Fews Ensemble and Aaron O'Hare
Portico Arts & Heritage Centre
Meeting House Street
Portaferry
Co. Down
BT22 1LE
Join The Fews Ensemble & tenor Aaron O'Hare for a soul-stirring concert with Barber, Schubert, and world premiere of Amy Rooney's Response.
Made up of leading chamber musicians, orchestral leaders and principals and soloists from Ireland, the UK and Europe, The Fews Ensemble performs up to eight projects per year across Ireland. The resident ensemble of Newry Mourne and Down and Newry Chamber Music, The Fews are renowned, not only for the quality of their playing, but for their innovative programme led by Artistic Director, Joanne Quigley McParland.
Irish tenor, Aaron O’Hare, has recently transitioned from baritone and has sung with leading companies across the UK and Ireland. As an Associate Artist with Welsh National Opera, he recently sang the title role in Don Giovanni on tour, Stárek Jenůfa and March Hare/White Knight in Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In 2021 he sang Schaunard La Bohème for Northern Ireland Opera and new commission Elsewhere, composed by Michael Gallen and produced in Ireland with support from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.
Programme information available here