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Performing the greatest music for the widest audience.

Annual Christmas Concert with special guest soloists Saturday 13th December at 8 p.m. Music by Mozart, Elgar, Haydn and more together with festive music and carols.

The County Kildare Orchestra was founded in February 1998 and is committed to developing and promoting a love of classical music whilst aspiring to an excellence in performance. Its mission statement is to “perform the greatest music to the widest audience”.

The Orchestra’s repertoire spans the great musical eras from the Baroque (Bach and Handel), the Classical (Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven) to the Romantics (Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Bruch and Elgar).

From symphonies and concertos, the Orchestra has also performed operatic highlights from Rossini, Verdi and Mascagni in addition to waltzes
and polkas from Strauss and Lehar. The C.K.O. has played widely throughout Co. Kildare and also in Kerry, Galway, Westmeath and Dublin. Major highlights were two performances at the National Concert Hall and at Islands Music Festival in Karvina in the Czech Republic.

The Orchestra also performs regular concerts with German-based concert pianist, Seiko Tsukamoto, a prizewinner at the Dublin International Piano Competition.

The County Kildare Orchestra is proud of its long association with Castletown, stretching back over the last nine years. Due to public demand and enthusiasm for music in this great and important house, the C.K.O.’s performance during Heritage Week initiated the annual Gala Christmas concert.

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