The string quartet is no stranger to Galway audiences, in no small part thanks to the tireless work of the ConTempo Quartet. With its 23rd Midwinter Festival running at the Town Hall Theatre from 23rd to 25th of January, Music for Galway seeks to celebrate the versatility of the string quartet and to ‘extend it’ by pairing it up with a variety of different musicians to perform quartets, quintets, sextets and even an octet to finish. A celebration of the great musicians Ireland has to offer, the festival presents a clarinettist, a soprano, a pianist, an uilleann piper and two string quartets. MfG also invites its young Cellissimo Ambassador, Spanish cellist Margarita Guerrero Martínez, to participate in one of the concerts.