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, 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 musicians follow a fifty year trail of classical masterpieces begun by Haydn and Mozart and culminating with Beethoven and Schubert. A key milestone on this journey will be the series of ten violin sonatas by Beethoven played by Fanny Clamagirand and Roustem Saitkoulov. Haydn’s string
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