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).
2025 Concerts:
Blackrock Castle – 7pm Thursday, February 27th 2025 – Buy Tickets
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 – Buy Tickets
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 – Buy Tickets
Violin duo – traditional, classical and folk concert
Lucia MacPartlin & Maria Ryan
UCC Aula Maxima – 7.30pm Saturday, March 1st 2025 – Buy Tickets
Haydn “Joke” Quartet, Op. 33 No. 2
Marmen Quartet
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 – Buy Tickets
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 – Buy Tickets
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 95 in F minor, “Serioso”
Marmen Quartet
Hannah Kendall “How ruin nested inside each thimbled throat / & made it sing”
Marmen Quartet
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