Choral Music of Ireland
The choral music in Ireland has produced Anuna, Ireland’s national choir, known for their support to Riverdance in the early 1990s. They h...
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The
choral music in Ireland has produced Anuna, Ireland’s national choir, known for
their support to Riverdance in the early 1990s. They have also been chosen in
the Classical Brit Award in the United Kingdom and were invited to give the
first ever Irish Prom at the BBC proms series in the royal Albert hall in the
year 1999. In the year 2012 they featured as the voices of Hell in the video
game Diablo III.
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The
national chamber choir of Ireland are mainly funded by the arts council of
Ireland, their artistic director is Paul Hillier, Resurgam is also a
significant professional choral orchestra that have begun to make a
contribution upon the awareness of the vocal music beyond that of the opera or
current famous music, while there are several high-quality church choirs
particularly in Dublin, the Palestrina choir (in St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral),
Chris Church Cathedral Choir (Christ Church Cathedral and St. Patrick’s
cathedral Choir.
In
the 1980s Shaun Davey composed; The Brendan Voyage, a combination of classical
group and Irish traditional patterns with the uileann piper Liam O’Flynn as the
soloist. He continued and extended this genre with his compositions the
Pilgrim, Granuaile and The Relief of Derry Symphony.
