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.

Westland Baroque Ensemble at West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2018

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
Bantry House has been a central venue for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival

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.

NameComposition Year
Amy RooneyViscosity 2015
Peter LeavyKintsukuroi 2015
Robert ColemanMonster 2015
Finola MerivaleThe 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
  1. "West Cork Music 2016 About". www.westcorkmusic.ie. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  2. "WCM Archive - Homepage". archive.westcorkmusic.ie. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  3. http://www.westcorkmusic.ie/chambermusicfestival/uploads/pdf/WCCMF_Composition_Competition_2008_to_2015.pdf

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