Nicholas Daniel: ‘I had no idea what an oboe was. My father sold cars’
The Westport-bound musician talks about his career and how the pandemic has radically changed his priorities
The best classical music concerts in Ireland this week
New Music Dublin, Hugh Tinney, RTÉ NSO/Michail Jurowski
Some nice little arrangements at Westport festival
Arranging big works for smaller ensembles has always helped make them more accessible
Brett Dean’s ICO debut: This week’s classical highlights
Fiachra Garvey with the RTÉ NSO, plus the Westport Chamber Music Festival
National Concert Hall launches bumper programme for 2019-20
Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up
Portrait of pioneering Irish female scientist unveiled in Dublin
Dr Sheila Tinney was first-ever Irish woman to earn a PhD in mathematical science
Hugh Tinney’s 60th birthday tour: this weeks classical music highlights
Plus: Female Composer Series at NCH, and piano competition winner Sae Yoon Chon
Royal Irish Academy of Music set for €20m transformation by 2021
Westland Row campus redevelopment involves €9m public funding and significant philanthropy
A muscular, finely tuned engine at Westport Chamber Music Festival
The muscle cars of Cannonball Ireland were no match for the velvet sounds of Westport
Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights
Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’
Classical gig of the week: Westport Festival of Chamber Music
The historic setting of Westport House is the centerpiece of this fine boutique festival in Co Mayo featuring works by Grieg, Mozart, Bach, Shostakovich, Schumann and Fauré
Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
Great Music in Irish Houses: this week’s classical highlights
Also: Billionaire orchestra Würth Philharmoniker, and Pipeworks at Christ Church
Treats for piano gourmands: this week’s classical highlights
Emmanuelle Haïm brings French baroque to Dublin, rising star Duncan Ward conducts the RTÉ NSO; and Dublin International Piano Competition winners perform in Galway
Tinney a power of strength with the Navarra Quartet
Westport Festival expands from three to six concerts
A perfect fusion of music and location at Kilruddery
The Festival of Great Music in Irish Houses plays fast and loose with its title but delivers music of calibre and quality
Electronic music is everywhere, except the classical mainstream. This should change
Three festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audience
Finghin Collins takes a lap of honour on his 40th birthday
NCH honours pianist by presenting him in solo recital as part of international series
Mysterious musical chairs at RTÉ as arts job disappears
Executive Director of RTÉ’s Orchestras, Quartet and Choirs moves to new role
How Stravinsky put the world to rites
The Russian, a giant among 20th century composers, deserved an NCH showcase of his distinctive style
Winners and losers in Arts Council’s absurd festival grants scheme
Two long-standing music series lose out as new events hit the jackpot, but the lack of continuity from year to year is mind-boggling
Shocks in store from Gerald Barry while NI Opera dictates the pace
NI Opera’s ‘Turandot’ is stunning, while Leif Ove Andsnes enjoys stint at the NCH
Three global orchestras make Irish debuts in new concert season | Classical
The new season is strong on singing and orchestral debuts, and composers from Sibelius to Mahler
Out on a Lim: the crazy abandon of a Korean maverick
Classical music: The problem with HJ Lim’s in-your-face style is that, when nothing is normal, you can get to the point where nothing is abnormal either
The devil in the detail of RTÉ’s orchestral cutbacks
A heavily redacted report on RTÉ’s orchestras gives the lie to the Government’s claims about transparency
A Yeatsian balancing act between music and words
Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’
The New York Philharmonic introduce Dublin to the daughter of chaos
The orchestra’s appearance at the NCH kept things contemporary, unorthodox and sensual
Plenty to celebrate on the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir’s 30th birthday
The choir has to compete with the Fleischmann, but it’s living up to the vision behind its foundation
Michael Dervan’s cultural highs and lows of 2014
Richard Goode at the KBC Great Music in Irish Houses festival
100 years of the Junior Irish Open tennis contest
Businessman Tony O’Reilly, pianist Hugh Tinney and minister Catríona Ruane all played in the ‘Junior Fitz’
Westport’s awake to the sounds of chamber music
It’s easy to compare the approaches of different instrumentalists at Westport Festival of Chamber Music
Killaloe Music Festival lets its hair down with a pared-back approach
St Flannan’s is a challenging acoustic for musicians; here their solution is an energetic approach
The fireworks and the finer points of ‘Nixon in China’
John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas
Fill the vacuum: concerts without context leave listeners none the wiser
Programme notes – or the lack thereof – at recent concerts have me lamenting sins of omission
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