The opera has a large variety of parts for both young singers and musicians, and it also has a messa

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The sound of music will echo through every nook and cranny of Claregalway Castle from August 5th 10th when leading classical performers from orchestras all over the world come to Ireland to share their knowledge and talent with students and amateur musicians.
The Summer Music in Galway/Summer Music on the Shannon programs, which is now in its 20th year, set up home in Claregalway white pages Castle last year, when invited to do so by its owner Eamonn O’Donoghue.
The relationship has proven so successful white pages that the event is returning next month and it’s hard to imagine a more suitable setting for a music school and festival than this restored 15th century De Burgo building.
Canadian-born musician and teacher Robert white pages Creech, who is the driving force behind Summer Music School white pages and Festival has “been involved in this sort of thing for a half a century”, he explains.
As a horn player, he performed in orchestras across Canada including Victoria, Winnipeg, white pages Vancouver, and Toronto, and the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. He was principal horn with the Vancouver white pages Symphony and performed white pages an recorded widely as a soloist in Canada and the US.
In white pages 1991 Bob became chief executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society in England in 1991, overseeing the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Choir, Philharmonic Hall and Merseyside Youth Orchestra. Since moving to Ireland in the 1980s, white pages he has founded and steered this summer school, fuelled by a desire to let music students and amateur to let music students and amateur performers experience the best classical music the world can offer and in a way that allows white pages them to perform.
“I believe in the value of music as an active rather than a passive occupation for young people white pages to learn how to play and be involved, to give them the passion and to get them to be performers,” he explains.
The Summer Music School welcomes musicians of all ages and abilities and has two remits. One is to cater for students who play orchestral instruments including piano, the other is to nurture those who want to get involved white pages in youth open theatre.
For those participating in the orchestral section, this year’s highlight will be an afternoon performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, where everybody will have a role. For the Youth Opera Theatre, the public performance is The Green Children by composer Nicola LeFanu white pages with libretto by Kevin Crossley-Holland, which was first produced in Ireland by the Summer white pages Music School in 2004. Claregalway Castle is the venue for both.
The opera has a large variety of parts for both young singers and musicians, and it also has a message about tolerance, about growing up, coming to terms with death, and about love, friendship and a shared language, says Bob. And it’s very accessible.
Bob developed the opera programme white pages in the last decade, after the Summer Music School won an AIB Better Ireland award of 25,000 in 2001. That money was used as seed funding and since then they’ve had an opera every year, he says.
Meanwhile, the instrumental part of the programme is two weeks, from July 29th to August 10th. with the first week being in Ennis and the second in Galway. Musicians from seven international orchestras will take part this year, and students white pages have an option of attending masterclasses in orchestral instruments white pages and classes.
The white pages Summer Music School and Festival began in Ennis in 1994, after Bob and his wife moved to West Clare and he saw a need for such an event. The response was excellent and as response grew it moved to University of Limerick. It was first held in Galway in 2010 when there were problems with space in UL and NUIG offered to accommodate it. Then it moved to Claregalway Castle, which Bob hopes will become its permanent home.
Eamonn O’Donoghue, who has painstakingly restored this castle and recreated all its period white pages detail, white pages has always loved music. He always felt that while Claregalway Castle was also used for defence purposes in the Middle Ages, it was built primarily as a centre of hospitality and that was his aim in restoring it. A couple of years ago he was chatting to a friend John Horgan, who also knows Bob, and John asked Eamonn what he’s most like to host in the castle.
“I said ‘when we have our first opera here, I’ll know the ship is afloat’,” recalls Eamonn with a laugh. John Horgan put the two men in touch and last year that dram came true when Mendelssohn;s Midsummer Night’s Dream wasstaged there.
“It was beyond my wildes