Alan Carney Evelyn Grant (Narrator) Linda Kenny Damian Smith The Singalong Songbook pays homage to the popular showband era. In this heady tribute to pure nostalgia, Those Hucklebuck Days: The Songs We Danced To revisits those hits that played each day on the radio and dominated the ballrooms of romance. The...
Literally translated as ‘Schubert journey’ the National Concert Hall presents ‘Schubertreise’. Dublin-born bass-baritone, Conor Biggs, and Belgian pianist, Michel Stas, have taken on the monumental challenge of performing the complete songs of Schubert in this thirty-seven part series taking place over fifteen years. The final instalment in the series, Winterreise is commonly...
Joanna Mattrey From New York to Paris to the wild coastline of the West of Ireland: “Bones, Rocks and Jackhammers,” is a concert reflecting on place, nature and the environment. Featuring music by Finola Merivale and Catherine Sikora, this event is a celebration of the launch of Abhaile, – an album of three...
The phenomenal, three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn makes an eagerly anticipated return to the National Concert Hall for a characteristically imaginative evening spanning Classical masterpieces, the unfamiliar, and the new. Pianist Tom Poster joins her for an evocative recital featuring treasured jewels of the French violin repertoire: Ravel’s lush Violin Sonata No. 2...
Jóhann Jóhannsson Drone Mass Festival of Voice is a weekend festival celebrating the power, beauty and universality of the human voice. Experience Jóhann Jóhannsson's mesmerising Drone Mass, with Chamber Choir Ireland and Crash Ensemble. Two of Ireland's leading ensembles join together in a mesmerising soundscape of voices, strings, and electronics. Drone Mass isn’t really a mass....
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland Jonas Alber, conductor Baiba Skride, violin Britten Violin Concerto Mahler Symphony No. 5 The shimmering intensity of Britten’s Violin Concerto meets the sweeping drama of Mahler’s majestic Symphony No. 5 as revered conductor Jonas Alber and celebrated violinist Baiba Skride make welcome returns to National Symphony Orchestra Ireland for two essential masterpieces. Marking the 50th...
Russell Watson is the UK’s most prolific classical recording artiste ever! His first two recordings, The Voice and Encore are the top two album sellers of the century, with ‘The Voice’ making him the first and only classical vocalist from these shores to reach one million sales in the UK....
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland Dennis Russell Davies, conductor Angélique Kidjo, voice Philip Glass Prelude and Dance (‘The City’) from Akhnaten (Irish Premiere) Ifè Songs (Irish Premiere) Symphony No. 8 (Irish Premiere) National Symphony Orchestra Ireland’s two-concert focus on Philip Glass begins with the composer’s most authoritative interpreter, conductor Dennis Russell Davies, and dynamic, charismatic...
Tara Howley is one of Ireland’s leading multi-instrumentalists. A highly accomplished musician and singer, Tara plays 14 instruments and is a multiple All-Ireland champion. She spent seven years touring the world as lead uilleann piper with Riverdance and recently joined Celtic Woman for their symphony tour, performing on some of...
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland Dennis Russell Davies conductor Maki Namekawa piano Philip Glass The Light (Irish premiere) Interlude from The Voyage (Irish premiere) Piano Concerto, ‘Mishima’ (Irish premiere) Two of Philip Glass’s most distinguished champions – conductor Dennis Russell Davies and pianist Maki Namekawa – return to conclude National Symphony Orchestra Ireland’s focus on one of the most unique and...
The Hibernian Orchestra John Finucane, conductor Sulamita Pyvovar, soloist Shostakovich: Festive Overture Op.96 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 Op.26 in C major Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Founded in 1981, the Dublin based Hibernian Orchestra (formerly the Hibernian Chamber Orchestra) is now recognised as the leading voluntary...
A number of outstanding winners from Feis Ceoil 2026 will be selected to perform at this Gala Showcase which will round off the 2026 Festival. The concert will feature the winner of the Feis Ceoil Choir of the Year, along with orchestras, ensembles and soloists representing a wide variety of styles....