West Cork Music

West Cork Music The West Cork Chamber Music Festival runs from 26 June to 5 July 2026. Programme at westcorkmusic.ie

West Cork Music was established in 1995 and has grown from a small voluntary organisation to a company which is dedicated to bringing the highest calibre of musical & literary experience to Ireland. We promote the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2022. One of the leading chamber music events in Europe, the Chamber Music Festival attracts local, national and int

ernational audiences alike. We also organise the West Cork Literary and Masters of Tradition festivals, and educational activities as part of our Festivals. Our commitment to excellence and distinctive West Cork identity have secured us special place in the Irish cultural landscape.

2022 Events:

�West Cork Chamber Music Festival 24 June - 3 July

�West Cork Literary Festival 8-15 July

�Masters of Tradition 24-28 Aug

This page is dedicated to our West Cork Chamber Music Festival, one of the most prestigious chamber festivals in Ireland and indeed Europe. If you are a lover of chamber music, or an aspiring orchestra performer, this is the only place to be in Ireland for the 10 days of the festival.

05/06/2026

Have you heard our ad which has been running on RTÉ lyric fm?

📹 Karlis Dzjamko Photography

"The Coffee Concerts are our way to kickstart each Festival day, not overly serious, lots of great tunes and brilliant p...
04/06/2026

"The Coffee Concerts are our way to kickstart each Festival day, not overly serious, lots of great tunes and brilliant performers."

Francis Humphrys
Festival Director

🎟 Book now for the popular Coffee Concerts which run at 11am in St Brendan's Church, Bantry.

🌞 Saturday 27 June: NOVO Quartet perform Haydn

🌞 Sunday 28 June: Calidore Quartet perform Beethoven

🌞 Monday 29 June: Charlotte Spruit, Jonny Byers, Sergio Bucheli & Tom Foster perform Buxtehude, Muffat, Boddecker, Westhoff and JS Bach

🌞 Tuesday 30 June: Charlotte Spruit, Jonny Byers, Sergio Bucheli & Tom Foster perform Matteis, Eccles, Purcell, Pepusch and Croft

🌞 Wednesday 1 July: Sonoro Quartet perform Beethoven and Widmann

🌞 Thursday 2 July: Concerto 1700 perform Nardini, Brunetti and Boccherini

🌞 Friday 3 July: Concerto 1700, Daniel Pinteno and Ana Vieira Leite perform Barbella, Scarlatti and Geminiani

🌞 Saturday 4 July: Mairéad Hickey and Jérémie Moreau perform Schubert

🌞 Sunday 5 July: Attacca Quartet perform Haydn and Ravel

Full programme at www.westcorkmusic.ie/chamber-music-festival/programme/

Catch composers Donnacha Dennehy and Daniel Luke Smith discussing this year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival on Arena ...
02/06/2026

Catch composers Donnacha Dennehy and Daniel Luke Smith discussing this year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival on Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 - www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22618114/

Daniel Luke Smith is one of the winners of this year's West Cork Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition with his piece 'A Shape Becoming'.

Grammy Award winning composer Donnacha Dennehy adjudicated this year's Composition Competition and will also be facilitating the Young Composer Forum in which the winning composers will workshop their pieces with young quartets from the Festival's masterclass programme.

For more details about the Young Composer Forum at the 2026 West Cork Chamber Music Festival, go to www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2026/14-young-composers-forum/



Pure Cork The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Fáilte Ireland The Contemporary Music Centre The National String Quartet Foundation Visit Bantry Cork County Council

02/06/2026

Tickets are on sale for the Summer Gala concert in Aula Maxima, UCC in support of the The National String Quartet Foundation

📆 Saturday 13th June 2026 at 7.30pm
🎶 Introduced by Evelyn Grant, presented by Cork Orchestral Society with the support of University College Cork

A special evening of musical treats featuring 30 of Cork’s finest, and also marking 40 years since the Vanbrugh Quartet arrived in Cork in 1986.

