West Cork Chamber Music Festival returns to Bantry with exciting line-up

The 30th edition of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival takes place from June 27 to July 6 in Bantry.

Featuring 60 concerts, 30 masterclasses and many other fringe events, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival has become one of the key dates in the European classical music calendar.

Two brothers and two sisters of the Tchalik Quartet will perform the World Premiere of Sam Perkin’s Celebration Quartet in the opening concert in Bantry House on Friday June 27 at 8pm.

From a Russian-French family, the siblings are making their Bantry debut and they will be performing throughout the week.

Australian soprano, Lotte Betts Dean, returns to the Festival and joins her father, the viola player and composer, Brett Dean on Monday June 30 at 4pm in St Brendan’s Church.

Programme

Their programme will feature music by Vaughan Williams, Sally Beamish, Hindemith, Stuart MacRae, Brett Dean, and others.

Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud will be accompanied by his three children, Alma, Franz and Hector, for a special family concert in St Brendan’s Church on Thursday, July 3 at 2pm. They will perform a programme of music by Handel, Mendelssohn, Brahms, a piece by Henning himself and more.

Also on Thursday, July 3, pianist Barry Douglas and violinist Mairéad Hickey will perform Brahms Violin Sonata No.1 in G major Op.78 and Violin Sonata No.2 in A major Op.100.

Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon joins forces with her husband, the pianist Ryan McCullough for the Irish Premiere of Katherine Balch’s estrangement, in the main evening concert on Friday, July 4 in St Brendan’s Church.

Tickets are selling quickly for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, which are available online at https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/ or from the festival office at 13 Glengarriff Road, Bantry on 027 52788.