The 9th Ortús Chamber Music Festival will run from February 25th to March 3rd, 2024 in venues around Cork City and County featuring 10 top chamber musicians. The festival, founded in 2016 by renowned Irish musicians Mairéad Hickey and Sinéad O’Halloran, was set up with the goal of providing audiences with performances by some of the best musicians from Ireland and around the world.
Ortús 2024, curated by Cork’s Mairéad Hickey, will feature performances in St Brendan’s Church Bantry, MTU Cork School of Music, My Place Midleton, St George’s Arts Centre Mitchelstown and St Peter’s Cork on North Main Street in Cork city.
The line-up includes Irish musicians Mairéad Hickey (violin), Alex Petcu (percussion), Kelley Petcu (voice), Seán Morgan-Rooney (piano), Aoife Nic Athlaoich (cello) and Siobhán Armstrong (harp) alongside Cork based violinist, Marja Gaynor, Dutch cellist Ella van Poucke, Dominican-Russian Karolina Errera and French pianist Jérémie Moreau.
“We are looking forward to our 9th festival in 2024 – with a wonderful group of musicians. As well as returning to venues which have been very popular with local audiences, we will be performing in Mitchelstown for the first time in 2024. We encourage everyone to come along to a venue near you to enjoy the festival, whether you have been before or whether you are coming along for the very first time,” says Mairéad.
The six different concerts in the Ortús 2024 Chamber Music Festival will give audiences a chance to enjoy Brahm’s beloved first piano quartet, Beethoven’s epic Archduke Trio, Schubert’s Grand Duo, songs by Ravel and De Falla and a varied programme of chamber music spanning the centuries, from the early music of Byrd and Carolan to more contemporary works by Perruchon and Sam Perkin.
All details available on ortusfestival.ie.
