about us
Camerata Kilkenny is a period instrument group specialising in the performance of Baroque music although many of its programmes combine 17th and 18th century music with the works of contemporary composers. Camerata Kilkenny is regularly joined by guest artists including the Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten, the baroque flautist Wilbert Hazelzet (Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra), the Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga, Calmus Ensemble (Leipzig), Rachel Beckett (principal flute English Baroque Soloists), Sebastien Marq (recorder player with Les Arts Florissant) and most recently by the Croatian baroque violinist Bojan Cicic (Academy of Ancient Music) at the 2015 Kilkenny Arts Festival.
Camerata Kilkenny gave its début recital at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 1999 since when it has performed in Switzerland (Zurich, Bern), Austria (St. Gerold, Maria Enzersdorf), Germany, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia and in Ireland at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the Sligo Festival of Baroque Music, the Festival of Great Irish Houses, the Galway Early Music Festival, the East Cork Early Music Festival 'Music in the Mosaics' in Timoleague, the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Hugh Lane Gallery and at the Barrow River Arts Festival.
In April 2010 Camerata Kilkenny and Wilbert Hazelzet took part in the CC Maasmechelen Festival in Belgium following which they recorded (with funding from the Music Network/Irish Arts Council Music Recording Scheme) Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’. It was released on the Maya Recordings label in January 2011 and has received excellent reviews throughout Ireland, Europe and North America. Their first CD of Biber’s Mystery Sonatas with violinist Maya Homburger was listed in the prestigious German music industry ‘Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik’ awards in 2007.
In March 2012 Camerata Kilkenny performed a programme of Bach at the Barrow River Arts Festival followed by a tour to Amsterdam, Paris and Leuven (Belgium). In May 2013 they joined forces with the Calmus Ensemble of Leipzig for concerts in Kilkenny and Dublin as part of the cultural programme in honour of Ireland’s Presidency of the E.U. Council of Ministers. In Autumn 2013 they toured Switzerland and in the Spring of 2014 they again performed with the Calmus Ensemble in Switzerland, CC Maasmachelan, Belgium (as curators and ensemble in residence of the Bachfest) and at the Barrow River Arts Festival. In Autumn 2014 Camerata Kilkenny toured (funded by a Touring and Dissemination of Work award from the Arts Council of Ireland) to critical acclaim throughout Ireland with German soprano Anja Pöche performing in Cork, Kilkenny, Dublin, Galway and Waterford.
In 2015 Camerata Kilkenny was Ensemble in Residence at Kilkenny Arts Festival taking part in sell out performances of Bach’s B minor Mass, the Brandenburg Concertos, the ‘Great Concertos’ and the Musical Offering. Maya Homburger and Malcolm Proud performed all six of Bach’s sonatas for violin and harpsichord and Malcolm Proud gave an organ recital of Clavier Übung Bk. 3 in St. Canice’s Cathedral. Maya Homburger performed the Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach in a late night concert in candle light in the Black Abbey. At the 2016 Kilkenny Arts Festival Camerata Kilkenny appeared with the English tenor Mark Padmore performing Bach cantatas and instrumental music. Earlier in 2016 they also performed at the Mantova Chamber Music Festival in Italy and the ‘Wege durch das Land’ Festival in Hameln, Germany. In Autumn 2016 together with David Power they toured ‘The Piper and the Faerie Queen’ with support from the Arts Council of Ireland’s Touring Award, to Sligo, Waterford, Dublin, Kilkenny and Cork. In 2018 Camerata Kilkenny perform at festivals in Ireland, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. Their newly recorded CD of this programme has just been released on the RTE Lyric FM label. In September 2018 members of Camerata Kilkenny will tour to Italy, Austria and Switzerland and while in Austria will record a CD of soprano arias by J.S. Bach alongside Swedish folk hymns with Swedish soprano Maria Keohane on the Maya Recordings label.
