Artistic director Francis Humphrys is responding to Covid by adding more shows

Events from West Cork Chamber Music Festival to Friday Opera Sessions are migrating online

One shining beacon in Galway’s programme is a cello festival and the West Cork Chamber Music Festival’s offering of less-frequently heard cello repertoire is a timely taster

Getting bigger groups to work in harmony without a conductor can be tricky

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

Michael Dervan: Moves are afoot to orchestrate more equitable representation

He brought an opera focus to Kilkenny Arts Festival, but new music was neglected

Female composers are grossly underrepresented, but fixing the issue may not be easy

Will RTÉ, which has been killing off the orchestra, now be allowed to fill key positions?

Deirdre Gribbin’s Kindersang addresses the plight of 10,000 Jewish brought to Britain and Northern Ireland the outbreak of the second World War

Ted talk star Daria van den Bercken is in Galway and Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova plays an all-French programme in Drogheda

West Cork Chamber Music Festival director Francis Humphreys struck gold this year bringing together violinist Viviane Hagner, cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Barry Douglas

Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany