The Cappa Ensemble February 2012
"This young award-winning Belfast pianist has an intuitive feel for music, and can cross musical boundaries effortlessly. "
Sunday Business Post on Michael McHale
"Intensely poetic."
New Zealand Herald on Bartosz Woroch
"O’Kane’s tender cello solo was welcome balm."
www.classicalsource.com on Brian O’Kane
The Cappa Ensemble (Ireland/Poland/UK)
Winners of Music Network’s Young Musicwide competition in 2009
Bartosz Woroch, violin
Adam Newman, viola
Brian O’Kane, cello
Michael McHale, piano
Named after the celebrated 17th-century Italian violin-maker Gioffredo Cappa, this exciting young chamber ensemble has quickly established itself as a quartet of outstanding artistry, equally at home playing classical and contemporary works. Previously a very successful string quartet, in July 2008 the group shifted its focus to performing works for both string trio and piano quartet. It has toured extensively in Australasia and Japan as well as enjoying a busy concert schedule performing to audiences throughout the UK.
Its four members are all top-notch performers in their own right – and both Brian O’Kane and Michael McHale are former winners of the Camerata Ireland Young Musician of the Year. McHale has established himself as one of the leading Irish pianists of his generation, while cellist O’Kane has collaborated with artists such as the Vanbrugh Quartet, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Polish violinist Bartosz Woroch has toured with the Bern Symphony Orchestra and the Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra and performed at the Barbican and the Wigmore Hall, and violist Adam Newman has played with the London Steve Reich Ensemble, the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Conchord Ensemble.
Programme for Cork:
Bach Inventions (arranged for string trio)
Franz Liszt Funérailles (from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
Frank Bridge Phantasy Quartet in f-sharp minor
Ian Wilson Noct for piano quartet (2011)
Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major K.493
Programme for Kilkenny
Bach Inventions (arranged for string trio)
Franz Liszt Funérailles (from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
Arnold Bax Piano Quartet in one movement
Frank Bridge Phantasy Quartet in f-sharp minor
Ian Wilson Noct for piano quartet (2011)
Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major K.493
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Tour Dates
Thursday 2 Feb, Union Quay, Cork
- Curtis Auditorium, CIT Cork School of Music
- 8pm, €20 (Concessions: €15-€8)
- Tickets only available at the door on the night
- Promoted by Cork Orchestral Society
Saturday 4 Feb, Ballytobin, Callan, Co. Kilkenny
- Castalia Hall
- 8pm, €15 / €10
- 056 7761497
- Promoted by Music in Kilkenny
