The Royal Irish School of Music (RIAM) has announced a festival in organization with renowned London concert corridor Wigmore Hall. The Wigmore Corridor Festival will get space this Sept as the opening event for RIAM’s new chamber music venue, Whyte Recital Hall. The festival will look a ion of Wigmore Hall’s programmed artists for the 2023–2024 season – including Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the Schumann Quartet and Stephen Hough – performing at the new 300-seater venue. In addition to the performances, the artists will give exclusive masterclasses and Q&A sessions for RIAM students. Festival programme The festival will open on fifth Sept with a concert featuring pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss performing Schubert works for piano duo.
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough will carry out a programme of works by Liszt, Mompou, Debussy and Scriabin, along with his own compositions, on twelfth September. On nineteenth September, German-Estonian ensemble the Schumann Quartet will carry out works by Dvořák and Schubert along with Austrian composer Viktor Ullmann’s String Quartet No. three. Ullmann was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz-Birkenau in one thousand nine hundred forty-fourth but composed a no of works in the Czech concentration camp Theresienstadt the year before.
Also performing as portion of the festival is British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who'll carry out with Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes a programme of works by Brazilian composers (twenty-six September), and Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann with pianist Tatiana Korsunskaya performing lieder by Schubert and Strauss and works by Frank Bridge and Dominick Argento (twenty-eight September). Homecoming concerts Complementing the Wigmore Corridor Festival is a series of Homecoming Concerts featuring some of RIAM’s famous alumni. The Homecoming Concerts comprise performances by soprano Ailish Tynan and tenor Robin Tritschler with visiting pianist Iain Burnside (twenty-six April), the piano duo of Finghin Collins and Dearbhla Collins (twenty-five May), and soprano Celine Byrne with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on fifteenth October.
Commenting on the festival and concert announcements, Deborah Kelleher, Director of RIAM, said: RIAM’s newly completed Whyte Recital Corridor promises to be a performance venue of international repute. Audiences will encounter Ireland and the world’s grand artists in acoustically stunning surroundings in the heart of Dublin. With that ambition in mind, I approached John Gilhooly for advice as to how we might create a powerful opening artistic statement. I was overwhelmed by the generosity of his response, which was to connect us to some of the Wigmore Hall’s most exciting artists this year’s season. In the Wigmore Corridor Festival, we proposal audiences an unforget debut season in the Whyte Recital Hall that's beyond my imagining. Gilhooly, Artistic and Executive Director of Wigmore Corridor and RIAM Fellow, said: We’re delighted to cooperate with RIAM in its one hundred seventy-fifth anniversary year, a remarkable milestone, and to bring these grand artists to Dublin to open the pretty new Whyte Recital Hall.
It'll be an outstanding artistic asset for RIAM and, as its first purpose-built chamber sized concert hall, right in the heart of Dublin, a hugely necessary cultural asset for Ireland. The Whyte Recital Hall, named after one of the institution’s major donors, Stephen Whyte, is portion of RIAM’s recent €25 million campus redevelopment, which opened in Feb and also includes seventy-six teaching rooms, a music therapy suite, an opera rehearsal studio and a sonic arts hub.
