Conducted by:Simon CarringtonYale University Co-Founder: The King’s Singers

Mahoney Hall - The Helix, Dublin, Ireland (tbd)

June 14-22, 2009

presents Händel 250

In the 250th year of the passing of G.F. Händel

Messiah Part 1Messiah Parts 2 & 3

DUBLIN,ireland

TaBLe Of CONTeNTsVision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Repertoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Organizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Program Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Registration of Interest Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Testimonials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

DUBLIN,ireland

Messiah Part 1Messiah Parts 2 & 3

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VIsIONFriends

2009 will be a great Händel celebration year. What better place to celebrate his greatest masterpiece, the Messiah, than in the city of its premiere?

Bring your voices and your choirs to join us in a spectacular performance of the most exuberant, moving, triumphant and heartrending oratorio of them all.

I am very excited to be bringing choirs from the US, my adopted home, back to Ireland and then on to the country where I was brought up and from where I launched my career with The King’s Singers!

Please note that choirs can opt to sing Part 1 or Parts 2 & 3 and all choirs sing Hallelujah, Worthy is the Lamb & Amen.

Please consider joining us for this wonderful musical celebration.

— Simon Carrington

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LeaDerSIMON CARRINGTON is director of the Yale Schola Cantorum and professor of choral conducting at Yale University, where he has also led the introduction of a new graduate voice degree for singers specializing in oratorio, early music, art song, and chamber ensemble. From 2001 until his Yale appointment in 2003, he was director of choral activities at the New England Conservatory, and from 1994 to 2001 he held a similar position at the University of Kansas. Prior to coming to the United States, Professor Carrington was a creative force for twenty-five years with the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble The King’s Singers, which he co-founded at Cambridge University. He gave 3,000 performances at many of the world’s most prestigious festivals and concert halls, made more than seventy recordings, and appeared on countless television and radio programs including nine appearances on the Tonight Show with the late Johnny Carson! He maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and master classes all over the world. Most recently he has conducted combined choirs in the Monteverdi Vespers in Barcelona and the Fauré Requiem in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, and Dornoch Cathedral, Scotland, Beethoven’s Meeresstille with the Texas All State Choir, Händel’s Messiah in Kansas City and the Rachmaninov Vespers in Victoria BC with singers from all over Canada. He has conducted several times at the Monteverdi Choir Festival in Budapest and is a regular guest conductor at the Tokyo Cantat in Japan. He leads workshops every year at the Chamber Choir Festival in Sarteano (Italy), and the Yale summer festival in Norfolk, Connecticut. He has taken Yale Schola Cantorum to perform at the two major choral conventions in the US where they received standing ovations and his recordings with the choir of baroque masterpieces by Bach, Biber and Bertali have received rave reviews. In 2007 he gave the keynote address at the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors conference, presided over the international jury at the choral festival in Leipzig, Germany where he’ll return in 2008, and guest conducted the Camerata Vocale in Utrecht, Holland.

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DesTINaTIONIreland is deservedly called the Emerald Isle. It is famous for its pastoral countryside, thatched cottages, pubs, music, humor, charming accent, distinctive villages, castles and a capital city steeped in history yet vibrating with youthful energy. Dublin boasts medieval, Georgian and modern architecture which provides the backdrop to a friendly city with a thriving cultural heritage. Dublin is justifiably proud to have been the setting for the first performance of Handel’s Messiah, on the 16th April 1742.

Dublin

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rePerTOIre THE MESSIAH I have conducted the Messiah in England, Hungary, Brazil, the US, and sundry other places round the world; with my college students, with professionals and with community choirs. I have sung the so-los and in the choruses and I have played double bass continuo for everyone from Benjamin Britten to John Eliot Gardiner and David Willcocks. Every time this amazing work comes up fresh, sizzling with glorious energy, colour and vibrancy.

Messiah is a masterpiece of which one can never tire and I look forward immensely to conducting again during the Händel 250th celebration year.

ARTISTIC ADVISER Kingsway International is proud to have Eric Dale Knapp on its artistic team as a Choral and Orchestral Artistic Advisor. Eric brings a wealth of experience as a Conductor, music educator and music festival producer.

His studies at the Juilliard School, Drake University and his work at Carnegie Hall over many years as well as at other significant venues in Europe, China and Australia give him a unique capacity to advise KI and to support Guest Conductors and Ensemble Directors as they plan repertoire, rehearsals and festival concerts in international and domestic settings.

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OrgaNIzers KINGSWAY INTERNATIONAL has a proud 30-year history of taking special interest groups overseas. KI focuses solely on performance tours for musical ensembles. It stages fine performance festivals in Europe, Asia, South Africa and Australia/New Zealand.

KI was proud to be asked to develop a program for 4,000 American musicians to perform in China as part of the pre-Olympic entertain-ment program building on similar work its principals undertook for the Sydney Olympics. Read more about the exciting musical experiences we offer at www.kingswayinternational.net.

