The Emsona Music Portal Tullamore - Gaelscoil an Eiscir Riada collaborative music project aims to offer a dynamic music-making experience for primary school aged learners to interact, create, and perform together with professional and amateur musicians as a community of music.
This project provides an opportunity to share experience and knowledge through observation and discussion of a collaborative artistic event and the process of its development. The project will engage classroom choirs and traditional instrumentalists from Gaelscoil an Eiscir Riada, a primary school based in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, in performance with the internationally acclaimed ConTempo Quartet and local community choir, Le Chéile.
Bogdan Sofei & Ingrid Nicola - violins
Andreea Banciu - viola
Adrian Mantu - cello
Formed in 1995 when students at the Music University in Bucharest, Romania, the ConTempo Quartet have toured the world extensively and become one of the most celebrated string quartets performing today. Winners of 14 international prizes.
“I find a real immediacy in the bright, exaggerated extroversion of the ConTempo Quartet’s music-making which is as unusual and as refreshing as it is pleasurable."
Philip Hammond
Culture Northern Ireland
Andrius Kozlovskis, Director
Le Chéile is a community choir based in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Founded in 2007 by Musical Director, Andrius Kozlovskis, the choir possesses a broad repertoire from sacred to secular music, old standards, and popular music - with a twist! Le Chéile regularly presents musical events for the benefit of both local and national charities and collaborative music-making is at the heart of their contribution to the musical life of the locality. The choir is regularly seen teaming up to perform with a wide variety of musical talent and in many different musical styles and settings.
Adele O’Dwyer, Founder
Based in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland, Adele is a cellist, composer and educator with a varied musical career spanning 4 decades. The focus of Adele’s current work is on the creation of opportunities to break down barriers that limit music-learning participation. This Emsona Music Portal Tullamore - Gaelscoil an Eiscir Riada project represents the first step on that journey.
Embrace the journey,
Embody the music,
Empower the artist.
Music for Life