Concert
Programme
2024
Miniatures
Sunday 8 December, 1pm
Carlingford Heritage Centre
The Fews Ensemble present a fresh approach to the String Quartet recital with a concert of stunning single movement pieces for this most popular of chamber music genres, interspersed with thematic poetry and prose.
The Fews Ensemble
Mia Cooper violin
Joanne Quigley McParland violin
James Slater viola
Jonathan Aasgaard cello
Maire Flavin soprano
with Kevin Trainor actor
(biography below)
Programme
Music by Jesse Montgomery, Joaquin Turina, Respighi, Caroline Shaw, Osvaldo Golijov, Webern, and Piazzolla
Poetry by Ernest Hemingway, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roisin Kelly, Emily Dickinson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Patrick Kavanagh, and Daniel Kemper
Newry Chamber Music and The Fews Ensemble acknowledge the financial support of the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon in making this concert possible.
Tickets: €20/10
Buy securely online below or by emailing concerts@newrychambermusic.org
Kevin Trainor actor
Kevin Trainor is an actor from Kilkeel, County Down. He had the great good fortune to be a student of Sean Hollywoodat St Colman’s College, taking part in a wide variety of plays there and with the Newpoint Youth Group in Newry. He went on to study English at Cambridge University and Acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes: An Octoroon (National Theatre); Playboy of the Western World, Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic); Comedy of Errors, Postcards from America, Solstice, Twelfth Night (RSC & West End); Bent (West End); Tartuffe, Drama at Inish (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). Saint Joan (Lyric, Belfast); Titanic (The Mac, Belfast); title role in Doctor Faustus (West Yorkshire Playhouse/ GlasgowCitz); Canary (Liverpool/Hampstead/ETT); The Lovers of Viorne (Frontier Theatre); Lost Monsters (Liverpool Everyman); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose Theatre Kingston);
2000 Feet Away (Bush); Gladiator Games(Theatre Royal Stratford East); By Jeeves (Landor); Duck (The Playground); Fishbowl (Theatre503).
TV includes: Clean Sweep, Endeavour, Utopia, Wodehouse in Exile, Vera, London Irish, The Café, Sherlock, John Adams, The Catherine Tate Show, Tripping Over, Building the Titanic and Commander.
Films includes: Hellboy and Make It New John.
Radio includes: Tommies, Ulysses, The Royal Game, The Hares in the Old Plantation, and Rasselas.