Some dates for your diary in 2012/13

Mercy College Mass

On Saturday 29 September 2012 we will be singing at the 75th Anniversary Mass for Meánscoil Mhuire / The Mercy College

Christmas

During December, we will sing Christmas carols at two fund-raising events around Galway. Dates and times to be announced.

Main concert

On Saturday 26 January 2013 we will present our major concert for the year, featuring Vivaldi's Gloria RV589 and choral arrangements of works by Gershwin and Lennon & McCartney.

Choral Festivals

Later in 2013, we will participate in one or two choral festivals around Ireland - details to be advised.

Exciting autumn programme for Galway Choral Association

PRESS RELEASE - GALWAY - AUGUST 2012

If you’ve a love of singing
we would like to hear from you!

Donation to National Council for the Blind, Galway

Recently, we presented €1200, the proceeds from Monica's concert, to the Deirdre Towey from the National Council for the Blind.

Pat O'Sullivan,Dierdre Towey (NCBI Galway), Joe Considine, Carol Duffy, Michael O'Hare, and Norman Duffy, Galway Choral Association with a cheque for € 1200 raised for NCBI by the concert for Monica Narciando Junco held in St Nicholas Church on June 9th 2012.

Auditions for 2012 /13 are now open

We are currently scheduling auditions for the new season.

Please get in touch if you are interested in joining us.

Email:   admin@galwaychoral.ie

Join our choir in 2012

We will have vacancies for all voices, especially sopranos, tenors and basses, from September 2012.

We are a community-based adult choir, performing a range of works - see About the Choir for more information.

You do not need to be able to read music - many of our singers don't -  although it does make learning new works easier.  We have run music-reading courses previously, and will do so again if there is demand.

Potential members are welcome to attend rehearsals, at no charge, for the first three weeks of the new term, to see how the choir operates.  

Contact admin@galwaychoral.ie for more information, or to arrange an audition.

June 2012 Concert photographs

Some photographs from our memorial concert for Monica.

Our next concert

9 June 2012, 

St Nicholas' Collegiate Church 

8pm.

It is a joint concert with Galway Gospel Choir and Ignite Gospel Choir, in memory of Monica Narciandi Junco, a member of all three choirs who tragically died on 30 October 2011.

The concert is being staged in aid of the National Council for the Blind, Galway.

Tickets €10 ( €8 concessions) are on sale at 

Opus 11, High Street, Galway ( 091 500 300)

National Council for the Blind, 9a, St. Francis Street Galway (091 564 926) 

and on the door.

Memorial Concert for Monica Narciandi Junco

Galway Choral Association, Galway Gospel Choir and Ignite Gospel Choir will perform a memorial concert for Monica Narciandi Junco, who was a member of all three choirs.

The concert will be held in St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday June 9th at 8pm.   Concert details.

A native of Gijon in the Northern Spanish province of Asturias, Monica came to Ireland eleven years ago and worked as a main telephonist for the Revenue Commissioners and before with the Department of Social Welfare and the Western Health Board Galway.

“It was one of Monica’s dearest wishes that all three choirs of which she was a member would perform together. Tragically the first time that we performed together was at her funeral service last October. We now come together again, to celebrate Monica’s life on the occasion of what would have been her 40th Birthday and to raise funds for the National Council for the Blind Galway,” said Michael O’Hare chairperson of the Galway Choral Association.

Photos from our March 2012 concert

A selection of photographs from our performance of Dvorak's Mass in D major in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway.

Our recent concert was a great success, with a full-house at St Nicholas.

Here are some photos of the preparation and early part of the evening.

There are some nice photos from the Tuam performance on page 3 of the Tuam Herald Extra, too.

March 2012 Concert

Donation to Voices for Galway

Treasurer Craig Steven presenting the cheque to John Lucey of Voices of Galway.
Background:  Norman Duffy (musical director), Cathleen Payne, Mary Curtin, Michael O'Hare (GCA), Carmel Hannon (VFG), and Carol Duffy (GCA)

Our December 2012 concert raised €1000 for Voices for Galway, a charity that provides professional speech therapy to children with Down Syndrome.

Please contact us if your organisation is interested in being a fundraising partner for future concerts.