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Music for Galway is striking a fresh and engaging chord this spring with the Cellissimo Playathon, a fundraiser that blends community spirit with musical ambition. Taking place on Sunday, May 17th at 4pm in the welcoming surroundings of the The Ardilaun Hotel, the event promises an afternoon that is as entertaining as it is meaningful.

Concert pianist and artistic director of Music for Galway Finghin Collins will offer his own flourishing finish to the city’s 44th International Concert Season at St. Joseph’s Church next Wednesday, April 29, at 7.30pm.

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Galway’s winter cultural calendar is set for a major highlight this January as Music for Galway announces details of its much-anticipated Midwinter Festival 2026, titled The Quartet Extends. Running from Friday, January 23, until Sunday, January 25, at the Town Hall Theatre, the festival promises a rich celebration of chamber music, creativity and collaboration, and, in the words of its organisers, “total indulgence”.

The power of the human voice will be the core of Music for Galway’s 44th international concert season, titled Breathe, to begin next month.

The Swiss piano maestro François-Xavier Poizat will perform and discuss the works of Maurice Ravel next week as part of Music for Galway’s celebration of France’s greatest modern composer.

Following Music for Galway’s survey of the works of Gabriel Fauré in January 2024, another French composer comes under the spotlight at the 22nd Midwinter Festival from 17 th to 19th January 2025, this time the exquisitely inventive Maurice Ravel. Born 150 years ago to a Swiss engineer father and a Basque mother, Ravel was internationally regarded as France’s greatest living composer in the 1920s and 1930s.

For the centenary of the death of Dublin composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Music for Galway’s artistic director and pianist Finghin Collins has arranged a celebration.