Concert Programme Keadeen Hotel, Newbridge,

Sunday, November 11th.

An Evening of Song !

With Celine Byrne &

Guests

An Evening of Song Concert. With

Celine Byrne & Guests

Sunday 11th of November 2007. Hotel Keadeen.

Concert organising committee Oliver Murphy

Michael Habenicht Margaret Coller Rory De Bruir

Michael McLoughlin

Our Concert Event Sponsor Newbridge Silverware Ltd.

This concert is in support of The Jack & Jill Children’s Charity Foundation.

The Club also wish to acknowledge the gener-ous support of Lily O’Briens Chocolates New-

bridge and to the Hotel Keadeen for their sup-port in hosting this concert.

For further details of Newbridge Kildare

Lions Club see www.nklc.ie

We Serve !

Dear Guests, On behalf of the Membership of our Lions Club I would like to thank you for attending our first “Evening of Song” concert event tonight here at the Hotel Keadeen. Tonight we are all in for a musical treat from local Soprano Celine Byrne and her guests Dearbhla Brosnan, Nicole Hudson & David Martin! Our Lions Club was chartered here at the Hotel Keadeen thirty years ago in 1976. Our fundraising activities during this past year were varied with over €45,000 nett funds successfully generated and distributed to charities ranging from local schools, respite care centres, special needs groups, in Kildare & to Charities as far away as Tanzania & the Lebanon. The proceeds of this event tonight will be donated to the Jack and Jill Children's foundation which I am sure you will agree is an organisation that does tremendous good respite work helping families whose infants have very special needs. Tonight at the concert interval we will be holding a Charity Raffle which I hope you will support by entering. The prizes at the raffle have been generously sponsored by Hugh Statham Ltd of Naas and by Lily O’Briens Chocolates Ltd, Newbridge. On behalf of the Lions Club I wish to thank Mr William Doyle of Newbridge Silverware Ltd who generously sponsored this event and also the Concert Committee & Club Membership who have worked so hard to promote it. Our Lions Club mission is to serve the community & I would ask you to continue to support our Club in the various activities that we run throughout the year & to join us in making them both en-joyable and successful! Wishing you all a wonderful Evening of Song!

Lion-Oliver Murphy Club President

The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation is a registered charity set up to help alleviate the pressures on fami-lies of babies and children (up to age 4) with severe developmental delay and life limiting conditions re-quiring extensive medical and nursing care at home.

For example some children may be blind or deaf, they may never be able to walk or talk, some may not even be able to swallow. They may just cry…and cry…and cry for days on end.

We support the families both emotionally and finan-cially thus helping to provide the best quality of life for the child and the whole family. By attending the concert tonight you are helping us to achieve our goal of helping the 260 families cur-rently under our wing and for that we are very grate-ful to you. We would also like to sincerely thank the Newbridge Kildare Lions Club and Celine Byrne for their support. I hope that everyone enjoys what I am sure will be a wonderful nights entertainment. Yours sincerely

Lily O’Briens Chocolates Newbridge

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Celine Byrne – Soprano Celine is currently studying with Dr. Ve-ronica Dunne at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. She has a Masters in Music from the Royal Irish Academy of Music and an honours Music Degree from the Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin, where she was also awarded the college Gold Medal. She has participated in Master classes given by Malcolm Marti-neau, Denis O’ Neill, Wolfgang Holtzmair, Tina Ruta and Roberta Alexandra. In April

