Opening Flourish!
Join us as we open our 2025/26 season with a thrilling afternoon of Chamber Music featuring The Fews Ensemble with special guests violinist Katherine Hunka, violist Joel Hunter and cellist Martin Johnson. The programme showcases two masterworks of the string repertoire with Brahms' warm and expansive Sextet in B flat Major and Tchaikovsky's fiery and flamboyant Souvenir de Florence. We are so looking forward to seeing you at what promises to be an unforgettable start to a new season of exceptional music making.
The Fews Ensemble: Lunchtime Concert 2
In their second concert as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival's lunchtime concert series, The Fews Ensemble's programme spans the last hundred years, featuring work by Shostakovich and Joan Trimble, one of the most distinguished Ulster musicians of the 20th century.
Dmitri Shostakovich - Trio No. 2 in E minor
Joan Trimble - Phantasy Trio
The Fews Ensemble presents: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
The first of two concerts at this years Kilkenny Arts Festival, The Fews Ensemble are delighted to perform Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, following sellout performances earlier this year in Dublin and Belfast.
Written while Messiaen was a prisoner of war in Germany, and first performed by his fellow prisoners, this visionary piece is now considered one of his most important works.
The Juliet Letters with Duke Special and the Fews Ensemble
Duke Special and The Fews Ensemble perform ‘The Juliet Letters’, originally written by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. The songs filled with soaring melodies and dark drama explore the human condition through letters addressed to Juliet Capulet of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ fame in a cycle blending voice and string quartet. Duke Special, renowned for his unique, soulful sound and theatrical flair, brings a fresh intensity to this captivating work.
