Dublin Bach Singers
The Dublin Bach Singers, under the baton of Blánaid Murphy, was founded in 2002, bringing together a collection of excellent choristers who share a great love of Bach. A prolific new chamber choir was born. Their inaugural performance that year, Handel’s Messiah in Donnybrook Church, established the choir as an instant success.
DBS began a fruitful relationship with The Orchestra of St. Cecilia in 2003, performing in the Bach Cantata Series. That same year, the groups collaborated on Bach’s St John Passion to critical acclaim.
In the next two years, DBS and OSC treated packed houses to Messiah in Donnybrook Church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Armagh) and Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral. 2005 brought a new collaboration, as the Carlow Choral Society joined the Singers and OSC for Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Pro-Cathedral to further critical acclaim. That summer, DBS took part in the Gala Choral Concert of the World Harp Symposium, National Concert Hall, Dublin; a stunning performance of Bach’s demanding Mass in B Minor in the Pro-Cathedral followed in autumn.
Recent years have included charity performances of the St John Passion and ongoing participation in the Bach Cantata Series, and performing the Mozart Mass in C minor at the National Concert Hall, with Kenneth Montgomery guest conducting. Their Messiah performance each Christmas in the Pro-Cathedral has earned a place of honour in the Dublin musical calendar, and they have performed to a sold-out National Concert Hall in Raymond Gubbay's Carols by Candlelight and White Christmas concerts.
In 2009, the Dublin Bach Singers toured with 'The Priests', singing in venues such as the O2 Dublin, Odyessy Arena Belfast, National Concert Hall Dublin and Theatre Royal Castlebar. They also sung Allegri's Miserere in concert St. Patrick's Cathedral with CRUX Vocal Ensemble. Highlights from their 2009/2010 season included the final concert in the Orchestra of St. Cecilia's ten-year Bach Cantata Series, and a performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Palestrina Choir, St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral Girls' Choir and the Orchestra of St. Cecilia.
2011 saw the choir performing Haydn's Sieben Letzten Worte with the Orchestra of St Cecilia and in November the choir gave a concert under the direction of Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, former Kantor at the Leipzig Thomaskirche and 15th direct successor to J.S. Bach. In March 2012, the beginning of their 10th anniversary celebrations, they performed the St Matthew Passion with The Palestrina Choir.
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DBS began a fruitful relationship with The Orchestra of St. Cecilia in 2003, performing in the Bach Cantata Series. That same year, the groups collaborated on Bach’s St John Passion to critical acclaim.
In the next two years, DBS and OSC treated packed houses to Messiah in Donnybrook Church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Armagh) and Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral. 2005 brought a new collaboration, as the Carlow Choral Society joined the Singers and OSC for Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Pro-Cathedral to further critical acclaim. That summer, DBS took part in the Gala Choral Concert of the World Harp Symposium, National Concert Hall, Dublin; a stunning performance of Bach’s demanding Mass in B Minor in the Pro-Cathedral followed in autumn.
Recent years have included charity performances of the St John Passion and ongoing participation in the Bach Cantata Series, and performing the Mozart Mass in C minor at the National Concert Hall, with Kenneth Montgomery guest conducting. Their Messiah performance each Christmas in the Pro-Cathedral has earned a place of honour in the Dublin musical calendar, and they have performed to a sold-out National Concert Hall in Raymond Gubbay's Carols by Candlelight and White Christmas concerts.
In 2009, the Dublin Bach Singers toured with 'The Priests', singing in venues such as the O2 Dublin, Odyessy Arena Belfast, National Concert Hall Dublin and Theatre Royal Castlebar. They also sung Allegri's Miserere in concert St. Patrick's Cathedral with CRUX Vocal Ensemble. Highlights from their 2009/2010 season included the final concert in the Orchestra of St. Cecilia's ten-year Bach Cantata Series, and a performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Palestrina Choir, St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral Girls' Choir and the Orchestra of St. Cecilia.
2011 saw the choir performing Haydn's Sieben Letzten Worte with the Orchestra of St Cecilia and in November the choir gave a concert under the direction of Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, former Kantor at the Leipzig Thomaskirche and 15th direct successor to J.S. Bach. In March 2012, the beginning of their 10th anniversary celebrations, they performed the St Matthew Passion with The Palestrina Choir.
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Blánaid Murphy, conductor
Blánaid Murphy has been the director of Dublin Bach Singers since its foundation in 2002. Blánaid was Organ Scholar at Cambridge University and furthered her studies at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart.
She has wide experience as a Choral Director, adjudicator and Choral Consultant. One of Ireland’s most active conductors, she has been Choral Director of the RTÉ Children’s Choir Cór na nÓg and the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, and is currently Musical Director of Dubin Bach Singers, Carlow Choral Society and the Royal Irish Academy of Music Chorale. In May 2009, Blánaid was instrumental in the formation of the St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Girls’ Choir.
Her many recordings have included the record-breaking Faith of Our Fathers CD and Cór, arrangements of Irish Melodies on the ARSIS label. She has released five CDs with the Palestrina Choir; the most recent of these, O Sacrament Most Holy, has just been released and forms part of the lead up to the International Eucharistic Congress which will be held in Dublin in June 2012.
You can follow also Blánaid on Twitter!
She has wide experience as a Choral Director, adjudicator and Choral Consultant. One of Ireland’s most active conductors, she has been Choral Director of the RTÉ Children’s Choir Cór na nÓg and the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, and is currently Musical Director of Dubin Bach Singers, Carlow Choral Society and the Royal Irish Academy of Music Chorale. In May 2009, Blánaid was instrumental in the formation of the St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Girls’ Choir.
Her many recordings have included the record-breaking Faith of Our Fathers CD and Cór, arrangements of Irish Melodies on the ARSIS label. She has released five CDs with the Palestrina Choir; the most recent of these, O Sacrament Most Holy, has just been released and forms part of the lead up to the International Eucharistic Congress which will be held in Dublin in June 2012.
You can follow also Blánaid on Twitter!
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