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The Swiss piano maestro François-Xavier Poizat will perform and discuss the works of Maurice Ravel next week as part of Music for Galway’s celebration of France’s greatest modern composer.

Following Music for Galway’s survey of the works of Gabriel Fauré in January 2024, another French composer comes under the spotlight at the 22nd Midwinter Festival from 17 th to 19th January 2025, this time the exquisitely inventive Maurice Ravel. Born 150 years ago to a Swiss engineer father and a Basque mother, Ravel was internationally regarded as France’s greatest living composer in the 1920s and 1930s.

THEY WERE formed in the turbulent years following the collapse of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, and in Ireland they survived the recession, and later, the lockdowns enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic.