music

The orchestra, band and choir of Casady School, from Oklahoma in the USA, give a concert in the Cathedral on Friday 15 March 2019 at 8:00pm. Admission is free.

Casady School is an Episcopal day-school in Oklahoma City. The school's Performing Arts Department explores and develops students' curiosities and aspirations in band, orchestra, choir and theatre, and performs frequently both on- and off-campus. Students in all ensembles achieve at high levels and perform regularly at contests and festivals.

Over the five Sundays of Lent, the Cathedral Choir sings five different settings of the text "Ave verum corpus".

Handel's Messiah will be performed in the Cathedral on Saturday 8 December at 7:30pm.

Details of Christmas arrangements in the Cathedral, including the Carol Service, masses, confessions and the live crib.

The North Stars Orchestra, from Washington State in the USA, plays a concert in the Cathedral on the evening of Saturday 23 June. Directed by Sharyn Peterson, the orchstra plays music by Bach, Gerschwin, Saint-Saëns, C. F. Pachelbel and Bernstein.

The concert begins at 7:30pm, and admission is free.

The week between Passion Sunday and Easter Sunday is the most sacred of the church year, and will be celebrated in solemn fashion in Galway Cathedral.

Christmas is one of the most joyful seasons of the church year, and is celebrated in the Cathedral with appropriate solemnity. Here are details of the various events taking place at this time.

Here also are details of confessions in the days before Christmas.

Music for Galway, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Resurgam Choir present a performance of G. F. Handel's ever-popular oratorio Messiah in the Cathedral on Saturday 9 December at 7:30pm.

The Three Tenors - Dominic McGorian, Shane Morgan and Derek Moloney - present a concert of popular classical music in the Cathedral on Thursday 21 December at 8:00pm. The choir of Scoil Íde will also appear on the night.