Dun Laoghaire Choral Society takes  a musical journey from the darkness of Hades,  through the wonder of Earth,  finishing in the glory of Eden. The performance will be in front of a dynamic visual image of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights,  whose images will change to reflect the music being sung.  Directed by John Doyle and accompanied by Fergal Caufield,  this 60 strength choir will perform a wide range of music from the Masters.   

The concert starts with a section from Monteverdi’s Choruses from “Orpheo ed Euridice”,  moving to selections from Brahms beautiful” Liebeslieder”. The romance of Schumann reflects the wonder of Earth and Eden along with a piece written by Tom Lane  for the choir. The performance finishes with the haunting beauty of Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium” and Faure’s inspired “In Paridisum” from his Requiem in D minor.

The concert also includes a wonderful solo piano performance by Fergal Caufield of Liszt’s “Après une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonato”.

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Sunday's Lust for Life & Lunch concert has been rescheduled for March 25th at 3.30pm in St Patrick's RC Church in Monkstown.

Tickets from Eventbrite at the door or in the restaurant of your choice

It's almost that time of year again and tickets are on sale for our annual Messiah for All concert on December 2nd in Monkstown Parish Church.

We are delighted to welcome back soloists Kelli-Ann Masterson, soprano, Dominica Williams, mezzo-soprano, Peter O'Reilly, tenor and Eoghan Desmond, bass.  Tristan Russcher will play the organ.

It's a fantastic seasonal favourite in Monkstown, come along and sing your heart out to Handel's amazing choruses.

Tickets can be bought here

Westward-bound to Galway for the second Vivaldi concert in our CHORAL FUSION series.

Tickets can be bought on Eventbrite and at the door

The third in our series of five double-choir CHORAL FUSION concerts, together with Galway Baroque Singers and Fishamble Sinfonia. Featuring the glorious music of Vivaldi:

Beatus Vir RV 597

Kyrie in G Minor RV 587

Lauda Jerusalem RV 609

Dixit Dominus

Tickets cost €20 (€15 Conc) and can be bought on Eventbrite and at the door

Dun Laoghaire Choral Society and Galway Baroque Singers present the second concert in their CHORAL FUSION series, a series of double-choir music concerts that are being performed in Dublin and Galway between November 2016 and March 2018.

After the magnificent choruses of Handel's Solomon in the first CHORAL FUSION concert, this time the choirs turn to Lully (1632-1687) and Purcell.

Lully's Te Deum is his best-known sacred work, first performed at Fontainebleau just outside Paris on 9th September, 1677. The Te Deum calls for high pomp and considerable resources. Contemporary reports speak of the large forces (as many as 300 musicians, including chorus, orchestra, trumpets and drums) assembled to perform the work, even at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The success of the Te Deum is almost unique in the history of seventeenth century sacred music. Lully's Miserere mei Deus is another of his most famous motets, large-scale multi-movement works, structured in double-choir format with strongs divided into six parts.

Purcell's ‘My heart is inditing of a good matter‘ was specially composed for the coronation of King James II on April 23rd 1685. iI’s a large-scale composition that uses four-part strings, eight-part choir and eight soloists.

The two choirs, Dun Laoghaire Choral Society and Galway Baroque Singers will be joined by some of Ireland's finest young soloists and the exciting young orchesestra that is Fishamble Sinfonia. 

David Brophy conducts.

Tickets are available here and at the door. They cost €20 and €15 for students.

Dun Laoghaire Choral Society and Galway Baroque Singers present the second concert in their CHORAL FUSION series, a series of double-choir music concerts that are being performed in Dublin and Galway between November 2016 and March 2018.

After the magnificent choruses of Handel's Solomon in the first CHORAL FUSION concert, this time the choirs turn to Lully (1632-1687) and Purcell.

Lully's Te Deum is his best-known sacred work, first performed at Fontainebleau just outside Paris on 9th September, 1677. The Te Deum calls for high pomp and considerable resources. Contemporary reports speak of the large forces (as many as 300 musicians, including chorus, orchestra, trumpets and drums) assembled to perform the work, even at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The success of the Te Deum is almost unique in the history of seventeenth century sacred music. Lully's Miserere mei Deus is another of his most famous motets, large-scale multi-movement works, structured in double-choir format with strings divided into six parts.

Purcell's ‘My heart is inditing of a good matter‘ was specially composed for the coronation of King James II on April 23rd 1685. It’s a large-scale composition that uses four-part strings, eight-part choir and eight soloists.

The two choirs, Dun Laoghaire Choral Society and Galway Baroque Singers will be joined by eight soloists for this performance: Mihaela Loredana Chirvase, Rory Costello, Rory Dunne, Ciaran Fennelly, Grainne Logue, Martha O'Brien, Kevin Neville and John McKeown. The choirs will accompanied by the exciting young orchestra that is Fishamble Sinfonia. 

David Brophy conducts.

Tickets are available here and at the door. They cost €20 and €15 for students.

