RTÉ’s ConTempo Quartet, in partnership with Limerick Arts Office, will begin their spring programme of free recitals at Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) on Thursday 28 at 6pm.
This quartet will present three such concerts, with a focus on Schubert (‘Death & the Maiden’) on January 28. Contemporary composer Kevin Volans is subject during the February performance.
The series concludes with a special pre-Easter recital in March of ‘Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross’ by Joseph Haydn, father of the String Quartet.
Director/ curator Úna McCarthy welcomes the award-winning RTÉ ConTempo Quartet to her Pery Square gallery; their previous site in Limerick was at City Library, The Granary for a lunchtime slot.
According to funder Sheila Deegan, Limerick’s Arts and Culture officer: “This concert series with Contempo Quartet is a strategy to work with partners to increase access for citizens to high quality music and to provide opportunities for artists to perform.
“It supports opportunities for cultural participation in the context of the Limerick 2020 European Capital of Culture bid”.
