Booking opens for the 2023 West Cork Chamber Music Festival

 

Booking opens for the 2023 West Cork Chamber Music Festival Booking for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival opens on Thursday 16 March at 10am. Featuring four great violinists, four international quartets and stories told by composers from Ireland, Australia, USA and the Netherlands, West Cork’s premier international festival presents more than 50 concerts over ten days and nights with Baroque Coffee Concerts, midday experiments, afternoon recitals, powerful evening concerts and finishing up with candle-lit late nights. This year's line-up includes Alina Ibragimova, Viviane Hagner, Nurit Stark, Mairéad Hickey, Cédric Tiberghien, Jérémie Moreau, Cédric Pescia, Anna Devin, Pacifica Quartet, Ensemble Diderot, Johannes Pramsohler, Ragazze Quartet, Caroline Melzer, Trio Gaspard, Armida Quartet, Lotte Betts-Dean, Ariadne Daskalakis, Michael Borgstede, Claudio Bohórquez, Lilit Grigoryan, Vashti Hunter, Deirdre Brenner, Emma Wernig, Ardeo Quartet and many more. Click here for the programme which is packed with eighty seven events featuring approximately fifty professional musicians and more than twenty students plus an extensive masterclass series of up to five classes a day.  Click here for an electronic booking form for your convenience. This form includes the options to book the Festival Weekly Pass and Main Evenings Weekly Pass in the Super Seat sections which are not in the print brochure. .The box office will be manned 10 – 5pm Monday - Friday with a break 1 – 2. If you are phoning, please be aware we are currently short-staffed. You can ring the office on +353 (0) 27 52788. Images, left to right - top row: Pacifica, Ardeo and Ragazze Quartets; middle row: Alina Ibragimova, Mairéad Hickey and Viviane Hagner; bottom row: Cédric Pescia, Nurit Stark, Cédric Tiberghien and Caroline Melzer Book Now Ensemble Diderot performs throughout the 2023 West Cork Chamber Music Festival Ensemble Diderot returns to Bantry for this summer's West Cork Chamber Music Festival. The ensemble's first performance is the 11am Coffee concert on Monday 26 June in St Brendan's Church when they present a programme from mid-eighteenth century Berlin including works by Graun, Kirnberger and Goldberg. They return for Wednesday's Coffee concert which features the great triumvirate of Bach, Handel and Telemann. Soprano Anna Devin joins the ensemble for Handel's cantata Armida abbandonata. Thursday's programme closes in a blaze of Baroque concertos as Ensemble Diderot perform Pisendel, Fasch and Durant in the 10pm Late Night concert. The musicians remain in concerto and cantata mode for their final concert - the Coffee Concert on Friday 30 June. This concert emulates the Berlin Friday Academies where virtuoso instrumentalists composed for their own instrument. Ensemble Diderot's Johannes Pramsohler talks about their 2022 album Travel Concertos below. Works performed on this album will be played in their Late Night concert on Thursday 29 June. Find out more about Ensemble Diderot