National Concert Hall

A total of €25,000 will be presented to successful artists and arts organisations through bursaries and awards on the night

For many years the indie songwriter refused to talk to journalists, but middle age and parenthood have brought a new mellowness

NCH show is a chance for Hansard and Irglová to remember old times and reclaim lost ground

Judges at the 13th Dublin International Piano Competition talk about their influences, their roles and the importance of such contests

The musician, whose multinational Kevin Brady Electric Quartet embark on a rare tour in May, talks about teaching, his influences and the state of jazz in Ireland

JD Vance’s arrival at the Washington venue sparked a viral drama. In Dublin, the National Concert Hall has suffered from decades of political indifference

The iconic indie-rock guitarist debuts his Guitar Explorations of Cloud Formations suite as part of the New Music Dublin festival

Carol McGonnell performs Buckley’s new Clarinet Concerto as part of New Music Dublin festival 2025

Plus: James Dyson could be in for a land in Waterford; the Irish master of plaster; and the NCH’s bonus buyout

The acclaimed musician reimagines his album Peggy’s Dream with the National Symphony Orchestra this St Patrick’s weekend

The musician, whose jazz ballet suite Spondance is about to be re-released, is as important to jazz as John Banville is to literature, Robert Ballagh to art and Gay Byrne to TV

The musician, who is deaf/hard of hearing, talks about her latest work, The Land Grows Weary of its Own, which has its Irish premiere this month

With her National Concert Hall programme, the mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught is on a mission to fill gaps in the way singers are trained and cared for

Amplifying the Irish song tradition at the National Concert Hall is a welcome pitstop on the band’s winding career path

The clarinetist and National Concert Hall artist-in-residence on navigating conservatoire culture and what ‘holding space’ means to her

With his acoustic band, this idiosyncratic musician displays the extraordinary breadth and depth of his talent

Composer Stephen McNeff was born in Belfast, then grew up in south Wales. His Irishness has become increasingly important to his identity

The disarmingly direct cellist, who plays in Ireland this month, leaped to fame with John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil. It was the start of an illustrious career

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The singer is loving his relatively newfound role as a father, which began at the age of 59

In homage to Lou Reed, Anohni gives late musician’s work the creative approach she feels it deserves

The world’s first orchestra of musicians with and without disabilities will perform in the National Concert Hall on November 30th

The Mercury Prize-winning singer on Trump’s misogyny, climate change and preparing to celebrate her mentor Lou Reed in Dublin

On the first of two evenings, the composer leads his ensemble through first his new album and then his Iraq War ‘protest record’

Singing the same role in the same place as the opera great was a goal fulfilled for Ireland’s leading mezzo and NCH artist-in-residence

The performance artist, musician and drag experimentalist is bringing her reimagining of the late Irish singer’s first album to Dublin

Michael Riesman, music director of the Philip Glass Ensemble, on the works by the composer that they’re bringing to Ireland

Opera: Conductor Ryan McAdams draws lively, fresh playing to a concert performance featuring Paula Murrihy, Anna Devin and Niamh O’Sullivan

My comedic, commercial fiction has been described as ‘fluffy’ or ‘an easy read’ more times than my heart and ego can take

Cork mezzo-soprano on her packed schedule, shifting pitch and the sadness of being away from home with constant travelling for performances and rehearsals

Plus, what the writer said in conversation with Fintan O’Toole in the National Concert Hall on Saturday

The British composer discusses the inspiration behind his new orchestral work, Aquifer, which gets its Irish premiere next weekend

The Norwegian violinist, who is giving a series of performances in Ireland, stands out in the classical world as a widely admired outsider

In Ireland, as an 18-year-old, he had been organist of Thurles cathedral and also taught at the Ursuline convent there, and he had been a violinist at the Theatre Royal in Dublin

Experimental musician will collaborate with composer Irene Buckley and Crash Ensemble on an ambitious reinterpretation of her work

Avant-garde superstar even finds time to joke about England’s advance to the semis in Euro 2024

Composer, arranger and performer on Riverdance’s effect on Ireland, contemporary trad music, AI and facing down eternity

The celebrated French piano duo talk about the new scores for three Cocteau films they’ll be playing at the NCH

Me & My Money: Robert Read, CEO, National Concert Hall

The guitarist and classically-trained composer has a number of orchestral projects planned for autumn at the historic Dublin venue