Welcome to the Sligo Baroque Orchestra website. Please take the time to look around and find out a bit about us. Check out our news section for any upcoming concerts.
Sligo
Baroque Orchestra began life as Sligo Early Music Ensemble in 1990 at
a time when classical instrumental music in Sligo was almost
non-existent.
Its
aim was playing music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
in a historically informed manner and for twenty years it has
maintained that goal, meeting for weekly rehearsals, exploring
hundreds of baroque compositions, holding workshops and giving more
than a hundred performances in Sligo and the North West.
The
orchestra is markedly inclusive, involving much sought-after
professional musicians as well as amateur and student
instrumentalists, and involving members from very different musical
backgrounds.
The
sbo has been joined by eminent soloists including cellist Stephan
Forck, viola player Stefan Fehlandt, flautist Eleanor Dawson, gamba
player Sarah Groser and violinists Niamh Crowley and Nicola Cleary.
This Sunday, 2nd February, marks the return of the Informal Music Afternoons for 2014. We have what promises to be a delightful start to 2014 withpianist Nadene Fiorentini, who has recently been announced as the Irish 'Rising Star' 2014 and will give her debut solo recital on the main stage of the National Concert Hall on 20th March, and in July will give a performance of Mendelssohn g minor piano concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra also in the NCH. She will be performing music by Haydn, Brahms and Chopin as part of the Sligo’s Informal Music Afternoon in The Model at 1 pm this Sunday (Feb 2nd) .
Also performing will be Steve Wickham, Anna Houston and Felip Carbonell, Nicola Cleary, Frances Bell, Peter Watters, Lorraine Howley, John Flanagan and the SBO.
Live music performed in a very informal setting in The Atrium with a cabaret style set-up, The Model’s cafe in operation, and a wonderful mix of music.
€5 and children go free....
Dublin Guitar Quartet performing a Philip Glass violin concerto at an IMA in late 2013
On Friday 29th November, Sligo Baroque Orchestra will perform Haydn's Cello Concerto in C and Mozart's Violin Concerto in G. Nicola Cleary will perform the Mozart while Anna Heuston will be performing the Haydn. Do come along and let the music provide you with an evening of calm before the Christmas frenzy begins to take hold! If the rehearsals are anything to go by, we are in for a treat on Friday... Calry Church, The Mall, 8pm.
It was great to musically bookend the summer with the Carrick
Watermusic Festival concert (which went so well) and the al fresco
music-making in Glebe House courtyard which despite midges and less than balmy
temperatures was special - and immediately fills the imagination with possible
future events. So my thanks to all who cooperated in these ventures...
Keep an eye on the website for our upcoming concerts over the coming months and also check out the Sligo Festival of Baroque Music website for information on the festival which takes place at the end of the month.
SBO performing in the courtyard of Glebe House
A quick rehearsal before the performance gets underway!
SBO will be performing at this years Carrick-on-Shannon Water Music Festival taking place from June 25 - 30th 2013. This will be the 9th annual Water Music Festival. SBO will perform on Thursday evening (27th June) led by Isabelle Fahy at 8pm in St. George's Church. The
programme includes symphonies by Frederick the Great and J.C. Bach, Albinoni’s
d minor oboe concerto (the one with the fabulous slow movement) and a Vivaldi
violin concerto, soloist Isabelle Fahy.
We in Sligo baroque
Orchestra hope that our numbers will significantly increase on Friday 21st June as we
invite instrumentalists to join us in a public rehearsal and play-through of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks at 6 pm. If you’d like to come and listen best might be to arrive
for 7 pm. We will be finished by 7.30. This is free to both listeners and
participants and part of LOVE LIVE MUSIC. Please come and join us...
Sligo Baroque Orchestra
with Isabelle Fahy leading will perform on Thursday 27th at 8 pm in St George’s
Church, Carrick-on-Shannon as part of Carrick-on-Shannon Water Music Festival. The programme includes symphonies by Frederick the Great and J.C.
Bach, Albinoni’s d minor oboe concerto (the one with the fabulous slow
movement) and a Vivaldi violin concerto, soloist Isabelle Fahy.
The sbo then has a
period without any pressure from a imminent concert and so we’ll use it to play
through new pieces. It’s an ideal time for someone who thinks that they’d like
to join the sbo to come along and stick a toe in the water.
Next Informal Music Afternoons on Sunday July 7th and brings two
new performers to Sligo: violinist Sarah Walsh (student of Katherine Hunka) and
guitarist David Keasting (post-grad student Cork School of Music)... and there
will also be Sligo performers creating the usual varied programme.
SBO will be performing in The Model on Wednesday 29th at 8PM. We will be playing excerpts from Telemann's Don Quixote Suite, works by JC Bach, WF Back & JD Zelenka. Why not come along and support the cause. Remember, children go free!
