Finghin Collins

Music for Galway programme is full of highlights with promise of new cello festival

RTÉ ConTempo Quartet play in Sligo and Galway. Plus: ‘Banished’ in Kilmainham Gaol

Westland Row campus redevelopment involves €9m public funding and significant philanthropy

Brahms’s career saw many changes in the world of piano design and manufacture

As always, Kilkenny’s strong musical tradition is paramount

RTÉ Concert Orchestra taking over summer orchestral slots on Tuesdays and Fridays at NCH

Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm

Sligo International Chamber Music Festival is another highlight of the next seven days

Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city

Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry and author Paul Lynch among participants

Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music

There were, of course, multiple pleasures along the way – this was a leading Czech orchestra playing some of the greatest Czech music

2012 Dublin International Piano Competition winner Nikolay Khozyainov returns to NCH

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra makes important exploration of Mozart and Rameau

Celebrating composer Brett Dean, Stravinsky’s Funeral Song resurfaces and composers on love

Taoiseach weighs in, Minister for Arts kicks to touch, Fianna Fáil comes late to the cause

The pianist marks his 70th birthday year with a wonderful coda

Finghin Collins goes solo at Wexford Festival Opera

Orchestra celebrates 70th anniversary with a wide-ranging concert programme

NCH honours pianist by presenting him in solo recital as part of international series

From Schubert and Mendelssohn to 11-year-old Alma Deutscher, Finghin Collins is about to present a whole weekend of music written by composers aged under 18

Great Music in Irish Houses, Killaloe Chamber Music Festival and Cork Chamber Music Festival also reveal their programmes

Human rights expert calls for freedom of movement for everyone on the planet

That question was arguably answered in concerts at the National Concert Hall and University Church last week

The new season is strong on singing and orchestral debuts, and composers from Sibelius to Mahler

A performance of JS Bach’s Mass in B Minor was the real highlight of the arts festival’s first weekend

Classical music: The problem with HJ Lim’s in-your-face style is that, when nothing is normal, you can get to the point where nothing is abnormal either

The original theme lacked grandeur, but such portmanteaus can be a source of creativity

Free classical music concert to be held to thank people of Oughterard

Classical music round-up: The young ensemble played Messiaen’s dark music – which he composed as a POW – in near-darkness

ConTempo Quartet, on the other hand, were to take over as RTÉ’s string quartet in Cork in April, but things have been rather muted

The skill of the players is undermined by the concert’s unconventional structure

The co-founder chose exciting young pianists and a veteran keyboard player, and his own performance set the bar high

Galway Oyster Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival and New Ross Piano Festival

Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Gábor Takács-Nagy brings a fresh and fun approach to the composer’s symphonies

It’s easy to compare the approaches of different instrumentalists at Westport Festival of Chamber Music

Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published

Inaugural event takes place next weekend

Viola player and partner died in Crete last month