With plans being drawn up for a dedicated cello festival in 2024, organisers are presenting ‘A Taste of Cellisimo’ event with world-renowned siblings Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason, tomorrow Friday, November 18.
Cellist Sheku shot to global fame after performing to two billion people tuned in to the royal wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Mountbatten-Windsor at Windsor Castle in 2018. He plays alongside his accomplished pianist sister Isata, in the Galmont Hotel’s Inish Mór Ballroom at 7.30pm.
“It is a great to coup for us”, says Music for Galway’s artistic director Finghin Collins “What a great way of giving people a little taste of what is to come during our Cellissimo 2024 cello festival in May. It will be a nine-day dynamic, inclusive, accessible celebration of superb music. Cellissimo will appeal to classical aficionados and first timers alike.”
The evening opens with the late romantic and passionate cello sonata in D minor by Frank Bridge. It continues with Chopin’s searching and melancholy piano and cello sonata in G minor, one of the very few he wrote for this combination. Rachmaninov’s powerful cello sonata in G minor, with its suspenseful, restless and driving middle movement will bring the evening to a climactic end.
Tickets €15, €30 or premium €45 from www.musicforgalway.ie or phone 091-705962.
