Program

Performing from Bantry House, Bantry

Mozart: Quartet in F major K.590

Vrebalov: Pannonia Boundless

Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor Op.80

About the Artists

Mia Cooper, Sophie Cashell [violins],

Joachim Roewer [viola],

William Butt [cello]

The Esposito Quartet comprises four musicians with a combined bounty of experience as orchestra leaders, principals, professors, recital and recording artists, whose common love of the quartet treasury drove them in 2010 to ignore it no longer and seek each other out. Their name reflects their admiration for Michele Esposito, pianist and composer, who for forty years from 1888 was the initiator for much of the chamber music making in Dublin through the establishment of The Royal Dublin Society.  They have enjoyed concert tours of Ireland with the support of Arts Council Touring Awards and with generous support from the National Quartet Foundation they have been fortunate to have commissioned and premiered new works by Donnacha Dennehy and Sebastian Adams. The Espositos have also enjoyed collaborating with many other artists such as Hugh Tinney, Redmond O Toole and Gareth Lubbe.

About West Cork Chamber Music Festival

The West Cork Chamber Music Festival takes place annually in Bantry, County Cork. For ten days, from the last Friday in June, a world-class line-up of international ensembles and soloists perform an extensive programme of concerts which run from morning to late night. The two main venues are the intimate library of the historic Bantry House, which overlooks Bantry Bay; and St Brendan’s Church in the centre of Bantry. The Festival also includes a full schedule of performance workshops and masterclasses with resident student ensembles, composition workshops, public talks with artists as well as exhibitions and demonstrations from instrument makers.

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