Irish Inspirations

Performers:
Mickey Glen Tomas – piano (guest artist) 
Singers and pianists of the Opera Academy (songs with words by Thomas Moore) 
Izabela Kłosińska – melodramatic recitations  

Mickey Glen Tomas is currently studying for his undergraduate degree in the TUDublin Conservatoire under the guidance of Dr. David Mooney.  

He has been invited to play in many venues and festivals across Ireland, including the National Concert Hall, the Limerick University Concert Hall, The Boyle Arts Festival, and The New Ross Piano Festival, as soloist and collaborative musician. 

He has had many masterclasses with respected musicians, including John O'Conor, Steven Osborne, and Gabriele Carcano, Barry Douglas, and Nathalia Milstein. 
Mickey Glen Tomas recently received the First Prize in the Freemason Young Musician of the Year 2025. He has also received multiple awards in the Feis Ceoil (2025), was awarded a Kawaii Bursary in TUDublin (2023) and received the Wil Keune Memorial Prize at the Freemason Young Musician of the Year Competition (2023).  

In 2024, he became one of the five selected young pianists in Ireland to be part of the DIPC Young Pianist Programme. This has given him the opportunity to learn from fantastic musicians in Ireland and abroad. 

He has been the organ scholar in Trinity College Dublin since 2024, playing alongside the Trinity Chapel Choir for sung services (Evensong and Eucharist) and special occasions (Trinity Monday and Carol Service). 

Painting: John Lavery, The Golf Course, North Berwick, oil on canvas, 1922

PROGRAMME

John Field:
Nocturne No. 16 in C major, H.60
Fryderyk Chopin: 
Nocturne in F-sharp major, Op.15 No.2 
Gabriel Fauré: 
Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat major, Op. 63 
Maurice Ravel: 
Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61
Franz Schubert: 
Wanderer Fantasie in C major, D 760 Op.15 
Mickey Glen Tomas – piano

Intermission 

David Coonan: 
alexander | obsidian song(s)
Mickey Glen Tomas – piano


Thomas Moore: 

Last Rose of Summer from Irish Melodies, Polish translation: Jan Kasprowicz

Izabela Kłosińska – melodramatic recitations 

Mickey Glen Tomas – piano


Benjamin Britten: 
Last Rose of Summer, text by Thomas Moore
Viktoriia Shamanska – soprano

Gabriela Lasota – piano

John Stevenson: 
It Is Not a Tear at This Moment Shed, text by Thomas Moore
 Emilia Rabczak – mezzo-soprano

Adam Dobek – baritone

Gabriela Lasota – piano  

Benjamin Britten:
Rich and Rare, text by Thomas Moore
Adam Dobek – baritone

Gabriela Lasota – piano


Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy:
Der Blumenkranz, text by Thomas Moore, German translation by Ferdinand Freiligrath

Emilia Rabczak – mezzo-soprano

Gabriela Lasota – piano 

Rebecca Clarke: 
The Cloths of Heaven, text by W. B. Yeats, from Two Songs No. 2

Viktoriia Shamanska – soprano

Gabriela Lasota – piano  

Roger Quilter: 
In the Bud of the Morning-O, text by James Stephens, Op. 25 No. 6

Adam Dobek – baritone

Gabriela Lasota – piano  

Ernest R. Ball: 
A Little Bit of Heaven, text by Joseph Keirn Brennan  
Viktoriia Shamanska – soprano
Emilia Rabczak – mezzo-soprano
Adam Dobek – baritone

Gabriela Lasota – piano