Our exploration of the Celtic Calendar through music continues in Thoor Ballylee, Gort on Sunday 22 September at 1pm, where ConTempo Quartet will perform a varied repertoire celebrating Mabon, or the Autumnal Equinox, in a performance with Coole Music and Arts. This year, the Autumnal Equinox takes place on 22 September at 1:43pm. The word ‘equinox’ comes […]
ConTempo Quartet will perform a varied repertoire celebrating Michaelmas on Tuesday 1 October at 1:10pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church as part of Lunchtimes with ConTempo. Michaelmas marks the movement into winter with shorter days and colder weather. Michaelmas was also known as the “Goose Harvest” – perhaps because geese were plump and ready to be eaten at this time – it was thought […]
ConTempo Quartet will perform a varied repertoire in St Fursa’s Parish Hall in Headford on Sunday 6 October at 8pm in collaboration with the Something in the Water Festival. Our programme features classical and contemporary works and the concert will be introduced with a reading of Riddle Cannon by Eva Bourke. Entry is free, all are welcome. Donations are welcome. No booking is required.
Story of a Day – Scéal Lae is a live performance commissioned by Branar and performed by ConTempo Quartet in a collaboration between Branar and MusicConnects. Words and illustrations by renowned children’s author Mary Murphy and original score by award winning composer Tom Lane. Created for children aged 4 years upwards and families. Book your tickets […]
Story of a Day – Scéal Lae is a live performance commissioned by Branar and performed by ConTempo Quartet in a collaboration between Branar and MusicConnects. Words and illustrations by renowned children’s author Mary Murphy and original score by award winning composer Tom Lane. Created for children aged 4 years upwards and families. Book your tickets […]
Story of a Day – Scéal Lae is a live performance commissioned by Branar and performed by ConTempo Quartet in a collaboration between Branar and MusicConnects. Words and illustrations by renowned children’s author Mary Murphy and original score by award winning composer Tom Lane. Created for children aged 4 years upwards and families. Book your tickets […]
Story of a Day – Scéal Lae is a live performance commissioned by Branar and performed by ConTempo Quartet in a collaboration between Branar and MusicConnects. Words and illustrations by renowned children’s author Mary Murphy and original score by award winning composer Tom Lane. Created for children aged 4 years upwards and families. Book your tickets […]
Explore one of the composer’s best known and most loved works – Fratres – which will be performed earlier that day by ConTempo Quartet as part of our Lunchtimes with ConTempo series (1:10pm at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, FREE). Written in 1977 in his new musical language called tintinnabuli, Fratres embraces not only Pärt’s original compositional technique but also his spiritual […]
Our penultimate Lunchtime with ConTempo in our musical journey through the Celtic Calendar this November sees ConTempo Quartet perform a varied repertoire celebrating Samhain on Tuesday 5 November at 1:10pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church. Samhain marks the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter. It is thought of as a time when the veil between […]
Kristina Kõrver has been a researcher and archive specialist at the Arvo Pärt Centre since 2012. Riin Eensalu is the programme manager of the Arvo Pärt Centre and has been involved with the Centre since 2013. This engaging workshop by Riin Eensalu and Kristina Kõrver of the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia is inspired by […]