NEW ROSS v REBECCA CÁPOVÁ NEW ROSS NEW ROSS FESTIVAL PIANO PIANO SA CHEN FESTIVAL All events take place in FINGHIN COLLINS FESTIVAL St. Mary’s Church of Ireland, New Ross. ABDEL RAHMAN EL BACHA

v BOOKING OPTIONS LIBOR NOVÁCEK 1. Phone: BOOKING FORM 00353 51 421255 RENOIR QUARTET 2. Online: Please complete the reverse of this booking www.stmichaelsnewross.com New Ross, home of the New Ross Piano Festival form, detach and return to: 3. Post: welcomes you to our 2010 Piano Festival based Use form opposite in St. Mary’s Church. Connie Tantrum 4. Call in person: New Ross was established by the Normans more than 800 to St. Michael's Theatre New Ross Piano Festival years ago. In the lovely medieval poem describing the building Opening Hours: Cross St of the walls of New Ross the poet extends the welcome that is Mon–Fri: 9.30am–6pm New Ross always there for the visitor to Ross: Sat: 12 noon–4pm Co. Wexford For this is the best free town Ireland Tickets on sale from 4th June Tickets may also be available on the door to be found in continent or island and every stranger finds a welcome MORE INFORMATION [email protected] and is received with great joy. Belfast Contact 051 425845 or 421383 Between concerts there are plenty of places to visit and things www.newrosspianofestival.com to do. Tour the impressive Dunbrody Emigrant Ship moored on the quay in the town, visit the amazing Ros Tapestry Exhibition or go NEW ROSS PIANO FESTIVAL for a walk in The JFK Arboretum. Nearby Inistioge and Graignamanagh IS SUPPORTED BY are lovely villages to wander around, and the many beaches of Galway Dublin the Hook Peninsula are close at hand. In New Ross there are a number of excellent small shops and Shannon restaurants. The local area has a range of accommodation NEW ROSS to suit every budget. NEW ROSS Waterford Rosslare More information can be seen at www.discoverireland.ie Cork or by phoning the tourist office at 051 425239. PIANO FESTIVAL 2010

For more information on New Ross and how to get there visit the 6454327 Thursday 23rd September to Sunday 26th September 090 Chamber of Commerce website S ST MARY’S CHURCH, NEW ROSS, CO. WEXFORD

www.newrosschamber.ie PRES BROSNA PRINT: www.newrosspianofestival.com NEW ROSS WEXFORD NEW ROSS TOWN COUNCIL COUNTY COUNCIL AND PIANO www.newrosspianofestival.com FESTIVAL DESIGN New Ross Piano Festival 2010 THURSDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER 7.30pm SUNDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 3.30pm BOOKING FORM NEW ROSS South East Young Concert FINGHIN COLLINS piano Please complete this booking form, detach and return to: PIANO 20 young piano students play the grand piano for sheer fun Bach Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue in D minor BWV903 Connie Tantrum, New Ross Piano Festival, Cross St, New Ross, Co. Wexford ABDEL RAHMAN EL BACHA piano FESTIVAL Name: FRIDAY 24th SEPTEMBER 8.00pm and the RENOIR QUARTET

