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S T M ARY S C HURCH S EATING PLAN Find your way in New Ross NEW ROSS
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June 12th Diamond Friends
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Tickets may also be available

Belfast Festival
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NEW ROSS
Wednesday 20th September
PIANO
Contact 051 425845 or 421383
www.newrosspianofestival.com
Waterford
Rosslare
to Sunday 24th September
St Marys Church Eircode: Y34 DN82 Cork
TICKET PRICES 2017 GPS co-ordinates: 52.39622 -6.94099
Full Price Senior Citizen Student

Season Ticket (excluding Jazz Day) 115 100 40 Between concerts enjoy the local scenery and historic sites
VENUES PRESENTING
All events take place in St. Marys Church with KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT / FINGHIN COLLINS
Jazz at Lunchtime 15 12 5 of The Norman Way. Visit the 13th century St Marys early
the exception of the Masterclass (3pm Saturday) ZOLTN FEJRVRI / DAVID GREILSAMMER
Jazz in the Evening 26 23 10 Gothic Church, just to the rear of the present church. A tour
which takes place in the Pastoral Centre.
Thursday Student Concert 5 5 5 of the Ros Tapestry on the Quay will introduce you to the tale SEN MORGAN-ROONEY / ENRICO PIERANUNZI
Main Concerts 26 23 10 told in thread of the Norman adventure when Strongbow and ELIZAVETA UKRAINSKAIA / PHIL WARE
Coffee Concerts 15 12 8 his knights arrived on the Hook Peninsula in 1169, where the NEW RO SS PIANO FESTIVAL IS SU PPO RTED BY
KLRA WRTZ
Late Night Concert 10 10 5 battle for Ireland was lost and won. New Ross is central to
Coffee Concert & Talk (Friday) Free Free Free many of the sites depicted. And in the words of the medieval KRISTF BARTI violin / JENNIFER STUMM viola
Masterclass Free Free Free poem about the building of the walls around New Ross every ISTVN VRDAI cello
stranger finds a welcome here.
Cheques to be made payable to BEST VALUE
ST. MICHAEL'S THEATRE who are handling the BUY A Information about New Ross and accommodation is available EMBASSY OF NEW ROSS
HUNGARY PIANO
booking for the Festival. Tel: 00353 51 421255 SEASON at www.discoverireland.ie, www.visitwexford.ie or by phoning
Email: stmichaelsnewross@eircom.net TICKET Dublin FESTIVAL
the tourist office: 051 425239.
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KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT Fortepiano

WEDNESDAY 20th SEPTEMBER, 1.05pm SATURDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER, 7.30pm One of the foremost, and arguably the most brilliant
JAZZ AT LUNCHTIME MAIN EVENING CONCERT of todays fortepiano players. The London Times

FINGHIN COLLINS Piano

PHIL WARE and DAMIAN EVANS KLRA WRTZ Finghin Collins as Artistic Director displays innovative
Selections from the works of famous jazz composers and the Bartk Suite Op. 14 planning both in content and artistic flexibility...
Great American Songbook. Bartk Sonata Sz. 80 Irish Independent

WEDNESDAY 20th SEPTEMBER, 8.00pm

FINGHIN COLLINS with KRISTF BARTI (violin), FEJERVARI
ZOLTAN Piano
JENNIFER STUMM (viola) & ISTVN VRDAI (cello) Fejrvris playing is multi-layered and precise
JAZZ IN THE EVENING
Every note has its own particular dynamic, character,
Schumann Piano Quartet Op. 47
and expression Kultur Vollzug
ENRICO PIERANUNZI
ZOLTN FEJRVRI
Always telling the story no matter which language he uses - DAVID GREILSAMMER Piano
Liszt Sonata in B minor Mr. Greilsammer is a standout musician who has it
classical or jazz.
in him to challenge, inform and delight audiences
SATURDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER, 10.00pm the playing was exquisite.
Finghin Collins pictured THURSDAY 21st SEPTEMBER, 7.30pm The New York Times
LATE NIGHT CONCERT
WELCOME with the guest soloists
at the 2016 festival
SOUTH EAST YOUNG PIANISTS CONCERT

DAVID GREILSAMMER
SEAN MORGANROONEY Piano
20 young piano students play the Steinway for sheer fun. Winner of the Brennan Prize at the Dublin International
his years New Ross Piano Festival will turn its
Labyrinth Piano Competiition in 2015.

T attention to the great Hungarian tradition of piano-

playing with several Hungarian musicians travelling to
FRIDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER, 12 noon
COFFEE CONCERT & TALK FREE!
Short works by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Janek, Jean-Fry
Rebel and Ofer Pelz. Exploring the mysterious alleys of
ENRICO PIERANUNZI Piano
One of Italys finest, and perhaps most recognizable,
Ireland to form a wide range of piano and chamber music. various enigmatic pieces from early baroque to our present jazz pianists... superior technical faculties with a
Mostly Hungarian...Kodly and more. days, David Greilsammer embarks on a musical journey to distinct sense of elegance amid an abundance of
Klra Wrtz will be remembered by many Irish music-
Sen Morgan-Rooney (piano) with Endre Tth (musicologist) regally executed themes. AllMusic Review
lovers since she was a prize-winner at the inaugural Dublin the heart of a beautiful, abstract, and dazzling labyrinth.
International Piano Competition in 1988. Zoltn Fejrvri is ELIZAVETA UKRAINSKAIA Piano
a rising star from Budapest who will make his Irish dbut FRIDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER, 8.00pm SUNDAY 24th SEPTEMBER, 12 noon The fingers of Elizaveta Ukrainskaia leaped thrillingly
MAIN EVENING CONCERT COFFEE CONCERT over the keyboard... From the otherwise reserved
at our festival. Our pianists will be joined by a very strong
audience of classical music listeners came a loud
trio of string players to perform wonderful piano quartets
ZOLTN FEJRVRI Bravo! at the end. Kreiszeitung
by Brahms, Schumann and Faur: old friends Kristf Brati ELIZAVETA UKRAINSKAIA
Beethoven Bagatelles Op. 126
and Istvn Vrdai are artistic directors of the Kaposvr Rameau Suite No. 1 in G minor
KLARA WRTZ Piano
Festival in their native Hungary, while Jennifer Stumm is KLRA WRTZ with KRISTF BARTI (violin), Schubert Hungarian Melody D. 817 Wrtz played with exceptional beauty of tone, finesse
JENNIFER STUMM (viola) & ISTVN VRDAI (cello) of voicing and musical imagination Boston Globe
an American viola player with a major international career. Prokofiev Suite from Cinderella Op. 97
For the first time we will present a recital on a period Faur Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 BARATI
KRISTOF Violin
instrument, with world-renowned specialist Kristian FINGHIN COLLINS For those who like to hear the violin played at its
Bezuidenhout performing a solo recital on a reproduction SUNDAY 24th SEPTEMBER, 3.30pm sweet and acrobatic best, then Barti is out of the top
Bartk 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs
CLOSING AFTERNOON CONCERT drawer... Gramophone
of an 1805 Walter fortepiano which we are bringing Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 23 (selection)
specially from the UK. We also present the Irish dbut JENNIFER STUMM Viola
of the astonishing 21-year-old Russian pianist Elizaveta KLRA WRTZ and FINGHIN COLLINS There is an opal-like beauty in the viola playing of
SATURDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER, 12 noon
Ukrainskaia who won first prize at the European Piano COFFEE CONCERT Kurtg / Bach Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir; Gottes Zeit Jennifer Stummshe has a wonderful way of finding
Kurtg Games / Jtkok for four hands (selection) color in a phrase and injecting phosphorescent energy
Competition in Bremen last year. Israeli pianist David
through rhythm The Washington Post
Greilsammer performs the late night with an eclectic KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT (fortepiano)
ZOLTN FEJRVRI with KRISTF BARTI (violin),
mix of Janek, CPE Bach, Mozart and more. We are Beethoven Rondo No. 1 in C major VARDAI
ISTVAN Cello
JENNIFER STUMM (viola) & ISTVN VRDAI (cello)
also thrilled to announce our new Jazz Piano Day on and No. 2 in G major, Op. 51 "This recording of Vrdai will be from now on the
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60 measuring standard for Bach's solo cello
Wednesday, curated by Phil Ware, who will give a lunch- Haydn Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6
let s Irodalom, Budapest
time concert, and presenting an evening performance Mozart Piano Sonata No. 13 in B flat major, K.333 KLRA WRTZ
by the very highly-regarded Italian jazz pianist Enrico Kodly Marosszki Dances PHIL WARE and DAMIAN EVANS
Pieranunzi. Alongside all of this activity there will be talks, SATURDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER, 3.00pm Schumann Fantasie Op. 17 piano and double bass
masterclasses and workshops; its all happening in New MASTERCLASS FREE! an appetite for exploration matched pound-for-
pound by an insistent connection to their listeners
Ross this September!
The Irish Times
Masterclass with emerging pianists.