Cathedral’s annual series of summer recitals goes online
The Galway Cathedral annual season of summer recitals will take place online this year due to Covid-19, and is running from next Thursday, July 2, to Thursday, July 30, at 8pm nightly. Each organ recital will last for 20 minutes.
The first, next Thursday, will be given by Salthill man David Grealy, the organist at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, who will perform work by French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). The programme, which David has arranged, will include Le Tombeau de Couperin, Prélude, Forlane, Menuet and Rigaudon.
David has previously held organist positions at Westminster Cathedral, St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin, and Galway Cathedral. In 2017 he completed a Masters in organ performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne, during which time he was also an organist in the church of Saints Peter & Paul, Ratingen.
He’s a first-class honours graduate of Maynooth University (2008) and currently works there as a tutor. David was recently made a fellow of the Royal College of Organists. He is in regular demand as an accompanist, in Ireland and abroad, and has featured in broadcasts for RTÉ and German station WDR.
Mark Keane will feature in the concert on Thursday, July 9; Niall Carroll on July 16; Robbie Carroll on July 23; and the series will conclude with Cathedral organist Raymond O’Donnell on July 30.
For more details on the series, go to recitals.galwaycathedral.ie/summer-concerts-2020.