CANTORAL Album Launch, Thursday 30th October
All-female early music vocal ensemble launches its debut album in Limerick
Cantoral, is an all-female early music vocal ensemble is made up of tutors, students and graduates of the Masters programme in Chant at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Cantoral launched its debut album LET THE JOYOUS IRISH SING ALOUD at the Dance Limerick space in John's Square Limerick (today). The album is a celebration of medieval chants from Ireland and from the rich continental tradition of chants for Irish saints including Patrick, Brigid, Columbanus, Killian and Gall. Most of this material has never been recorded previously and was sourced as part of research of Dr Helen Phelan, Director of the PhD Arts Practice Programme at the University of Limerick. It is the result of two years work on manuscripts from Trinity College Dublin, Oxford, Cambridge, the British Library, Paris and Augsburg. CANTORAL specializes in the performance of Irish medieval Latin chant.
Its members come from the US, Mexico, Japan, France and Ireland.
Cantoral has performed internationally in New York, Paris and Boston and has received invitations from Harvard, Yale and Notre Dame universities to share its scholarly expertise and unique performance style of Irish medieval chant.
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