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 […]
We are delighted to present a very special Audience Choice Lunchtime with ConTempo this January ahead of the series’ true start next month. The concert takes place on Tuesday 23 January at 1.10pm in the beautiful surrounds of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church. Galway’s Ensemble in Residence, ConTempo Quartet, will perform a varied programme that was chosen by audiences in December through an […]
Join us on Tuesday 6 February at 1:10pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church where ConTempo Quartet will perform a programme in celebration of Imbolc, now commonly known as St Brigid’s day. Imbolc, originally a pagan festival, welcomes the beginning of spring. ConTempo Quartet will perform a repertoire on the theme of light, marking our movement from the darkness of […]
“Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.” – From Begin by Brendan Kennelly ConTempo Quartet will perform a specially curated Ostara programme as part of Lunchtime with ConTempo on Tuesday 5 March at 1:10pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church. The programme […]
MusicConnects’ Concerts for the Celtic Calendar continues in April with a look at the Irish weather through the eyes of the Brindled Cow. In this old Irish folk tale, during the month of March an old brindle cow, an bó riabhach, complains about the bad winter weather but boasts that despite her age she will […]