MusicConnects, in association with The National String Quartet Foundation, is delighted to announce the first tour in its autumn season of fifty chamber music concerts nationwide. These concerts will be performed by nine groups, all of which include Irish or Irish-based musicians. The Foundation’s touring programme is supported by the Arts Council and by RTÉ […]
MusicConnects’ Lunchtime with ConTempo series continues on Tuesday 1 November at 1:10pm with a special performance entitled Landscapes: Music for guitar and string quartet, launching a new Guest Resident Artist programme. This expansive new Guest Artist Residency sees internationally renowned Italian guitarist Marco Ramelli join forces with MusicConnects’ Ensemble-In-Residence, ConTempo Quartet, for six concerts of beautifully curated music this November and […]
Following a series of sold-out performances in November, MusicConnects returns with its final Lunchtime with ConTempo of the year. This special event takes place on Tuesday 6 December at 1:10pm in Saint Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway curated by and featuring Guest Resident Artist Marco Ramelli and 19th century guitar specialist Enrica Savigni. Marco Ramelli returns to Galway to join forces […]
Inspired by celebrations for Saint Brigid, Ireland’s only female patron saint, MusicConnects celebrates a very special woman to the organisation: composer Jane O’Leary. Saint Brigid’s Day marks the beginning of the Celtic season of Imbolc, or Spring, which symbolises the end of the darkness of winter and the beginning of new light of growth. ConTempo […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MusicConnects’ Lunchtimes with ConTempo series begins the autumn season with a varied programme of music composed by Rebecca Clarke, Joseph Haydn and Florence Price. The performance takes place at 1:10pm on Tuesday 5 September in the stunning surroundings of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Lombard Street, Galway. ConTempo Quartet is the resident ensemble of MusicConnects and was […]
Join us for our second to last Lunchtime with ConTempo of the year! The performance takes place at 1:10pm on Tuesday 7 November in the stunning surroundings of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Lombard Street, Galway. ConTempo Quartet will perform the second of only two published string quartets from Johannes Brahms. The composer took the genre of the string quartet […]