Classical music highlights for this week include Kirkos’s Body Noise Work project

The National’s guitarists are part of People, a community of musicians creating new spaces and platforms

Finding a Voice festival’s all-female finale; Vanbrugh & Michael McHale; Philippe Cassard

The second edition of Dublin’s genre-blind alternative festival is back next week to once again challenge cello orthodoxy

Nick Roth’s band Yurodny celebrate their 10th anniversary with a new suite ‘Wave’, coalescing traditional and modern music inspired by the jesters of Russian folklore

Music and theatre lovers well catered for with eclectic mix at popular Tipperary event

The ‘Crashlands’ series of concerts will see Crash Ensemble perform in beautiful, remote locations around the country

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

Russian Puccini, refined Haydn and raw saxophone

Norway’s top opera job is being taken up by Annilese Miskimmon. The post comes with its own dramatic history

What attracted Iarla Ó Lionáird, Duke Special and Julie Feeney to collaborate with Cork Gamelan Ensemble?

The eclectic mix you’ll hear at Kaleidoscope music nights, at Odessa in Dublin – everything from solo accordionists to saxophone quartets and baroque music – has won the attention of a growing audience of fans

It is likely to be to everyone’s benefit if the two RTÉ orchestras are allowed to compete on the same terrain

Within the rampant fragmentation that’s been with us for so long, the victors have become much harder to identify

A surreal tango opera from Buenos Aires is all about the survival of a gentle muse