Join us for a very special American-Irish choral concert full of beautiful music with the American Pittsburgh Girl’s Choir and Dublin based Vocal Ensemble Peregryne. The concert is taking place in St Peter & Paul’s Church in Balbriggan on the 25th of June at 8pm. The programme will include pieces by Felix Mendelssohn, Eric Whitacre, Ola Gjeilo, Charles Wood and many more.
This is a charity event. All proceeds are donated to the Irish Youth Foundation.
Pittsburgh Girls Choir
Mission: The Pittsburgh Girls Choir is committed to artistic excellence and performance through an exemplary music education program, and welcomes girls of all races, ethnicities and economic backgrounds into our supportive community.
Vision: Pittsburgh Girls Choir seeks to share the transcendent beauty of girls’ voices and strives to transform the lives of choristers by creating communities of compassion, excellence, and mutual respect.
Peregryne
Peregryne is a small vocal ensemble established in Vienna in 2009 that specialises in performing rarely heard church music, particularly large scale late-medieval Marian antiphons often taken from the Eton choirbook (c.1500). Over the past nine years, its international membership has drawn together musicians from Ireland, England, France, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Korea.
The group has performed in Ireland, England, Austria and Switzerland including a tour to Graz and Vienna in 2014 and a week’s residency at Bristol cathedral in 2015. Peregryne won the RTÉ Lyric FM Choirs for Christmas competition with Palestrina, Hodie Christus natus est in 2014 and most recently sang a ‘Service of the Word’ on RTÉ 1 television and RTÉ Radio 1, broadcast on Sunday 5 August 2018. In June, Peregryne performed a concert for the Irish International A Capella Festival in the University Church, but can most often be found performing the monastic office of compline in churches and cathedrals around Dublin.
The name Peregryne, ultimately finds its origins in the Latin 'peregrinus', meaning foreign or exotic, as the Irish monks or 'peregrinatio' must have appeared when wandering through medieval Europe. Its cognate is the word 'pelegrim', and today we are privileged to continue a tradition of choral pilgrimage throughout Europe and beyond.