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Violins- Siún Milne, Molly O’Shea
Viola- Ali Comerford
Cello- Yseult Cooper Stockdale

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🎻 National String Quartet Foundation presents
Ora Quartet: Contrasts
📅 Wednesday 14 October - 8pm

One of Ireland's foremost string quartets, featuring highly-acclaimed young chamber musicians, offers four strikingly contrasted pieces: Haydn’s String Quartet in F major, Alex Dowling’s Breathers, Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.11 in F minor and Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor. Performing on violins, viola and cello, enjoy a masterclass in strings ensemble performance. 🎻

💙 Book now on the Mermaid website or call our Box Office on 01 272 4030 by @oraquartet

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CONTRASTS tour coming up very soon! We have such an enjoyable programme planned, and we’re looking forward to getting on the road. Thanks as always to the @nsqf_ireland !🪻

Come hear us perform:
Haydn - String Quartet in F major Op.50 No.5 The Dream [1786]
Alex Dowling - Breathers (selection) [2026]
Shostakovich - String Quartet No.11 in F minor [1966]
Schumann - String Quartet in A minor Op.41 No.1 [1842] by @oraquartet

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This Saturday in Cork! See NSQF.ie taken in Aula Maxima by @oraquartet

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We had the most wonderful time yesterday opening the Limerick Classical Concert Series. Thank you to the inspiring @cllo.gremlin for joining us and to @lizlyricfm for presenting and being so generous and welcoming!

Sos beag for the quartet now after a triple concert week- back in June for more Schubert at the @nsqf_ireland fundraiser 🫶 by @oraquartet

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This Sunday, Liz Nolan introduces Schubert’s cello quintet at UCH Limerick, played by the Ora Quartet with cellist Paul Grennan. See NSQF.ie by @oraquartet

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1st March… Liz Nolan introduces the Ora Quartet and cellist Paul Grennan at UCH Limerick, playing two of the great chamber music masterpieces. See nsqf.ie

ORA QUARTET
Siún Milne, violin
Molly O’Shea, violin
Ali Comerford, viola
Yseult Cooper-Stockdale, cello

Benjamin Britten - String Quartet No.2 Op.36 [1945]
Franz Schubert - String Quintet D.956 [1828]

Britten’s second quartet was premiered at the Wigmore Hall, London in November 1945, barely two month after the end of the second world war. In July of that year Britten had travelled to Germany with violinist Yehudi Menuhin to play concerts to concentration camp survivors. He returned home and wrote this dramatic string quartet in which the intensity of emotion is almost palpable.

Cellist Paul Grennan joins the Ora Quartet for Schubert’s towering string quintet, widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements in Western culture.

Francis Humphrys of West Cork Music writes:

Schubert’s last years were a race against time. He knew he was fatally ill and this clearly heightened the emotional perceptions of his inspired romantic imagination. He died on 19th November 1828, after a ten-day illness. During the last days he was often delirious, but when he was lucid he spent his time correcting proofs of Winterreise. In the two previous months he had completed the last three magnificent piano sonatas in C minor, A major and B flat; the thirteen songs that make up Schwanengesang; the joyous Der Hirt auf dem Felsen that brings clarinet and soprano together; and, as if that were not enough, this overwhelming quintet. There seems to have been no commission for these works, just a desperate need to keep writing while he still could.

It is likely that Schubert never even heard a rehearsal of the quintet before he died, and the piece lay unpublished in his papers until 1853 by @oraquartet

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We are looking forward to two wonderful concerts next week!

On Wednesday 25th- Britten & Purcell in Kirkos, 1 Little Green Street.

And on Sunday, March 1st, we will be performing in @uchlimerick - Britten, and Schubert’s sublime quintet with the fantastic @cllo.gremlin ❤️

Hope to see you there!

Thanks to @aodhomuiri for the new 📸 by @oraquartet

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Feb 25th get it in your DIARIES!

Excited for this one! Good tunes and some of the most wonderful players I know, trust me you’ll love it.

In Kirkos, Little Green Street

Poster design by @isabellautria by @oraquartet

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Leaving this brief project full of admiration for the talented students of @riamdublin. Strong and original voices across the board, writing with heart and wit. Inspiring stuff from this next generation of young composers!! Thanks to you all 💐 by @oraquartet

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A privilege to play at Cork’s @makefreedomring2024 concert yesterday. Endless admiration and gratitude for the extraordinary artists and tireless organisers who gave and continue to give so much to this vital cause. ❤️

We were lucky to play with the gorgeous @caitriona_frost who has a fantastic new album out- and with our very own Ali Comerford who sang some songs of her own. Saoirse don Phalaistín. taken in MTU Cork School of Music by @oraquartet

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🎻 5 days to go till Cork!

The @oraquartet, violinists Siún Milne and Molly O’Shea, violist Ali Comerford, and cellist Yseult Cooper Stockdale, will be joining us in Cork @mtu_csm to raise funds for @gazagobragh

Gaza Go Bragh is a grassroots Irish-Palestine solidarity charity, providing still urgently needed aid for those in Gaza.

We can’t wait to see you there. Tix in our bio! by @oraquartet

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