“PITCH PERFECT” - TWO Musical Experts, ONE Choir, ONE All Ireland Final

“Pitch Perfect” is a newly created format for TG4 from Good Company Productions which will be hitting our screens from Monday Night 7th November at 7.30pm with an hour long opening extravaganza.

Officially sanctioned by Croke Park and the GAA, “Pitch Perfect” has selected singers from local GAA Clubs and Parishes all over Ireland who will become a Choir and realize their dream of performing Centre Stage at Croke Park singing the songs of the Opposing Teams for the All Ireland Football Final on the 3rd Sunday of September 2011 in front of a crowd of over 82,000 people.

Our Two Mentors, World renowned Soprano Niamh Murray and Composer and former Musical Director with Riverdance Colm O Foghlú will weed out their selection of Altos, Sopranos, Basses and Tenors and train these 30 Voices over an 8 week period and mould them into a Choir representing clubs from all corners of Ireland as the GAA does from Strabane to Schull, Kiltimagh to Killester and Gorey to Gort.

Filming takes place at locations from Maynooth College to the Gaiety Theatre to the National Concert Hall and with such notable Guests as Anuna, Colm Wilkinson, River Dance percussionist Ian McTigue, Barber Shop Quartet “Four in a Bar”, Rock Band “Stand”, Brian Kennedy, Fiachna O Braonáin and Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich joining the mentors.

But “Pitch Perfect” is not just a choral music programme but offers us an insight into how our top County Teams work and train to reach their ultimate footballing stage, Croke Park. Throughout the series we follow the movement of the Football Championship with 8 weeks until the Final with the GAA backdrop being offered by the voices of such notable former GAA playing stars as Dara O Cinnéide of Kerry, Coman Goggins of Dublin, Jarlath Burns of Armagh and Seán O Domhnaill of Galway and many more.

Fáilte go -  “Pitch Perfect”

THE MENTORS

ENGLISH : Two renowned and respected mentors from the world of music will choose the singers.

Niamh Murray the international soprano, who is respected all over the world, has won awards, has had numerous television appearances and has a Masters in Performance and Musicology is one of the mentors.

Colm Ó Foghlú is the other. He is a young composer who has already produced an incredible quantity and quality of work. His experience includes being musical director of Riverdance . He studied under Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in Cork and received great critical acclaim and praise for his newly composed mass.

Here are two people who understand the qualities and characteristics necessary to be Pitch Perfect.

Colm Ó Foghlú is a renowned Irish born musician, dancer, actor, playwright and director.

From a young age Colm studied dance with the world renowned Ó Sé School of Irish Dance. He also studied voice and various instruments at both the Royal Irish Academy of Music and The College of Music, Dublin, before joining the Bachelor of Music Programme in University College Cork. There he studied composition and piano with Dr. Micheál Ó Suilleabháin.

His solo album, Echoing, was released in 1997. Since then Colm has written/directed numerous show including Gaelforce Dance, a dance theatre show, which opened in New Zealand in 1997 then toured throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and North America reaching a total audience of 4 million people in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, London. Other shows include Irish Thunder for Busch Gardens and for television, the soundtrack for The Land of Sex and Sinners. Colm has also worked as a TV presenter with TG4 on Tóin le Gaoith, and also regularly works as a voice artist on their cartoons.

More recently, he was Musical Director for Riverdance at the Gaiety Theatre and in 2006 wrote and directed a modernised dramatisation of the great Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cuailgne. The musical was staged by the Transition Years of Coláiste Eoin and Coláiste Íosagáin. The production was met with huge acclaim. Colm Ó Foghlú is about to complete an M.A. in Modern Drama in University College Dublin.

Niamh Murray is a World Renowned Soprano having sung on some of the major stages of the world.

Niamh is a national schoolteacher in St Pat’s School for Boys with over 700 pupils.

She has won most of the major singing awards and prizes in Ireland, including the Dramatic Cup and Geoghegan Cup at the Dublin Feis Ceol, along with the awards for the best female singer at The Waterford International Festival of Light Opera, The Derry Festival of Light Opera, The Northern Ireland Festival of Light Opera and with The Association of Irish Musical Societies.

Operas, recitals, television productions and sporting occasions - Niamh taken part in them all. She appeared on the B.B.C's production of 'Songs of Praise' when broadcast from The Vatican and from Rome.

Niamh has also presented classical music programmes on Lyric FM and on Anna Livia 103.2FM called 'Thank you for the Music'.

In March 2000 and November 2004 Niamh sang to over 50,000 fans in Lansdowne Road at the Ireland v Italy and Ireland v South Africa international rugby matches...Ireland won both matches!!!

Her sporting activities do not end there, in July 2005 Niamh managed to climb to the very top of one of the world's highest mountains when she climbed Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in aid of Refugee Trust International.

Along with all these achievements Niamh is a prolific recording artiste with numerous albums to her credit including "A Fairer Paradise", "When Irish Eyes are Smiling", "Wedding Memories from Ireland" and "Best Loved Sacred Music". Her latest album is called "Send in the Clowns".