Full details at nsqf.ie/ucc-gala-june-13

Please note, this is not a West Cork Music concert.

Music At UCC MTU Cork School of Music

✨ New Dublin Voices, Lina Andonovska and Bernie Sherlock🎼 Ian Wilson's Adam's Rib ( new work) & Luigi Nono's Das atmende...
01/06/2026

✨ New Dublin Voices, Lina Andonovska and Bernie Sherlock

🎼 Ian Wilson's Adam's Rib ( new work) & Luigi Nono's Das atmende Klarsein for chamber choir, bass flute, live electronics

📅 Saturday 4th July
⏰ 4pm
📍 St Brendan's Church, Bantry
🎟 https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2026/49-crespo-series/
☎ +353 (0) 27 52788

We are delighted to welcome Lina Andonovska, Bernie Sherlock and the fantastic New Dublin Voices on their first visit to Bantry. Their programme offers not a traditional narrative journey, but a shared act of listening: music that unfolds slowly, attentively, and with extraordinary delicacy. It is an invitation to experience sound - and silence - in a new and deeply human way.

Kseniia and Yevlaliia Yershova appeared on the Oliver Callan Show on RTÉ Radio 1 yesterday morning. If you misssed it, y...
29/05/2026

Kseniia and Yevlaliia Yershova appeared on the Oliver Callan Show on RTÉ Radio 1 yesterday morning. If you misssed it, you can listen back by clicking on the link below. Their chat begins at 45'.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/oliver-callan/episodes/11798888/

Kseniia and Yevlaliia will be performing at this summer's West Cork Chamber Music Festival as part of the masterclass programme
(Kseniia is a member of the Meliora Quartet, Yevlaliia is in the Olympia Quartet).

Full programme of masterclasses: www.westcorkmusic.ie/chamber-music-festival/programme/masterclasses/

Cork County The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Pure Cork Fáilte Ireland Wild Atlantic Way The National String Quartet Foundation

Book now for Beethoven in Bantry 🎻✨ Calidore Quartet🎼 Beethoven's Quartet in A major Op 18/5 & Quartet in B flat Op. 18/...
29/05/2026

Book now for Beethoven in Bantry 🎻

✨ Calidore Quartet
🎼 Beethoven's Quartet in A major Op 18/5 & Quartet in B flat Op. 18/6
📅 Sunday 28 June
⏰ 11am
📍 St Brendan's Church, Bantry
🎟 www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2026/7-coffee-concert/
☎ +353 (0) 27 52788

Our brochures are finding their way to venues throughout Cork city and county, thanks to WhazOn Cork.
28/05/2026

Our brochures are finding their way to venues throughout Cork city and county, thanks to WhazOn Cork.

✨ Katharine Dain, Diana Tishchenko, Charlotte Spruit, Dana Zemtsov, Andreas Brantelid, Rick Stotijn, Reto Bieri, Ben Gol...
27/05/2026

✨ Katharine Dain, Diana Tishchenko, Charlotte Spruit, Dana Zemtsov, Andreas Brantelid, Rick Stotijn, Reto Bieri, Ben Goldscheider and Bram van Sambeek

🎼 Sofia Gubaidulina's Hommage to T.S. Eliot
📅 Tuesday 30th June
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 St Brendan's Church, Bantry
🎟 www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2026/24-main-evening-concert/
☎ +353 (0) 27 52788

"The great Russian composer, Sofia Gubaidulina, died last Spring and one of the imperatives in programming this year’s Festival was to pay homage to her music. This Octet plus singer lives in a radiant world of its own, thanks in part to her deeply considered response to T.S.Eliot’s Four Quartets. Eliot himself was responding to Beethoven’s Late Quartets so this work seems to stretch back into a shared cultural history where in Eliot’s words the rose and the fire become one."

Francis Humphrys,
Director

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