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Previous Concerts, Plays & Exhibitions

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Sunday 23rd December 2019
A charity concert organised by Aisling and
Julie-Anne Manning & Deirdre Brenner in aid of the Jack &Jill Children's foundation.



​Thursday 23 May 2019 
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Camarilla Ensemble
 Ravel, Mozart, Zemlinsky and Gershwin. 
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Flute – Julian Sperry, Oboe – Rachel Harwood-White,  Clarinet – Nicholas Ellis, 
Horn – Katie Pryce, Bassoon – Louise Watson


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​Saturday March 9th  2019 at 8 pm    PAT COLDRICK
A charity concert in Memory of Edward Lenox-Conyngham. Proceeds going to Doolaaargy National School

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​Sunday 6th January 2019 
​​                EPIPHANY
A solo theatre performance revolving around James Joyce's 'The Dead'  written and performed by Declan Gorma 

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Sunday 2nd September 2018

​Ciara Casey 
will sing songs by Puccini, Balfe, Vincent Wallace and Jerome Kern. Also Lark in the Clear Air and Gortnamona (Percy French).
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​Daniel Kearney will accompany Ciara and also play music by Poulenc, Borodin, Mozart and Nikolai Kapustin.

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​July 2018


QUINTESSENCE THEATRE

The Deadly Wizard of Oz


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​Saturday 6th January 2018

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Sunday 28th May 2017
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     Brontë
A solo portrait of  Charlotte Brontë

Written by William Luce
Performed by Sharon McArdle
Directed by Declan Gorman
Costumes by Sinead Roberts

     (By permission of Samuel French)  

Commissioned by Banbridge Borough Council. 2016 was the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth         

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Willian Luce  is an American playwright specialising in one person plays. In this portrait, Charlotte Bronte reviews the life she and her sisters lived with their curmudgeonly father. It is cleverly staged as she writes a letter while waiting for Mr Nicholls whom she expects to call and ask for her hand in marriage
Sharon McArdle trained as an actor at Rose Burford College in London and has worked with the Unicorn and Belgrade Theatres. Previous roles include Irina in Chekov's Three sisters and Juliet in Romeo & Juliet. Currently she lectures at the School of Arts and Movement, Dublin City University.
Declan Gorman founded Upstate Theatre, a professional company based in Drogheda and now directs freelance. Plays directed include The Green Fool; Macbeth; & The Big Fellow.
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​Sunday 20th November 2016 
Violin & Piano Recital
Jennifer Murphy &  Peter Regan
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Schubert - ‘Duo’ Sonata in A major for violin & piano D.574 
Poulenc - Sonata for Violin & Piano FP119                           
Elgar - Sonata for Violin & Piano in E minor Op.82               
Pablo de Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen                                   

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Saturday 19 November 2016
Booker-nominat​ed novelist Donal Ryan and the Patrick Kavanagh Award winning poet Martin Dyar will present a special evening of collaborative and interactive explorations of their work. Reading in a special call and response format, the two writers will also offer reflections on their creative processes and the centrality of rural Ireland to their writing.


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Saturday 20th August 2016                     
            House Plays

 Written & directed by Mina Tenison
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Performed by
Ken Fletcher & Amy Kinlon

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27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st of July 2016
          Grimm Tales for Young and Old
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Performed in the woods and garden at Anaverna by Quintessence Theatre
        
     

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Wednesday 23rd December 2015
Deirdre Brenner, Julie-Anne Manning and her sister Aisling, who run the excellent Boyne Music Festival, have arranged a concert at Anaverna on Wednesday 23rd December at 7 pm.
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Most of the musicians have family connections with Ravensdale or close-by, but I don't think that applies to John Chest, who has recently sung the title role of Billy Budd to great acclaim at Deutsche Oper Berlin, or to Layla Claire who will be singing Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival in 2016.

The performers include Deirdre Brenner, John Chest, Layla Claire, Dennedy Sisters, Donnelly Family, Annemarie McGahon, Atesh Kirkan, Manning Sisters, Vourneen Ryan, Robin Panter.

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         Friday December 11, 2015
           A Christmas Carol           
Performed by Michael James Ford, Helene Montague and Ruairi Heading.

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 Sunday 18th October 2015 - Daniel Kearney (piano)
                                                                                                  
                              Beethoven - 32 Variations in C Minor
                              Beethoven - Sonata No 30  in E Major,  Op 109
                              Debussy - Clair de Lune
                               Chopin - Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat major, Op. 61
 

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Sunday 6th September

Garden Party
 

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for Celeste and Aneale

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   20th - 23rd August 2015
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        Alice in Wonderland
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Sunday 28 th June 2015

   Deirdre Moynihan (soprano)
   Fionnuala Moynihan (piano)                                                           
​Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff & Field.
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Friday 22nd May 2015        Pat Coldrick 

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Sunday April 19th, 2015

Sharon Carty 
Jonathan Ware 

Songs by Franz Schubert 
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Sunday March 29 2015
Joanne Quigley (violin) & Geraldine O’Doherty (harp)
Beethoven - Romance in F
Shostakovich - Romance from the Gadfly
John Williams - Schindler’s list
Kreisler - Liebesleid, Schon Rosmarin, Kreisler - Preludium and Allegro
Debussy - Clair de Lune
Faure - Apres une Reve
Massenet - Meditation from Thais
Sarasate - Carmen Fantasy


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Sunday 4th & Sunday 11th January 2015 
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A series of sonnets and monologues from Shakespeare's plays performed by Ben Apple.