“The real highlight of the first weekend came on Saturday evening, when Chamber Choir Ireland and Camerata Kilkenny joined forces under Paul Hillier for a performance of the Mass in B Minor at St Canice’s Cathedral. The musical approach was gentle and luminous, the full richness of this extraordinary musical score laid out with exemplary clarity, everything in view, nothing obscured” Michael Dervan reviewing the first weekend of Kilkenny Arts Festival 2015 in The Irish Times.
Contact: Susan Proud (manager)
email: [email protected]
Tel: + 353 (0)86 1777017
Camerata Kilkenny
www. cameratakilkenny.com
Maya Recordings
www.maya-recordings.com
Malcolm Proud
www.malcolmproud.ie
David Power
www.davidpowerup.com/
Camerata Kilkenny gave its début recital at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 1999 since when it has performed in Switzerland (Zurich, Bern), Austria (St. Gerold, Maria Enzersdorf), Germany, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia and in Ireland at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the Sligo Festival of Baroque Music, the Festival of Great Irish Houses, the Galway Early Music Festival, the East Cork Early Music Festival 'Music in the Mosaics' in Timoleague, the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Hugh Lane Gallery and at the Barrow River Arts Festival.
In April 2010 Camerata Kilkenny and Wilbert Hazelzet took part in the CC Maasmechelen Festival in Belgium following which they recorded (with funding from the Music Network/Irish Arts Council Music Recording Scheme) Bach’s ‘Musical Offering’. It was released on the Maya Recordings label in January 2011 and has received excellent reviews throughout Ireland, Europe and North America. Their first CD of Biber’s Mystery Sonatas with violinist Maya Homburger was listed in the prestigious German music industry ‘Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik’ awards in 2007.
In March 2012 Camerata Kilkenny performed a programme of Bach at the Barrow River Arts Festival followed by a tour to Amsterdam, Paris and Leuven (Belgium). In May 2013 they joined forces with the Calmus Ensemble of Leipzig for concerts in Kilkenny and Dublin as part of the cultural programme in honour of Ireland’s Presidency of the E.U. Council of Ministers. In Autumn 2013 they toured Switzerland and in the Spring of 2014 they again performed with the Calmus Ensemble in Switzerland, CC Maasmachelan, Belgium (as curators and ensemble in residence of the Bachfest) and at the Barrow River Arts Festival. In Autumn 2014 Camerata Kilkenny toured (funded by a Touring and Dissemination of Work award from the Arts Council of Ireland) to critical acclaim throughout Ireland with German soprano Anja Pöche performing in Cork, Kilkenny, Dublin, Galway and Waterford.
In 2015 Camerata Kilkenny was Ensemble in Residence at Kilkenny Arts Festival taking part in sell out performances of Bach’s B minor Mass, the Brandenburg Concertos, the ‘Great Concertos’ and the Musical Offering. Maya Homburger and Malcolm Proud performed all six of Bach’s sonatas for violin and harpsichord and Malcolm Proud gave an organ recital of Clavier Übung Bk. 3 in St. Canice’s Cathedral. Maya Homburger performed the Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach in a late night concert in candle light in the Black Abbey. At the 2016 Kilkenny Arts Festival Camerata Kilkenny appeared with the English tenor Mark Padmore performing Bach cantatas and instrumental music. Earlier in 2016 they also performed at the Mantova Chamber Music Festival in Italy and the ‘Wege durch das Land’ Festival in Hameln, Germany. In Autumn 2016 together with David Power they toured ‘The Piper and the Faerie Queen’ with support from the Arts Council of Ireland’s Touring Award, to Sligo, Waterford, Dublin, Kilkenny and Cork. In 2018 Camerata Kilkenny perform at festivals in Ireland, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. Their newly recorded CD of this programme has just been released on the RTE Lyric FM label. In September 2018 members of Camerata Kilkenny will tour to Italy, Austria and Switzerland and while in Austria will record a CD of soprano arias by J.S. Bach alongside Swedish folk hymns with Swedish soprano Maria Keohane on the Maya Recordings label.
