Building an audience for contemporary classical music
Recitals, workshops and the determinedly avant garde feature in Music Current festival
‘I went on stage, the piano was locked. And no one had the key’
Musical idols, dreams and nightmares of West Cork Chamber Music Festival performers
'Hostages set fire to little fuses that are still fizzing in my head'
Culture review 2016: Time travel seemed to be the dominant plot line, and you couldn't move without bumping into Roger Casement
The beauty and the beats of RBMA 2016
The Red Bull Music Academy touched down in Montreal this year and among the innovators putting the musicians through their paces were Thundercat, Tune-Yards and Björk
The gloss and gutsiness of West Cork Chamber Music Festival
In Bantry, musical depth was lost in the Cremona Quartet’s approach, whereas Alina Ibragimova did Bach justice
What? . . . Wow: not much new about David Lang’s festival of minimalism
Why this year’s festival turned to the US for a curator is hard to fathom
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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