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Getting StartedIt all started with a launch,
recital and reception in Kilrudery on September 8th 2001.
There were five boys and four adults. Róisín and
Aisling Dexter assisted with a fiddle, a bodhrán and one
soprano descant. Evelyn Cockburn took time out from Lyric FM’s
The Full Score to wish us on our way, and the new ship plunged
into the ocean. September 2001 Launch by
Evelyn Cockburn (Lyric fm) and 20 minute recital in Kilruddery Co Wicklow November 2001 Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo in Whitechurch Hall December 2001 Christmas Concert in National Concert Hall including Colin Mawby’s Joy to the World composed specially for the launch of JDH |
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January 2002 JDH recorded backing track for The
Phoenix by John Hughes in Windmill Studios (released on the album Wild Ocean November 2004) February 2002 Concert in Delgany. February 2002 Semi-staged performance of Tosca
by Puccini (in Italian) in National Concert Hall April 2002 Carmina Burana by Carl Orff and Fourth
Station by Irish composer Philip Carty in National Concert Hall May 2002 Concert in Whitechurch June 2002 Recording in RTE Lyric fm studio in
Limerick, broadcast later that week and repeated on Radio One Playback October 2002 Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert
Humperdinck in the National Concert Hall December 2002 Concert in National Gallery December 2002 Concert in National Concert Hall February 2003 Concert in Dundrum Methodist
Church in aid of Christian Aid March 2003 Concert in Lucan Prebyterian Church May 2003 Concert in Church of the Ascension Balally October 2003 La Bohême by Puccini in National
Concert Hall December 2003 Concert in National Concert Hall April 2004 Concert in Church of the Assumption
Milltown August 2004 Róisin
and Ciaran’s Wedding in St Patrick’s Cathedral November 2004 Concert
in Taney Church Dundrum including a Bach Cantata, some Beatles and a piece for
Organ and Oboe by John Dexter November 2004 Launch
of Christmas with John Dexter Harmony CD November 2004 Release
of John Hughes’s CD Wild Ocean featuring
JDH, The Corrs, Christie Moore etc December 2004
Christmas Concert in NCH including Richard Rodney Bennett’s Nowell and Lennon/McCartney’s February 2005 Puccini’s
Turandot March 2005 April 2005 Puccini’s
Tosca April 2005 Broadcast
on Lyric fm April 2005 Excerpts from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in NCH in aid of Lucan Youth Centre October 2005 Three performances of Lyric Opera's production of Puccini’s La Bohème in National Concert Hall December 2005 Christmas Concert in National Concert Hall with the Culwick Choral Society and Dexter Family Ensemble |
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Individual SolosSoloists on the CD Christmas with John Dexter Harmony were: Michael Broderick, Neil Dexter, Sebastian O'Shea-Farren and Ken Waide. Individual Solos provided by JDH have included: Jeffrey Flynn performing in the Gate Theatre’s production of A Christmas Carol. Neil and Patrick Dexter singing Allegri’s Miserere in Whitechurch on Ash Wednesday. Ken Waide singing The Snowman in the NCH for two nights in December 2001, as well as a part in Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen for Opera Theatre Company. Ken was then chosen to sing the principal music at Kate Magnier’s wedding in Fethard Co Tipperary on August 24th 2002. JD was Musical Advisor and Organist. He also sang Vivaldi’s Nulla in Mundo in the NCH in March 2003 and has made a personal CD. Neil Dexter sang Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Ken Waide sang Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb in the NCH on April 12th 2003. Neil and Ken sang Allegri’s Miserere and Neil sang Fauré’s Requiem for President McAleesse in Milltown on April 13th Andrew Wall and Sebastian O'Shea Farren recorded specially composed tracks for CoisCéim Dance Theatre's production of Mermaids in June 2003 Ken Waide was invited to sing on Vincent Brown's Radio Show in December 2003. Philip Carty talked about the choir and about his new piece Pagannini's Carol, composed for JDH for their Christmas concert in the National Concert Hall. Neil Dexter and Ken Waide alternated singing the part of Miles in Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw on tour with Opera Theatre Company in February 2004. Neil Dexter was guest soloist in the Good Friday concert in St Patrick's Cathedral in 2004 in aid of the Carmichael Centre, singing Allegri's Miserere. Sebastian O'Shea Farren was guest soloist with the National Chamber Choir in a recording of a new song in July 2004. Neil Dexter sang the part of the Youth in Mendelssohn's Elijah with Dún Laoghaire Choral Society in the National Concert Hall in April 2005. Neil Dexter sang Blake's The Snowman in the National Concert Hall for five performances at Christmas 2004 and again in 2005. |
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Contact John Dexter at: jd@johndexterharmony.com (01) 2987781 22 Delbrook Manor, Dublin 16 |
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