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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.

As an antidote to all the hustle and bustle, Music for Galway has organised vocal ensemble Collegium directed by Mark Duley to perform Heinrich Schütz’ setting of the St Matthew Passion.

Good Friday is always a day that feels different, and on April 3, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church offers Galwegians in the city centre an opportunity for choral reflection at 5pm.

National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, led by the acclaimed Irish conductor David Brophy, now chief conductor with WDR Funkhausorchester, Cologne, returns to Galway with extraordinary uilliean piper Mark Redmond joining as soloist for Shaun Davey's epic The Brendan Voyage.

In association with Music for Galway, Ireland’s largest professional orchestra will perform Shaun Davey’s epic The Brendan Voyage, and Dvo?ák’s monumental ‘New World’ Symphony - one of the great symphonic showpieces.

A truly stellar line-up of musicians from Wigmore Hall, the home of London’s chamber music, will visit Galway city in March.

Hailed as “ground-breaking and dynamic”, the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble’s Peaceline Prespectives: Voices from a Divided City form an intriguing element of Music for Galway’s current concert season Breath.

Influenced by the so-called 'Peaceline' which divides Loyalist and nationalist Belfast, The Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble will play a unique concert programme at Galway Community College on Saturday, February 28, at 3.00pm.

Leading Irish musicians, tenor Gavan Ring and pianist Fiachra Garvey, will perform Ballads of a Bogman in St Joseph’s Church, Presentation Road, on Wednesday, February 11, at 7.30pm.