Fews Ensemble and Aaron O'Hare

Programme:

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
Amy Rooney - Response (World Premiere concert tour)
Samuel Barber - Dover Beach

- Interval -

Franz Schubert - String Quartet no 14 in D Minor, Death and the Maiden

Aaron O’Hare

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Irish tenor, Aaron O’Hare, has recently transitioned from baritone and has sung with leading companies across the UK and Ireland.  As an Associate Artist with Welsh National Opera, he recently sang the title role in Don Giovanni on tour, Stárek Jenůfa and March Hare/White Knight in Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.  In 2021 he sang Schaunard La Bohème for Northern Ireland Opera and new commission Elsewhere, composed by Michael Gallen and produced in Ireland with support from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.

Aaron completed his BMus (Hons) degree at the University of Ulster and an MMus at the Royal Northern College of Music under the tutelage of Matthew Best.  He won Northern Ireland Opera’s Voice of 2015 competition, during their Festival of Voice, and is also a recipient of the BBC NI and Arts Council NI Young Musician’s Platform Award.   Aaron joined Garsington Opera’s Alvarez Young Artist’s programme in 2016 and was a member of the Opera Holland Park Young Artists in 2018.  He played Mike in John Adam’s I was looking at the Ceiling and then I saw the Sky for the studio of Opera Lyon in 2020.

The Fews Ensemble

Made up of leading chamber musicians, orchestral leaders and principals and soloists from Ireland, the UK and Europe, The Fews Ensemble performs up to eight projects per year across Ireland.  The resident ensemble of Newry Mourne and Down and Newry Chamber Music, The Fews are renowned, not only for the quality of their playing, but for their innovative programme led by Artistic Director, Joanne Quigley McParland.

The group specialises in cross arts projects, working most notably with actor Ciarán Hinds on several projects including a sell-out, critically acclaimed run, of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, in 2022.  In 2024 NCM and The Fews Ensemble founded the Narrow Water Festival to celebrate the announcement of the construction of Narrow Water Bridge.