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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260301T150000
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SUMMARY:The Four Seasons Chamber Music Series: To Sleep\, Perchance to Dream
DESCRIPTION:Magdalena Lucjan\, soprano\nDearbhla Collins\, piano \nFranz Schubert\nIm Frühling D. 882 (Schulze)\nGanymed (Goethe)\nAbendstern (Mayrhofer)\nWinterabend (v. Leitner)\nJean Sibelius\nDen Första Kyssen (Runeberg)\nNorden (Runeberg)\nVar det en dröm (Vecksell)\nAlban Berg Sieben frühe Lieder\n    1. Nacht (Hauptmann)\n2. Schilflied (Lenau)\n3. Die Nachtigall (Storm)\n4. Traumgekrönt (Rilke)\n5. Im Zimmer (Schlaf)\n6. Liebesode (Hartleben)\n7. Sommertage (Hohenberg)\nErich Wolfgang Korngold Unvergänglichkeit (Straten)\, Op.27\n1. Unvergänglichkeit\n2. Das eilende Bächlein\n3. Das schlafende Kind\n4. Stärker als der Tod\n5. Unvergänglichkeit\nWitold Lutoslawski Chantefleurs et chantefables (Desnos)\n1. La Belle-de-Nuit\n2. La Sauterelle\n3. La Véronique\n4. L’Églantine\, l’aubépine et la glycine\n5. La Tortue\n6. La Rose\n7. L’Alligator\n8. L’Angélique\n9. Le Papillon \nFour Seasons Chamber Music Series: inviting audiences on a journey through the seasons\, with music exploring themes of light and shadow\, water and ice\, and the passing of time. \nIn this concert\, Polish soprano Magdalena Lucjan reminds us of the stillness of night\, the power of dreams\, and the depth of darkness. An exploration of life and death\, the programme begins with Schubert Lieder depicting vast landscapes\, and great dark skies\, followed by three Sibelius songs about stars\, stillness\, and the cold\, frozen North. The first half concludes with Alben Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs)\, a song cycle which moves from eerie darkness in the Schoenberg-esque whole-tone harmonies of ‘Nacht’ (Night)\, to a passionate climax in ‘Sommertage’ (Summer Days). The second half begins with Korngold’s Unvergänglichkeit (The Eternal)\, a work depicting renewal and rebirth. This was supposedly written in 1933\, just before the composer fled from Europe and settled in the US. His naturally filmic compositional style is evident here in music that predates his many successful Hollywood scores. This performance finishes with Lutosławski’s Surrealist setting of Robert Desnos’ Chantefleurs et chantefables. Desnos wrote these poems for the children of his friends\, and Lutosławski reflects this in his whimsical\, humour-filled settings of Desnos’ fantastical dreamland. \nPolish soprano Magdalena Lucjan is currently a member of the ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden. A highly accomplished vocalist\, Magdalena is the first prize winnder of the Neue Stimmen Competition in Gütersloh (2024) and Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition in Katowice (2023). From 2022 to 2024 Magdalena was a member of the Opera Academy at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw\, where she worked regularly with Olga Pasiecznik\, Izabela Klosinska and Edith Wiens. In 2025\, she made her debut at the Cologne Philharmonie and Aalto-Musiktheater Essen with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Manfred Honeck in the New Year’s concert Strauss & Puccini. In the 2025/26 season she will make role debuts as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte)\, Frasquita (Carmen)\, Sacerdotessa (Aida) and a Flowermaiden in Parsifal\, among other roles. \nMagdalena is accompanied today by Dearbhla Collins\, one of Ireland’s finest pianists. She is most well known as a song pianist and performs recitals with singers such as Benjamin Appl\, Patricia Bardon and Tara Erraught. She also regularly works with Dame Ann Murray and Brigitte Fassbaender. As well as being vocal coach at the RIAM\, she has recently been appointed Assistant Head of Music at the National Opera Studio\, London. Dearbhla has curated the three song recitals as part of this chamber music series. \nPresented by NCH
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/the-four-seasons-chamber-music-series-to-sleep-perchance-to-dream/
LOCATION:National Concert Hall
CATEGORIES:Classical,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260228T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260228T223000
DTSTAMP:20251014T080543Z
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SUMMARY:Andalucia – Flamenco
DESCRIPTION:The award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company presents its long-awaited 2nd production Andalucia\, a stunning flamenco production accompanied by a chamber orchestra. \nThis extra special concert is a musical representation of the 8 regions that make up the autonomous community of Andalucia in the South of Spain\, the birthplace of flamenco; Cordoba\, Sevilla\, Cadiz\, Malaga\, Jaen\, Granada\, Huelva and Almeria. Each region has their own distinct take on the very many diverse styles that make up flamenco and these will be beautifully presented to the audience through Daniel’s guitar\, and accompanied by an array of flamenco musicians\, singers\, a chamber orchestra ensemble and flamenco dance. \nUnique\, Innovative\, Spellbinding and where the stunning beauty of classical music meets the passion and fire of flamenco. An unmissable flamenco experience! \nDoors 19:00 \nNo food or drink is permitted inside the cathedral
