West Cork Chamber Music Festival News
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2021-07-05 16:42:00
Various events and other items that have landed in my inbox: The West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland has a good line-up of performers and works, both in person and online, and if you're attending in person, you can see "their own neighboring ancient circle of standing stones [Kealkill Stone Circle in this case.]" Sounds good to me! (My long-ago visit to Orkney included both standing stones and the St. Magnus Festival, featuring music of the late Peter Maxwell Davies.) The Merola Opera Program's season starts...er, started on July 3. Watch their web site for information about upcoming live performances. It's very abbreviated compared to most years, owing to the pandemic. Pianist Ursula Oppens, whose long and distinguished career has been dedicated to new and recent music, has a new CD out, of music by composer Laura Kaminsky. I've very much enjoyed Kaminsky's chamber music and her opera As One. […]
2019-11-16 08:41:53
The City Music Foundation, historic Czech chamber music recordings and women composers: I chat to viola player Rosalind Ventris
[…] fruit in projects with her RIAM students). Though she performs a lot, Rosalind feels that education is important, and she makes time for teaching, though she admits that the travelling can be gruelling. But she loves the RIAM and feels that it has a nice atmosphere, the campus is currently being expanded to give improved opportunities for both staff and students.She has been performing more in Ireland too, at the National Concert Hall, at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and for Great Music in Irish Houses, and she adds that there is a lot of high quality chamber music going on in Ireland at the moment. She has found a lot of support for programming women composers in her programmes for Great Music in Irish Houses. And at a recent chamber music festival at the RIAM, Sally Beamish was the composer in residence, and there was a performance of […]