Concerts

From Court to tavern, music of merriment and majesty The Gregory Walkers with recorder player Kate Hearne explore the vibrant dance music of Renaissance...

Heiliger Dankgesang, a sacred song of thanks One of the encouraging things about the Festival is the number of young Quartets keen to take...

Family music-making in the Schubert household These three youthful Sonatas were originally and incorrectly published as Sonatinas, presumably to encourage amateur musicians to try...

As our homage to Sofia Gubaidulina - the great Tatar composer who died last year at the age of 93 - we are performing...

Balanced on the edge of time's end. For the day's final work we return to a work the Festival commissioned 25 years ago from...

The West Cork Chamber Music Festival brings the Olympia Quartet to Sherkin Island Community Hall. The Olympia Quartet was formed in September 2024 in...

A cello's life and death Beethoven’s F major quartet was named Razumovsky after the violin-playing Count who paid the commission fee. It was in...

Trio Variations Concerto 1700 is a Spanish Baroque ensemble dedicated to exploring the Spanish musical heritage of the 17th and 18th Centuries. This concert...

The Rider in the Night These are two mighty quartets. The Bartók is a powerful exercise in cramming a life poem into as small...

Music in time of war This is the final performance by Calidore Quartet in this year’s Festival. Both Mozart and Korngold were child prodigies,...

From one to eight The great Latvian composer, Pēteris Vasks, is 80 this year and we hope he will join us for some performances...

Sean nós Duo Siblings Séamus and Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta hail from the Gaeltacht region of Connemara. They are noted for their sean-nós singing and...