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Kilkenny Arts Festival
Samson Tsoy: Clean, eager playing overlooks what’s most important in Beethoven’s final piano sonatas
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: The Kazakh pianist projects too much and too readily. None of these sonatas needs such advocacy
Pavel Kolesnikov: A disappointingly egotistical approach to Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: The Russian pianist is extraordinarily resourceful, but his style says far too much about him and too little about the composer
Samson Tsoy & Pavel Kolesnikov: Always absorbing take on Rite of Spring sounds as if it’s from a parallel universe
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: In the four-hand version of Stravinsky’s work, contrasts are starker and the music’s rhythmic complexities come to the fore
Irish Chamber Orchestra: Deep, detailed performances in a setting that brings out the best in Vaughan Williams’s fantasia
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: The programme features Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Errollyn Wallen’s Dances for Orchestra
Trade/Mary Motorhead review: Compelling double bill reveals Emma O’Halloran’s impressive instinct for opera
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: Operas were originally plays by the writer and actor Mark O’Halloran
Light Up the Castle: ‘We’ll project an image of Kilkenny Castle back on to itself, then do all sorts of fun things’
Six Sides Sawn, Jack Phelan’s new audiovisual show, will bring Kilkenny Castle’s walls to life for the city’s arts festival
The Guide: Kilkenny Arts Festival, Fatboy Slim and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end
August 3rd-9th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Emma O’Halloran: ‘Why do all the women die in opera? I really wanted to do something that’s not that’
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: In Trade/Mary Motorhead, O’Halloran uses music to explore a transactional relationship between two men and also to transcend the confines of a prison cell
‘I was in a coma for weeks. Now I don’t sweat the small stuff. I don’t suffer from despair’
Kilkenny Arts Festival director Olga Barry has overcome health scares but is looking for new accommodation at age of 50 after renting for 34 years
Barry Douglas review: When he gets the bit between his teeth he’s one of the most exciting pianists around
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: There was a sense of a raw force of nature about Douglas’s recital at St Canice’s Cathedral on Monday
Carducci String Quartet: Kilkenny Arts Festival audience clearly appreciates this passionate, emotionally engaged playing
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: In a chalk-and-cheese programme, the players’ fondness for fullness and heartiness of tone is a little too strongly in evidence
Migration Sonata: United by a common physical language
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: The choreographer John Scott brings Ukrainian and Brazilian migrants together in this spirited dance
The Local: Debs night, 1992, and a community’s hopes, dreams and difficulties are unfolding before us
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: This ambitious community play, staged in the cabaret lounge of a working bar, is at its best in its heightened, stylised moments
Camerata Kilkenny: Gorgeous tones and mesmerising command in a Bach-dominated programme
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: The group’s harpsichordist, Malcolm Proud, featured as a young musician at the first festival, back in 1974
‘The only way out is a divorce!’: Carducci String Quartet on being married to music and each other
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: Couples might find it hard to work and live together. The two pairs of Carducci musicians cannot imagine it any other way
The Local: A love poem to the Irish pub
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023: At Sheridans in Ennisnag, a large cast is rehearsing for a play about the bar’s role in Irish community life
Pain and glory: Artists explore how sport permeates life
An exhibition coming to the Butler Gallery as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival underlines how present sport is in every aspect of life
Clare Monnelly: ‘Women have had a terrible time in this country for a really long time’
When the actor started writing and creating her own work, she found a new level of fulfilment
Kilkenny Arts Festival’s 2023 line-up: From Light Up the Castle to eavesdropping in the local
It’s been a year like no other for the festival team, who ‘had to find a couple of extra gears’ to get ready for August
Pop-up jazz supergroup in Kilkenny: this week’s best jazz gigs
Chris Guilfoyle’s Superumbra. Plus: Súp, Maya Youssef and Camille O’Sullivan
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