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It was a May bank holiday weekend to remember for WIT and the wider cultural community in Waterford at this year’s Cork International Choral Festival. Waterford choirs and individuals took an unprecedented amount of silverware home, with WIT staff and students at the centre of this amazing achievement.

Among the successes was the WIT Youth Choir, who made it two in a row retaining the ‘National Competition for Youth Choirs’. The Youth Choir is made up of nearly 40 singers from secondary schools from across the region, many of whom have been training at the Music School since age six. The choir was presented with a specially commissioned plate by Irish artist Cormac Boydell which will be donated to the college.

WIT Lecturer and conductor of the WIT Youth, Niall Crowley, also had a great weekend. In addition to the Youth Choir victory Niall conducted local choir Ad Hoc Chorale helping them to win both the ‘Premier National Competition for Mixed Choirs’ and the ‘National Choir of the Festival’. A large number of this choir are made up of WIT staff, alumni and under-graduates, something WIT can feel very proud of.

Another chapter to the story is the success of WIT PhD student Ben Hanlon. Ben is studying composition with Dr. Eric Sweeney and over the weekend his works proved irresistible to both choirs and the international jury. Ben had the largest number of pieces performed by any Irish composer, and, scooped the awards for:

Best Performance of a Contemporary Irish piece:
Ben Hanlon - Molaimís go léir an t'Aon Mhac Chríost (Ad Hoc Chorale)

Best Performance of a Contemporary European piece:
Ben Hanlon - O Frondens Virga (New Dublin Voices)

Both WIT Youth Choir and Ad Hoc Chorale finish off their season with end of year performances on Wednesday 2nd June and Saturday 29th May respectively.

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