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/andalucia-flamenco/
LOCATION:St. Patrick’s Cathedral
CATEGORIES:Classical,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260226T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260226T223000
DTSTAMP:20260203T114925Z
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SUMMARY:RTÉ CO Presents: Téada at 25
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating 25 years in 2026\, traditional band Téada have reached Irish and international acclaim in their time together\, bringing traditional music to audiences new and old. To mark their quarter-century\, they’re joined for a night by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra with stunning orchestral arrangements. \nSince 2001\, Téada have appeared as a frequent headliner at major music festivals throughout the US\, Canada\, Mexico\, Europe\, Africa\, Russia\, the Middle East and Australia\, cementing their role as a vibrant ambassador for Irish culture worldwide. Their latest release on Gael Linn features John C. Reilly and the late Séamus Begley. Now\, Téada return to the NCH to bring tradition home. \nPerforming beloved reels like Ríl Liadroma / The Green Cockade / The Mourne Mountains\, polkas\, jigs\, and the March at Kilmore\, celebrate 25 years of this vibrant trad group as they join forces with the powerful sound of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. \nPresented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/rte-co-presents-teada-at-25/
LOCATION:National Concert Hall
CATEGORIES:Celtic,Classical,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260220T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260220T213000
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SUMMARY:NSOI: Celine Byrne sings Four Last Songs
DESCRIPTION:National Symphony Orchestra Ireland\nLio Kuokman\, conductor\nCeline Byrne\, soprano \nJennifer Higdon blue cathedral (Irish Premiere)\nRichard Strauss Four Last Songs\nRichard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite\nRavel La valse \nEmotions are high in a compelling concert with National Symphony Orchestra Ireland featuring Celine Byrne in Richard Strauss’s gorgeous and poignant Four Last Songs\, and the Irish premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral\, a moving memorial tribute to her brother\, with the ‘startling conducting talent’ (Philadelphia Enquirer) of Lio Kuokman making a welcome return. \nThe rich\, lustrous voice and ‘fine lyrical quality’ (Opera) of Celine Byrne seems tailor-made for Strauss’s radiant masterpiece\, an intimate reflection on life and gentle anticipation of death. \nJennifer Higdon’s reflection on loss and hope is lit up by luminous\, shimmering music with prominent solos for flute and clarinet and moves from hushed introspection to ecstatic radiance. \nBlending lush Viennese waltzes\, sparkling orchestral colour\, and infectious lyricism\, Strauss’s tune-filled Der Rosenkavalier Suite brims over with autumnal romance\, bittersweet nostalgia\, and comic exuberance in glittering orchestral form. \nA tribute to the Viennese waltz turned sour by the experience of the First World War\, Ravel’s La valse transforms the waltz into a dizzy\, unhinged mirror image of itself to create a wild\, haunting vision of beauty unravelling. \nPre-concert Talk\nKevin Barry Recital Room\, 6.15pm\nProfessor Kathleen Tynan\, RIAM Head of Vocal Studies and Opera\, will share her insights of Strauss’ Four Last Songs. \nPresented by NCH\nSupported by Travel Department
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/nsoi-celine-byrne-sings-four-last-songs/
LOCATION:National Concert Hall
CATEGORIES:Classical,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260219T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260219T223000
DTSTAMP:20260203T114222Z
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SUMMARY:Metronome: Homebeat Present: Holden & Zimpel
DESCRIPTION:James Holden & Warclaw Zimpel  \nHomebeat are delighted to present the wonderful collaboration between groundbreaking UK electronic producer James Holden and Polish clarinettist Warclaw Zimpel as they form Holden & Zimpel: a collaborative alliance wherein these two versatile modern composers might explore their deepest improvisational urges in an intimate setting\, to strikingly lush\, hypnotic and deeply emotive effect. \nTwo like-minded masters of their instrument come together in an in-the-moment lyrical conversation between alto clarinet and modular synth\, cementing the joyful convergence of their disparate musical journeys in an explosion of raw musical creativity in its most primal form. \nLong established in their own respective fields of electronica and jazz\, Holden & Zimpel’s paths would first cross