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FERGAL CAULFIELD is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he obtained BA and PhD degrees in music, specialising in the late serial music of Stravinsky. He studied piano with Peter Dains at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, organ with Professor Gerard Gillen at the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin and also attended various scholarship masterclasses in the UK and Belgium. He holds performance and teaching diplomas in both instruments. As well as performances in Europe he has given solo recitals at most of the major concert venues in Ireland, including the National Concert Hall, the Wexford and Galway Arts Festivals, St. Michael's Church Dún Laoghaire, the Pro-Cathedral Dublin, and Trinity College Chapel. He has additionally appeared as soloist in concerto performances with a number of ensembles, including the RTE National Symphony Orchestra (in the organ symphonies of Marcel Dupré, Camille Saint-Saens and Aaron Copland), and is a former prizewinner of the Dublin International Organ Festival (now Pipeworks). He is much in demand as a vocal and instrumental accompanist. In additions to his interests in the fields of solo and chamber music, Fergal works regularly with the RTE National Symphony and RTE Concert Orchestras, Chamber Choir Ireland and the RTE Philharmonic Choir.

Pierre Du Mage (1674-1751)

Livre d'orgue, contenant une suite du premier ton (1708)

Plainchant

Five settings

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Extracts from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité (1969)

 

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Pierre Du Mage

-Plein jeu

-Fugue

Plainchant

Allelujah for the Feast of the Dedication

Olivier Messiaen

Méditation II (Dieu est saint)

Pierre Du Mage

Trio

Tierce en taille

Olivier Messiaen

Méditation IV ('Je suis, je suis!')

Pierre Du Mage

Basse de trompette

Récit

Plainchant    

Offertory for the Epiphany (Reges Tharsis)

Gradual for the Epiphany (Omnes de Saba)

Allelujah for the Epiphany

Olivier Messiaen    

Méditation VI (Le Fils, verbe et lumière)

Pierre Du Mage

Duo

Grand Jeu

Plainchant     

Allelujah for All Saints

Olivier Messiaen    

Méditation VIII (Dieu est simple)