Fresh from a performance at the 2019 BBC Proms, Leon McCawley returns to Ireland to play a programme of familiar works by Haydn, Schubert, Hans Gál, Schumann, Brahms and Chopin.

From BBC Young Musician to royal weddings, young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins the Irish Chamber Orchestra for Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto, Deirdre McKay’s Meltwater and Bizet’s Symphony No. 1 conducted by Gábor Káli.

With a theme of Love & Death, the internationally acclaimed Navarra Quartet will perform works by Turina, Kurtág, Puccini and Schubert’s famous string Quartet Death and the Maiden.

One of the most dynamic duos in Ireland at the present time, violinist Patrick Rafter and pianist Michael McHale present a programme of Mozart, Ravel, Debussy, Ysaÿe and Franck. This concert also features as a focal point for a new education project involving primary school students, funded by Creative Ireland.

Drogheda Classical Music celebrates The Voice in all its glorious forms. Under the guest artistic direction of international mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught, from 31 January – 2 February, Drogheda will become the centre for a weekend of seminars, interviews, masterclasses, concerts and much more all focused around the voice.

More details to be announced soon. 

Born in Venezuela, Gabriela Montero is one of the leading lights in piano playing today. For this one-off concert in Drogheda, she will perform familiar works by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann before playing some of her entertaining improvisations, which are often inspired by audience requests.

Mozart and Beethoven’s quintets for piano and wind instruments are clever and charming and considered two of the great works from the chamber music canon. The ever-engaging Irish pianist Finghin Collins is joined by an ensemble of distinguished wind players.