Composer’s Galway 2020 community project postponed twice during pandemic

Synnot will be first living Irish composer to have work featured on main stage of Wexford Festival Opera

RTÉ Contempo Quartet play Beethoven while Peter Whelan directs Irish Baroque Orchestra performance of Handel’s Messiah

Of all new music, large-scale works with words travel least freely internationally

RTÉ Philharmonic Choir under Mark Hindley deliver a standout performance

The Mozart programme at Kilkenny Arts Festival featured compositions for mechanical organ and glass harmonica

Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering

Is there a gender or national bias in our high-profile music competitions? Sorry, conspiracy theorists, but no

In Bantry, musical depth was lost in the Cremona Quartet’s approach, whereas Alina Ibragimova did Bach justice

College life need not be one of penury, there are more than 300 scholarships available to Irish students, and it’s not just for academic excellence, there are awards for all sorts of pursuits, from singing to snooker

Collins gave a terrific talk about the nuts and bolts of his career during Dublin International Piano Festival

Cork had the first production of 2014, and features in two successful Arts Council funding applications

Concerts by Resurgam and the RTÉ NSO and what operas producers want to put on