Dun Laoghaire Choral Society is delighted to have been invited to perform Karl Jenkins' fantastic work "The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace", in a repeat performance of last year's sell-out "Concert for Peace" at Knock Basilica.

Composed to mark the millennium in 2000, Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is a powerful and compelling phenomenon in contemporary music, bringing the audience on an inspirational journey from the cacophony of conflict to a final message of hope and peace. It is a dramatically engaging work, vividly setting to music extracts from the Christian Eucharist and using influences and inspirations from all over the world, including poems by Kipling and Tennyson.

DLCS will be joined again by the Ballina Chamber Choir, Cor Mhaigh Eo and soprano Anne Marie Gibbons as well as the RTE Concert Orchestra, conductor David Brophy

Tickets are available from the NCH box-office: www.nch.ie

Save the date for our annual Messiah-for-All singalong, a seasonal favourite in South County Dublin. Grab your score and come and sing this glorious choral work with us, our soloists and conductor David Brophy. The atmosphere is fantastic and it is a great way to kick off the Christmas season. Proceeds always go to local charities and a donation to Monkstown Parish Church

David has recently taken over the musical direction of our children's choir, The SuperTones, and they will also be performing at this year's concert.

Soloists for this year's Messiah are some of the best young singers in the country. DLCS enjoys giving them the opportunity to sing this iconic work under the direction of Ireland's leading conductor, David Brophy. They are

• Sarah Brady, Soprano
• Bríd Ní Ghruagáin, Alto
• Andrew Gavin, Tenor
• David Howes, Bass

The organist will be Tristan Russcher.

Tickets are available on Eventbrite here or at the Post Office in Monkstown and at the door. They cost €25 for limited reserved seating on the balcony facing the altar, €20 for unreserved seating in the rest of the church (pews and side balconies). €10 for students.

DLCS and Galway Baroque Singers are delighted to bring our first concert in our CHORAL FUSION Double-Choir series to Galway. We will be performing Handel's Solomon in Galway Cathedral, just a week after our performance in Dublin.

Universally recognised as one of Handel's finest masterpieces, Solomon features magnificent choruses, but more ­importantly containing rapturous love music, nature imagery, affecting emotion and the vividly portrayed dramatic scene of Solomon’s famous judgement over the disputed infant. 

We are delighted to bring the same four soloists to Galway who will sing with us in Dublin - they will be named here shortly, and the choirs will again be accompanied by Fishamble Sinfonia. David Brophy conducts.

Tickets for the Galway concert are available here on Eventbrite and will also be available at the door. They cost €20 for general admission and €15 for students.

DLCS and Music Director will be holding auditions for soloists to take part in our forthcoming series of concerts for double choir. These concerts will take place in Dublin and Galway between November 2016 and March 2018.

The auditions will take place in Dublin (venue tbc) on Sunday May 20th.

Participants in the auditions must prepare one Handel aria and another 17th century aria of your choice in either French, Italian or German.

If you would like to take part, please contact our secretary Paraic for further details:

DLCS is delighted to welcome The Waldensian Choir of Turin for a choral exchange between Dublin and Turin on April 23rd (Dublin) and May 2nd (Turin).

The joint choirs will sing a variety of choral masterpieces from Mozart, Bach and Stanford.

Tickets will be on sale here and at the door.

Special Offer: Bring your ticket from our Spirit of America concert (9th April) to this concert and get your ticket at the discounted rate of €5 at the door!

Everyone is welcome to attend our annual Open Night, led by Music Director David Brophy. Come along and get a taste of what it's like to sing in one of Dublin's most dynamic and active choirs, under the direction of Ireland's leading conductor, David Brophy.

Music will be provided on the night.

There are still some tickets available for tonight's concert and will be on sale at the door.

If you have already bought tickets using PayPal and did not receive them in the post, they will be available for collection at the door.

Bring along your score and sing the choruses or simply sit back and take in the atmosphere and joyous singing.

David Brophy conducts and we are delighted to welcome back some of the wonderful young soloists who sang with us during our Complete Mozart Mass series of concerts in 2014/2015:

Maria McGrann, soprano

Carolyn Holt, alto

Andrew Gavin, tenor

David Howes, bass.

Tristan Russcher will play the organ and the choir will also be accompanied by trumpets and timpani.

Tickets are available for purchase at the door tonight.

A concert of sacred and secular music from Elizabethan England. The programme includes William Byrd's amazing Mass for Four Voices and a short selection of 16th century madrigals by composers such as Weelkes, Farmer, Morley, Tomkins.

The choir will be conducted by David Brophy.

Having originally conceived this Saturday's concert of Elizabethan music as a programme of two halves, the Music Director of Dún Laoghaire Choral Society (David Brophy) has taken the decision to amalgamate these halves. In doing so the concert duration has been somewhat reduced, presenting abundant riches from the Elizabethan choral tradition in a programme spanning roughly one hour. With this in mind, all tickets originally priced at €20 are now reduced to €10, while concession tickets, previously priced at €15, are now reduced to €5