ON TUESDAY Cois Cladaigh Choir Galway will embark on a tour of southern Spain performing in Cordoba and Seville. The choir will be celebrating 30 years in existence next year and will perform their usual eclectic mix of Renaissance and contemporary music with a particular emphasis on music of Spanish composers including Albert Alcaraz, Juan del Ancina and Fransisco Guererro.
The choir have been awarded a substantial Arts Council Grant to enable them to celebrate their 30th anniversary with a number of exciting projects, among them the commissioning of new works by a number of composers including Estonian Urmat Sisask and Irish composers Benedict Schlepper Connolly, Eamonn Murray and Emily Magner.
Cois Cladaigh will also participate in a number of workshops with such eminent conductors as Tonu Kaljuste of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Donal Doherty from Derry and Mark Duley from Galway. They also plan collaborations with vulcanologist John Delaney, harpist Kathleen Cannon, uileann piper Eugene Lamb and Dr Michael Fenstrom UL in a concert of choral and electronic music.
The choir also plan to travel and take music to the islands of the west coast including Clare Island, Inishbofin and Inis Oir as well a return trip to Paris to the Irish Cultural Centre in March.
The celebrations will commence in January 2012 and will conclude with a Christmas concert in December.
