National String Quartet Foundation: Carducci Quartet featuring a work by Donnacha Dennehy (TOUR)

6 September 2023 20:00 - 10 September 2023 15:00

Carducci Quartet : Matthew Denton, violin; Michelle Fleming, violin; Eoin Schmidt-Martin, viola; Emma Denton, cello.

The acclaimed Carducci Quartet opens the NSQF autumn season with Shostakovich’s short first quartet. CMC Composer Donnacha Dennehy’s Pushpulling, is followed by the Irish premiere performances of Peter Gregson’s Three Parallels, recently recorded by the Carducci for Deutsche Gramophon. Beethoven’s second Rasoumovsky quartet rounds off the programme.

Touring from 6 - 10 September 2023.

Programme

Shostakovich - Quartet No.1 [1938]
Donnacha Dennehy - Pushpulling [2007]
Peter Gregson - Three Parallels [2022] (Irish premiere)
Beethoven - Quartet in Op.59 No.2 Rasoumovsky [1806]

Dates, Venues & Ticket Links

MANORHAMILTON - Wednesday 6th September at 8pm - The Glens Centre
MULLINGAR - Thursday 7th September at 8pm - All Saints’ Church - presented by Mullingar Arts Centre
WEXFORD - Friday 8th September at 8pm - St Anne’s Church, Killanne, Co. Wexford - presented by Music for Wexford
CORK - Saturday 9th September at 1pm - Triskel Arts Centre (Gregson, Dennehy, Beethoven)
BIRR - Saturday 9th September at 8pm - Birr Theatre and Arts Centre
DUBLIN - Sunday 10th September at 3pm - National Concert Hall