Join us for our series Lunchtime with ConTempo! This month, the programme includes music from the siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel. ConTempo Quartet will perform Mendelssohn’s “Op 12, No 1 in E flat Major” (1830) and Hensel’s “String Quartet in E-flat major” (1834). The performance takes place at 1:10pm on Tuesday 14 March in […]
As part of its ConTempo Countywide series, join MusicConnects for an afternoon of Easter music and poetry set in the beautiful gallery of Ballinasloe Library. This special collaboration is presented in partnership with Ballinasloe Library & Group 8. Join ConTempo Quartet and members of the artist collective Group 8 for this evocative Easter performance includes […]
As part of its ConTempo Countywide series, join ConTempo Quartet and Aisteoirí an Spidéil for an afternoon of music and poetry in the beautiful Réalt na Mara church in Na Forbacha (Furbo), Cois Fharraige. This evocative Easter performance includes the music of Joseph Haydn and poetry by Mark Strand. The music and poetry are interwoven […]
The Lunchtimes with ConTempo series continues this April with an evocative and powerful Easter performance by ConTempo Quartet. Following a mini-tour to Ballinasloe and Cois Fharraige, ConTempo return to Galway City to the stunning surroundings of Saint Nicholas’ Collegiate Church with a performance of Joseph Haydn’s meditation on “The Seven Last Words of Christ”. TICKETS […]
MusicConnects’ Lunchtime with ConTempo series continues this spring with a varied programme of music by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák and Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist. The performance takes place at 1:10pm on Tuesday 2 May in the stunning surroundings of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Lombard Street, Galway. ConTempo perform Dvořák’s String Quartet No 10 (nicknamed The […]
ConTempo Quartet joins forces with Athenry Music School and Sligo Academy of Music for a celebratory collaborative concert. This special event takes place at 5pm on Sunday 7 May at the Community Hall, Clarke Street, Athenry. Talented young musicians from across the north-west of Ireland perform from the Athenry Vision Orchestra and the Sligo Academy […]
Join MusicConnects for Lunchtime with ConTempo this June for a dazzling range of music including British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Galway’s own, Katharina Baker. The performance takes place at 1:10pm on Tuesday 6 June in the pleasant surroundings of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Lombard St, Galway. ConTempo Quartet will perform their rendition […]
For our final Countywide performance before the summer, join us in the beautiful Thoor Ballylee, near Gort for a collaborative concert with Coole Music. ConTempo will perform a selection of music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Katharina Baker. They will be joined onstage by a number of ensembles from Coole Music with a […]
Delve into the captivating fusion of jazz standards and classical strings led by wunderkind Matthew Berrill. This intimate concert features an all-star octet, including Róisín Mulliez, Aengus Hackett and Barry Donohue that will ignite your senses intertwining genres to captivate all musical tastes. Programme TUESDAY 18 July 2023 Tunesday (2021) By Matthew Berrill Matthew Berrill, clarinet; […]
Grammy award-winning composer Bill Whelan treats classical and traditional worlds as equals in his world premiere composition performed by ConTempo Quartet and rising stars of Irish traditional arts, siblings Séamus and Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta. Alongside this premiere, this atmospheric concert weaves a rich tapestry of tunes, airs and contemporary music inspired by the traditional, and […]