Event Date & Time
Thursday, March 17, 2022
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Price
Included with general admission or membership
The Program
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
Marking My Country’s National Day
Irish National Anthem
(A Soldier’s Song, 1909)
Pádraig O hAonaigh
The Star-Spangled Banner
John S. Smith (1750-1836)
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1912)
Ernest R. Ball (1878-1927)
The Bard of Armagh
Ernest R. Ball (The Streets of Laredo)
Irish Traditional
Inspired By Nature
Down by the Salley Gardens
Irish Traditional
“Down by the Salley Gardens My love and I did meet;
She passed the Salley Gardens With little snow-white feet.”
The Foggy Dew
Irish Traditional
To Conclude
Isle of Innisfree (The Quiet Man)
Richard Farrelly (1916-1990)
An Chúilfhionn (The Blonde Beauty)
Irish Traditional
All arrangements are by the performer
About the Preformer
Of Flemish-Irish parents, Adrian Patrick Gebruers holds the unique distinction of being the first Irish carillonneur in the long history of the instrument.
A graduate of the National University of Ireland, he also studied at the Municipal School of Music in Cork (Ireland) and at the Universities of Salamanca and Navarra in Spain. He received his initial carillon tuition from his late father (Staf Gebruers) and subsequently studied under Jef Rottiers, Piet van den Broek and Eddy Mariën at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen (Belgium).
In 2021 he celebrates his fifty-first year as Carillonneur of St Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh, a picturesque harbour town on Ireland’s southern coast; in the summer of 2002 Cobh, and University College Cork, was the location for the 13th Congress of the World Carillon Federation and in the summer of 2003 of the IX Eurocarillon Festival. In 2019 at a ceremony in Dublin, the Minister for Arts formally designated Carillon Playing in Cobh part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ireland.
A frequent guest recitalist throughout Europe, Russia, North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan, as well as on radio, television and recordings, Gebruers has been the recipient of several Travel Awards and a research grant from the Irish Arts Council and Department of Foreign Affairs, as well as a Tyrone Guthrie Centre – Cork County Council Regional Bursary and commissions from the Contemporary Music Centre Ireland and Alfred University (New York).
A former Assistant Principal of Colaiste Muire in Cobh, he is lecturer in carillon studies at the Music Department of University College Cork. A founding Vice-President of Eurocarillon, he was Honorary President of the British Carillon Society from 1997 to 2000 and again from 2001 to 2006. In 1998 he took on the highest executive position in the carillon world on being elected President of the World Carillon Federation and in 2002 was unanimously re-elected for a further four-year term.
In 2005 he received from Pope John Paul II the very special honour of being made a Papal Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great (KSG) with title Chevalier for services to the Church.
He has become increasingly interested in composing and adapting music of the Irish traditional idiom for the carillon, an instrument that he believes is particularly suited to this genre.
He is married to physiologist Dr Elizabeth Gebruers and they have two sons, two daughters and nine grandchildren.