Did a recording in Donncha Moynihan’s studio in Bishopstown last week with Malcolm Sean Urquhart. You can hear the two tracks on his my space the tracks ‘Into these arms’ and ‘Exit Wounds’ are the ones with cello.
Today played solo cello for a small group of people for a bubs christening, in the library at Hayfield Manor a five star hotel in Cork.
The guests drank coffee and chatted whilst I served them up a feast of music…Bach suites, Irish airs from my book, Pour Una Cabeza, Liebeslied, Swan lake, West Side story cello parts (I practiced for the upcoming show at Cork Opera House once they went in for lunch as they wanted me to continue for a while whilst they were served…don’t think anyone noticed that I was playing the cello part of ‘America’, ‘Maria’ etc, with no melody happening…)
Mozart was requested so I played Romanza from Eine Kleine Nacht music
Most loved was Pour Una Cabeza, and asked for as soon as I finished playing it, was Moon River…
The baby’s name was Katie, so I sang her K-K-K-Katie…very sweet and crazy in long white gown…
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Played in the City Hall, Cork on the 10th December with the Cork Symphony Orchestra, now renamed the City of Cork Symphony Orchestra as it has just come under the partronage of the Lord Mayor. I am the principal cellist and we play under the baton of the wonderful Kieth Pasco.
It was a Proms concert featuring Julian Lloyd Webber, who played the Elgar cello concerto. Fine playing with deeply sensitive and delicate passages. It was wonderful to hear and to play with him.
I gave him my book of Irish airs, so perhaps next concert he may include one as an encore!
Also performing was the wonderful Cork soprano Majella Cullagh, and the Fleischmann Choir.
I recently did some filming at home with Malcolm Urquart. Here’s one of my songs.
Saturday night in the DEAF festival with the Quiet Music Ensemble
It was a fantastic 5hr sound installation in Dublin for the DEAF festival. On the night when the walls between the worlds are said to be thin, we performed pieces by Lucier, Karen Power, Applebaum and David Toop and more…
One of the ‘extra’ pieces I was happily roped into, I sat on the stage holding a tin bucket. Next to me sits bass player Dan who proceeds to pour, drip by drip, water from a bottle into my bucket. I hold the bucket over the microphone and the drips ring out.
For ten minutes…
It starts off…hmm this is really quite sensual yeah….3 seconds on…hmm this is getting heavy, wierd, etc….on and on to torture.
Then when the water inadvertently poured out in a piss like stream..it really ‘was’ Dan pissing into a bucket that I was holding…in front of an audience… twice
hee heee. I did laugh.
The audience were loving it and it was the hit of the 5 hr ‘show’… never mind the incredible gal standing whilst performing powerful impromptu pyrotechniques on the cello…
I was playing in a Cathedral In Cork today and was enjoying warming up in the reverberant space. When playing in such a place every note carries on for so long any tuning issues will be very obvious.
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