul Brady, Maura O' Connell, Mary Black, Mick Hanley, The Dubliners, Scullion and Cór Chúil Aodha and has also been part of various ventures in modern experimental music and has played works by Bill Whelan, Michael Holahan, Roger Doyle and Paddy Meegan. He has featured as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra and with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on their 1998 tour of North America and in the series Music in the Classroom. He was the soloist with the Ulster Orchestra in a performance in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on St Patrick’s Day 2001 of The Brendan Voyage by Shaun Davey and has played the same work with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. He performed on the Millennium stage in 2000 in the Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C and his performance can be viewed on the Kennedy Centre website. He frequently attends gatherings of uilleann pipers and summer schools as guest teacher, lecturer and performer. In May 2003, he was a guest musician with the Chieftains in two memorial concerts for harper Derek Bell, held in Dublin and Belfast and his playing can be heard on the Chieftains’ CD issued from those performances.
He has twice been the winner of the Oireachtas uilleann-piping competition (The Breandán Breathnach Trophy in 1994 and 1998) and has also won the prize for slow-air playing in both those years.
He works in RTÉ Radio One with a special interest in traditional music. His most recent projects have included researching, presenting and producing series of documentary programmes on the lives and music of famous traditional players such as Séamus Ennis, Willie Clancy, Pádraig O' Keeffe, Denis Murphy, Elizabeth Crotty and the 19 th century traditional music collector Canon James Goodman.
He has also produced a series of commercial CD's for RTÉ which feature rare recordings of traditional music from the RTÉ Sound Archives, the latest of which are The Return from Fingal which features old recordings of the piper Séamus Ennis made over a 40 year period along with extensive biographical and musical notes, Elizabeth Crotty - Concertina Music from West Clare, a compilation of rare recordings by a famous musician from the West of Ireland and Labhrás Ó Cadhla, Amhráin ó Shliabh gCua, a collection of songs by a famous Waterford sean-nós singer.