News

Keep up to date with our latest West Cork Music news and announcements here, including news from all our festivals, concert series and educational projects.

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Chamber Music Festival 
Literary Festival
Masters of Tradition
Education
Concert Series

Press Release - Chamber Music Festival
Thursday 18 June 2020

Press Release - Chamber Music Festival

This substitute for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival will feature a dozen specially filmed concerts featuring musicians from the cancelled Festival streaming on the Festival website from 26 June.

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Online Workshop Programme
Wednesday 17 June 2020

Online Workshop Programme

We are delighted to now announce our schedule of online writing workshops facilitated by writers Paul McVeigh, Cynan Jones, Claire Nelson, Rachel Andrews, Dave Lordan and E.R. Murray.

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Festival Memories 9
Friday 12 June 2020

Festival Memories 9

Hear this profound performance of Schubert’s last Sonata by Finghin Collins from his late-night concert on 30 June last year. This stupendous sonata is Schubert’s valediction, an epic work with its noble, unhurried melodies that defy time, his last miraculous song magnificently played for you by one of our own.

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Festival Memories 8
Sunday 7 June 2020

Festival Memories 8

The piano trio repertoire does not have the same dazzling range and scope as the string quartet, but it has a few jewels headed by Beethoven’s Archduke, featured in this series on 16 April, and amongst many others, Dvořák’s so-called ‘Dumky’.

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Masters of Tradition 2020
Friday 5 June 2020

Masters of Tradition 2020

We lost two Festivals this summer, but we fully intend that the third one, Masters of Tradition, will go ahead. The Government's Road Map currently gives the thumbs up to festivals in the second half of August if produced subject to social distancing rules, which will be a new experience for all of us.

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