Ireland’s most exciting celebration of chamber music takes place in Bantry with a programme of fifty concerts featuring eighty musicians over ten days and nights. International quartets are joined by a stellar line-up of world-class musicians.
The line-up includes the winner of the 2024 Leonard Bernstein Award, cellist Anastasia Kobekina; violinists Fanny Clamagirand and Esther Hoppe; pianists Roustem Saitkulov, Anna Fedorova, Boris Giltburg and Julius Drake; violist Dana Zemtsov; Signum, Sonoro, Dudok and Nightingale Quartets; and Baroque ensemble Camerata Øresund.
World premieres of new works are programmed alongside much-loved repertoire in concerts from morning to late night in Bantry House, St Brendan's Church and other venues throughout Bantry.
Free family-friendly Fringe concerts bring the music to the wider West Cork region. Festival masterclasses run daily throughout the town and Ireland’s only instrument exhibition is held in the Old Methodist Church.
