Venue: St. Barrahane's Church, Castletownshend, P81 AH51, 8pm
Tickets €20
Online, at the door, at Thornhill Electrical Skibbereen or text/call 086 226 4797
Michael Mattioli - saxophone, Alfie Kennedy - keyboard/piano, Susan Nares - flute
Michael Mattioli.Michael Mattioli is very grateful for a lifetime of rich musical experiences with outstanding artists in all kinds of settings. His path has wound its way through bands, live and studio performances, commercial and film music, sound design, and meditation music as well as becoming a successful solo artist with a distinct passionate voice.
He has composed music for over 100 projects including national commercials for many major brands and ad agencies. Michael has played live and in studio with artists Maxie Priest, Rob Wasserman, Martika, Kenny Loggins, Alan Parsons, Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins and Banyan, Peter Frampton, Bill Payne, and many others including top call session musicians such as Tim May and Greg Kurstin.
Alfie Kennedy is from Wexford, growing up on the Hook Peninsula. He started learning classical piano at 7 years old, at 16 he began jazz piano and learned to improvise. In 2018 after completing his Leaving Cert he came to Cork to study at the Cork School of Music.
For those first few years he started out working with various choirs as their accompanist, along with wedding bands, while studying classical music in the college and performing with its jazz big band.
In January 2022, he began accompanying and partially directing the City of Cork Male Voice Choir, also joining a 9 piece wedding band The Offbeats, both of which he does to this day.
He began his Masters in the Cork School of Music last September, and as of January this year, has started teaching in the school along with accompanying various students and ensembles.
Up until now, Alfie has played music from a wide array of styles and genres, between pop, classical & jazz, and is looking forward to continuing to find ways of showcasing wide variety of music he enjoys listening to.
Susan Nares GTCL PGCE MA FAMI
After studying flute and piano accompaniment at Trinity College of Music in London Susan followed an eclectic career in music, ranging across genres and applications including; teaching, performing, sound healing, community music projects, composition, experimental music, improvisation and music psychotherapy. She has a particular love of collaborative music making including working as a choral director but also in the more intimate form of chamber music.
This, and a passion for the healing properties of sound and music, has led to involvement in many interesting film and recording projects across the years.
The At-ma Project - City in the Sky, with Russell Stone and Craig Pruess,
Rainbow Peace with Frank Perry and Bill Martin,
Rivers of Sound with Russell Stone, Alexander Massey and Sarah Verney,
The Journey with Sarah Verney,
Four meditations for flute and Tibetan bowls with Frank Perry,
Light and Sound Ensemble. with Ravi, Frank Perry and others,
Deva Music, with Michael Maxwell Steer.
Since moving to West Cork Susan has continued to pursue diverse musical activities. Founding ‘The Project Choir’ to perform the premier of The Embracing Universe’ by Justin Grounds and Fred LeHaye.
She was then appointed choral director of the West Cork Choral Singers in 2020 recent works include Faure’s Requiem and putting on a semi staged production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
More recently she has been working in two new ensembles;
The Mizen piano trio with Nora Killeen and Diana Llewellyn, playing and performing largely classical music, and The Third Thing with Michael Mattioli, using a creative approach to re-imagining music from classical to jazz and beyond.