West Cork Chamber Music Festival
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival is a music festival, established in 1995,[1] that takes place in the town of Bantry, Ireland, usually in July.
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Performers
Performers at the festival have included the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Barry Douglas, Ruby Hughes, Nicola Benedetti, Tanja Becker-Bender and Natalie Clein [2] and works have included some by contemporary composers, such as Thomas Larcher and Mathias Hinke.
Venues and activities
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The performances take place at venues around the town, including Bantry House and St Brendan's Church. The central performance venue is Bantry House, where the drawing room, with a capacity of approximately 50 seats, is used for some concerts.
Alongside the performances the festival includes violin and bow making, master classes and a composition competition whose past winners include Harry Whalley, Sebastian Adams and Solfa Carlisle.
Composition competition
The festival runs a composition competition [3] for young composers born or resident of Ireland under the age of 35.
Name | Composition | Year |
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Amy Rooney | Viscosity | 2015 |
Peter Leavy | Kintsukuroi | 2015 |
Robert Coleman | Monster | 2015 |
Finola Merivale | The Language of Mountains is Rain | 2015 |
Amy Rooney | Foreground Background | 2014 |
Christopher McAteer | Intaglio | 2014 |
Patrick Connolly | Extracts of Music from the Room next door | 2014 |
Sean Doherty | Arche | 2014 |
Patrick Egan | Then Til Now | 2013 |
Timothy Cape | Collector's Item | 2013 |
Solfa Carlile | Fables | 2013 |
Sean Doherty | Retreat | 2013 |
Solfa Carlile | Saul and the Witch | 2012 |
Bill McGrath | Bill McGrath | 2012 |
Harry Whalley | Compression | 2012 |
References
- "West Cork Music 2016 About". www.westcorkmusic.ie. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- "WCM Archive - Homepage". archive.westcorkmusic.ie. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- http://www.westcorkmusic.ie/chambermusicfestival/uploads/pdf/WCCMF_Composition_Competition_2008_to_2015.pdf