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Tuning Up 2013 - 8 schools, 870 students!

vox merus have just returned from a thoroughly enjoyable tour through primary and secondary schools in the West Cork region as part of Cork County Council's Tuning Up programme, in conjunction with West Cork Music.

We met hundreds of welcoming, interested and enthusiastic young people and teachers who we enjoyed performing for - here's what the teachers had to say:

'Absolutely Super! Fantastic concert.'

St Mary’s Secondary School, Mallow

'Excellent. The students were engaged and enjoyed themselves thoroughly.'

Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown

'Very enjoyable and informative in a fun way – participation of children helped to keep them involved.'

Ballincollig Community School

'Very interesting. Great interaction with the students. Music selection great and easy to listen to. Very enjoyable.'

Scoil Naomh Iosaf, Riverstown, Glanmire

'An excellent programme. The children learned a lot about the instruments. They were very engaged with the performance. Very enjoyable.'

Scoil Bhride, Crossmahon, Bandon

'Excellent general introduction to the instruments and the music. Children were engaged and entertained. Good questions and answers.'

Union Hall NS

'Very good performance.'

Kilcrohane NS

'Excellent. Great interaction with pupils.'

Scoil Náisiúnta Mhuire, Rosscarbery

Tuning Up is part of Cork County Council’s Arts in Schools Programme and is organised and managed by West Cork Music. Tuning Up is part funded by the Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon.

Tuning Up 2103: 23 - 27 September

vox merus are proud to be visiting West Cork once again as part of Tuning Up 2013.

Tuning Up is part of Cork County Council’s Arts in Schools Programme and is organised and managed by West Cork Music. Tuning Up is part funded by the Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon.

vox merus @ Newry Chamber Music 22.5.13

Our 2013 programme, 5: Music for Brass Quintet, was enjoyed by a small but appreciative audience at the Sean Hollywood Arts Centre in Newry last night. Thanks to Joanne & David Quigley for the invitation to play and for making us feel most welcome! Hopefully brass ensembles will now be a regular feature of the Newry Chamber Music concert series.

Music @ Brighton Road 14.4.13

vox merus' programme, 5: Music for Brass Quintet, was extremely well received by the M@BR audience today...of special mention was the presence of Irish / Australian composer Houston Dunleavy, for the premiere of his brass quintet version of Music for Foul Play....thanks also to concert organiser Bill Dowdall and the M@BR team. The venue is very favourable for brass and made the concert a pleasure for performers and audience alike!

The programme was an homage to ground-breaking brass quintets and their repertoire, including:

Philip Jones Brass Quintet 
Giles Farnaby - Fancies, Toyes & Dreams
Andre Previn - Four Outings for Brass

Canadian Brass
Samuel Scheidt - Galliard Battaglia
JS Bach - Little Fugue in G Minor

Empire Brass
Victor Ewald - Brass Quintet No 3, Movement 1

The Wallace Collection
Jim Parker - excerpts from The Golden Section
William Walton - excerpts from Facade Suite

New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet
That's A Plenty - arranged Steven Cooper

The Composer / Performer Dialogue @ DIT Conservatory of Music 4pm, 30.11.12

This is the second instalment of this lecture presentation, providing a view into the intriguing world of a brass chamber music ensemble collaborating with composers to present a concert of new music, based on the vox merus / Irish Composers' Collective programme Impure Voices.

A case study of composer David Bremner's new work for brass quintet, Driving through the waste territories: (Winter), will be included, along with thoughts from the composer himself on his participation in the Impure Voices project.

Presented as part of DIT's Conservatory of Music lecture series.