Keep up to date with our latest West Cork Music news and announcements here, including news from all our festivals, concert series and educational projects.
Our news is organised in categories to help you focus on what you are interested in. Simply select a category to get a listing of articles in that area – for example, all our West Cork Chamber Music Festival news items are listed both here, and under our Chamber Music Festival category.
Call for YA Writers & Artists
Following the success of the previous My Life In Strips activity and recent publication of the comic, West Cork Music is delighted to invite young people to join in the final year of these workshops.
Announcing Resound
West Cork musicians raise their voices, with the clear message that the region’s resilient music community is still here.
Mairéad Hickey and Bruno Philippe
In a special Christmas concert for West Cork Music's audiences, Mairéad Hickey [violin] and Bruno Philippe [cello] recently performed a programme of works by Zoltán Kodály, Maurice Ravel and Finola Merivale at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. A Christmas gift to our audience, this concert is free to view.
2021 Chamber Music Programme
As the Year of the Great Lockdowns draws miserably to a close, we need to look forward to a time when we can get our lives back. This makes it a perfect moment to dream of summer and, most especially, the playing of live music by the great musicians we so missed this year.
Ensemble Dagda
Behind Closed Doors is a programme devised by Ensemble Dagda telling a story of the women composers who led flourishing careers in seventeenth century Italy and France.
