Hilary Reynolds


				The Orpheus Choir's 5th Anniversary Concert on 24th. April, 2010 in St.Finnbarre's Cathedral, Cork City, with its conductor Hilary Reynolds. Soprano, Kitty Jansen and pianist, Jeroen Liedorp were both guests from The Netherlands. (photo © Will Knott)
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				Contact: telephone: (+00 353) 058 56856 mobile: (+00 353) 087 7924105 e-mail: hhreynolds@eircom.net


	In September 2005, Hilary Reynolds formed the nucleus of what has now become the Orpheus Choir, a fully-fledged, regional, mixed choir with 45 members hailing from North and East Cork to West Waterford. It is an unaffiliated choir with a refreshing difference, specialising in the performance and promotion of the great repertoire of secular choral music of the 18th , 19th and 20th centuries. The Orpheus Choir was invited to sing its inaugural concert at the opening of the 2007 North Cork Classical Music Festival and has, since then, given a series of very successful concerts in 2008 and 2009 in Conna, Cappoquin, Castlelyons, Fermoy and Mitchelstown. The choir has also been invited as a guest performer on a number of occasions; the last being a concert given by the famous Cork-born soprano, Mary Hegarty. In 2010, The Orpheus Choir celebrated its fifth anniversary with a Gala Concert in St. Finnbarre's Cathedral in Cork City and, on entering, for the first time, into two choir competitions, won a third prize in the first, the Feis Maitiú in Cork City, and a first prize in the second in the Féile an tSamhraídh in Midleton, Co. Cork. In 2011, the choir is planning to bring out its first CD.


			The Men: Tom Beresford, Daire Brunicardi, Billy Comber, Michael Dunne, Liam Fenton, Gerald Lane, Billy Lee, Donal Murphy, Sean O Murchú, Ciaran O'Connor, Nelius O'Flynn, Ted O'Leary, Mick Reidy, Frank Roche, Frank Ryan, Tim Sheehan, Hans VandenBos.
	The Orpheus Male Choir in 2010. (photo © Will Knott)


	The Women: Trisha Arnold, Clare Clancy, Marie Clancy, Ann Crotty, Mary Cullinane, Gillian Darrer, Kelly Davis-Jordan, Ann Galvin, Winnie Hickey, Mary Higgins, Marion Horgan, Josephine Howard, Jean Joyce, Sinéad Leyden, Trisha Moroney, Vera Noonan, Colette O'Donoghue, Lorraine O'Halloran, Claire O'Sullivan, Lorna O'Sullivan, Kay Ryan, Thérèse Ryan and Ita Whelan.
			The Orpheus Female Choir in 2010. (photo © Will Knott)

			St. Finnbarre's Cathedral, Cork City
	The pianist, Jeroen Liedorp, warming up his fingers an hour before the concert in 2010. (photo © Gerald Lane)


	THE MEMBERS OF THE CHOIR:

	Sopranos: Olivia Clifford, Mary Cullinane, Gillian Darrer, Kelly Davis-Jordan, Áine Griffin, Winnie Hickey, Mary Higgins, Josephine Howard, Jean Joyce, Catherine Kenneally, Claire O'Sullivan, Aileen Ryan and Ita Whelan. Altos: Clare Clancy, Ann Galvin, Maria Kenny, Sinéad Leyden, Vera Noonan, Colette O'Donoghue, Lorraine O'Halloran, Katherine O'Leary, Lorna O'Sullivan, Kay Ryan and Thérèse Ryan. Tenors: David Anglesey (Honorary Member), Daire Brunicardi, Liam Fenton, Donal Murphy, Sean O Murchú, Frank Ryan and Tim Sheehan. Basses: Tom Beresford, Billy Comber, Michael Dunne, Will Knott, Gerald Lane, Billy Lee, Ciaran O'Connor, Nelius O'Flynn, Ted O'Leary, Mick Reidy, Frank Roche, Andrew Thompson and Hans VandenBos.
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	NEW MEMBERS:

	All voices are welcome, especially tenors! If you are interested in joining The Orpheus Choir, please feel free to contact Hilary and come along to a choir practice to taste the atmosphere, hear the music and meet the gang. Afterwards, you can have a personal chat with Hilary to sort out further details.


	Choir practice in The Croke Library, St. Colman's College, Fermoy (photo © Gerald Lane)		You don't 'really' have to 'break a leg' to sing with Orpheus, ask Ciaran! (photo © Gerald Lane)

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REPERTOIRE LIST:

COMPOSERS	SONG TITLES
Bairstow, E. (arr.)	The oak and the ash (Old English air)
Bishop, H.	Home, sweet Home
Brahms, J.	Die Meere [sung in German]
Elgar, E.	My love dwelt in a Northern land (romance)
Grainger, P. (arr.)	Londonderry Air (Irish melody)
Haydn, J.	Be now gracious (from 'The Seasons')
Haydn, J.	Come, gentle spring (from 'The Seasons')
Loewe, C.	In passing by
MacFarren, G.A.	When daisies pied
MacFarren, G.A.	Orpheus with his lute
Maguire, L. (arr. H. Reynolds)	The Whistling Gypsy Rover
Makem, T. (arr. H. Reynolds)	Winds of Morning
Mendelssohn, F.	Abendlied [sung in German]
Mendelssohn, F.	An old romance - part 1: O fly with me part 2: One night there came part 3: Over their grave
Mendelssohn, F.	Departure
Mendelssohn, F.	Early springtime
Mendelssohn, F.	Gruss [sung in German]
Mendelssohn, F.	Valley of rest
Mendelssohn, F.	Wasserfahrt [sung in German]
Moeran. E.J. (arr.)	The sailor and young Nancy (Norfolk folk-song)
Molloy, J.L. (arr. A. Rowley)	The Kerry Dance
Mozart, W.A.	Nocturnos 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 [sung in Italian]
Reynolds, H. (arr.)	My Home in Fermoy (Irish folk-song)
Stanford, C.V.	The blue bird
Sterndale Bennett, H.	Come live with me
Vaughan Williams, R. (arr.)	Greensleeves (English traditional song)
Vaughan Williams, R. (arr.)	The turtle dove (English folk-song)
Verdi, G.	The Anvil Chorus (from 'Il Trovatore') [sung in Italian]
Verdi, G.	The Chorus of Hebrew Slaves (from 'Nabucco') [sung in Italian]
Verdi, G.	Monks' Chorus (from 'La forza del destino') [sung in Italian]
Wagner, R.	The Spinning Chorus (from 'The Flying Dutchman')
Wood, C.	Full fathom five

Portrait of Mendelssohn by the English miniaturist,
James Warren Childe

Sir Edward Elgar

verdi
Giuseppe Verdi

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