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Festival Programme
June 07 – 12
2023
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Welcome Introduction
Wednesday, June 7th, 7.30 pm – Townhall, 1WML, Windmill QTR €20/€15 SECURE YOUR SEATS AT IRELAND’S LONGEST-RUNNING
Marie Carroll / Thérèse Fahy / Ruth McGinley / Veronica McSwiney / Early Bird Ticket CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Fionnuala Moynihan €12
It is with great pleasure that we present the 2023 Dublin International Chamber Music Festival.
The Festival will run from June 7th to 12th featuring Irish and international artists.
Thursday, June 8th, 7.30 pm – Townhall, 1WML, Windmill QTR €20/€15
Early Bird Ticket Due to the intimate nature of our venues, seating is limited and tickets sell out quickly.
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective €12 Early booking is recommended.
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On this occasion, each pianist presents a work Hailed for its “exhilarating performances” (The
by a female composer, alongside an array of Times), Kaleidoscope’s flexible roster features
music from the traditional, pop and classical many of today’s most inspirational and passionate
worlds nominated by an impressive roster of musicians from around the world. Its creative
inspirational Irish women. programming is marked by an ardent commitment
to celebrating diversity of all forms and a desire to
A special opening night concert giving unearth lesser-known gems of the repertoire.
audiences an insight into the power of
connections people make with music. Acknowledged for their ability to inspire and bring
happiness to audiences of all generations, these
trailblazing artists look forward to sharing a
Presented in partnership with sparkling programme of works by Mozart, Dvořák,
The Windmill Quarter Wallen and Fanny Mendelssohn with DICMF
Supported by Dublin City Council audiences this June.
Dublin International Chamber Music Festival is South African cellist Abel Selaocoe is a rapidly
proud to collaborate with composer Ian Wilson rising star who is redefining the parameters of
and Triskel Arts Centre, Cork in the presentation the cello. He moves seamlessly across a
of ‘Voces amissae’ (Lost Voices), featuring Dutch plethora of genres and styles and combines
singer Nora Fischer and the Ficino Ensemble. virtuosic performance with improvisation,
singing and body percussion.
This significant and moving new chamber work,
which receives its world première in the elegant Selaocoe is devoted to composing works and
setting of Dublin Castle’s Castle Hall, explores curating programmes that highlight the links
different ways in which people have lost their between Western and non-Western musical
voices, whether for medical, social, political or traditions, broadening the horizons of classical
other reasons. music to reach a more diverse audience. In
2023 he received the RPS Instrumentalist Award
‘Voces amissae’ was created with funds from an for his performances and collaborations which
Arts Council Music Project Award, with support "blaze with creation, sending audiences home
from DICMF and Triskel Arts Centre. on a high".
Presented in partnership with the DICMF is exceptionally proud to welcome this
Office of Public Works extraordinary artist and the vibrant musicians of
and in association with Dublin Castle Bantu Ensemble for their Festival début at
Dublin Castle’s Printworks. Heart-warming
music from Selaocoe’s first recording ‘Where is
Home’ (‘Hae Ke Kae’), which explores the African
traditions and Western Baroque music that
have shaped him, are on the exciting music
menu.
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Killruddery Killruddery
Since winning the piano final of the BBC Young Composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his evocative
Musician competition, Ruth has gone on to Quartet for the End of Time while a prisoner-of-
enjoy a wide-ranging career, collaborating with war at the Stalag VIIIA camp in Gorlitz,
some of the most acclaimed musicians working Germany. This seminal work, first performed on
today from the worlds of classical, jazz, folk, a brutally cold January night in 1941 in the camp
electronic and film music. by Messiaen and other internees, will be
performed by an ensemble of exceptional
The Festival is delighted to present this highly musicians from home and abroad in the site-
engaging and distinctive artist to perform music specific setting of Kilmainham Gaol’s East Wing.
from Aura, her latest solo piano release. A
stunning classical re-imagining of traditional Taking their inspiration from the Gaol’s rich
Irish airs by Belfast composer and musician, history and iconic surroundings, four new
Neil Martin. works, commissioned by DICMF with funds
from The Arts Council, will be performed
Presented in partnership with the alongside Messiaen’s master oeuvre.
Office of Public Works
and in association with Castletown House Presented in partnership with the
Office of Public Works
and Kilmainham Gaol Museum
Quatuor Ébène
Richard Dubugnon: Secular Suite for String
Quartet in B-flat major
(based on works by JS Bach)
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
Robert Schumann: String Quartet in A Minor,
Op 41 No 1
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Townhall, 1WML, Windmill QTR www.windmillqtr.com | +353 1 548 6956 The Dublin International Chamber Music Festival (Great Music in Irish Houses)
The Windmill Quarter is a vibrant business and cultural district in Dublin’s Docklands, inspired by a rich connection gratefully acknowledges the assistance and patronage of many benefactors,
to creativity and the arts, based at the very heart of one of Dublin’s most accessible locations. 1WML, where our donors and individuals without whom the Festival could not maintain its eminent position
concerts take place, is the flagship building within The Windmill Quarter. in Irish musical life
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