NSQF Spring 2026: Lumiere Quartet

Lumiere Quartet: Ioana Petcu-Colan, violin; Elaine Clark, violin; Nathan Sherman, viola; Carina Drury, cello.

The Lumiere Quartet explores the expressive, authentic, soundworld created by playing with classical bows on gut strings rather than today’s more practical steel strings. For this tour they present three wonderful classical quartets alongside a short work by Donnacha Dennehy.

Describing Pushpulling, Donnacha Dennehy writes of the poignancy of ever-elongating pushes away from home, only to return, as sure as night follows day, to the same position again. 

Programme

Maddalena Lombardini - String Quartet No.3 in G minor [c.1765]
Haydn - String Quartet in D minor Op.76 No.2 Fifths [1797]
Donnacha Dennehy - Pushpulling [2007]
Beethoven - String Quartet in F major Op.18 No.1 [1798-1800]

Venues, Dates & Ticket Links

LISTOWEL - Wednesday 4th February at 8pm - St. John’s Theatre & Arts Centre
LIMERICK - Thursday 5th February at 8pm - Belltable 
WATERFORD - Friday 6th February at 7.30pm - Dr. Mary Strangman Large Room - presented by Waterford Music
CORK - Saturday 7th February at 1pm - Triskel Arts Centre (Haydn, Dennehy, Beethoven)
DUBLIN - Sunday 8th February at 1pm - Abbey Presbyterian Church (Haydn, Dennehy, Beethoven)