Pipeworks Festival 2024 - Festival Pass for all Concerts and Recitals June 19 - 23

WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE 7:30pm @ Church of the Immaculate Conception, Merchants’ Quay, Dublin 8
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Daniel Moult, organ
Pipeworks Festival Chorus
David Leigh, conductor

Whitlock Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (first performance in Ireland)
Stanford Stabat Mater

The 2024 Festival opens in style, with a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Dublin native and celebrated composer Charles Villiers Stanford, featuring one of his greatest works, the profound and beautiful Stabat Mater. Percy Whitlock’s Symphony for Organ and Orchestra completes the progamme. This hidden gem of the repertoire receives its first performance in Ireland, with renowned organist Daniel Moult taking the demanding solo part. A stellar group of vocal soloists joins the Festival Chorus and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra under the baton of Artistic Director David Leigh, all in the beautiful surroundings of the Church of the Immaculate Conception (Adam and Eve’s), Merchants’ Quay.

THURSDAY 20 JUNE 8pm
4 in a Bar @ Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8
In the first of two events in the stunning surroundings of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin’s own renowned close harmony group presents a varied and diverse programme constructed around the life and work of Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), Irish-born organist, teacher and composer. 
In the centenary year of his death, the vocal quartet will perform a newly-commissioned work by Irish composer Rhona Clarke, which focuses on Stanford’s legacy in a thought-provoking way

9:30pm Messiaen: Diptyque and Quartet for the End of Time @ Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 8
Mia Cooper, Violin
Martin Johnson, Cello
Fergal Caulfield, Piano and Organ
John Finucane, Clarinet

This late-night event in the atmospheric surroundings of Christ Church Cathedral features four of Ireland’s leading instrumentalists in a programme of works by French composer Olivier Messiaen. The Quartet for the End of Time, composed while Messiaen was a prisoner of war in 1941, is one of his most hauntingly beautiful and other-worldly compositions. It is preceded by the organ work Diptyque, whose second section prefigures the music of the quartet.

FRIDAY 21 JUNE 1:10pm
Lunchtime recital by Geoffrey Webber @ Sandford Parish Church, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 (In partnership with Summer Music at Sandford) Distinguished scholar and recitalist Geoffory Webber presents a varied programme on the fine three manual instrument in Sandford, recently restored by Trevor Crowe. Geoffrey held various posts in Oxford and Cambridge Universities, latterly as Precentor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

7:30pm Celebrity Recital by Daniel Moult @ Whitefriar Street Church Dublin 2
J.S Bach: Praeludium in E flat (BWV 552i)
J.S Bach: Trio in G (BWV 1027a)
W.A Mozart: Fantasia in f minor (K608)
R. Schumann: Study in Canon form (Op 56, No 1)
C.V Stanford: Intermezzo on the Londonderry Air (Op 189, No 4)
F. Liszt: Prelude & Fugue on the name 'B.A.C.H' (1870)
In his second performance of the festival, Daniel puts the exciting and colourful Jones instrument in the Carmelite Priory, Whitefriars, through its paces in a virtuosic and varied programme.

SATURDAY 22 JUNE @ Public Theatre (Examination Hall), Trinity College, Dublin 2
Midday Lecture by Adrian le Harivel
‘Cases for Ornament: Historic organs from Grinling Gibbons to Father Smith’
While the sound and maintenance of historic organs is a prime concern in churches, makers have always put great efforts into how they look, adding a visual element to their enjoyment, in historic settings. This talk highlights outstanding examples in these islands, from the gilded sculpture of Restoration court to the heyday of Victorian organ. Adrian Le Harivel, former Curator of British Art, National Gallery of Ireland, has spent over twenty years lecturing and researching on links between art and music, and is currently Emeritus tutor of Visual Culture at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

2pm Edward Higginbottom in conversation with Andrew Johnstone
Edward Higginbottom enjoys a distinguished international reputation as scholar, performer and director. Under his direction the choir of New College, Oxford acquired an international reputation and toured and recorded widely. Edward is a particular authority on the music of the French Baroque, about which he has written widely. He will bring this expertise to bear in masterclass and concert on the Gotze and Gwynn instrument in the public theatre of Trinity College. This is preceeded by a discussion with Andrew Johnstone, Pipeworks committee member, lecturer in music at TCD, and himself a distinguished organist and scholar.

6pm Organ Recital by Edward Higginbottom 
Le grand siècle et l'enfant terrible
Programme and description coming soon..

SUNDAY 23 JUNE
2pm Young Organists’ Platform Concert @ Sandford Parish Church, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
Some of Ireland’s finest young organists present a varied programme in the atmospheric surroundings of Sandford Parish Church.

8pm Recital by Mona Hartmann (née Rozdestvenskyte) @ St Michael’s Church, Dún Laoghaire in partnership with Dún Laoghaire Summer Organ Concerts
Dietrich Buxtehude: Toccata D minor BuxWV 155
Dietrich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor BuxWV 161
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in D minor (after Antonio Vivaldi) BWV 596
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sonata 6 D minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne in d Minor from the Violin Partita (arr. Landmann) BWV 1004
Mona Hartmann (née Rozdestvenskyte) is a multiple prizewinning concert organist generally recognized as one of the leading players of her generation. Her dynamic, varied and exciting programme brings the festival to a triumphant close on the venerable Rieger instrument in St Michael’s Church, Dun Laoghaire.