West Cork Chamber Music Festival doubles down for 2021 Artistic director Francis Humphrys is responding to Covid by adding more shows
Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 05:00
It sounds totally counter-intuitive. But the response of Francis Humphrys, artistic director of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, to the ongoing pandemic is to increase the number of concerts for the next festival, which is due to run from Friday, June 25th to Sunday, July 4th.
And Humphrys has completely remodelled the shape of the festival. Traditionally, if you had the stamina, it was possible to attend every single one of the festival’s concerts. This year there will be up to three concerts happening at the same time, and for most of the timeslots in the 12-hour-plus schedule – with starting times from 10am to 10.30pm – there will be a choice of two.
Music at Kohl Mansion (MAKM), one of the Bay Area s leading presenters of international chamber music concerts, today announced five international ensembles that will be presented virtually during the winter/spring 2021 season, MAKM s 38th season. The roster of esteemed artists features the Alexander String Quartet; Scotland s Maxwell Quartet; the Ying Quartet; the MAKM debut of French ensemble Quatuor Danel with clarinet soloist Pascal Moraguès; and the Horszowski Trio.