Media Release 29 October 2015

Pianist Barry Douglas and Camerata Ireland return from South American tour to perform afternoon concert at the National Concert Hall

Sunday 8th November 2015, 3pm
National Concert Hall
Sunday Matinée Series 2015

On Sunday 8th November at 3pm one of Ireland’s most distinguished international pianists Barry Douglas, will be directing and performing with his own orchestra Camerata Ireland in an afternoon concert of Mozart and Beethoven as part of the National Concert Hall’s Sunday Matinée Series.

Barry Douglas has forged a successful career as a pianist, conductor and orchestral director of international renown since winning gold at the legendary Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow in 1986. In 1999 he founded Camerata Ireland, an orchestra of Irish musicians which has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence. Together they return home to Ireland from a tour of South America before embarking on a tour of China in December 2015.

For their National Concert Hall recital Douglas and Camerata Ireland will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K. 466, with Douglas playing his own cadenzas.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 provides a delightful contrast to the ominous mood of the Mozart concerto for the second half of the concert. Camerata Ireland is an orchestra well positioned to perform Beethoven, having recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos to great critical acclaim. They also performed all of Beethoven’s piano concertos at the recent Kilkenny Arts Festival. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 was described by composer Hector Berlioz approximately forty years after its first performance as ‘noble, energetic and proud.’

The National Concert Hall’s Sunday Matinée Series continues on the 22nd of November with a recital by internationally renowned tenor Mark Padmore and prize-winning British pianist Paul Lewis performing Schubert’s sublime early masterpiece Die Schöne Mullerin D. 795.

Tickets are €20 and available from the National Concert Hall Box Office, telephone 01-417 0000 or visit www.nch.ie

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For further information please contact: Sinead Doyle, Marketing & PR Manager, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 417 0057/ 087 1775334