Music for Galway Midwinter Festival: The Quartet Extends - Closing Concert
Town Hall Theatre
The string quartet is no stranger to Galway audiences, in no small part thanks to the tireless work of the ConTempo Quartet. With this festival, we seek to celebrate the versatility of the string quartet and to 'extend it' by pairing it up with a variety of different musicians to perform quartets, quintets, sextets and even an octet to finish! Mostly a celebration of the great musicians Ireland has to offer, we have invited a clarinettist, a soprano, a pianist, an uilleann piper and a second string quartet. We also invite our young Cellissimo Ambassador, Spanish cellist Margarita Guerrero Martinez to join in for one of the concerts. See Midwinter Festival programme.
Featured Artists: ConTempo Quartet | Gealán Quartet | Macdara Ó Seireadáin, clarinet | Padhraic Keane, uilleann pipes
The final concert of the Midwinter Festival comes to a resounding climax with a performance of Mendelssohn’s evergreen Octet for strings, composed when the composer was just sixteen years of age. Before this we hear a short work by Amanda Feery for uilleann pipes and quartet and Weber’s early romantic clarinet quintet.
The Midwinter Festival is presented in partnership with the University of Galway.
Contempo Quartet is presented by MusicConnects.
Programme
Amanda Feery - “something like light but not” for uilleann pipes and quartet
Weber - Clarinet Quintet Op. 34
Mendelssohn - String Octet Op. 7
Tickets
€12.50 - 25. Booking at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway.