10th Anniversary Concert:

Tickets are now on sale for the 10th anniversary concert at MTU Cork School of Music on Sunday, 10 November 2024 at 3pm. Tickets are available online here.

MTU Curtis Auditorium – 3pm November 10th 2024 (10th Anniversary Concert)

Beethoven Variations on “Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen” for Cello & Piano, WoO 46

Gary Beecher & Sinéad O’Halloran

Dohnanyi Serenade in C major for String Trio, Op. 10

Mairéad Hickey, Ed Creedon & Sinéad O’Halloran

Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, KV 478

Mairéad Hickey, Ed Creedon, Gary Beecher & Sinéad O’Halloran

The 2025 Festival Programme:

Musicians: Sinéad O’Halloran (cello), Johannes Marmén (violin), Laia Valentin Braun (violin) & Bryony Gibson-Cornish (viola) (all members of the renowned Marmen Quartet). 

Slovenian clarinettist Aliaž Beguš.

Contemporary Irish music ensembles Lucia and Maria and Strung who specialise in a fusion of traditional Irish and classical music, comprising Lucia MacPartlin and Maria Ryan (violins), Maria O’ Connor (cello) and Luke Howard (piano).

Blackrock Castle – 7pm Thursday, February 27th 2025 

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 5 Fantasiestücke, Op. 5

Marmen Quartet

Dvorak Terzetto in C major, Op. 74

Laia Valentin Braun, Johannes Marmén & Bryony Gibson-Cornish 

Ante Grgin Capriccio No. 1 for Solo Clarinet 

Aliaž Beguš 

Bartok Quartet no. 3 

Marmen Quartet

Dripsey Castle Estate – 7.30pm Friday, February 28th 2025

Mozart String Quartet No. 19 in C major, KV 465 “Dissonance Quartet”

Marmen Quartet

Sam Perkin “PAUSE”

Marmen Quartet

STRUNG set – composers include Liz Carroll, Phil Cunningham, Johnny McCarthy and old Irish tunes 

Lucia MacPartlin and Maria Ryan, violins, Maria O’ Connor, cello & Luke Howard, piano

Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh – 1pm Saturday, March 1st 2025

Violin duo – traditional, classical and folk concert

Lucia MacPartlin & Maria Ryan

UCC Aula Maxima – 7.30pm Saturday, March 1st 2025

George Friedrich Fuchs – Clarinet & Violin Duo Op. 14 No. 1 

Laia Valentin Braun & Aljaz Begus 

Bartok Duos for 2 Violins (selection from 44 Duos, Sz. 98)

Johannes Marmén  & Laia Valentin Braun 

Bryony Gibson-Cornish– ‘Waiporoporo Moana’ (‘Purple Moon’) 

Bryony Gibson-Cornish (solo viola) and Ortús Festival Strings (featuring festival musicians and students of MTU CSM)

Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Johannes Marmén, Laia Valentin Braun, Bryony Gibson-Cornish, Sinéad O’Halloran & Aliaž Beguš

St. Peter’s Cork – 11am Sunday, March 2nd 2025 

Mozart Duo for Violin & Viola No. 1 in G major, K. 423

Johannes Marmén & Bryony Gibson-Cornish 

Salina Fisher “Reflect” for Solo Viola

Bryony Gibson-Cornish 

Ben Dwyer – Solo Cello Suite (world premiere) 

Sinéad O’Halloran

Anders Hillborg – Duet for Clarinet & Violin 

Johannes Marmén & Aliaž Beguš

Curtis Auditorium MTU CSM – 3pm Sunday, March 2nd 2025 

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 95 in F minor, “Serioso”

Marmen Quartet

Rebecca Clarke Two Pieces for Viola & Cello 

Bryony Gibson-Cornish & Sinéad O’Halloran

Seth Grosshandler “Dances for String Quartet”

Johannes Marmén, Laia Valentin Braun, Bryony Gibson-Cornish & Sinéad O’Halloran

Bliss Clarinet Quintet 

Johannes Marmén, Laia Valentin Braun, Bryony Gibson-Cornish, Sinéad O’Halloran & Aliaž Beguš