Maya Homburger

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

Building an audience for contemporary classical music

Recitals, workshops and the determinedly avant garde feature in Music Current festival

New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground

Unusual ambience and myriad external intrusions fails to derail eclectic artistry

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

The mysteries of Bach unwrapped at Kilkenny Arts Festival

Kilkenny’s 10-day immersion in Bach was a box-office success and provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

‘Bach demands that you give it the best part of yourself’

This year the Kilkenny Arts Festival’s music strand focuses on the great composer. Here, five renowned interpreters reflect on his work

Good Friday has become a time for musical celebration

Holy Week used to be quiet in the musical calendar, but no more. This year RTÉ’s music division stepped up with Bach’s St Matthew Passion

Acoustic adventures at four Irish venues ranging from the muffled to the magical

At four recent performances given in spaces not designed for music, the contrasting fortunes were profound

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The fireworks and the finer points of ‘Nixon in China’

John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas

Night Sessions

Pulling out the stops in Dún Laoghaire

40 years of organ recitals at St Michael’s Church

An early music duo, and ‘Carmen’ by way of ‘Tallafornia’

Early music was on the agenda at two concerts, while OTC’s ‘Carmen’ was defiantly contemporary