Commissions

In 2006 we commissioned Br. Ben Hoban and he chose the text (in Irish) of In Paradisum. The work will be premiered at the Cork Choral Festival 2007.
Eamonn Murray wrote Still here for us in 2007 and it too will be premiered at the Festival.
Contact was made with Matthew Harris (USA) and Tarik O'Reagan (UK, living in USA) to write works for us in 2008 and 2009 respectively.

Cois Cladaigh takes an active role in commissioning contemporary composers to write pieces for the choir. John Buckley, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, Hugh Kelly, Marion Ingoldsby, Martin O'Leary, Peter Michael Hamel, Máire Ní Dhubhir, Javier Busto and Jennifer Walshe are all composers who have contributed to their repertoire.

Also, in 1994, Cois Cladaigh organised a visit to Ireland by the contemporary New Zealand composer David Hamilton, thereby commissioning a setting of the poem "Na Blátha Creige" for SSATB choir.

For the 20^th anniversary in 2002 Cois Cladaigh commissioned a piece by the Basque Composer Javier Busto called Txantxangorria.

In 2005 we sang a piece commissioned by Ann Hoban in the Cork Choral Festival.