'Celine Byrne's strong voice has an attractive timbre and she sings with supreme confidence - clinging to [the] high notes... Singing is obviously a joy to her and this message transmits easily to her audience.'
'It is very easy to see why Celine Byrne is considered one the true gems of the classical music world. Byrne is able to embody the emotion in which the song is attempting to relay to its audience'.
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JONATHAN RIVERA - The Meridian, February 3, 2009
Celine Byrne has a very attractive voice, rich in timbre, well-controlled, and nicely colored with an active
but tastefully used vibrato ...
- SCOTT WARFIELD - Orlando Sentinel, January 14, 2009
Celine Byrne is one of those performers who makes the act of singing seem easy and natural. The voice is true and even, and she can swing and sway as persuasively through Gershwin's Summertime as she can open out at the top of her range or spin out the magic of a long, fading high note…- encores were offered and enthusiastically received at the evening's end.
One the world's leading lyric sopranos, Celine Byrne has been the recipient of many Awards both national and international.
Of these, the most prestigious was the 2007 Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens. Ms. Byrne was declared the winner out of a group of one hundred leading international singers.
Other awards include
The Brabants Dagblad Press Prizeat the IVC International Singing Competition, s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Semi-finalist, The Belvedere International Singing Competition, Vienna, Austria.
The William Young Prize Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, Dublin
Winner of 10 prizes at the Feis Ceoil, Dublin, the Bill Canning Bursary , Waterford 2003, and the John McCormack Bursary, Dublin 2003.
Recent concerts include one in Carnegie Hall, New Yorkand most recently, a performance in The Hermigatage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Celine Byrne is accompanied by Derbhla Brosnan, piano
PROGRAMME
part 1
O mio babbino caro(Gianni Schicchi) - Giacomo Puccini
Donde lieta(La Bohème) - Puccini
Ah, je ris de me voir(The Jewel Song) Faust - Charles-François Gounod
Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer (Ever lightly grows my slumbers) - Brahms
Botschaft(Message) - Brahms
Chanson triste (Sad song) - Henri Duparc (Marble Halls) (The Bohemian Girl) - Balfe
Poor wand'ring one(Pirates of Penzance) - Gilbert & Sullivan Villia (The Merry Widow) - Franz Lehar
INTERVAL
part 2
Spring and Fall read by Irene Kyffin
Hopkins in Monasterevinread by Desmond Egan
Pisen Rusalky O Mesiku(Song of the Moon) (Rusalka) - Antonin Dvorak
The Lark in the clear air- arr. Phyllis Tate
'Tis the last rose of summer - Thomas Moore
My Lagan lovee - Hamilton Harty
Ave Maria- Bach/Gounod Nella Fantasia (Gabriel's Oboe) - Ennio Morricone
You raise me up - Rolf Loveland & Brendan Graham
As long as he needs me (Oliver) - Lional Bart based on Oliver Twist by
Charles Dickens
I could have danced all night(My Fair Lady) - Alan Jay Lerner
Time to say Goodbye- L. Quarantotto, F. Sartori, F. Peterson
