Quiet Music Festival
The Quiet Music Festival is a new festival of experimental music running from 29 June to 6 July in Cork. Hosted by the newly-founded Quiet Music Ensemble, the festival will include American composer Pauline Oliveros’ 14th Annual Deep Listening Retreat, as well as performances at the Triskel Arts Centre and Glucksman Gallery. Visit www.quietmusicensemble.com

Galway Early Music
The Galway Early Music Festival takes place on 16-18 May, featuring seventeenth-century scottish harp music, Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame, bronze-age horns from Irish paleomusicologist Simon O’Dwyer, and much more. Visit www.galwayearlymusic.com

International Rostrum of Composers
The UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers will take place in Dublin on 9–13 June. The event was founded in 1954 by four European radio organisations ‘for the purpose of exchanging and broadcasting contemporary art music’ and is hosted by RTÉ lyric fm this year. Visit www.unesco.org/imc/

Pipeworks
Pipeworks, the Irish organisation promoting organ music, will present its triennial festival in Dublin on 20–29 June. An international organ competition forms part of the festival, as well as performances and masterclasses by David Higgs, Daniel Roth and others. The festival will also feature the performance of Olivier Messiaen’s complete organ works. Visit www.pipeworksfestival.com

Willie Clancy Summer School Double CD
RTÉ Raidio na Gaeltachta have released the first ever CD of Willie Clancy Summer School recordings, Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy – Ceol agus Foinn, a 50 track double-album with recordings dating to 1978. The thirty-sixth Willie Clancy Summer School will take place in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare on 5–13 July. Visit www.setdancingnews.net/wcss/

West Cork Chamber Music Festival
From 28 June to 6 July, Bantry will be witness to over twenty concerts as part of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. The festival will include performances by the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Leopold String Trio, Badke Quartet, Rosamunde Quartet, Elisabeth Cooney, Ioana Petcu-Colan, Katherine Hunka and many others. A violin and bow making exhibition will also run for the duration of the festival at Bantry House. Visit www.westcorkmusic.ie

New Marketing Director
Gert Ackermann has been appointed Marketing Director of JMI. Gert, from Mpumalanga in South Africa, was formerly publicist with Maverick House Publishers and worked on the recent Dublin Book Festival. A journalist by training, he cut his teeth in the world of radio before entering publishing. Email gert [at] thejmi.com

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