West Cork Chamber Music Festival 28th of May to 25th of July 2021

The West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, is delighted to introduce its 2021 virtual festival incarnation: Bantry and Beyond.

One of the most iconic and scenic locations in Ireland, Bantry is a stunningly beautiful harbor town, set between sea coast and mountains and known for its three Festivals - Chamber Music, Literary and the Masters of Tradition, as well as its teeming agricultural life, markets and outdoor activities, complete with its own ancient circle of standing stones, the Kealkil Stone Circle.

The renowned West Cork Chamber Music Festival typically takes place annually in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. Over a period of ten days, a world-class line-up of international ensembles and soloists perform an extensive program of concerts which run from morning to late night.

This year, however, as the Festival musicians and audiences could not come to Bantry, the Festival has gone virtual and is pleased to present a truly unique series of thirty concerts from May 28 – July 25, enabling festival-goers to become virtual travelers to destinations across Europe and the USA.

In this special presentation, Bantry and Beyond surrounds its luxurious, central Festival Echoes series of twice-daily concerts (June 25 – July 4), with six elegant weekends of themed concert sets: opening with Classical Prelude (May 28-30), Russian Pictures(June 4-6), The Romantics (June 11-13), and Solos (June 18-20), concluding with Coda (July 16-18) and Encore (July 24 - 25).

The West Cork Chamber Music Festival also offers a special focus on Irish musicians and composers and proudly features them across many of its concert programs – from composers Deirdre Gribbin and Garth Knox to distinguished artists from Siobhán Doyle and Seán Morgan-Rooney, to the Esposito Quartet.

More info West Cork Chamber Music Festival