Cuore are fundraising now for our first professional recording, planned for 2026, featuring premiere recordings of music by composers associated with the choir, including Anne-Marie O’Farrell, Rhona Clarke and Michał Ziółkowski.

If you’re inspired by what we do and would like to support our first commercial recording or to fund other commissions, we’d love to hear from you!

After our overall win last year, we’re delighted to receive a ⭐ Special Commendation ⭐ (Best Overall Choir Category) in this year’s RTÉ lyric fm Choirs for Christmas Recording Competition.🎄

Our entry this year was Puer natus est by Georg Grün, a live recording of the Irish premiere at our Christmas concert in 2024.

Huge congratulations to all awardees & commendees. It was wonderful to see the record number of entries and to hear the high standards from all across Ireland. You can listen to all the entries on the RTÉ website.

Thank you to our wonderful audience of over 400 people who joined us for a festive evening of uplifting choral music from around the world and across the ages in the beautiful acoustic of St Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

We performed festive favourites, music by Busto, McDowell and Whitacre, the Irish premieres of contemporary carols by Jonathan Dove and Ola Gjeilo. and the world premiere of a new carol by Rhona Clarke.

Plus special guests from the Royal Irish Academy of Music Junior Choir conducted by Brian Dungan.

Thank you to our wonderful audience of 250 people who came to our anniversary concert, celebrating the rich musical tapestry we’ve woven since our first concert in April 2015.

We took a retrospective journey through the first decade of Cuore’s music-making, revisiting choir and audience favourites, and hidden gems from our repertoire. We were delighted to be joined by many alumni in the audience, and especially those who accepted our invitation to sing Kodály’s Esti Dal with us.

We were also thrilled to present the world premiere of our anniversary commission in the presence of the celebrated Polish composer Michał Ziółkowski, with his beautiful setting of the evocative W. B. Yeats poem, To a Child Dancing Upon the Shore, crafted especially for Cuore’s 10th anniversary.

Christmas came early for Cuore in 2024, adding to the celebrations during our 10th anniversary season! We are thrilled to have won Best Overall Choir and Best Performance of a Contemporary Irish Choral Work in RTÉ lyric fm’s annual Choirs for Christmas Recording Competition.

Huge congratulations to the other prize winners and many worthy entrants: it’s fantastic to hear such great choral singing happening all over the country. 💚

Thank you to all of our wonderful audience who joined us for our uplifting evening of choral music from around the world and across the ages in the beautiful acoustic of St Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

A beautiful venue, stunning new music, and festive favourites performed by an award-winning choir. The perfect way to start your Christmas!

We loved being back on the main stage in the National Concert Hall as part of this sold out charity concert organised by our alto, Davina Baker, in memory of her mother Monica.

A diverse and vibrant programme, from pop favorites by Coldplay to classical masterpieces by Bach, Kreisler, and Ysaye. Cuore’s contribution included uplifting music by Will Todd, William Byrd, and Javier Busto.

We were honoured to contribute to such a meaningful evening which raised over €18,000 for Our Lady’s Hospice in Blackrock. It was a reminder of the power of music to bring us together for good.

Cuore stepped into spring with a vibrant and uplifting evening of choral music, for our first concert in the beautiful acoustic of St Mary’s Haddington Road.

Our audience heard us preview our repertoire for the prestigious Ave Verum International Choral Competition in Austria, featuring the Irish premieres of Non nobis, Domine by Erika Budai and In Taberna by Michał Ziółkowski.

Founded by Amy Ryan and Patricia O'Neill in 2014, Cuore has consistently achieved high standards at festivals in Ireland and abroad.

🇮🇪 RTÉ lyric fm Choirs for Christmas Recording Competition, 2025

For our live recording of Puer natus est by Georg Grün , our national broadcaster awarded us:

• Special Commendation in the category Best Overall Choir

🇱🇻 8th International Baltic Sea Choir Competition, Jūrmala, Latvia, 2025

We became the third Irish choir to compete in a European Grand Prix for Choral Singing semi-final round.

🇮🇪 RTÉ lyric fm Choirs for Christmas Recording Competition, 2024

For our recording of Make We Merry by Rhona Clarke, our national broadcaster awarded us:

• Best Overall Choir
• Best Performance of a Contemporary Irish Choral Work

🇦🇹 6th International Choral Competition Ave Verum, Austria, 2024

• Gold rating

Cuore’s concert repertoire ranges from standard choral works to early music editions prepared by choir members and premieres of pieces written for the choir. We have a particular affinity for contemporary classical music by living European composers, having won prizes for interpretation at home and abroad, and regularly present Irish premieres at our Dublin concerts.

Below is a list of pieces premiered by Cuore. Titles below link to performances by Cuore, where recordings are available. More details about our past Irish premieres and world premieres can be found on individual event pages.

We welcome financial support to help fund future premieres and commissions, and to support the livelihoods of living composers. If you are looking for high-quality Irish choral sheet music, we can recommend The Contemporary Music Centre, Seolta Music and Cailíno Music Publishers.