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“Cappella Caeciliana” |
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On
Saturday 7 December 2019 St John’s Malone was honoured to host once
again one of the
Ireland’s leading chamber choirs, Cappella
Caeciliana, a Belfast based choir conducted by Donal
McCrisken, which specialises in singing liturgical music. |
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The choir sings at
a wide variety of church services and concerts throughout Northern
Ireland and has also had a number of international
tours which have included: competing in the 2004 Montreux Choral
Festival, a
tour to Rome in 2008 which included singing at a Papal Audience and a USA tour
in 2011. It is currently planning to sing in Krakov in Easter 2020. |
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They visited St John's in May 2010 for their summer concert and again on
8 December 2013 for a Christmas Concert to raise funds for the Royal
Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. Noel Thompson was the Compere and
the programme also featured choirs from Rathmore Grammar School and
Inchmarlo, and a Quartet fro Queen's University Music Dept. |
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On this visit Capella Caeciliana presented a Programme of
Christmas Music The choir, conducted by Donal McCrisken, was joined by the accomplished harpist Tanya Houghton. The concert was followed by refreshments in the Seaver Hall where jazz music was provided by David Howell and Scott Flanagan.
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