Search Results for 'ConTempo Quartet'

The leading Irish sculptor John Behan will next week unveil a special commemorative sculpture to celebrate Music for Galway’s 30th anniversary.

THE CONTEMPO Quartet will embark on its first mini-tour in Ireland next month with performances in Dublin, Belfast, and Galway.

BLACK ANGLES, one of the darkest and most challenging pieces of music ever composed for a string quartet, will be performed by ConTempo during the Galway Arts Festival.

Classical quartets and musicians across Ireland will have the chance to take part in open auditions to become the 2010 Galway Apprentice Ensemble in Residence.

While viewing the exhibitions at the Galway Arts Festival box office in the former McDonagh/Instore building on No 5 Merchants Road last Saturday, it struck me that this building would be ideal to develop as a municipal art gallery for Galway city.

A QUOTE from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream - “The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact” - inspires the programming of the Music for Galway concert in NUIG’s Aula Maxima next Tuesday at 8pm.

THE MUSIC of such great Russian composers as Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky will be celebrated and performed in the Town Hall Theatre from January 23 to 25 at 8pm during Music For Galway’s Russian Romantics chamber music festival.

THE MUSIC of Russian romantic composers will feature in Music for Galway’s annual January Festival which gets under way on Friday January 23.

THE MUSIC of Beethoven will be celebrated when Music For Galway presents the Emily Anderson Annual Memorial Concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Friday February 20 at 8pm.

JULIE FEENEY will perform songs from her new album pages, with the ConTempo Quartet, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Thursday July 16 at 8pm as part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.