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The Cloughmore Male Voice Choir is celebrating another milestone in its remarkable history. Colette Hart-Lavery has completed twenty five years as musical director, a wonderful example of voluntary service. She was at the beginning of her teaching career when one of her pupils told her that her father sang in a male voice choir and that they needed a new musical director. Colette agreed to fill the vacancy and found herself with a choir somewhat depleted in numbers.
She built up the membership and still in keeping with the traditions of the choir introduced new music to the repertoire. Her expert choral teaching and her thoroughness paid off bringing renewed life to the choir. Under her direction there were two concerts a year, a CD called “Reflections”, performances with top class soloists and with other choirs. There were engagements to sing at many different venues, the most prestigious being at Aras An Uachtarain official residence of President Mary McAleese in Dublin.
Colette is leaving the choir to pursue her studies and we wish her well. She will be greatly missed by the choir and her audience of faithful fans who looked forward to the concerts at Christmas and in the Summer.
The “Gala Concert” on Wednesday 10th June will be a celebration of her accomplishment over twenty five years with the Choir.
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Musical Director Colette Hart-Lavery with members of the Choir
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The Cloughmore Male Voice Choir's Summer Concert will take place in the Newry City Hall on the 10th June 2009
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Our Musical Director Colette Hart-Laverty has indicated that She will retire after 25 years of loyal service to the Cloughmore Male Voice Choir, (See Above Item)
Colette has chosen the programe for this concert from all the songs that she has enjoyed teaching the Choir over all those years.
The accompanist Patrick Coyle from Newry will acompany the soloist as well as the choir, and will also present a piano recital.
Known as Ireland's Golden Voice hails from the border town of Dundalk in County Louth. He is known to perform with incredible stamina, agility, and flexibility. He is described as having "a beautiful Italian quality in his voice, a remarkable sound, and a fantastic vocal range". David began his vocal training studying with Geraldine McGee in Dundalk before being accepted to study with Dr Veronica Dunne and Ms Jeannie Reddin in the Leinster College of Music and Drama. Winner of The Denis O Sullivan Medal (Sligo), The Tenor Solo and the Joseph O' Mara Memorial Cup in Dublin, among other prestigious awards and achievements, David successfully completed Il Corso Di Canto E Perfezionamento Lirico in Montalto Ligure, Northern Italy. He has performed the lead tenor roles in the several full stage productions including, "The Lilly of Killarney", "The Gypsy Baron", "Pink Champagne", and the first ever performance of Goethe’s Singspiel “Claudine von Villa Bella”. His repertoire in Oratorio, in addition to many sacred Songs and Aria's, includes Mozart’s Requiem K626, and Handel’s Messiah. In his career to date, David has gained a wealth of experience in concert and stage performance, singing tenor roles in excerpts from opera such as La Fille du Regiment, La Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Lucia Di Lammermoor, La Traviata, and many more. His repertoire is extensive, performing on TV and Radio on many occasions, in the National Concert Hall, and in many theatrical venues around Ireland and UK. His latest appearances in 2009 were Friday 10 April in Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, in aid of the Carmichael Centre for voluntary groups, where he performed Handel's Messiah Parts 2 & 3, with soloists Virginia Kerr (Soprano), Philip O'Reilly (Bass), Cora Newman- Riley (Contralto), the Goethe-Institute Choir and The Dublin Orchestral Players, Conducted by John Dexter, and The Monsignor Peter Shields Memorial Concert, Darver Castle, Co Louth, He is currently on tour with The 3 Tenors (Le Voci) in venues around Ireland. For further information on his scheduled performances please visit www.davidmartin.ie or www.threetenorsireland.com
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The Cloughmore Male Voice Choir Held its annual Summer Concert in the Newry City Hall on Wednesday 11th June 2008.This year the guest singer was Christer Nerfont (Tenor) from Sweden, accompanied by Patrick Coyle on the piano, who presented a very light and melodic programme, including favourites such as,”Younger Than Springtime”,New York,New York”,”On The Night Of a Thousand Stars”and” Bring Him Home “from Les Miserables, all of which were well received by the audience.
The other guest artist was flautist Darren Canmore with a delightful programme.
Christer Nerfont
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Newry Reporter Dec 2007
It was unique in the History of the Cloughmore Male Voice Choir- a Standing Ovation and a shout for an encore for “O Holy Night”. Dean Power a young Lyrical Tenor from Co. Clare was the Soloist and the backing and chorus from the Choir were very moving. Dean had the audience enthralled from the beginning with pure unforced singing and his sincerity. He sang, “Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes” from Gilbert and Sullivan, “She is Far from the Land”, ”Maria” from West Side Story and La Donna E Mobile in the first half. It was his rendering in the second half of the old favourite “My Lagan Love” and the modern pieces “Gabriel’s Oboe” and “Time to Say Goodbye” that really thrilled the audience and set them up for “O Holy Night”.
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