Festival programme

2023

(2024 programme coming soon!)

Friday 8th September

All day: Vox Amicum Brass Quintet visit three local Junior Schools

10.00am: Piano Masterclass with Nathalia Milstein 

Participants: Mickey Glen Tomas (TUD) and David Vesey (RIAM)

(Admission free)

7.30pm: Evening Concert - Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Davey and Ravel

Nathalia Milstein (piano)

Maria Milstein (violin)

John Finucane (clarinet)

10.00pm: Jazz Club in Café du Journal

Saturday 9th September

2.00pm: Vox Amicum Brass Quintet - Ewald, Tilson Thomas

4.00pm: Mick O’Brien (pipes) with Ciara Ní Bhriain (fiddle)

Performing music from the Joyce and Canon Goodman collections as well as music passed down through the O’Brien family from Mick’s father Dinny. 

7.30pm: Evening Concert - Mendelssohn, Stanford, and Amy Beach

Piatti String Quartet

Lance Coburn (piano)

John Finucane (clarinet)

10.00pm: Jazz Club in Café du Journal

SUNDAY 10th september

11.00am: Classical Kids

Knox Hall

4.00pm: Afternoon Concert - Locatelli, Vasks, Debussy and Enesco

Valentine Laporte (flute), winner of the Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year

with Danusia Oslizlok (piano)

7.30pm: Evening Concert - Schubert, Dvorák and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Piatti String Quartet

John Finucane (clarinet)

All concerts except Classical Kids take place in the Parish Church Monkstown