“PITCH PERFECT” - TWO Musical Experts, ONE Choir, ONE All Ireland Final

“Pitch Perfect” is a newly created format for TG4 from Good Company Productions which will be hitting our screens from Monday Night 7th November at 7.30pm with an hour long opening extravaganza.

Officially sanctioned by Croke Park and the GAA, “Pitch Perfect” has selected singers from local GAA Clubs and Parishes all over Ireland who will become a Choir and realize their dream of performing Centre Stage at Croke Park singing the songs of the Opposing Teams for the All Ireland Football Final on the 3rd Sunday of September 2011 in front of a crowd of over 82,000 people.

Our Two Mentors, World renowned Soprano Niamh Murray and Composer and former Musical Director with Riverdance Colm O Foghlú will weed out their selection of Altos, Sopranos, Basses and Tenors and train these 30 Voices over an 8 week period and mould them into a Choir representing clubs from all corners of Ireland as the GAA does from Strabane to Schull, Kiltimagh to Killester and Gorey to Gort.

Filming takes place at locations from Maynooth College to the Gaiety Theatre to the National Concert Hall and with such notable Guests as Anuna, Colm Wilkinson, River Dance percussionist Ian McTigue, Barber Shop Quartet “Four in a Bar”, Rock Band “Stand”, Brian Kennedy, Fiachna O Braonáin and Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich joining the mentors.

But “Pitch Perfect” is not just a choral music programme but offers us an insight into how our top County Teams work and train to reach their ultimate footballing stage, Croke Park. Throughout the series we follow the movement of the Football Championship with 8 weeks until the Final with the GAA backdrop being offered by the voices of such notable former GAA playing stars as Dara O Cinnéide of Kerry, Coman Goggins of Dublin, Jarlath Burns of Armagh and Seán O Domhnaill of Galway and many more.

Fáilte go -  “Pitch Perfect”

THE MENTORS

ENGLISH : Two renowned and respected mentors from the world of music will choose the singers.

Niamh Murray the international soprano, who is respected all over the world, has won awards, has had numerous television appearances and has a Masters in Performance and Musicology is one of the mentors.

Colm Ó Foghlú is the other. He is a young composer who has already produced an incredible quantity and quality of work. His experience includes being musical director of Riverdance . He studied under Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in Cork and received great critical acclaim and praise for his newly composed mass.

Here are two people who understand the qualities and characteristics necessary to be Pitch Perfect.

Colm Ó Foghlú is a renowned Irish born musician, dancer, actor, playwright and director.

From a young age Colm studied dance with the world renowned Ó Sé School of Irish Dance. He also studied voice and various instruments at both the Royal Irish Academy of Music and The College of Music, Dublin, before joining the Bachelor of Music Programme in University College Cork. There he studied composition and piano with Dr. Micheál Ó Suilleabháin.

His solo album, Echoing, was released in 1997. Since then Colm has written/directed numerous show including Gaelforce Dance, a dance theatre show, which opened in New Zealand in 1997 then toured throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and North America reaching a total audience of 4 million people in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, London. Other shows include Irish Thunder for Busch Gardens and for television, the soundtrack for The Land of Sex and Sinners. Colm has also worked as a TV presenter with TG4 on Tóin le Gaoith, and also regularly works as a voice artist on their cartoons.

More recently, he was Musical Director for Riverdance at the Gaiety Theatre and in 2006 wrote and directed a modernised dramatisation of the great Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cuailgne. The musical was staged by the Transition Years of Coláiste Eoin and Coláiste Íosagáin. The production was met with huge acclaim. Colm Ó Foghlú is about to complete an M.A. in Modern Drama in University College Dublin.

Niamh Murray is a World Renowned Soprano having sung on some of the major stages of the world.

Niamh is a national schoolteacher in St Pat’s School for Boys with over 700 pupils.

She has won most of the major singing awards and prizes in Ireland, including the Dramatic Cup and Geoghegan Cup at the Dublin Feis Ceol, along with the awards for the best female singer at The Waterford International Festival of Light Opera, The Derry Festival of Light Opera, The Northern Ireland Festival of Light Opera and with The Association of Irish Musical Societies.

Operas, recitals, television productions and sporting occasions - Niamh taken part in them all. She appeared on the B.B.C's production of 'Songs of Praise' when broadcast from The Vatican and from Rome.

Niamh has also presented classical music programmes on Lyric FM and on Anna Livia 103.2FM called 'Thank you for the Music'.

In March 2000 and November 2004 Niamh sang to over 50,000 fans in Lansdowne Road at the Ireland v Italy and Ireland v South Africa international rugby matches...Ireland won both matches!!!

Her sporting activities do not end there, in July 2005 Niamh managed to climb to the very top of one of the world's highest mountains when she climbed Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in aid of Refugee Trust International.

Along with all these achievements Niamh is a prolific recording artiste with numerous albums to her credit including "A Fairer Paradise", "When Irish Eyes are Smiling", "Wedding Memories from Ireland" and "Best Loved Sacred Music". Her latest album is called "Send in the Clowns".