Hunka & Dunne Duo
Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award
London born violinist Katherine Hunka has performed frequently at The Wigmore Hall, The Royal Albert Hall and The South Bank Centre in London. She has played a wide repertoire of concertos with orchestras including the City of London Sinfonia, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, which she led for the 1990-1991 season, and the Britten Pears Orchestra as winner of their concerto competition. She gave the world première of Britten’s Double Concerto with violinist Philip Dukes at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1997. An Irish tour in 2005 featured the Bruch Violin Concerto with the RTE Concert Orchestra. Katherine also made her debút with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland in 2005 performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Appointed Leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra in 2002, Katherine regularly directs from the leader’s chair. In autumn 2004 she performed double concertos with Nigel Kennedy as part of a fifteen concert tour of Ireland and the U.K. and in 2005 premiered a new Double Concerto by the Irish composer Raymond Deane. A member of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, she has guest-led the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She plays a Bernard Fendt violin made in 1832.
Since winning the RTÉ Musician of the Future competition in 1996, Dermot Dunne has become a regular performer throughout Ireland as a soloist and chamber musician, appearing at all major venues and festivals including the NCH, the Helix, Ulster Hall, Kilkenny Festival, Galway Festival, The Proms, Vogler Spring Festival and West Cork Chamber Music Festival. He has performed as soloist with the Ulster Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra and Irish Chamber Orchestra – with which he has toured as both soloist and conductor. Equally well known internationally, Dermot has performed in England, France, Portugal, Germany, Serbia, Macedonia and the Ukraine. The styles he performs range from Baroque to contemporary classical and from Bulgarian folk to Argentinean – which Dermot regularly performs with the Nuevo Tango Quartet and with guitarist and composer Ariel Hernandez. He plays a Pigini accordion made in Castelfidardo, Italy.
Tour Dates
Sunday 28 Feb, New Ross, Co. Wexford
- St. Mary’s Church
- 3.30pm, €15/€8 students
- 051 421766/421383. Tickets also available at door
Friday 12 Mar, Roundwood Co.Wicklow
- Calary Church
- 8.00pm, €15/€10
- 01-2818146 or derekneilson@eircom.net
Saturday 13 Mar, Tinahely Co.Wicklow
- The Courthouse
- 8.00pm, €15/14 /13
- 0402 38529 / www.tinahely-courthouse.ie
Saturday 20 Mar, An Daingean Co.Kerry
- An Lab Sr. Eoin/John St.
- 8.00pm , €12.50/€10
- Siopa Cheoil an Daingin/Dingle Music Shop, Príomh Sráid/Main St. nó ag an doras/door.
Sunday 21 Mar, Waterford
- Christ Church Cathedral
- 12 noon, €7/ €5 /€12 family)
- 051 858 958 / www.christchurchwaterford.com
Sunday 25 Apr, Dublin
- Hugh Lane Gallery
- 12 noon, Free Event
- Tickets available at the door
