Free concert at Galway City Library

The Galway Ensemble in Residence, ConTempo Quartet open their new series of concert dates at the Galway City Library next Tuesday, September 2, at 1.10pm with a programme featuring classical and contemporary music.

Over the next 10 months, these popular lunchtime concerts will feature 10 quartets by the master of string quartet-writing, Austrian composer Joseph Haydn.  The series will also present some wonderful new quartets written over the past 50 years by composers from around the world.

Scores by Irish composers Kevin Volans and Martin O’Leary will feature alongside works by Astor Piazzolla (Argentina), Michael Nyman (England), James MacMillan

(Scotland), Terry Riley (USA) and others.

The opening event next Tuesday will feature ConTempo performing Haydn’s Op. 76 no. 1 in G major from the Erdödy Quartets and Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector. Each concert will with a brief discussion of the pieces.  All events are free, starting with next Tuesday’s concert.