Elaine Agnew’s hopes still afloat for Paper Boat opera
Composer’s Galway 2020 community project postponed twice during pandemic
Andrew Synnott: A musician who needs to express himself in all kinds of different ways
Synnot will be first living Irish composer to have work featured on main stage of Wexford Festival Opera
The best classical music this week: Daniil Trifonov makes NCH debut
RTÉ Contempo Quartet play Beethoven while Peter Whelan directs Irish Baroque Orchestra performance of Handel’s Messiah
Music is a universal language – with some border checks
Of all new music, large-scale works with words travel least freely internationally
Is Dublin finally getting a Handel on the ‘Messiah’?
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir under Mark Hindley deliver a standout performance
The unusual final year of Mozart’s life gets an airing in Kilkenny
The Mozart programme at Kilkenny Arts Festival featured compositions for mechanical organ and glass harmonica
A strange forum for Irish composers whose noses are out of joint
Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering
An Egyptian soprano adds to the great variety of Irish competition winners
Is there a gender or national bias in our high-profile music competitions? Sorry, conspiracy theorists, but no
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
How students can cash in by playing the scholarship game
College life need not be one of penury, there are more than 300 scholarships available to Irish students, and it’s not just for academic excellence, there are awards for all sorts of pursuits, from singing to snooker
The lightness of Orfeo, and a little enlightenment from Finghin Collins
Collins gave a terrific talk about the nuts and bolts of his career during Dublin International Piano Festival
Curtain call for Cork, a city proud of its operatic leanings
Cork had the first production of 2014, and features in two successful Arts Council funding applications
Rachmaninov’s Vigil worth staying up for
Concerts by Resurgam and the RTÉ NSO and what operas producers want to put on
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