Autumn ’21 – A Happy Return to LIVE Events

We opened up our concert season Autumn 2021 with much enthusiasm, as it’s been nearly 2 years since we have been in the live space! Our online concerts were a happy compromise and we were delighted to reach people near and far over the interwebs, but we must admit that there’s nothing quite like a…

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Cellissimo 2021 – Opening Concert

Mfg’s Cellissimo Opening Concert took place March 25th 2021 live from the picturesque Kylemore Abbey.Naomi Berrill opened the first ever online triannual international cello festival with “Fragments” composed by the renowned Bill Whelan. This unique and stunning piece was followed by a cracking programme of well-loved classics , featuring the Irish Chamber Orchestra, directed by French…

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Cellissimo 2021 – From Prussia With Love

The 17th century splendour of Portumna Castle on the shores of Lough Derg was the setting forthe Sunday evening CELLISSIMO concert on March 28th. People took part in a guidedonline tour of the castle and its history before settling down to watch ConTempo Quartet andcellist Christopher Marwood perform Mozart’s Quartet K.575, composed for the cello-lovingKing…

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Cellissimo 2021 – Bach Plus Concerts

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites performed by six star cellists on sixconsecutive lunchtimes from March 26 – March 31 2021 during CELLISSIMO, and was precededby a talk from musicologist Richard Wigmore. First up was Swedish cellist Jakob Koranyi, coming to us from a church in Stockholm.  Along with Bach’s first cello suite, we…

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This is Paper Boat!

Here’s the creative team and cast of Paper Boat – the new community opera presented by Music for Galway and Galway 2020 in association with Irish National Opera, celebrating 700 years of St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.  

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The Galway Cello and Other Stories

“The Galway Cello is an instrument that is intended to have a life, to be played and not simply admired somewhere on a stand” Naomi Berrill, Galway Cello Ambassador. Here we have a series of three short videos: In the first video, we follow Naomi as she brings the Galway Cello into three schools in…

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Making of the Galway Cello

The Galway Cello is one of the most exciting and unique aspects of CELLISSIMO. To include one of the main themes of Galway 2020, landscape, and taking their cue from an original concept by Philip Fogarty, Music for Galway has commissioned a new instrument to be fashioned from timbers grown in Co. Galway. The Galway…

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The Galway Cello

  What a beauty! Take a look at the Claddagh scroll. Have you ever seen anything like it? The Galway Cello is one of the most exciting and unique aspects of CELLISSIMO. To include one of the main themes of Galway 2020, landscape, and taking their cue from an original concept by Philip Fogarty, Music…

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The Skies are Empty

The Galway Cello Scroll photograph black and white

Music for Galway – live from two places at once Cellist Yseult Cooper-Stockdale and rock/electronic musician Philip Fogarty to play collaborative concert BY KERNAN ANDREWS    Galway Advertiser, Thu, Apr 30, 2020 In a time where the woods of Galway, birthplace of the Galway Cello, lie open to silent skies and the world comes to…

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