Cuore Chamber Choir is an award-winning mixed-voice choir based in Dublin, Ireland and founded by conductor Amy Ryan in 2014.  The choir consists of thirty singers from a range of nationalities and ages, committed to high-quality performances of rewarding music, from early polyphony to contemporary premieres.

Cuore has consistently achieved high standards, including Gold at the International Choir Competition Ave Verum, Baden, Austria (2024) and two second prizes at the Tallinn International Choir Festival (2023). In Ireland, Cuore achieved first place in their national broadcaster’s annual Choirs for Christmas competition (2024), at the Feis Ceoil (2023), Cork (2018), Mayo (2016), Sligo (2016) and New Ross (2015). Cuore has a particular affinity for the music of living composers, having been awarded special prizes for contemporary music by RTÉ lyric fm (2024), in Tallinn (2023), the Feis Ceoil (2023) and Cork (2022 and 2018).

Beyond competitions, the choir engages in charitable performances, collaborations with orchestra in Ireland’s National Concert Hall, and its own regular concerts.

Cuore’s conductor, Amy Ryan, lectures at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and works with a wide range of professional and amateur groups. She conducts the professional choir at the Pepper Canister Church, Dublin and has prepared choruses for Irish National Opera, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival and Lyric Opera. Amy is Artistic Director of University College Dublin (UCD) Philharmonic Choir, has guested with the UCD Symphony Orchestra on multiple occasions, conducting concertos, symphonies and choral-orchestral works, and has also conducted Ireland’s national symphony and radio orchestras.

Additional note (not for publication)
Cuore’s current singers include former members of Mornington Singers and of New Dublin Voices.

Cuore has performed well in other competitions against choirs and conductors who have previously competed in Jurmala: 

• In Dublin’s Feis Ceoil in 2023, Peter Broadbent awarded us 1st prize in Mixed Voices with 2nd prize going to TUD Conservatoire Chamber Choir under Bernie Sherlock, and 3rd prize to the Mornington Singers. 
• In Tallinn the same year, we placed 2nd in Chamber Choirs, with 4th prize going to Encore, who were in the Grand Prix in Jurmala later that year.

Webpage: https://cuore.ie/