Music in Drumcliffe 2012
Music in Drumcliffe 2012
With Vogler Quartet and Guests
St Columba’s Church, Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo
May Bank Holiday Weekend
May 5th – Monday 7th, 2012
Sligo Arts Service is delighted to announce their artists and concert programme for Music in Drumcliffe 2012 which will take place from 5th May to 7th May, 2012. As festival ensemble-in-residence, The Vogler Quartet, will perform alongside Michael McHale, piano (Ireland), Malwina Sosnowski, violin (Switzerland), Jonathan Cohen, harpsichord (United Kingdom), Moran Katz, clarinet (USA), Friedemann Rieger, piano (Germany), Nicolas Altstaedt, cello (Germany), Brian O’Kane, cello (Ireland) and Doriana Tchakarova, piano (Bulgaria). Repertoire will include works by Schumann, Dutilleux, Dvořák, Gershwin, Schubert, Szymanowski, Field, Vivaldi, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Bach, Debussy and Brahms.
Since its establishment in 2000, Music in Drumcliffe has become one of Ireland’s leading international chamber music festivals, offering audiences the opportunity to experience high standards of programming through a fresh choice of artists all performing alongside the internationally acclaimed Vogler Quartet, in one of the most beautiful locations in Ireland, at the foot of Benbulben mountain and in the heart of Yeats Country.
This year the festival will introduce a number of new events to its programme. Open Rehearsals with The Vogler Quartet and Guests on Saturday between 10.30am and 1.30pm, a Bow Making Lecture and Demonstration with internationally renowned Noel Burke on the Saturday afternoon, a New Music Literary Trail in partnership with the Contemporary Music Centre, daily, around the environs of Drumcliffe, together with a Walk and Talk lecture of each listening post with composer Benjamin Dwyer and a Late Night Festival Club with festival guest artists in The Elsinore, Yeats Country Hotel, Rosses Point on Saturday May 5th at 10pm.
Music lovers can look forward to yet another cultural packed bank holiday weekend of inspiring music in the friendly, intimate and evocative setting of Drumcliffe, Co Sligo.
Booking information:-
Tickets for the Music in Drumcliffe range from €12 to €25. Season tickets are €110 with concessions €90 (OAPs, students and the unwaged). For information/credit card bookings, please contact Artscope + 353 (0)1 505 9582 or email info@artscope.ie Bookings can be made by post, telephone or email. Tickets can also be purchased from Drumcliffe Tea House and Crafts Shop + 353 (0)71-914 4956.
Music in Drumcliffe Festival 2012 is produced by Sligo Arts Service, Sligo County Council; Managed by Caroline Wynne, Artscope; Artistic Direction by Frank Reinecke; Festival Ensemble-in-Residence, Vogler Quartet; Funded by Sligo County Council, Sligo Borough Council and The Arts Council. The festival is supported by RTÉ lyric fm and The Contemporary Music Centre.
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