Join 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.

Includes 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.

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

Tickets €13/€23 available from Eventbrite or on the door (subject to availability).

Doors open 7pm. There will be no interval and the concert will last about 75 minutes.

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!

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.

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.