Cork Cultural Companions: West Cork Chamber Music Festival Bantry 28th June

Booking for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival is now open.

Ireland’s most exciting celebration of chamber music takes place in Bantry with a programme of fifty concerts featuring eighty musicians over ten days and nights.

Five international quartets are at the heart of the programme – Signum Quartet from Germany, Dudok Quartet from the Netherlands, the all-woman Nightingale Quartet from Denmark, the youthful Sonoro Quartet and Chiaroscuro Quartet which is made up of musicians from Russia, Sweden, Spain and France.

These are joined by a stellar line-up of world-class musicians including the winner of the 2024 Leonard Bernstein Award, cellist Anastasia Kobekina; violinists Fanny Clamagirand and Esther Hoppe; pianists Roustem Saitkulov, Anna Fedorova, Boris Giltburg and Julius Drake; violist Dana Zemtsov; clarinettist Matthew Hunt; Baroque ensemble Camerata Øresund; wind quintet Ensemble Midtwest; mezzo soprano Fleur Barron; soprano Anna Devin and many more.

.The box office will be manned 10 – 5pm Monday - Friday with a break 1 – 2pm. You can ring the office on +353 (0) 27 52788.

Full Programme

Camerata Øresund returns to Bantry

for the 2024 Festival

Camerata Øresund is a vibrant group of authentic baroque musicians. Founded in 2010 by violinist Peter Spissky (Concerto Copenhagen), the group’s members are drawn from the Øresund region of southern Sweden and eastern Denmark.

They return to Bantry for this summer's Festival where they perform Bach alongside works by Bach's cousin and son. On Thursday 4 July, they will set audiences alight with the passion and energy of four of Vivaldi's violin concertos and will also perform the world premiere of a new work by Sam Perkins which celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the acquisition of the County Cork harpsichord.

Towards the end of the week, they will be joined by soprano Anna Devin for a Handel tour de force.

Click here to hear Camerata Øresund's performance of the third movement of Handel’s Grand Concerto Op.6/5 at the 2018 Festival.

In the video below, watch the ensemble perform Handel's Concerto grosso.