The Luminosa String Orchestra with Guest conductor – Christopher George at St Nicholas Collegiate Church.

This programme title has been curated around the idea flourishing, as humans, as an organisation and as an orchestra. The term is taken from positive psychology and relates to development, accomplishment, growth, and positivity.

The pieces of music they have chosen illustrate flourishing in several ways, that of music developing from quartets to become string orchestra repertoire, that of the accomplishment of having music published, especially lesser-known composers, and that of the development of our orchestra as a concept, a community and a diverse and equally minded group who commission and perform new Irish music.

They hope that this concert series will provide a metaphor for growth, positivity and flourishing.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for three violins in F Major RV 551 (1720 – 1724)
Ina Boyle
Quartet in E minor – arr. String Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto in D (Basle) (1946)
Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C major Op.48 (1880)