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THE JES Choir and the NUI Galway Medical School Orchestra join forces with Frankie Gavin and Cora and Breda Smyth for a major concert on the university campus.

Twenty-four choristers are to be admitted to St Nicholas Schola Cantorum on December 9, 2012. This will take place during 11am Sunday service in the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas, Galway. At the ceremony the choristers will sing the service and be presented with their robes of cassock, surplice and ruff.

FOR THE first time in Ireland, JS Bach’s epic choral masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion, will be performed and Galway’s St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church is the venue.

ON TUESDAY Cois Cladaigh Choir Galway will embark on a tour of southern Spain performing in Cordoba and Seville. The choir will be celebrating 30 years in existence next year and will perform their usual eclectic mix of Renaissance and contemporary music with a particular emphasis on music of Spanish composers including Albert Alcaraz, Juan del Ancina and Fransisco Guererro.

REDMOND O’TOOLE, one of Ireland’s most exciting young classical guitarists, and the brilliant violinist Elizabeth Cooney, will play St Mary’s Cathedral Tuam this month.

GALWAY SINGERS and choirs are being invited to take part in a singing workshop with the leading Irish choir Resurgam.

MUSIC FOR Galway, which has been bringing the very best classical music performers to the city since 1980, will celebrate its 30th birthday this year.

THE LAMENTATIONS Of Jeremiah, recording the destruction of Jerusalem, form some of the most emotional passages in the Bible, and inspired one of classical music’s great sacred works.

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It’s that time of year again and Mayo County Council’s Arts Office is about to start its July long series of concerts. Travelling throughout the county, this year the series promises to be one to remember.