Conor Palliser and the Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra offer a FREE lunchtime concert with an all Wagner programme of romantic masterpieces including Siegfried Idyll, written as a birthday present to the composer’s wife, Cosima, and first performed on Christmas morning, 1870, by a small ensemble on the stairs of the couple’s villa in Switzerland.

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SPOTLIGHT: Jörg Widmann and the ICO bring their irrepressible energy and insight to a thrilling programme featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Puccini and Stamitz, plus a new work by Irish composer Sebastian Adams. The acclaimed British clarinetist Katherine Spencer is the guest soloist.

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Keith Pascoe and Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra present two perennial Russian masterpieces: Mussorgsky‘s scintillating, Ravel-orchestrated Pictures at an Exhibition, and the dazzling Glazunov violin concerto with rising star soloist Patrick Rafter. A number of short compositions by students of Stephen Parker round out the exciting programme.

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Beethoven: Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 78
Ian Wilson: Stations (2006-7) (Second and Sixth Stations)
Thomas Adès: Darknesse Visible (1992)
Chopin: Berceuse, Op. 57; Barcarolle, Op. 60
Schubert: Sonata in B flat major, D. 960

Hugh Tinney Piano


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György Ligeti: Sonatina (1950)
Franz Schubert: Fantasie in F minor, Op.103
Antonín Dvorák: 6 Slavonic Dances from Op.46: No.1 in C major; No.2 in E minor; No.3 in A flat major; No.5 in A major; No.7 in C minor; No.8 in G minor

Rebecca Čáp Piano
Kirstin Čáp Piano

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The 75 piece Junge Sinfonie Köln visits Cork for a special charity concert in aid of the Cope Foundation. A limited number of tickets will be available for COS members to book at discounted rates. Titled ‘Echte Fründe’, which means ‘real friends’ in German, the concert marks the 30th Anniversary of the twinning of Cork City and Cologne.

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Rossini: An aria from “Adelaide di Borgogna” – soprano and piano
Songs by Reynaldo Hahn – soprano and piano
Eric Ewazen: Songs for trumpet from “to cast a shadow again”
Barber: ‘Souvenirs” for 4 hands on piano
Bottesini: “Tutto che il mondo serra” – soprano, double bass and piano
Teppo Hauot-aho: Kadenza – double bass solo
Serge Lancen: Croquis (sketches) – double bass and piano

Majella Cullagh (soprano), Vivienne Johnston (trumpet), David Whitla (double bass), Denise Crowley (piano), Gabriela Mayer (piano)

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The Vanbrugh and eight very special guests present the annual National String Quartet Foundation Scholarship Gala Fundraiser. This wonderful event is always a spectacular finish to our season and is not to be missed!

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The concluding concert in the Vanbrugh “One by One” series features an eclectic programme that illuminates the multifarious talents of Keith Pascoe (violin/conductor) in works by Brahms, Rachmaninov, Parker and Wilson. The renowned American pianist David Syme and rising Cork-born conductor Tom Crowley guest.

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The Vanbrugh “One by One” series continues with Simon Aspell (viola/conductor) leading a hand-picked chamber ensemble in a programme of exquisite works by Bach, Handel, Telemann, Mozart and Elgar, in the beautiful setting of St. Luke’s Church.

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In the first of a series of three concerts that puts the spotlight on each member of the Vanbrugh, cellist Chris Marwood is joined by the internationally acclaimed pianist Hugh Tinney, and Mairead Hickey, one of Ireland’s most accomplished violinists, in works by Debussy, Beethoven and Schubert.

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The Fleischmann Choir and CSM Symphony Orchestra bring their wealth of talent and passion to one of the apogees of classical composition, Brahms‘ German Requiem. There’s also another opportunity to hear Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony, a piece that was written in the same year that Brahms was working on his Requiem. Conor Palliser conducts.

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Prepare to be charmed by the quiet charisma and innate musicality of this thrilling new duo comprising Franco-Spanish guitarist Thibaut Garcia and German cellist Isang Enders, both young artists with rapidly-growing international reputations.

“Ensuring a bright future for classical guitar” – Gramophone [on Thibaut Garcia]
“Virtuosity, good taste, knowledge and originality” – BBC Music Magazine [on Isang Enders]

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Tchaikovsky’s talent for memorable melodies, warm orchestrations and uplifting finales are some of the reasons why he is one of the world’s most beloved composers. Conor Palliser turns his attention to the Symphony No. 1, “Winter Dreams” in this free lunchtime concert with the talented young musicians of the CSM Symphony Orchestra following the orchestra’s memorable performances of the fourth, fifth and sixth symphonies in recent years. 

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Winds of Change, a new quintet featuring Kieran Moynihan (flute), Ciara Glasheen-Artem (oboe and cor anglais), Conor Sheil (clarinet), Sinead Frost (bassoon), and Jonathan Groszew (horn), present an eclectic programme of tuneful 19th and 20th century works for wind quintet by Anton Reicha, Jacques Ibert, Samuel Barber, Eugène Bozza, Carl Nielsen and Malcolm Arnold.

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