Join top Irish Tenor Patrick Hyland for his annual Christmas concert of favorite melodies and popular opera classics. Featuring hits from the musicals, famous operas and some familiar Christmas favorites.
Special Guests:
Soprano Ava Dodd
Irish soprano Ava Dodd has been praised by critics for having a “golden voice”. She has performed in renowned opera houses and concert halls in Ireland and internationally.
Ava is a multiple prize winner. She is the recipient of the Yves Paternot Prize at Verbier Festival 2023, she was a dual prize winner in the Hans Gabor Belvedere International Singing competition 2022, the winner of the Boston District Round of the Met Opera Competition 2022 and the RDS Music Bursary Competition 2020.
Highlights of her 2024/2025 season include: Rosina in The Barber of Seville with English National Opera, The High Priestess in Aida with Oper Frankfurt and concerts with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and The National Concert Hall, Dublin. Ava is delighted to be a Harewood Artist with English National Opera for the 2025/2026 season where she will perform Adina in The Elixir of Love and Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro.
Muireann Ní Raghallaigh (Violin)
Eadestown native, Muireann began playing the violin at the age of seven. She has enjoyed playing in chamber ensembles and orchestras around Ireland including the Midlands Youth Orchestra, Dublin Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland. She studied music in the Cork School of Music under the tuition of Elizabeth Charleson. She has just begun a Masters in Primary School teaching with Hibernia College and teaches violin part time. Muireann enjoys playing a wide variety of genres such as Bluegrass and Old Time music along with classical.
Máire Carroll (Piano)
Dr Máire Carroll is a pianist, composer, collaborator and teacher who has performed throughout Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada including performances at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, National Opera House in Tallinn, Liszt Academy in Budapest, Princess Grace Library, Monaco. As the first pianist in Ireland to be awarded the RDS Music Bursary, Máire maintains a diverse wide-ranging programme of solo and collaborative work including a complete performance of Philip Glass’s Twenty Piano Études across two sold out evenings at the NCH. Her upcoming record Máire Carroll:The Complete Piano Études of Philip Glass will be released on Delphian Records in August 2024.
With collaboration at the core of Máire’s artistic output, ongoing exciting partnerships include a three year project of song and literature recitals at BVOF alongside actor Barry McGovern. Máire is the Artistic Director of Hidden Pianos, which she launched in 2018 with the aim of sharing classical and contemporary music in site-specific locations. Her solo composition ‘Lavinia Fontana’ was commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland in celebration of their recent exhibition, Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rulebreaker which opened in 2023. Excited by the music of today, Máire collaborates with composers both at home and abroad. She is a winner of the Bank Of Ireland Begin Together Fund and will release her album Sudden Changes in 2025. Máire will perform two recitals at Kilkenny Arts Festival, a recital of Glass piano études as well as a complete performance of the Ros Tapestry Suite alongside pianist Finghin Collins in August 2024.
Tickets:€28 plus €1.50 online booking fee