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Sunday 21st September 2014 
Michael McHale  (piano) and Karl Sweeney (violin)

          Schubert: Impromptus op. 90
          Beethoven: "Spring" Sonata op.24
          Debussy: Estampes
          Grieg: Violin Sonata No.3 in C minor op.45




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 Satuday 19 and Sunday 20 July 2014
 Lugh and the Children of Tuireann
 A play for children (in the age range 3 to 90!) in the gardens and woods at Anaverna House in Ravensdale




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Sunday Ist June 2014


Nicolas Pujane  (piano)

Beethoven: -  Piano Sonata No.15 in D Major, op.28 "Pastoral" 
Liszt:  - Nuages Gris 
            - Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude 



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Sunday 11 May 2014 
Finghin Collins (piano)

          Haydn - Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:49
          Schumann - Carnival Scenes from Vienna, Op. 26
          Chopin - Twelve Etudes Op. 25



Sunday 23rd March 2014
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Sunday 23rd March 2014
Gina Maria McGuinness (violin)
Dimitri Papadimitriou (piano)


Brahms: Sonata for violin and piano No.2 in A major
De Falla: Suite on Spanish Folk Songs
 Strauss: Sonata for violin and piano in E-flat major op.18

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Sunday 16th February 2014 
         Alessandro Taverna 
Felix Mendelssohn: Venetianische Gondellied from Songs without Words
Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l’ocean, from Miroirs
Franz Liszt: Venezia e Napoli & La Lugubre Gondola
Claude Debussy: L’Isle Joyeuse & Clair de Lune, from Suite Bergamasque
Igor Stravinsky: Trois mouvements de”Petrouchka”


Sunday 1st December 2013 at 3pm

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Music Network Presents
Benjamin Britten as I knew him: A Musical Portrait
by John Elwes with Finghin Collins and Brian O'Kane

Sunday 13th October 2013 -  Fiachra Garvey (Piano)

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Brahms - Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21 No. 1

Clara Schumann - Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann Op. 20
Lachenmann - 5 Variations on a Theme of Schubert
Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales 
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 8 in Bb Op. 84



Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st July 2013 - The Adventures of the Three Bold Babes.

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A play for children (age range 3 to 90) based on the illustrated book by Rosamond Praeger  performed in the gardens and woods at Anaverna.

Directed by Sharon McArdle with costumes designed by Leanne Mullen.
Doc Lavery as the Wicked King
Alvaro Lucchesi as the Lazy Vagabond
John Noonan as the Giant
Lord Bellew as the Bad Old Knight


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Saturday 2nd March 2013 .  Pat Coldrick

Pat played his own compositions and arrangements as well as works by Fernando Sor, Francisco Tarrega, Isaac Albeniz,  Antonio Carlos Jobim and Mozart.

Friday 7th December 2012

Art Exhibition.  French Artists, Thierry Faure & his son Antoine Faure - oil and watercolor paintings, inspired by their passions for horses, jazz & cabaret. 
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MICHAEL McHALE – Piano

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Music by Schubert, Liszt, John Field and William V Wallace. Also works by contemporary Irish composers Philip Hammond, Donnacha Dennehy and Garrett Sholdice - and Michael’s own arrangement of traditional Irish airs.

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Sunday 2nd September at 3pm

Jane Rooney, accompanied by Sean Rooney. Songs by Henry Purcell, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Michael Head and William Walton.

Thursday 30th August at 8pm – Mary Quinn

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Music by Elgar, Tartini, Haydn and Ravel




Sunday 30th September at 3pm

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Village Wooing by George Bernard Shaw

Starring Peter Gaynor and Rebecca Grimes. Directed by Michael James Ford. 


Sunday 14 October, 3pm – 

Evan Christopher

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Evan Christopher - clarinet, David Blenkhorn - solo guitar, Dave Kelbie - rhythm guitar, Sébastien Girardot – bass.

A mêlée of gypsy swing, New Orleans collective improvisation, and what Jelly Roll Morton called the ‘Spanish tinge’, with the rhythms of Cuba, Brazil and the Caribbean.

Evan Christopher is reputed to be the greatest Jazz Clarinetist alive.






We have concerts (mostly classical but sometimes jazz or traditional music) and plays at Anaverna.
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