2007 Celine made her Carnigie Hall Debut and in 2005 she participated in the artistic development programme with Wexford Opera. Celine has received many awards both on a national and international platform. She won the Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens, the William Young Prize at the Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Dublin, the Brabants Dagblad Press Prize at the IVC International Singing Com-petition in s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands and was semi-finalist at the Belvedere International singing compe-tition in Vienna, Austria. Celine is also winner of 10 prizes at the Feis Ceoil, Dublin, the Bill Canning Bursary, Water-ford 2003, and the John Mc Cormack Bursary, Dublin 2003. Celine has given many recitals throughout Ireland and abroad and has sung at concerts in The Hermitage (St. Pe-tersburg), Belfast’s Waterfront, Waterford, Cork Opera House and the National Concert Hall in Dublin. She has performed as a soloist with several Opera Companies in-cluding Lyric Opera, Anna Livia Opera. Opera Ireland and Wexford Opera. Her television appearances include ‘The Late Late Show’, ‘Seoige and O’ Shea’ and ‘Nationwide’ while her radio performances include KFM, Anna Livia Ra-dio, Lyric FM’s ‘Lyric Notes’, RTE Radio One’s ‘Rattle Bag’, RTE Pat Kenny show, and Holland’s Radio.

Nicole Hudson, Violinist A native of north Dublin, Nicole be-gan her Violin studies at the age of five in the Loretto Nelson School of String Playing. She then furthered her music studies accepting the B.A. in Music Performance degree at the Royal Irish Academy of Mu-sic. Here she began her studies with Prof. Eyal Kless and continued her degree under the tuition of the renowned Ms.Maeve Broderick. Nicole has travelled extensively throughout Europe and the U.S.A.

as an orchestral and chamber musician with the Viennese Youth Orchestra and The McConchy project.. She has ap-peared as soloist in the John Field Room, The National Gallery of Ireland, The Waterfront Belfast, Cork Opera House, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre and The Space at The Helix. She has undertaken master classes with distin-guished musicians such as Igor Ozim, Sally O'Reilly, Bog-dan Sofei, Ernst Kovacic and Yair Kless.> Currently, as a freelance Violinist, Nicole travels with The Three Tenors throughout Ireland as soloist while also teaching Violin and Viola in St. Agnes School, Crumlin. She also enjoys deputising with the R.T.E. Concert Orchestra on a regular basis. This year, Nicole was a member of Wexford Opera Festival Orchestra. Outside of this Nicole manages and performs regularly at corporate events as part of Dolce String Quartet.> A diverse musician, Nicole has just fin-ished her 3rd season as violinist with "the Burlington Irish Cabaret". She has also appeared on stage with Colm Wil-kinson, Brian Byrne, James Galway, Ronan Tynan, Cara O'Sullivan, Declan O'Rourke, Tommy Fleming, Sinead O'Connor, Paddy Casey, The Chieftains, Sharon Shannon, Carlos Nunez, Brian Kennedy, Phil Coulter, Daniel O'Dpnnell and The Celtic Tenors.

1. Celine O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicci - Puccini 2. Celine Song to the Moon from Rusalka -Dvorak 3. Celine Jewel Song from Faustt - Gounod 4. David La donna e mobile from Rigoletto - Verdi 5. Duet Nella Fantasia (Gabriel’s oboe) - Morricone 6. Nicole Meditation from Thais - Massenet 7. Celine Ave Maria - Bach/Gounod

8, Duet The Prayer – Foster & Renis 9, David Panis Angelicus - St Thomas Aquinas 10. Violin Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni 11. Celine You'll never walk alone from Carousel – Rodgers & Hammerstein 12. Duet Brindisi from La Traviata - Verdi

Interval (Raffle) 1. Celine Poor wandrin' one from Pirates of Penzance – Gilbert & Sullivan 2. Duet Only make believe from Showboat – Kern & Hammerstein 3. David Seranade from The Student Prince - Romberg 4. Celine I could have danced all night from My Fair Lady – Lerner & Loewe 5. Celine Wishing you were somehow here again from Phantom by Lloyd Webber 6. Duet All I ask of you from Phantom of the Opera – A. Lloyd Webber 7. Violin Czardas - Monti 8, Celine I dreamt I dwelt in Marble Halls from The Bohemian girl - M. Balfe 9. Celine My Lagan Love arr. Phyllis Tate 10. David Macushla - Josephine V. Rowe, Dermot MacMorrough 11. Nicole An Coulin / Marino Waltz – Irish airs 12. Duet Time to say Goodbye – F. Sartori & L. Quarantotto 13. Celine Ebben n'andro lontana from La Wally – Catalani

