Vogler Spring Festival 2009 Guest Artists Sligo Arts Service www.sligoarts.ie

Sligo Arts Service is a department of Sligo County Council, working in partnership with Sligo Borough Council, The Arts Council of Sophie Cashell Oliver Triendl “It has always been a huge pleasure to take part in the Vogler Spring Festival. Ireland, and key stakeholders locally, regionally and nationally to Ireland Germany The uniqueness of the setting, the intimacy of the church in Drumcliffe, deliver a high quality Arts Service for the people of Sligo. Operating Piano Piano the high standard of the artists and the warm hospitality of the Voglers all from its office in Sligo Development Centre, the Sligo Arts Service combine to make it an experience to treasure. It is events like this that make team deliver a programme of arts activities covering all artforms me so happy to be a chamber musician!” and provide advice, grants and information to individuals and groups who wish to set up arts projects in their own communities. Finghin Collins (piano) Grieg Trio Jörg Widmann Norway Germany Space for Art Sligo Arts Plan 2007 - 2012 will guide and inform the “Being in Sligo Festival made one of my memorable springs ever, making Piano Trio Clarinet planning and delivery of the arts service and annual programmes great music with great artists, and being exposed to the nicest audience on over the coming years. Sligo Arts Service has a very broad-ranging the planet!” involvement in music provision on a day-to-day basis ensuring Guy Ben-Ziony (viola) Malachy that Sligo Local Authorities are key to the ongoing support for Andra Darzins Robinson the performance and promotion of chamber music of excellence in Australia Ireland Sligo, including Con Brio’s Sligo Music Series. The Vogler Spring Viola “For me, it is about so much more than the concerts in Sligo... I can’t Double Bass Festival will also link this year with Live Music in the Classroom remember having so much fun and good times at any other festival! It is a - a music education programme which is instrumental in providing magical place, full of history and mystical beauty..a great combination of real-life opportunities for pupils and teachers in Sligo schools to elements for inspired music making!” Rastrelli have access to live music and musicians during the school year. Sylvia O’Brien Catherine Leonard (violin) Cello Quartet Ireland Russia/Germany For further information on funding and programmes supported by Soprano 4 Cello Sligo Arts Service contact (071) 911 1826. [email protected] or log onto www.sligoarts.ie. Bodley Beethoven Brahms Reger Haydn Dvoráǩ Webern Zemlinsky Mendelssohn Schumann Fauré Widmann Martin Further information and bookings from; Tickets can also be purchased from; Further information and bookings from; Saturday 2nd May 10.00pm County Sligo Youth Theatre • Cinema North West • Vogler Artscope: Drumcliffe Tea House & Crafts Shop: Artscope: Russia/Germany Spring Festival • Public Art • Arts & Education • Arts+Health tel +353 (0)1 505 9582 tel +353 (0)71 914 4956 Rastrelli Cello Quartet tel +353 (0)1 505 9582 / email [email protected] • Bealtaine • Grants, Awards & Bursaries email [email protected] Kira Kraftzoff, Kirill Timofeev, Misha Degtiareff, Sergio Drabkine Playing a variety of music, all specially transcribed “A hallmark of Sligo Arts Service is its commitment to identifying critical for the cello, audiences are treated to a heady www.sligoarts.ie issues in arts provision and to designing actions and taking innovative mixture of classical, jazz and Latin-American music Vogler approaches to address those issues. Sligo County Council is engaged in Spring Festival Sligo, 2009 The Vogler Spring Festival 2009 is Produced by Sligo Arts Service, Sligo County Council, Managed by Caroline Wynne, by this astonishing and hugely entertaining quartet. an initiative which will seek to enhance the range and quality of musical Artscope, Artistic Direction by Frank Reinecke, Funded by Sligo County Council, Sligo Borough Council & The Arts Council With pieces by Piazzolla, Strayhorn, Schnittke, 10 Year Celebration Forrest and Mussorgsky amongst others, the result experiences being made available to audiences in Sligo. This process will has to be heard to be believed. aim for a higher level of engagement and participation in music within the county and the strengthening of Sligo’s position as a model of excellence in M a y B a n k h O l i da y W e e k e n d “They are men on a mission. The Rastrelli Cello Quartet, music provision within Ireland.” four Russians living in Germany, is out to cross all genres. Friday 1st May - Monday 4th May 2009 The Rastrelli runs the gamut from classical to polkas, Rhona McGrath, Acting Arts Officer cover image - Tom O Rourke, Teach Bán Art Gallery, Drumcliffe tangos to rags.’’ Strings magazine, California St. Columba’s Church, Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo Introduction Programme Vogler Spring Festival 2009 www.sligoarts.ie Please complete booking form, detach and send to: Sligo celebrates the 10th Vogler Spring Festival with another Friday 1st May Monday 4th May Artscope, 7 Elm Close, Griffeen Valley, Lucan, Co. Dublin. gathering of outstanding Irish and International performers. Alexander von Zemlinsky Robert Schumann tel: +353 (0)1 505 9582 email: [email protected] Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in Carnaval, Op. 9 Having secured a place as one of Ireland’s most distinguished Tickets for all concerts can also be purchased from: Friday 1st May 8:00pm D minor, Op. 3 - Sophie Cashell (Piano) Monday 4th May 12:00 Noon classical music festivals, the festival at St Columba’s Church - Jörg Widmann (Clarinet) Drumcliffe Tea House and Crafts Shop. tel: +353 (0)71 914 4956 Drumcliffe will once again play host to many of the world’s Ludwig van Beethoven - Stephan Forck (Cello) Ludwig van Beethoven Booking Form great musicians and composers. Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3 - Oliver Triendl (Piano) Sunday 3rd May 7:30pm A selection of Irish Folk Tune - Grieg Trio arrangements Robert Schumann Name The Vogler Spring Festival 2009 again revolves around the - Sylvia O`Brien (Soprano) Johannes Brahms Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), - Grieg Trio Address Vogler Quartet both as artistic directors and key performers. Piano Trio in C, Op. 87 Op. 73, for clarinet and piano For classical aficionados there is the chance to hear some of the Johannes Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op. 120 No. 2, - Grieg Trio - Jörg Widmann (Clarinet) emerging talents of Ireland perform alongside long established - Oliver Triendl (Piano) for viola and piano Philip Martin Tel email names on the International chamber music scene. At the - Andra Darzins (Viola) Variations on Irish Airs Saturday 2nd May 10:00pm Payment Type invitation of the Quartet the festival will feature performances - Oliver Triendl (Piano) - Sophie Cashell (Piano) Felix Mendelssohn by acclaimed musicians many of them being introduced to Irish Bank Draft Cheque* Credit Card please complete card details Rastrelli Cello Quartet String Quintet No. 1 in A, Op. 18 audiences for the first time. Performing works by Marin Marais, - Andra Darzins (Viola) Credit Card Max Reger Antonín Dvoráǩ Clarinet Quintet in A, Op. 146 Sergei Rachmaninov, Felix Mendelssohn, - Vogler Quartet Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 90 Alfred Schnittke, Modest Mussorgsky, Over the four-day May Bank Holiday Weekend audiences will - Jörg Widmann (Clarinet) (Dumky Trio) David Popper, Sulchan Zinzadze, Euday Expiry Date Name as Appears on Card be spoilt for choice at nine concerts and three hundred years - Vogler Quartet - Grieg Trio L.Bowman, Nikolay Sokolov, Dave Gabriel Fauré of music featuring key ensemble works such as the Reger *Please make cheques payable to Vogler Spring Festival Brubeck, Astor Piazzolla, Billy Strayhorn, Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15 Clarinet Quintet, Dvorak Quintet , Brahms Piano Trio, Faure Jimmy Forrest, and Paul Desmond. - Andra Darzins (Viola) Saturday 2nd May Monday 4th May 3:00pm Concert Time Cat A/Quantity Cat B/Quantity Total in Euro Piano Quartet, Mendelssohn String Quintet, Brahms Sextet - Grieg Trio and the Schumann Piano Quintet. So join us in Sligo as we Robert Schumann Friday 8:00pm €25 €20 celebrate ten years at this international gathering of much-loved Saturday 2nd May 2:00pm Sunday 3rd May Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44 Sunday 3rd May 10.00pm masterpieces and world class performances, regarded by many - Oliver Triendl (Piano) Saturday 2:00pm €15 €10 as an indispensable element of the musical calendar. Joseph Haydn - Vogler Quartet Sunday 3rd May 2:00pm Jörg Widmann String Quartet in C, Op. 74 No. 1 Saturday 7:30pm €25 €20 Fieberphantasie (Fever Fantasy) - Vogler Quartet Felix Mendelssohn - Jörg Widmann (Clarinet) Encore includes works by Saturday 10:00pm €15 €10 Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, Op. 35 - Oliver Triendl (Piano) artists performing their No. 5 Lieder ohne Worte (Songs - Vogler Quartet Sunday 2:00pm €15 €10 Antonín Dvorák personal favourites ̌ Without Words) in A flat, Op.38 Quintet in G, Op. 77, - All Artists Sunday 7:30pm €25 €20 for string quartet and double bass No. 6 (Duetto), and in C, Op. 67 No. 4 (Spinning Song) Johannes Brahms - Vogler Quartet € € String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op. 18 Sunday 10:00pm 15 10 - Malachy Robinson (Double Bass) - Sophie Cashell (Piano) - Andra Darzins (Viola) Monday 12.00 Noon €15 €10 - Ellen Margrete Flesjö (Cello) Saturday 2nd May 7.30pm Seóirse Bodley - Vogler Quartet Monday 3:00pm €25 €20 - Earlsfort Suite € € Anton Webern (poem by Michael O’Siadhail). Season Ticket 130 100 Langsamer Satz (SlowMovement) - Sylvia O’Brien (Soprano) Note: Category A Tickets: Full Price Grand Total - Vogler Quartet - Sophie Cashell (Piano) Category B Tickets: Concession for OAPs, Students & Unwaged