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MUSIC FOR Galway presents a trusty antidote to the darkness and cold of January in the form of a heart-warming weekend of great chamber music running from Friday January 21 to Sunday 23 at the Town Hall Theatre.

It was inspired by a farcical concert, it got up and running thanks to a whip round in a living room, and was sustained by much perspiration from its members during economically depressed times.

MUSIC FOR Galway, which has been bringing the very best classical music performers to the city since 1980, will celebrate its 30th birthday this year.

GLAMOROUS SCOTTISH classical violinist Nicola Benedetti and the acclaimed Irish soprano Mairéad Buicke, will join the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Leisureland, Salthill, on Tuesday March 23 at 8pm.

A BRITISH viola player, a Latvian cellist, and an Israeli pianist will join forces for Music For Galway’s Viola Magic concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Thursday November 6 at 8pm.

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Robert Houlihan and stunning soprano Helen Kearns are preparing for an evening of Christmas music at St Canice’s Cathedral, in Kilkenny.

A NIGHT of passion is to be unleashed in Leisureland on Tuesday at 8pm with a concert from the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Altschuler, and violinist Elizabeth Cooney.

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

THIS YEAR marks the bicentenary of the death of one master and the birth of another – Haydn, one of the most important composers of the classical period and Mendelssohn, an early Romantic.

THE RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra will be joined by brilliant German pianist Bernd Glemser for Haydn’s ‘Surprise Symphony’ - of which the composer said, “This will make the ladies scream” - on its 2009 Spring tour.