Made up of four of our outstanding young artists, the Ophelia Quartet made their concert debut earlier this summer at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Mendelssohn wrote his Op.13 quartet as a teenager, just a few months after Beethoven’s death, and in deep fascination with the master’s late quartets. Ravel’s 1903 quartet exudes a heady blend of classicism and exoticism which has seen it become a firm favourite amongst both musicians and audiences.

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Mozart’s brief, poignant and rarely programmed Masonic Funeral Music partners Hindemith’s achingly beautiful Trauermusik, commissioned on the death of George V. Mozart adds his own voice to Bach’s music, paying tribute to the master of fugue while Australian Brett Dean’s Short Stories, five evocative abstract miniatures, serve as interludes in between. Mahler’s great Tenth Symphony traverses an unremitting arc of emotion. Its atmospheric Adagio, an immensely spacious and gloriously scored cadence, closes an ethereal programme.

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A fundraising concert for the National String Quartet Foundation
The Vanbrugh and special guests present a celebration of string playing in Cork, featuring two of the best loved chamber works ever written, together with four spectacular arrangements for eight cellos, presented by no less than nineteen of Cork’s finest string players. This concert marks sixty years since the first performance of the RTE String Quartet Residency in summer 1959.

The versatile Irish Guitar Quartet is one of Ireland’s premier instrumental ensembles. Jerry Creedon, David Keating, Fiona Falvey and Aengus Kirakowski have garnered international acclaim as soloists and each member contributes towards the creation of exciting, dynamic and engaging musical performances.

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The 65th Cork International Choral Festival Opening Gala Concert
The Fleischmann Choir and CSM Symphony Orchestra will bring their wealth of talent and passion to the distinctive melodies of Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1, and Nielsen’s Fynsk Forår and Hymnus Amoris. They will be joined on stage by the CSM Junior and Senior Childrens’ Choruses. 

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The CIT Cork School of Music Symphony Orchestra presents a FREE lunchtime performance of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No.1. First performed in 1899, it is a work filled with memorable melodies and voluptuous sonorities. Conor Palliser conducts and all are welcome.

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Raphaela Gromes is an exceptional young cellist who has quickly garnered a slew of rave reviews for the incredible intimacy of her playing, her musical imagination, and thrilling virtuosity. Add to this her symbiotic duets with partner Julian Riem and you’re set for a truly inspiring evening.

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The highly acclaimed Anglo-Irish Carducci String Quartet joins Julian Bliss, one of the world’s finest clarinettists, for a thrilling programme featuring immortal works by Haydn and Brahms, plus David Bruce‘s Gumboots Clarinet Quintet, “an engaging new work which deserves a place in the chamber repertory” (Gramophone).

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Composer/Sound Designer Peter Power and percussionist Alex Petcu have come together and devised “On Sequences”, an exciting new show that brings together elements from each of their backgrounds, creating an immersive and engaging experience for the listener.

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Presented in association with the National String Quartet Foundation
The Lir Quartet – Siobhan Doyle, violin; Siun Milne, violin; Ed Creedon, viola; and Christopher Ellis, cello – return with a wonderfully contrasted programme of works by Britten and Mendelssohn.

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The world-renowned Irish conductor and choirmaster, David Brophy, guides the Cork Concert Orchestra through performances of Mahler‘s Fifth, a Stokowski arranged Rachmaninoff Prelude, and the ever-popular Mendelssohn E minor concerto, with the nimble-fingered Cork-born violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan the guest soloist.

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Presented in association with the National String Quartet Foundation
The Vanbrugh continue their exploration of the great piano quartet repertoire in the company of acclaimed Belfast pianist Michael McHale, recently appointed lecturer at CIT Cork School of Music.

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Songs by Puccini, Debussy, Boulanger, R. Strauss and more.
Bid farewell to New Year abstinence with a ravishing recital of sensuous songs by Mary Hegarty, Cork’s favourite internationally acclaimed soprano, with the adroit accompaniment of pianist Gabriela Mayer.

PLEASE NOTE: This event is a rescheduling of the concert initially planned for January 31st.

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CHRISTMAS CONCERT No.1: WEDNESDAY 19 DECEMBER
CHRISTMAS CONCERT No.2: THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER

In response to huge audience demand, this Christmas Madrigal ’75 will present their annual concert of seasonal choral music not once, but twice! Tickets for this magical event have sold out quickly in recent years so please try not to miss out on what has fast become the essential Christmas concert for music lovers in Cork..

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A quintet of Ireland’s finest brass players – Colm Byrne and David Collins (trumpets); Cormac O hAodain (horn); Mick Marshall (trombone); and Francis Magee (tuba) – perform music by J.S. Bach, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill, Michael Kamen and Jim Parker, plus a selection of seasonal gems.

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