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HIgHLIgHTs 2009

Sunday, June 14 Depart USA

Monday, June 15 Arrive Dublin Orientation tour Check in

Tuesday, June 16 Sightseeing in Dublin

Wednesday, June 17 Sightseeing Combined rehearsal Welcome Dinner

Thursday, June 18 Combined rehearsal Sightseeing

Friday, June 19 Free time to explore Full rehearsal Concert: The Messiah

Saturday, June 20 Depart for London

Sunday, June 21 Sightseeing

Monday, June 22 Depart for home

Dublin

London

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PrOgramSunday, June 14 Depart USA

Monday, June 15 Arrive in Dublin•ArrivalintoDublinairport•MeetourKingswayrepresentative•PanoramicsightseeingtourofDublinCity

taking in the fascinating historic buildings, Georgian Squares and St. Patrick’s Cathedral

•Transfertothehotelandcheck-in

Tuesday, June 16 Sightseeing•TransfertoDublinBaytotakeinthesights•VisitthepicturesquefishingvillageofHowth

with stunning views of Dublin Bay and then tour Malahide Castle

•Optionalindividualconcert

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Wednesday, June 17 Sightseeing•SightseeingtourofDublinincludinga

visit to Trinity College founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth 1 - see the Old Library which houses 200,000 antiquarian texts and the Book of Kells, a medieval illuminated manuscript dating from around AD 806.

•TourSt.Patrick’sCathedral•Rehearsals•Welcomedinner

Thursday, June 18 Sightseeing•FurtherDublinsightseeing•Rehearsals•OvernightinDublin

Friday, June 19 Dublin•ExploreDublinatleisure.•Rehearsal•Concert:theMessiah.

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Saturday, June 20 London•FlytoLondon•Orientationtourincluding:Westminster

Abbey, Westminster Bridge in the shadow of Big Ben, Trafalgar Square and the BA London Eye.

•TransfertothehotelandCheck-in•PossibleWestEndshow(ownarrangements)

Sunday, June 21 London•SightseeingtourofLondonincluding:Tower

Bridge and visits to St Paul’s and the Tower of London with its priceless collection of Crown Jewels

•Optionalindividualperformance

Monday, June 22 Depart•Returnhome

PrOgram

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PrOgram DeTaILs COST PER PERSON: $3,295

INCLUSIONS•Round-tripairfarefromNewYork,EconomyClass

•Privatemotorcoachthroughoutandallsightseeingaslisted

•3StarHotels,doubleoccupancy

•Breakfast daily and 4 dinners

•TourManager

•Performancearrangements

EXCLUSIONS•Mealsotherthanspecifiedintheitinerary

•Personalexpenses,eg.drinks,laundry,phonecalls,etc.

•TravelInsurance(optional)-$159

•Airporttaxes-$250(subjecttochange)

•Grouptips-$8perpersonperday(recommendedamount)

•SingleSupplementoptionforthosewishingasingleroom-$545

TRAVEL INSURANCEKingsway International highly recommends travel insurance to cov-er trip cancellation/interruption, travel delay, emergency medical, baggage delay and accidental death coverage. Travel insurance infor-mation, rates and coverage for this tour are outlined in this brochure prepared for your members. If insurance is purchased at the time of your initial deposit for the trip, the travel insurance covers you even if you must cancel or interrupt the trip due to a pre-existing condition.

NOTES•Allpricesareprojectedfor2009andaresubjecttochange.They

arebasedonanexchangerateof$1USD=GBP0.4964.

•Onefreepositionisofferedprovidedatleast20payingpas-

sengers buy the full package outlined above, not including the

“Exclusions” outlined above.

REGISTRATION OF INTEREST FORM

NAME OF CONDUCTOR___________________________________________________________________

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OFFICE PHONE___________________________________ FAX ___________________________________

E-MAIL __________________________________________________________________________________

WEbSITE _________________________________________________________________________________

You may wish to nominate a tour contact person to assist the director in all matters relating to the tour including financial, promotional and organizational details.

TOUR CONTACT PERSON (if other than conductor) ___________________________________________

ADDRESS ________________________________________________________________________________

CITY/STATE/ZIP __________________________________________________________________________

HOME PHONE ____________________________________ MObILE PHONE ________________________

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E-MAIL __________________________________________________________________________________

APPROX. NUMbER OF ENSEMbLE MEMbERS IN THE TOUR ________________________________

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in Dublin: Simon Carrington

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TesTImONIaLs

I had a wonderful experience with my ensemble, and credit Kingsway with outstanding concert venues as well as a beautifully organized tour. Dr. Nina Nash-Robertson, Director of Choral Activities Central Michigan University

From the planning of our itinerary to the flight home, Kingsway’s professionalism and first-class service made our tour of England and Ireland that “once-in-a-lifetime” experience I was hoping my students would get to enjoy . We performed at the best performance venues, had great food and hotel accommodations, and had the best itinerary with the friendliest and most informative tour guides, all for a price that was incredibly reasonable . After experiencing what the other agencies offer, there is no chance I will ever tour internationally with anyone other than Kingsway International!

Keith Hancock, Tesoro High School Choral Music/Guitar Las Flores, California

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Our recent choral tour to Scotland was ‘State of the Art’ if this phrase can be used to describe our experience . Kingsway International and our European tour guides provided for every detail and more than what would normally be expected! Definitely a highlight of our choir’s life experiences that will never be forgotten!

Shawn P. Portell, Director of Music Ministries/Organist Webster Groves Presbyterian Church St. Louis, Missouri

I am completely satisfied that – with Kingsway – my ensembles will continue to experience the very best that performance touring can provide, outstanding service and attention to detail, incredible venues and audiences, appropriate balance of cultural exposure and free time and knowledgeable and confident guides. Sam Struempler, Anchorage Youth Choirs Anchorage, Alaska

3260 E. Woodmen Rd. #200Colorado Springs, CO 80920-3587Phone: (719) 260-0200 Fax: (719) 598-8674Email: info@kingswayinternational.netwww.kingswayinternational.net