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We had a wonderful ten days at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2026 🌸 We recieved masterclasses from Alex Redington, Ryan Meehan from the Calidore Quartet, Máiréad Hickey, and Chris Marwood. We also premiered Daniel Luke Smith’s lovely piece ‘A Shape Becoming’. We learnt so much over the course of the festival and made some lovely new friends! We were delighted & very grateful for the opportunity to take part 🌻 Our violist Charlie is sadly leaving us to begin his studies in the Royal Conservatoire The Hague ⭐️ we’re really sad to see him go, but we’ve had the best time playing together over the last two years. 👯‍♀️👯‍♂️ However, this is not the end of Olympia! (There will NEVER be an end of Olympia). We’re looking forward to another year playing more fun music with a NEW violist 🎻 We’re so so excited! All will be revealed very soon, stay tuned. 😘 A new era of Olympia! 😽😼😹😻 📸 1,2: @karlisdphoto
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Join us on Friday evening for Culture Night 2026! Follow a vibrant culture trail across Bantry to find free events and performances inspired by the idea of striving to improve creatively. � Come along to one event or call to them all to be part of an exciting and creative evening here in West Cork! 🎤 Curious Keys Open Mic 🕘 5.30pm 📍 Bantry Tourist Office To kick things off, the teenage musicians from Bantry’s Curious Keys Music School will stage an 'open mic' style performance, showcasing their progress as musicians, singers, and songwriters.� 📖 R.P. O'Donnell in conversation with Gráinne Murphy 🕘 6.30pm 📍 Bantry Bookshop West Cork author R.P. O’Donnell will be in conversation with another Cork writer Gráinne Murphy. You can hear all about his debut novel All The Old Clocks, “an accomplished rural noir” mystery set in West Cork in 1988. 🎻 The Meliora Quartet in Concert 🕘 7.30pm 📍 St Brendan's Church, Bantry Culture Night in Bantry will culminate with a performance in the atmospheric setting of St. Brendan's Church by the young musicians of the Meliora Quartet. �Founded at MTU Cork School of Music, the ensemble takes its name from the Latin word for ‘improvement’. You’ll quickly understand why their amazing performances, spurred by their commitment to continuously improving, have made them favourites with audiences at West Cork Music’s summer Chamber Music Festival! Other events across Bantry include a stitching workshop, storytelling, and a youth art exhibition. All Culture Night events are free to attend, thanks to the support of Cork County Council and the Arts Council. Booking isn't essential but you can find out more and reserve your place at www.westcorkmusic.ie/culture-night/
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The full Culture Night Cork County Music Programme is online now, with exciting acts from across the country appearing in unexpected and unique locations. Featuring an impressive line-up of contemporary Cork artists, including How I Became a Wave, As If I Always Knew, The Fynches, Fixity and Áine Duffy, alongside a host of classicial and traditional musicians, this year’s programme places a special spotlight on musical talent from across the county. Booking required for many of these events, reserve your place at culturenight.ie. #OneNightforAll #OícheDarSaol #oíchechultúir @culturenight @corkcountycouncil @artscouncilireland
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The Meliora Quartet ahead of their NSQF Young Artists summer tour this week. Catch them from Thursday in Castletownshend, Kenmare, Cork or Doneraile Court. Thanks to Hugh Murray for a stunning new photo! See NSQF.ie
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See NSQF.ie!
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See NSQF.ie!
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The Meliora Quartet sounding great in St Brendan’s Church, Bantry a couple of weeks ago! Catch them at one of their summer tour concerts in August! See NSQF.ie
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MELIORA QUARTET Cillian Ó Cathasaigh, violin Seán Hurley, violin Kseniia Yershova, viola Alina Obreja, cello Haydn - String Quartet Op.76 No.4 Sunrise [1797] Webern: Langsamer Satz [1905] Caroline Shaw - Blueprint [2016] Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet in B flat major Op.130 [1826] The outstanding Meliora Quartet took part in the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in June/July and will also be the NSQF Fellowship Quartet at the Concorda Chamber Music Course in July/August, working with the course participants as well as preparing for this tour. The Sunrise is perhaps the most popular of all Haydn’s wonderful string quartets. Each of its four movements is vividly characterised - the first evoking the rising of the sun, the second prayerful, the third presenting a wild dance and the finale creating imaginative variations around a simple folksong-like theme and building to a virtuosic conclusion. Webern’s ‘Langsamer Satz’ (slow piece) is a beautiful and passionate love song to his future wife, written in the rich late Romantic soundworld of his teacher Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht. Pulitzer prize winning composer Caroline Shaw took Beethoven’s quartet Op.18 No.6, as the blueprint of her 2016 quartet of that name and its transformation is both fascinating and entertaining. The magnificent, epic, opening movement of Beethoven’s B flat major quartet Op.130 is followed by four beautifully crafted and highly contrasted inner movements, culminating in the famous Cavatina of which Beethoven wrote that he had composed it truly in the tears of melancholy. It leads into the quartet’s concluding finale, a good-natured antidote which Beethoven wrote, at his publisher’s request, as an alternative to the quartet’s original last movement, the massive Grosse Fuge. CASTLETOWNSHEND - Thursday 6th August at 8pm - St Barrahane’s Church - presented by Barrahane Music KENMARE - Friday 7th August at 6pm - Carnegie Arts Centre CORK - Saturday 8th August at 1pm - Triskel Arts Centre (Shaw, Webern, Beethoven) DONERAILE - Sunday 9th August at 3pm - Doneraile Court - presented by OPW
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Tickets in bio!! 🌟🌟🌟 I got a parking ticket for this #quartet
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Two brilliant young string quartets come to Kinsale on Friday 19th June at 8pm. See NSQF.ie! These two outstanding groups are both heading for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival at the end of June. The Meliora will go on to present NSQF.ie’s summer tour in August and the Olympia Quartet, recently featured on the Tommy Tiernan show, have played concerts to great acclaim around Cork, Kerry and Dublin. They return for their second appearance at St. Catherine’s with Mendelssohn’s gorgeous E flat major quartet, Borodin’s famous Nocturne and Janáček’s spectacular ‘Intimate Letters’. The quartets will come together to end the evening with the glorious first movement of Mendelssohn’s Octet.
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We are so excited to be performing in @sccckinsale next Friday the 19th 🥳 We’ll be performing Janáček’s Intimate Letters, as well as the wonderful first movement of Mendelssohn’s Octet, with our friends in @melioraquartet ! 🌟 Tickets in our bio 👯‍♀️👯‍♂️
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