Cork Choral Festival: Ó Riada winner gives voice to Ulysses
Daragh Black Hynes.
The Cork International Choral Festival makes a welcome return to live events this May bank holiday weekend with thousands of singers, converging on the city for the five-day jamboree. Among the panoply of events, fans of contemporary music will not want to miss Chamber Choir Ireland’s return to St Fin Barre’s Cathedral.
The 16-voice professional choir will perform new works by American composer John Luther Adams and Denmark’s John Frandsen under director Paul Hilier. Heading the programme is Sea Songs, a work by the late Steve Martland, who died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in 2013.
