Cathal haydn biography

Cathal Sean Hayden is a Northern Irish musician, acclaimed for his skilled style of Irish fiddle and tenor banjo.
Ole Cathal Haydn has been doing some very jazzed-up playing for a while, hasn't he?
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Hi All,,, Interesting to see the post from Agnes Nealis earlier,,,, what CS (12 ) didn’t mention is that the film Song of Granite premiered at Opening of the Film Fleadh in Galway last night and Colm had a major role in it. The Black and White film tells the story of Joe Heaney the acclaimed Sean Nos singer from Connemara and Colm plays the young Joe, I was delighted to be in the audience tonight to witness the very powerful production and to see Colm perform so well,,,,for a young lad he has great stage presence,,, I hope the film goes on general release,,, and recommend it highly,,, Congrats Colm, the cast includes a host of stars, Lisa Lambe, Damien Dempsey, Seamus Begely and some other great singers from Connemara,,,,, On a different note it will be good to see you in Munster this Fri Christy, the Rebels are on a roll at the moment, well in Hurling anyway,, !!! I do hope you will visit An Riocht before the year is out,,,Beir bua agus Beannacht. H

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Fiddling In A Fake Irish Style

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Fiddling In A Fake Irish Style

The recent “Singing with a Fake Irish Accent” thread got me thinking about a similar thing, which is playing Irish Trad tunes on fiddle when that is not the only style you play in.

Is this acceptable? Let’s assume that, generally speaking, the players are very good at what they do.

With the exception of those who simply ‘play the notes’, use over-long bowing, and are not really from a fiddling background, and thus that deficiency can be spotted by ‘the layman’, what’s the feeling on good musicians playing Irish music on fiddle?

I’m thinking of players like Aly Bain, Alasdair Fraser, Peter Knight, Dave Swarbrick, Mark O’Connor, Giles Apap, etc ..

What do you think?

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Mate, Aly Bain can effing play.

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All good. The more the merrier.

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I always assumed all fiddlers play in more than one style. I’ve never

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Celebrating the Voice: A Professional Development Programme for Singers

Morgane Fauchois

Pianist and Head Vocal Coach for Opera Productions at the Paris Conservatoire

French pianist Morgane Fauchois’s career has taken her from opera theatres to concert stages, vocal recitals and chamber music projects.

She collaborates with internationally acclaimed singers including Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Rolando Villazón, Natalie Dessay, Tara Erraught, Joseph Calleja, Véronique Gens, and Karine Deshayes.

With a repertoire spanning late Baroque to new music, she works as a coach for the Opéra de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre du Châtelet, operas in Lyon, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Tel Aviv, Riga, as well as renowned festivals such as Salzburg or Aix-en-Provence, and collaborating with conductors such as Louis Langrée, Carlo Rizzi, Daniele Gatti, Alain Altinoglu, Thomas Hengelbrock, Peter Eötvös and Marc Minkowski.

Morgane Fauchois was a member of the Young Artists Program at Paris Opera, and was awarded first prize in opera coaching at the Internati