Michael Daugherty: UFO – Concerto for Solo Percussion and Wind Ensemble
Fergal Carroll: Amphion
Gary Carpenter: Latchford Locks
Edward Gregson: The Sword and The Crown

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO CONCERNS OVER COVID-19

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Les Trois, a captivating new trio of exemplary Cork based talents – Maria Mulcahy (flute), Cian Ó Dúill (viola) and Anne-Marie Papin (harp) – presents an ethereal programme including works by Beethoven, Debussy, Bax and Kraus, plus 20th century French composers Bernard Andrès, Théodore Dubois and Marcel Tournier.

In the interest of public safety and in accordance with official advice, this event has been cancelled due to concerns over covid-19 virus

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The ascent of music’s Everest continues in Cork! The third of this ten-year, fifty-concert series provides you with the opportunity to hear Symphony No. 49 (“La Passione”) – a dark-hued, sombre work in the minor mode – and the second of three symphonies he wrote for London in 1782: No. 77 in B flat. The orchestra is led by Liz Charleson and conducted by Geoff Spratt.

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For the final concert of the series, Donnacha Dennehy presents a new companion piece for Beethoven’s last and most reflective quartet, his F major quartet Op.135. ‘The pieces in this concert reflect upon each other, their makers or the myths around the music. Janacek’s first string quartet, “Kreutzer Sonata”, not only relates to Beethoven’s sonata for violin and piano of the same name but also to Tolstoy’s novella in which the Beethoven piece features dramatically. 

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A lot can happen in a thousand years. Condensing it into just two hours might be a bit of a challenge, but Saltarello Trio step up to the plate, tracing a clear musical line from Hildegard Von Bingen to David Fennessy, taking in multiple stops along the way to admire the work of Dowland, Vivaldi and Purcell.

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The second concert in this series traces threads of connection from the work of Beethoven through to New York’s Julia Wolfe and Cork composer sisters Irene and Linda Buckley. There is a particular focus on his String Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 131, written in 1826, the year before Beethoven died. It is said that upon listening to a performance of this quartet, Schubert remarked, “After this, what is left for us to write?”

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The first concert in the Beethoven Reflected series is centred upon Ficino Ensemble’s thoughtful and impassioned performance of Beethoven’s fifteenth string quartet (1825) with its famous “Holy song of thanksgiving” that opens the third movement. The first four movements of this breath-taking masterwork are preceded by specially commissioned works by Amanda Feery, Garrett Sholdice, Cora Venus Lunny and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly.

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CHRISTMAS CONCERT No.1: WEDNESDAY 18 DECEMBER
CHRISTMAS CONCERT No.2: THURSDAY 19 DECEMBER

Madrigal ’75 presents their ever-popular Christmas Concerts featuring a stunning selection of seasonal choral music. Madrigal ’75’s repertoire will include both rarely performed works alongside Christmas classics, with music spanning the ages from early to contemporary.

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One of the greatest operatic composers of all time turned his attention to the mass text in his early 20s which resulted in his Messa di Gloria. First performed in 1880, it portrays Puccini’s flair for drama, sublime orchestrations and overwhelmingly beautiful melodic lines. St. Michael’s Church is the perfect setting for this sacred masterpiece.

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Ficino Ensemble was formed by Artistic Director Nathan Sherman in 2012 as a flexible group aiming to perform popular chamber music alongside lesser known works that deserve to be appreciated. Their programme features one of Haydn’s finest string quartets; Donnacha Dennehy’s rhythmically entertaining Stamp; and William Walton’s second string quartet, written just two years after his celebrated score for Laurence Olivier’s film of Shakespeare’s Henry V.

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Cork’s own Mairéad Hickey, one of Ireland’s most accomplished and well-loved violinists, joins Belfast-born Michael McHale, one of its leading pianists, for a programme of sublime works for piano and violin by Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Debussy.

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Join the CSM Symphony Orchestra for their first concert of the season in this delightful lunchtime programme featuring the fireworks of Malcolm Arnold and the pastoral fumes of Gustav Holst. At the heart of the programme lies Edward Elgar’s beloved Cello Concerto featuring one of the leading young cellists to emerge from Ireland in recent years. 

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Since its formation in 2002, the Navarra Quartet has built an international reputation as one of the most dynamic and poetic string quartets of today. For this concert, titled “Love and Death”, the programme features contrastive masterpieces by Schubert, Janáček, Turina and Puccini, plus two sublime works from the acclaimed contemporary Hungarian composer György Kurtág.

Presented in association with the National String Quartet Foundation.

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Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra presents a “Save Our Seas” concert. Alongside famous works by Elgar and Debussy, the pelagic programme features a symphonic poem by Ina Boyle, the most prolific and significant female composer from Ireland before 1950, in which the surge of the ocean and the calls of the seabirds are evocatively caught.

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