On Sunday the 26th May our choir will officially finish singing at the 10:30am Mass at the Church of the Holy Spirit, Dennehy’s Cross, but all is not lost as we’ll continue a tradition we started some years ago whereby we go on singing “unofficially ( without our weekly Wednesday night practice) at the 10:30 am Mass. This year we also invite people who’d like to be part of a church choir (more…)
Richard Rudkins is a composer, orchestrator and organist based in Cork. He graduated from the BMus degree course in the CIT Cork School of Music in 2013, and completed his MA studies in composition in 2016 under the guidance of C.S.L Parker. In 2012, his work in the field of composition earned him the Director’s Prize at the Cork School of Music. He also held the PM Group Fellowship in Composition at the Cork School of Music from 2014-2016. He has also received tuition in composition and orchestration from composers such as Seamus de Barra, Alan Cutts, Conrad Pope and Christopher Young, as well as attending workshops/lectures with composers Carl Davis and Howard Shore.
A busy organist, Richard has accompanied/directed many choirs around Cork including the Holy Cross Parish Church Choir Mahon, Blackrock Parish Choir and the Mayfield Gospel Choir. In March and April 2017, he worked with the pFizerphonics in their concert in North Cathedral where they performed Fauré’sRequiem. In August of 2017 Richard assumed the role of Music Director with Dennehy’s Cross Church Choir. He studies under the guidance of James Taylor at the Cork School of Music, where he also works as a lecturer in orchestration.
This was an extremely busy and demanding time for the choir.
It all began on Sunday 2nd of December when we sang as usual at the 10:30 Mass in the Holy Spirit Church, after which we proceeded to make our way to the Wilton Shopping Centre where for over an hour we entertained shoppers with an array of Christmas Carols.
The following Sunday we were again ‘double jobbing’ singing as usual at the 10:30 am Mass and later that evening at 5 pm we were back in the Holy Spirit Church to partake in the Parish advent Service ‘Waiting in Hope’ (more…)
Christmas Carols at 8:30pm
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Come Emmanuel
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Once in Royal David’s City
Ding Dong Merrily On High
The First Noel
Nativity Carol. (more…)
Dennehy’s Cross Choir is in existence for over forty years and during that period many people have given their time and talent to make the choir the success that it is today; sadly some of these members are gone to their eternal reward, and in this month of the Holy Souls we gratefully remember the following:
Maureen Golden Mrs Waldron Belle O Neill Mella Cunningham
Eithne Dwyer Barbara Harris Ray Dwyer Jim Butler
George Healy Jack Sheedy Maura Canty Edith Lyall
Sr. Helen Wynne Phyllis Ryan Brendan Linehan Mary B O Shea
Eileen O Leary John Noonan Joe Nesdale Helena O Mahoney
Louis O Halloran Phil Madden Frank Gilligan Harry O Donovan
