Over seventy of Ireland’s finest young wind, brass and percussion players have been selected to play in this year’s Irish Youth Wind Ensemble as they bring their national tour to University Concert Hall, Limerick on Friday, 26 July and to the O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College, Dublin on Saturday, 27 July. The performances promise to share a little something for everyone as the group perform exciting and energetic music for large scale ensemble such as Philip Sparke’s ‘Navigation March’, Martin Ellerby’s ‘Silent Movie Suite’ and James Barnes’ arrangement of Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’. The ensemble will be led by the talented conductor Ronan O’Reilly, who is the Director of the Artane School of Music, and guest conductor Dr Ken Dye, Director of Bands at the prestigious University of Notre Dame. The highly accomplished young musicians of the ensemble come from across Ireland and will work intensively in a week-long residential course in the University of Limerick with some of Ireland’s top brass, wind and percussion tutors.