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Cellist Natalie Clein took part in a thrusting account of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata
A muscular, finely tuned engine at Westport Chamber Music Festival

There was serious competition for the Westport Chamber Music Festival last weekend. The muscle cars of Cannonball Ireland were on their way, and as I (...)

The Heath Quartet performs chorales by Bach and Britten’s Second String Quartet at Westport House on Sunday morning
Classical gig of the week: Westport Festival of Chamber Music

Westport Festival of Chamber Music Various venues, Westport, Co Mayo Friday September 7th-Sunday September 9th westportchambermusic.ie The strangest (...)

New York-based Irish clarinettist Carol McGonnell played at the Airbnb International Hub on Hanover Quay
Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms

Kilkenny Arts Festival has announced full details of its 2018 programme which will run from Thursday, August 9th to Sunday, August 19th. It is the las(...)

The music at Killruddery House is always given in the orangery, a special high-ceilinged conservatory for growing fruit trees
A perfect fusion of music and location at Kilruddery
  • Music
  • June 21, 2017, 05:00

At some point during last Thursday’s concert I found myself thinking about happiness. It was day three in this year’s Festival of Great Music in Irish(...)

Martin Hayes, Stephen Rea and performers from Loosysmokes, Elaine McCague and Deirdre Griffin, at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2016 programme launch. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Kilkenny Arts Festival announces its 2016 programme

Ghosts in caves, surprises in gardens and Mozart in the Marble City are all in store at this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival (KAF). Festival director(...)

Pianist Barry Douglas’s gutsy playing was often an edge-of-the-seat experience
Kilkenny Arts Festival brings Beethoven to life

It was like old times at Kilkenny Arts Festival. The new director, Eugene Downes, put classical music right back at the heart of this year’s festiv(...)

Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler
Mull over Beethoven: the complete composer?

  ALFRED BRENDEL Pianist “Beethoven. Grand master of chamber music, sonata, variation and symphony. What other composer covered, w(...)

The Gloaming will perform at St Canice’s Cathedral in August
Kilkenny Arts Festival: A journey from Beethoven to The Gloaming

Eugene Downes knows something about journeys. He has made countless trips in a career built on advancing Irish arts worldwide. As a former chie(...)

English clarinettist Michael Collins (above) was first brought to Ireland by John Ruddock. Collins says Ruddock was ‘a real enthusiast, he loved certain composers, others were a no-no for him . . . Thank goodness for the passion. And behind the scenes we had some fantastic times.’
Michael Collins: ‘It’s got to come from within. From your heart and your very soul’

It was the late John Ruddock who first brought English clarinettist Michael Collins to Irish audiences. On March 1st, 1982, he presented him at Villie(...)