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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Cork Orchestral Society is very proud to present a recital by the winner of the inaugural COS Emerging Artist Award, pianist Jordan Bagot. Jordan, a twenty-two year old rising star already honoured by multiple accolades in Ireland and abroad, will perform virtuosic piano works by Scriabin, Liszt, Debussy, Messiaen, Gershwin, Parker and Rautavaara.

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The Fleischmann Choir and CSM Symphony Orchestra perform two great works for chorus and orchestra: Vaughan Williams’ early masterpiece Toward the Unknown Region; and Poulenc’s Gloria, with Mary Hegarty, the internationally celebrated, Cork-born soprano, as the featured soloist. Wagner’s Prelude und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, a new addition, rounds out the unmissable programme. Conor Palliser and Matthew Haddock conduct.

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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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