West Cork Chamber Music Festival doubles down for 2021
Artistic director Francis Humphrys is responding to Covid by adding more shows
Performing from home: The strange new world of summer arts festivals
Events from West Cork Chamber Music Festival to Friday Opera Sessions are migrating online
Lesson from West Cork for Galway’s troubled European Capital of Culture
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
Too many cooks: what happens when ensembles go large?
Getting bigger groups to work in harmony without a conductor can be tricky
ConTempo con brio: This week’s classical highlights
RTÉ ConTempo Quartet play in Sligo and Galway. Plus: ‘Banished’ in Kilmainham Gaol
Sounding the Feminists: Women composers in the spotlight
Michael Dervan: Moves are afoot to orchestrate more equitable representation
The highs and lows of Eugene Downes in Kilkenny
He brought an opera focus to Kilkenny Arts Festival, but new music was neglected
Gender balance not being taken seriously by Irish music organisations
Female composers are grossly underrepresented, but fixing the issue may not be easy
The NSO’s future is now secure, but why no outside expertise?
Will RTÉ, which has been killing off the orchestra, now be allowed to fill key positions?
West Cork Chamber Music Festival: big ideas, big subjects, big music
Deirdre Gribbin’s Kindersang addresses the plight of 10,000 Jewish brought to Britain and Northern Ireland the outbreak of the second World War
The best classical music this week: Nikolaj Znaider joins the RTÉ NSO for first time
Ted talk star Daria van den Bercken is in Galway and Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova plays an all-French programme in Drogheda
The unpredictable magic of the new encounter
West Cork Chamber Music Festival director Francis Humphreys struck gold this year bringing together violinist Viviane Hagner, cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Barry Douglas
West Cork Chamber Music Festival gets the Hollywood treatment
Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany
Getting to know you: From Billie Holiday to the airport blues
Ahead of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, five string players discuss their work
Michael Dervan’s 2015: Lucky in our promoters who go with the gut
We are lucky to have a number of Irish promoters whose taste and empathy for the audience’s experience set them apart
Ten things we learned at West Cork Literary Festival
Writers can get very angry but they shouldn’t go to the gym: these and other literary nuggets were divulged in Bantry
West Cork Chamber Music Festival searches for a new Bantry home
The festival needs its own dedicated venue, and its director’s pursuit of one might be about to bear fruit
I prefer the early stuff: West Cork Chamber Music Festival goes back in time
The early-music strand of this sprawling festival is substantial enough to bear comparison with specialised events elsewhere
A west Cork journey from milking parlour to music chamber
How did Francis Humphrys go from farming to developing his labour of love, West Cork Chamber Music Festival?
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