Sligo Festival of Baroque Music / Sligo New Music Festival
Sligo
Festival of Baroque Music
“The
best line-up of Baroque music the country has ever seen……a
truly extraordinary weekend” -
The Irish Times
The
Sligo Baroque Festival, now in its 12th year, is one of the most
important events for Early Classical Music in
Ireland
. The Festival takes place at the Model Arts and Niland Gallery
and provides an excellent programme of concerts, talks, workshops
and masterclasses. The Festival attracts the best Irish and
international performers to the west of
Ireland
each year and previous participants have included Emma Kirby,
Julia Gooding, Wilbert Hazelzet, Malcolm Proud, Passacaglia, Sarah
Cunningham and Hiro Kurosaki among others.
Full programme details will be
available at the end of the summer, or you can email us aoifeflynn@modelart.ie for further info.
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Sligo
New Music Festival
March
24th – 26th 2006 |
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The
2006 Sligo New Music Festival focused on the beautiful and
haunting music of two of the 20th century’s most important
composers; Morton Feldman (1926-1987) and the Luigi Nono
(1924-1990). Performers included the very popular Callino
Quartet, as well as the superb young British pianist Sarah
Nicolls. Highlights of the Festival included a rare
performance of Feldman’s hour-long Piano
and String Quartet, Nono’s La
lontananza… for solo violin and live
electronics and a new work from Irish composer Jurgen
Simpson in collaboration with poet Sinead Morriseey which
was commissioned by the sligo new music festival.
The
2005 New Music Festival featured commissioned Simon Mawhinny
to rescore the classic silent film Nosferatu.
Call 071 91 41405 or email info@modelart.ie
for more details |
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Solo
The
multi-disciplinary Solo
Festival ran at the Model for three years from
2003-2005. It featured an impressive array of artists,
musicians and filmmakers with some memorable performances from
David Kitt, Clive Barnes and John Spillane, Andy Irvine and Dick
Gaughan, Declan O’Rourke and many more.
Click
here to read more about the 2005
Solo Festival
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out about the 2004 festival
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