at the 2018 edition of The Hague’s Rewire Festival\, where mutual feelings of respect drove the pair to seek each other out for an introduction. Their first recordings happened later that year in Holden’s London studio\, during four snatched days of between-shows downtime for Waclaw\, where the pair committed to laying down one composition a day to gradually assemble a four track EP of deliciously krauty in-the-moment improvisations. The resulting richly textured Long Weekend EP pitted Holden’s handmade modular synth rig against Zimpel’s multifariously expressive alto clarinet\, judiciously supplemented by organ\, voice\, assorted percussion and (on Tuesday & Wednesday) the Balearic-tinged guitar playing of Zimpel’s long-time collaborator Jakub Ziolek\, making for an immersive and transcendent lost weekend of deep listening. \nWith this initial release emerging on the eve of the pandemic\, the duo’s first scheduled live performances across Europe had to be squeezed in around lockdowns\, where the intimate\, all-enveloping warmth of their electro-acoustic explorations proved to be a good fit for the fully seated socially-distanced concert settings which proliferated as the world began to open back up. And whenever Waclaw found himself with a day off in London the experiments would continue in Holden’s studio\, nudging the pair inevitably towards their next release: the blissful escapism of 2025’s lush “The Universe Will Take Care Of You” album. Embracing a similar playful\, experimental approach to that of their Krautrock forefathers\, the new album sees both virtuosos encouraged and empowered to reach out beyond the instruments with which they made their name. Thus\, Holden supplements his bespoke computer and modular synth systems with his long-neglected childhood violin and his more recently cobbled together collection of hand percussion\, whilst on some songs Zimpel forgoes his alto clarinet altogether in favour of electric piano\, organ\, lap steel guitar\, airless harmonium and the Indian twin pipe algoza flute. \nUltimately it is around a shared love of all things hypnotic and trancey where Holden and Zimpel’s paths converge. Trance is the common thread which runs through their musical predilections\, as heard in traditional folk forms the world over\, twentieth century minimalism\, the Krautrock experiments of the seventies\, electronic dance music and improvised jazz alike\, and their music exists at the point where all of this good stuff collides. You are invited to join them in trance space. \nPresented by NCH
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/metronome-homebeat-present-holden-zimpel/
LOCATION:National Concert Hall
CATEGORIES:Classical,Electronic & Dance,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260219T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260219T223000
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SUMMARY:Kirill Gerstein\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Liszt Three Petrarch Sonnets\nLiszt Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata \nBrahms Scherzo in E-flat minor\nBrahms Piano Sonata No. 3 \nA compelling recital by pianistic giant Kirill Gerstein journeys through some of the Romantic repertoire’s most profound piano works by the very different voices of Liszt and Brahms. \nInspired by the passionate and poetic sonnets of the Italian Renaissance poet\, Liszt’s Three Petrarch Sonnets marries virtuosic technique to expressive lyricism. His monumental Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata is a dramatic and intense reflection on Dante’s Divine Comedy. \nBrahms’s Scherzo in E-flat minor is fiery and rhythmically-charged\, his Piano Sonata No. 3 a masterful\, richly textured showcase of robust romantic style and complexity. \n\n\n\nPre-concert Talk\nKevin Barry Recital Room\, 6.45pm\nRéamonn Keary\, Professor of Piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music\, will explore the evening’s fascinating repertoire of Liszt and Brahms. \nPresented by NCH
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/kirill-gerstein-piano/
LOCATION:National Concert Hall
CATEGORIES:Classical,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260215T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260215T223000
DTSTAMP:20260128T120509Z
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SUMMARY:Jozef Van Wissem
