West Cork Chamber Music Festival doubles down for 2021
Artistic director Francis Humphrys is responding to Covid by adding more shows
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
Ahead of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, five string players discuss their work
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The festival needs its own dedicated venue, and its director’s pursuit of one might be about to bear fruit
The early-music strand of this sprawling festival is substantial enough to bear comparison with specialised events elsewhere
How did Francis Humphrys go from farming to developing his labour of love, West Cork Chamber Music Festival?
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