Lunchtime Concert: Megan O'Neill & Andrew Synnott

Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
Riverstown Hall

For the final lunchtime concert of 2021-22, soprano Megan O'Neill is joined by pianist Andrew Synnott, to perform a recital of songs by Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, and Anna Pigdorna.

A BMus graduate of Maynooth University, Megan O'Neill is a student in the Doctor of Music Performance programme at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and recipient of the 2022 RDS Music Bursary. She also recently won the Gervase Elwes Memorial Cup at the 2022 Feis Ceoil, and played the role of 'Teen Polar Bear' in The Scorched Earth Trilogy by Brian Irvine and John McIlduff, a video opera produced by Irish National Opera and Dumbworld. This summer, she will be performing the title role in Cinderella by Alma Deutscher at Wexford Festival Opera, and sings the lead role of Jane in the film opera DreamCatchr by Kevin O'Connell, which will be released shortly.

Dr Andrew Synnott is artist in residence and chorus master of Wexford Festival Opera. He has conducted operas for Irish National Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Opera Theatre Company, Co-Opera, Glasthule Opera, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music, as well as having been musical director for opera productions at the Buxton Opera Festival, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and in Australia, Portugal and France. Active as an opera composer and arranger, Andrew also works with singing students at the Royal Irish Academy of Music as conductor and vocal coach.

PROGRAMME
Sechs Lieder (Opus 13) by Clara Schumann
1. Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen 
2. Sie liebten sich beide 
3. Liebeszauber 
4. Der Mond kommt still gegangen 
5. Ich hab’ in deinem Auge 
6. Die stille Lotosblume 
 
Three Browning Songs by Amy Beach
1. The Year's at the Spring
2. Ah, Love, but a Day
3. I Send my Heart up to thee
 
Amhráin Chaointe by Anna Pidgorna
1. Caoineadh Eibhlín  
2. Caoineadh na Máthar dá hIníon  
3. Caoine Magaidh