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12. Talking Music
29/06/2026 | 10:00 am - 10:40 am
Each weekday morning during the Festival the well-known musical commentator, Seán Rafferty, hosts our Talking Music conversations. Over coffee, before the day's Coffee Concert,...
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West Cork Chamber Music Festival Programme
West Cork Chamber Music Festival Programme
The 2026 Festival is over, and you can see below the wonderful programme and artists who came to Bantry this year. Mark your calendars now so that you don’t miss the 32nd Chamber Music Festival – 25 June to 4 July 2027.
This page will be updated with the 2027 programme before Christmas, but visiting artists will include 5 magnificent quartets: Danel Quartet, Chiaroscuro Quartet, Tchalik Quartet, Marmen Quartet and Affinity Quartet. The 2027 chamber music festival will also feature returning favourites. Among them, we will welcome the Paddington Trio, Lotte Betts-Dean, Mairéad Hickey, Brett Dean, Ensemble Diderot, the Pacific Wind Quintet, and many many more.
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13. Coffee Concert
29/06/2026 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Prelude to Bach Charlotte Spruit is a brilliant young violinist from Netherlands who plays both Baroque and modern music and has particularly insightful programming...
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14. Young Composers Forum
29/06/2026 | 12:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Composers Workshop Winners from the Young Composers Competition will each workshop their piece with one of the young Quartets participating in the Masterclass Programme....
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15. Children’s Concert
29/06/2026 | 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
The Shakespeare music mix A lively and accessible introduction to the music of Shakespeare’s world, led by three motley musicians on lute, recorder and...
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16. Crespo Series
29/06/2026 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Two Fantasies of Forbidden Love The fabled opening to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata inspired another great composer to describe it as 'one of those poems...
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17. Main Evening Concert
29/06/2026 | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Children's stories - threats to innocence and the power of hope... Fazil Say is a brilliant Turkish pianist-composer, who is not afraid to speak...
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18. Candlelit Late Night
29/06/2026 | 10:00 pm - 10:45 pm
Homage to Beethoven, Bach and West Side Story Henryk Górecki leapt to fame with his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, where his setting of a...
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19. Talking Music
30/06/2026 | 10:00 am - 10:40 am
Sean Rafferty in conversation with NOVO Quartet For the second Talking Music conversation, Sean Rafferty hosts the young NOVO Quartet from Copenhagen, who have...
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20. Coffee Concert
30/06/2026 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
London 1700 This concert features five composers who were active in London at the turn to the 18th Century. Nicola Matteis was a violinist-composer...
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21. Crespo Lunchtime Series
30/06/2026 | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
From Court to tavern, music of merriment and majesty The Gregory Walkers with recorder player Kate Hearne explore the vibrant dance music of Renaissance...
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22. Young Musicians Series
30/06/2026 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Heiliger Dankgesang, a sacred song of thanks One of the encouraging things about the Festival is the number of young Quartets keen to take...
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23. Crespo Series
30/06/2026 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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...
Our West Cork Music Festivals
Join us, across six glorious weeks each summer, as West Cork Music celebrates the best of chamber music, literature, and traditional Irish music through its world-class festivals at the edge of Europe.
