West Cork Chamber Music Festival

The programme ranges from popular classics to little known pieces performed by an international list of musicians.

Concerts are mostly held in Bantry House, with a massive programme that also includes events in other venues around Bantry.

In 2010 highlights include be the performance of the six quartets that Mozart dedicated to his friend and mentor Joseph Haydn, single string concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach and The Late Great Show which will feature Late Great Masterworks by Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms.

The RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet will be back and in 2010 will be joined by the Artis Quartet from Vienna, Pacifica Quartet from California, Danish Quartet from Copenhagen and the period instrument Chiaroscuro Quartet led by Alina Ibragimova.

Among the solo performers will be Vadim Gluzman, Pekka Kuusisto and Nicola Benedetti on violin; Philippe Cassard, Kirill Gerstein, Alexei Grynyuk and Angela Yoffe on piano; Hartmut Rohde on viola; Leonard Elschenbroich and Anja Lechner on cello; Nicholas Daniel on oboe; Kate Hearne on recorder and Jörg Widmann on clarinet and composer-in-residence.

There are afternoon and evening concerts each day with Coffee concerts on many days and a diverse programme of master classes, workshops, art exhibition, poetry readings and more running alongside the performances.

Whew!

For full details and tickets, see the festival website.

Bantry Location Map