v Chopin Piano No. 2 in F major Op. 21 LIBOR NOVÁCEK piano v Address: Janácv ek In the Mists SA CHEN piano REBECCA CÁPOVÁ This year we celebrate five years “displayed mature musicianship Alkan Le Vent of the New Ross Piano Festival, and seemingly effortless technical FINGHIN COLLINS piano Ye Xiaogang Namucuo / Lake Namu, op.53 (2006) which has become one of the brilliance...Everything she played Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 12 Rachmaninov Études-Tableaux Op. 33 nos. 3, 6 and 8; most popular events in the Irish showed a mature awareness of SA CHEN RENOIR QUARTET Op. 39 nos. 4 and 9. style and total command of nuance; musical calendar and has been piano and the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11 Ravel La Valse in short, she is a musician who Tel: described as a ‘boutique festival’; listens intently to the music she is a ‘gem’. Our mission is simple playing and creates the atmosphere Email: – to celebrate the limitless and colours that the music and the SATURDAY 25th SEPTEMBER 12 noon demand in a charming, Please indicate the number and category of tickets required for each concert. possibilities of this magisterial v Categories: Full price: FP • Senior Citizen (65 years & over): SC • Student: ST LIBOR NOVÁCEK self-effacing manner” Irish Times instrument and those who piano Haydn Sonata in C major Hob XVI:50 SA CHEN play it. “...a truly idiosyncratic musical mind with Chopin Mazurkas Op. 7 nos. 1, 2 and 4 Performance Category Quantity Total something new to say without ever breaking This year Chopin, one of the Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition away from the score.....Tempos are judged Season Ticket (all events) greatest for piano of correctly and her always-wonderful singing all time, is firmly and justifiably phrasing and rhythmic élan make every bar SATURDAY 25th SEPTEMBER 3.30pm shine with a crystal-clear brightness...” Thursday 23th September, 7.30pm in the spotlight, as we celebrate v magazine 200 years since his birth. We look MASTERCLASS: LIBOR NOVÁCEK & emerging pianists Friday 24th September, 8.00pm forward to performances of both of his piano in chamber FINGHIN COLLINS Saturday 25th September, 12 noon SATURDAY 25th SEPTEMBER 7.30pm “...he shows himself to be a very rare artist format with two of today’s finest in that the fearsome technical difficulties RENOIR QUARTET Saturday 25th September, 7.30pm Chopin interpreters, the French- SA CHEN piano are surmounted seemingly without effort, “…They are, indeed, a remarkably at the same time as the poetic nature of his well organised group, with perfectly Lebanese pianist Abdel Rahman Beethoven Sonata in E flat major Op.31 no.3 interpretations place him in the highest matched bow strokes and tone El Bacha and the young Chinese Saturday 25th September, 10.00pm FINGHIN COLLINS piano and the RENOIR QUARTET class, alongside Perahia and Kempff…” colours and complete unanimity Sa Chen. Artistic Director Finghin International Record Review of purpose…” Gramophone Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44 Collins will honour Schumann, Sunday 26th September, 12 noon also 200 years old, and we will ABDEL RAHMAN EL BACHA piano ABDEL RAHMAN EL BACHA SOUTH STREET SESSIONS Sunday 26th September, 3.30pm hear works by a huge variety of Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 “Wonderful control, exceptional virtuosity Friday Lunchtime other composers, old and new. which gives the feeling that the artist has Saturday Lunchtime v Total € Czech pianist Libor Novácek an incredible deep strength” L’Alsace Saturday Teatime v SATURDAY 25th SEPTEMBER 10.00pm and our own Rebecca Cápová “A rare artist” Concertonet LIVE PIANO ON THE STREET complete the billing along with FINGHIN COLLINS piano TICKET PRICES 2010 Full Price Senior Citizen Student the Renoir Quartet from . Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat major D. 960 v € € € LIBOR NOVÁCEK Season Ticket 100 90 35 Stay for the whole weekend – Thursday Student Concert €5 €5 €5 “…possessing that special blend of NEW ROSS Main Concerts €25 €22 €10 you won’t regret it! imagination, poetic temperament, emotional PIANO SUNDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 12 noon FESTIVAL Coffee Concerts €15 €12 €8 range, subtlety, rhetorical eloquence and, Late Night Concert €10 €10 €5 Promoted by v of course, supreme technical mastery… Masterclass Free Free Free REBECCA CÁPOVÁ piano The Prague-born, British-trained pianist RTÉ lyric fm will record all of the Music for New Ross Mozart Sonata in F major K. 280 Libor Novácvek possesses all these qualities performances for future broadcast. Cheques to be made payable to ST. MICHAEL'S THEATRE Artistic Director Ravel Miroirs in abundance.” who are handling the booking for the Festival. Dutilleux Choral et Variations International Record Review www.newrosspianofestival.com Tel: 00353 51 421255 • Email: [email protected] Finghin Collins