“An Evening of Song” repertoire list

Hugh Statham Jeweller & Goldsmith

22a South Main

Street Naas

Co Kildare

Dearbhla Brosnan, Pianist Dearbhla was born in Ireland and studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, with John O'Conor. She received an honours degree in music from Trinity Col-lege Dublin, before moving to London for Postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music, where her teachers included John Streets and Iain Ledingham. Dearbhla has performed extensively as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout Ireland, Great Britain, Europe and the United States and, most recently, she made her debut at Carnegie Hall, New York. She has frequently broadcast on both television and radio and has worked as official accompanist for many music festivals including the RTE Musician of the Future Fes-tival, the John McCormack Golden Voice of Athlone Competition and New York's Lake Placid Summer School. Dearbhla has worked as repetiteur with Opera Ireland, Opera Theatre Company and Lyric Opera and she has played for masterclasses with many distinguished mu-sicians including clarinettist, Michael Collins, trumpeter John Wallace, violinist Igor Ozim, cellist Martin Lovett and soprano Celine Byrne. Dearbhla is currently resident accompanist at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

garvan de bruir

garvan de bruir design is a furniture design company, recently relocated to a new studio in Kildare. Garvan’s in-house range of furniture

exemplifies an exciting use of contemporary designs and traditional handcraft skills. His choice of materials en-ables the realisation of the elegant, slim-line curves that are a trademark of his designs. Cast aluminium is com-bined with wood, leather and sheepskin in order to maintain a handcrafted quality in these modern designs. After completing a degree, and then a masters, in Furni-ture Design, Garvan gained years of valuable experience with leading British designer-maker, Philip Koomen, in Henley-on-Thames. Following this, he set up his business in Buckingham-shire, and has now successfully relo-cated back to Ireland. Garvan’s de-signs have won awards in London and Dublin and have been exhibited in Mi-lan and Dubai. His work has previ-ously been selected for the Irish Tatler HOT 100 List.

The organising committee wish to thank Garvan for his assistance with the stage design at tonight's concert.

David Martin - Tenor David Martin hails from the border town of Dundalk in County Louth. He is a Lyric Tenor, possessing a truly remark-able voice with incredible stamina, agil-ity, and flexibility, and once described as having " a beautiful Italian quality in his voice”. He started his vocal training with Geraldine McGee in his home town and in the years following, he began to compete in vari-ous Feis Ceoil around the country with great success. In 1999, after winning both The Tenor Solo and the Joseph O' Mara Memorial Cup for Operatic Aria in Dublin, he be-gan his studies with Dr Veronica Dunne and Jeannie Reddin in the Leinster College of Music and drama. David successfully completed Il Corso Di Canto E Per-fezionamento Lirico which was held in La Chiesa di San Giorgio in Montalto Ligure in Northern Italy. He has per-formed the lead tenor roles in the following full stage productions, Hardress Cregan in "The Lilly of Killarney", Barankay in "The Gypsy Baron", and Alfredo in "Pink Champagne" (Die Fleidermaus). Most recently he per-formed the tenor part in Mozarts Requiem K626 in the final concert of the Mozart Anniversary series here in the National Concert Hall. During his career to date David has gained a wealth of experience in performance, sing-ing the tenor roles in excerpts from opera such as La concert Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, La Traviata, and many more. His repertoire is extensive. David currently performs in concert in venues around Ireland and the UK. He will be performing the tenor role in Handel’s Messiah in Monkstown Church, Monkstown, Co Dublin, on 2nd Dec ‘07. .

The Raffle

Our Charity Raffle will take place at the Concert Interval.

Entry : Raffle Tickets will be on Sale before and

during the Concert Interval.

Please remember: All proceeds tonight are for the Jack & Jill Children’s Charity Foundation.

First prize,

Ladies necklace Courtesy of Hugh Statham Jewellers & Goldsmiths, Naas

Second prize, Giant Chocolate Hamper Courtesy of Lily O’Briens Chocolates Newbridge.

Third prize, A surprise !

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