Con Brio Sligo Music Series 2009 – 2010

I’m delighted to present the 2009/2010 Con Brio season. It will not have escaped your notice that belts everywhere are being tightened so I am especially pleased that Con Brio has managed to maintain its usual number of concerts and high calibre of music making. This season perhaps features a higher proportion of Irish performers than usual, but this is as much as anything a reflection of the wonderful talent the country has to offer these days.

We welcome to Sligo for the first time two of Britain’s leading musicians – violinist Tasmin Little and guitarist Amanda Cook – and also making their Con Brio debuts, Ireland’s Ensemble Avalon plus the wonderful violin and accordion duo of Katherine Hunka and Dermot Dunne. We’re always pleased to greet old friends, and it’s been too long since Catherine Leonard and Hugh Tinney last played here; their programme of Beethoven and Debussy should be one of the season’s highlights. Also returning to Sligo are the superb Vanbrugh Quartet and the very popular Míceál O’Rourke.

The repertoire on offer this season is as wide as ever, from Renaissance guitar music and Baroque keyboard music to Chopin in his anniversary year, an Ysäye solo violin sonata and even a specially-commissioned new work from Irish composer Ronan Guilfoyle.

It promises to be another great series; I hope to see you there.

Ian Wilson

When we started Con Brio in 1999 we thought we may be able to keep it up for a year or two but we’re still here, mainly thanks to YOU!

While everybody else is cutting programmes, slashing budgets and reducing costs, we are able to present a full season of concerts, a master-class, a lecture series and a commission for a new work.

How do we do all this on very limited funds? Because our belts were always tight, because we never spent a cent over what was necessary and because YOU helped us.
Apart from a grant from Sligo County Council Arts Office which covers 15 -20% of our costs, and some generous sponsorships from supporters, Con Brio relies on YOUR patronage, YOUR attendance at our concerts and YOUR support to help us on the way.

THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR ON-GOING SUPPORT.
www.con-brio.org

Luisa Mac Conville,
Con Brio Committee