AWARDS AND
COMISSIONS
Aidan O’ Carroll, President Mary Robinson, and Peter Sutherland at The AIB Better Ireland Incentive Award
Awards
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The Fleischmann Prize
Awarded by the UCC Music Graduates’ Association for ‘his outstanding contribution to the development of music in Ireland'.
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AIB Better Ireland Incentive Award (Arts and Culture 1991)
Presented by President Mary Robinson, and Peter Sutherland, Chairman of AIB and former Attorney General/EU Commissioner to Aidan O’ Carroll as founder of Kerry School of Music.
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Kerry School of Music & Performing Arts
Award in recognition of distinctive service to the cultural life of Tralee and County Kerry
(Civic reception)
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International Youth Choral Festival, Neerpelt, Belgium
CBS Boys Choir | Awarded a 2nd Prize (Civic reception)
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Winner National Choral Competition
Kerry Choral Union, director Aidan O’ Carroll
Commissions
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Dún an Óir Suite (Údarás na Gaeltachta) Commission
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Dance of Life (Diocese of Kerry Milennium Celebration) Commission
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Siamsa Tire (Opening of the National Folk Theatre in its permanent home) Commission
Ding Dong Dedero (Forging the Dance). Various SATB Choral Settings of traditional tunes.
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​All Aboard (Radio Kerry) Commission
Incidental music for a fictional reenactment of a voyage of the Jennie Johnson across the Atlantic during the Irish famine. The documentary subsequently won a Jacobs Award (Irish Television and Radio Annual Awards).
Celtic Wings (Kerry Irish Productions Inc.) Commission
Various Choral Settings of traditional songs for vocal group DANA.
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