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times describes Jozef van Wissem as “both an avant-garde composer and a baroque lutenist\, and thus no stranger to dichotomy.” With his striking all-black baroque lute\, van Wissem has spent years reshaping the perception of the instrument\, pushing it beyond classical boundaries into hypnotic\, cinematic sound worlds that are both minimal and immersive. His performances have been called meditative\, otherworldly\, and darkly transcendent\, often unfolding like rituals that balance silence and intensity. \n  \nVan Wissem is perhaps best known for his award-winning collaborations with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch\, including the Cannes Soundtrack Award–winning score for Only Lovers Left Alive. He has worked with artists such as Tilda Swinton and Zola Jesus\, composed for HBO’s Irma Vep\, and toured extensively across the globe\, performing everywhere from underground clubs and rock festivals to churches and art-house cinemas. In recent years\, his live scores for silent horror classics like Nosferatu (1922) and The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) have earned critical acclaim\, praised for their ability to evolve from delicate lute passages to walls of sound that evoke gothic atmospheres\, drone\, and even death metal. \n  \n2026 marks an important new chapter in van Wissem’s career\, with the release of a new solo record and a world tour that will introduce audiences to his latest work. The Dublin concert will feature brand new compositions\, including cinematic slide lute pieces that conjure contemporary desolate landscapes\, layered with subtle electronics and spectral drones. Audiences will also get a glimpse of his upcoming live score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)\, which he will premiere later in the year. \n  \nVan Wissem’s concerts are not just musical events but immersive experiences hypnotic journeys that blur the lines between ancient and modern\, the sacred and the profane. His music is steeped in myth\, faith\, and meditative repetition\, yet unafraid to embrace distortion\, drones\, and raw power. The Chicago Reader recently noted of his 2024 album The Night Dwells in the Day that he “bolsters the lute’s delicate progress…using sequenced beats\, subliminal electronic drones\, and stern intonations\,” pointing to the continually evolving nature of his sound.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/jozef-van-wissem-2/
LOCATION:The Grand Social\, 35 Liffey St. Lower\, Dublin 1\, D01 C3N0
CATEGORIES:Classical,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260215T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260215T223000
DTSTAMP:20250922T103023Z
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SUMMARY:Jozef Van Wissem
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times describes Jozef van Wissem as “both an avant-garde composer and a baroque lutenist\, and thus no stranger to dichotomy.” With his striking all-black baroque lute\, van Wissem has spent years reshaping the perception of the instrument\, pushing it beyond classical boundaries into hypnotic\, cinematic sound worlds that are both minimal and immersive. His performances have been called meditative\, otherworldly\, and darkly transcendent\, often unfolding like rituals that balance silence and intensity. \n  \nVan Wissem is perhaps best known for his award-winning collaborations with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch\, including the Cannes Soundtrack Award–winning score for Only Lovers Left Alive. He has worked with artists such as Tilda Swinton and Zola Jesus\, composed for HBO’s Irma Vep\, and toured extensively across the globe\, performing everywhere from underground clubs and rock festivals to churches and art-house cinemas. In recent years\, his live scores for silent horror classics like Nosferatu (1922) and The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) have earned critical acclaim\, praised for their ability to evolve from delicate lute passages to walls of sound that evoke gothic atmospheres\, drone\, and even death metal.
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/jozef-van-wissem/
LOCATION:The Grand Social\, 35 Liffey St. Lower\, Dublin 1\, D01 C3N0
CATEGORIES:Alternative,Classical,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260214T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260214T223000
DTSTAMP:20260203T112021Z
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SUMMARY:RTÉ CO Presents: Love\, Loss and Lipstick: A Valentine’s Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Guy Barker\, conductor\nJoe Stilgoe and Noami Banks\, vocalists \nCelebrate Valentine’s Day with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra under conductor Guy Barker\, plus special guest vocalists Joe Stilgoe (New Year’s Eve with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra) and Noami Banks (Summer Lunchtime Celebrating Female Composers). Join us for an exploration of love in all its forms\, from romance to heartbreak\, and debauchery to divorce. \nExpect a lineup of show-stopping love-themed tunes\, like Cole Porter’s Love for Sale\, Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me to the End of Love\, Tom Waits’ Temptation\, and Maybe This Time from Cabaret. \nYou’re Just in Love – join us for a special Valentine’s night celebrating love\, with all of its complications and complexities. \n\n\n\nPresented by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
URL:https://www.dublintown.ie/event/rte-co-presents-love-loss-and-lipstick-a-valentines-cabaret/
LOCATION:National Concert Hall
CATEGORIES:Classical,Music,Opera
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