Fiona McDonnell

Have orchestra, will travel! Arts Manager. All opinions and idiosyncrasies are my own.

[AAM @AAMorchestra]

Don't miss our Season Finale later this year, as AAM takes a rare step into the 19th century!
Tickets available here: https://t.co/wwj2FQ0HpX

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

@CiaraMcCiara @irishelt Hmm, questionable...I reckon I had the Blockbuster membership card in CA!

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

Ardee Concert Band on tour, Amersfoort, NL 😍

[AAM @AAMorchestra]

The stage is set and the organs and harpsichord are being tuned ahead of this afternoon’s performance @BarbicanCentre of Bach’s St Matthew Passion: our first in London in almost a decade.

[AAM @AAMorchestra]

How to get your AAM fix this week:

📻 Listen to us on @BBCRadio3 In Tune this evening

🎻 See us in concert tomorrow or Thursday in Cambridge or London for ‘The Art of the Italian Concerto’

🎧 Pre-order our new album, out on Friday!

https://t.co/TqPaXfUXV3

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

Back home from our opening concert of the @BerlinPhil Barock-Wochenende and the glorious music of Handel refuses to leave my head! Favourite trip to date with @AAMorchestra & Laurence Cummings, touring partner @AskonasHolt & @sophalabaster and our new heroine @NardusWilliams ❤️

[AAM @AAMorchestra]

We’re rehearsing for tonight’s performance of Handel’s Heroines with @NardusWilliams in Berlin, featuring some of Handel’s most powerful, headstrong female characters: Medea, Cleopatra, Semele and the Queen of Sheba.

[AAM @AAMorchestra]

Final preparations underway for our sold-out performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos tonight!

[AAM @AAMorchestra]

We’re in rehearsal for the first of our three sold-out performances of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.

Even today’s rehearsal is well-attended, as we’re joined by 100 Year 3 and Year 4 schoolchildren, many of whom are experiencing the Brandenburgs for the first time!

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

@oconnorn Thanks - it takes a village! 3 generations on the stage - it's an amazing community organisation 🥰

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

After so many frustrating work clashes, back playing again (and winning 😃). Ardee Concert Band - Championship Concert section, Northern Ireland Band Championships 2023 🏆. Congratulations everyone!!

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

After a working week of Baroque, an equally sublime but entirely different soundworld for the @UlsterOrchestra 2023/24 opening season concert with @albancello Bravi tutti ❤️

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

Wroclaw - a beautiful location to reconnect with orchestral colleagues across Europe and beyond. Plus a fabulous concert hall @NFM_Wro that's firmly on the list to return to! #Orchestrasnow

[AAM @AAMorchestra]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @Telegraph!
‘Samson brings down the Royal Albert Hall

‘This spellbinding rendition of Handel's great oratorio came to the Proms as a heartening and uplifting blaze of glory’

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

Another Prom under the belt and what a Prom it was! Always effortless with the wonderful musicians of @AAMorchestra, a dream cast and chorus, a great @bbcproms production and broadcast team and the vision of our MD, Laurence Cummings. Now to listen to it 🥰https://t.co/0gQfJq7mkj

[BBC Proms @bbcproms]

A fantastic performance of Handel’s Samson with an international cast 🤩

Huge thanks to @fatboyclayton @jacquelynstuckr @joelle_harvey @DandyJessica @brinsherratt Jonathan Lemalu, Will Pate, @Philchorus @AAMorchestra & Laurence Cummings 👏

#bbcproms

📸 BBC / @SisiBurn

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

Day 4 of rehearsals for the @AAMorchestra Prom. Building Handel's Samson layer by layer - brass and wind introduced today followed by tutti tonight. A fascinating aural rehearsal process in advance of @bbcproms Prom 50 with @Philchorus

[Artium Media Relations @artiummedia]

Huge thanks to @MusicMagazine and @NickRKenyon for their insightful article celebrating the 50th anniversary of @AAMorchestra out now in the new issue!

Get your copy 👉🗞️ https://t.co/z0VJ0Ab2Qd

#newarticle #newfeature #classicalmusic #earlymusic #orchestra

[RTÉConcertOrchestra @rte_co]

Lay Your Head Down - Sinéad O’Connor with the @rte_co and composer @brianbyrnemusic, recorded live New Year’s Eve 2011 at @NCH_Music.
https://t.co/pwQVqFeB4u

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

@MrSteveAnderson @colhamiltonlush @daveseaman @cliffmasterson @UlsterOrchestra @JJJolene @Philippaohara @djrogersanchez Sound check sounding great from my house! Front row seat 😎

[Fiona McDonnell @fmcdonnell27]

@eannabassoon @belfastensemble @southbankcentre In town for the next week for work. Hoping to catch it again tomorrow night - toi, toi, toi!

[Daniel McDonnell @McDonnellDan]

They won it, they lost it, they won it, then they lost it again and, finally, they won it. Amazing split celebration for the winning peno