“The real highlight of the first weekend came on Saturday evening, when Chamber Choir Ireland and Camerata Kilkenny joined forces under Paul Hillier for a performance of the Mass in B Minor at St Canice’s Cathedral. The musical approach was gentle and luminous, the full richness of this extraordinary musical score laid out with exemplary clarity, everything in view, nothing obscured” Michael Dervan reviewing the first weekend of Kilkenny Arts Festival 2015 in The Irish Times.
Contact: Susan Proud (manager)
email: [email protected]
Tel: + 353 (0)86 1777017
Camerata Kilkenny
www. cameratakilkenny.com
Maya Recordings
www.maya-recordings.com
Malcolm Proud
www.malcolmproud.ie
David Power
www.davidpowerup.com/
What the critics have said
Camerata Kilkenny gave the impression that time is to be treasured, not to be rushed, that the music was somehow to be dwelt in, not pressured, and who’s to argue when the music is by Bach? Anja Lipfert Pöche……. is a real star.
Irish Times review of Calmus Ensemble/Camerata Kilkenny concert at Hugh Lane Gallery, May 2013.
Listeners foresaw this would be a great one and packed the Hugh Lane Gallery until, alas, no more could be admitted. Bach, period instruments, excellent players ….. and incredible music.
Irish Times review of concert at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin - 2011.
Lovely performances from Camerata Kilkenny
Review of Musical Offering CD on BBC Radio 3.
Irish Times review of Calmus Ensemble/Camerata Kilkenny concert at Hugh Lane Gallery, May 2013.
Listeners foresaw this would be a great one and packed the Hugh Lane Gallery until, alas, no more could be admitted. Bach, period instruments, excellent players ….. and incredible music.
Irish Times review of concert at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin - 2011.
Lovely performances from Camerata Kilkenny
Review of Musical Offering CD on BBC Radio 3.
david power (uilleann pipes)
David Power is a master of the uilleann pipes. Influenced by the great pipers of the past, he has won All-Ireland and Oireachtas Piping prizes and makes appearances at many international festivals. He has been a member of music groups, including Liam Clancy’s ‘Fairweather Band’, ‘Gorumna’ and more recently ‘Masters of Tradition’ and ‘Pipers Union’. He performed in the off-Broadway production ‘Love’s Pure Light’, recorded music for the Irish Repertory Theatre’s staging of ‘The Field’ and was a cast member and musician in the Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s ‘A Touch of the Poet’, starring Gabriel Byrne. He has three critically acclaimed solo recordings ‘My Love is in America’, ‘Cuachín Ghleann Neifin’ and ‘The Eighteen Moloney’ (2014). He has performed with poets Michael Davitt, Kerry Hardie, Seamus Heaney, Dermot Bolger, Maighread Medbh, Grace Wells, Clodagh Beresford-Dunne, Doireann ní Ghríofa and Robert Pinsky. In addition, he worked with accordionist Tony MacMahon, writer Dermot Bolger and Director John Comisky to develop a show called ‘The Frost is All Over’ which gained significant attention. He regularly performs with fiddle player Martin Hayes and his most recent collaboration is a project for stage with Kerry Hardie and Olivia O’Leary, based on the 6th Century Irish Christian church which had its debut at the Kilkenny Arts festival in 2015. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Waterford Institute of Technology and a post-graduate diploma in primary education at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. In 2017 he gave recitals with Malcolm Proud (organ) in Athens Greece, Tullamore, Dunlaoghaire and at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. In 2016 he toured Ireland with Camerata Kilkenny and already in 2018 he has performed with them in Belgium, Germany and Finland.
“The opening wail of uilleann pipes, played by David Power, which shifts into swirling music of military glory, beautifully establishes the central opposition of inner pain and public fantasy” (New York Times)
“David Power brings a breathtaking freshness to the set, his fluid, fluent playing as light as a feather” (Irish Times)
“The opening wail of uilleann pipes, played by David Power, which shifts into swirling music of military glory, beautifully establishes the central opposition of inner pain and public fantasy” (New York Times)
“David Power brings a breathtaking freshness to the set, his fluid, fluent playing as light as a feather” (Irish Times)
