Ian Wilson

ConTempo con brio: This week’s classical highlights

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

Hugh Tinney’s 60th birthday tour: this weeks classical music highlights

Plus: Female Composer Series at NCH, and piano competition winner Sae Yoon Chon

Music proves to be food of love for the generations

Composer and consultant strike the right note with Tallaght and Tipperary schools

Composer Siobhán Cleary opens Arts Council can of worms

Council scheme is set up in a way that cannot deal with idea of ‘equal pay for equal work’

Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms

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

The day The Clash and punk turned Trinity into a war zone

The Clash played Trinity College 40 years ago today. The student organisers recall the British punks' explosive 1977 visit to Ireland

How do you like them apples? Armagh festival celebrates its favourite fruit

With more than 40,000 acres of orchards, Armagh is well stocked for its annual food and cider festival

Feast of Russian miniatures: This week’s classical music highlights

Elisaveta Blumina in Dublin, RTÉ Contempo Quartet on tour and Irish Baroque Orchestra

Tinney a power of strength with the Navarra Quartet

Westport Festival expands from three to six concerts

Ian Wilson on why RTÉ needs to ‘take chances, be ahead of the curve, be a leader'

He steered Dave Fanning and Gerry Ryan to fame and helped devise ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, but as he prepares to leave RTÉ, producer Ian Wilson chides the national broadcaster for being risk-averse

Hammy Joe Duffy would make a panto dame blush

Radio Review: The RTÉ presenter gets fully into character for an Easter special, before showing his strengths on more familiar ground

Around the Georgian houses

Nic an Ríogh’s aim in these events is to encourage audiences to engage not only with music but also with architecture

The Last Siren review: a tour de force by Lauren Kinsella

The vocalist subtly and powerfully sustains both her difficult character and the audience's attention

Lauren Kinsella: 'Improvisation is the key to life'

Shrieks, yelps and clicks are part of the Irish woman’s repertoire of improvisation

Composing the Island: Starting with the best works is never wise

The celebration of 100 years of Irish composition hits mid-century, revealing a dark age for orchestral music

‘Composing music is almost like trying to remember a dream’

‘Composing the Island’ celebrates 100 years of music by Irish composers, written between 1916 and 2016. What do composers think about Irish music now?