June Organ Recitals

28th June:  Judit Máté (St Michael’s Church, Dún Laoghaire)- Recital commences at 5pm, no booking necessary.

Judit Máté is a Hungarian-born organist, church musician, and choral conductor currently based in Ireland. She began studying the organ at the age of fourteen under the guidance of local organist Edit Sabján. In 2006, she earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and Church Music in Hungary, and later completed a Master’s Degree in Organ Performance at TU Conservatoire, Dublin, in 2016. Her organ studies in Ireland were mentored by Simon Harden, Siobhán Kilkelly, Colm Carey, and David Adams.

In 2011, Judit founded the St Jude’s Chamber Orchestra and Concert Choir, a project-based amateur ensemble that performed a diverse repertoire, including works by Hungarian composers as well as Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Mozart, and Rheinberger. Since 2022, she is the musical director of the Trim-based Credo Vocal Ensemble.

Judit is currently the organist at St Michael’s Church in Dún Laoghaire and also serves as the artistic director of the Dún Laoghaire Summer Organ Concerts. In addition, she is the organist of the Church of the Divine Word, Marley Grange. As a recital organist, she has performed in Hungary, Ireland and France.

Programme for the 28th of June at St Canice’s Cathedral Kilkenny:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750): Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV582

Ferenc Farkas (1905 – 2000): Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century

• Intrada
• Chorea
• Hungarian Dance
• Dance of the Prince of Transylvania
• Dance of Lázár Apor

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924): Te Deum Laudamus Fantasia, Op. 116, No.1

Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross (1885 – 1945): Madrigal

Tibor Pikéthy (1884 – 1972): Toccata in G major, Op. 101