Join us for our series Lunchtime with ConTempo!

This month, the programme includes music from siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel. The performance takes place at 1:10pm on Tuesday 14 March at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Lombard St, Galway. ConTempo Quartet will perform Mendelssohn's "String Quartet No 1, Op. 12 in E flat major" (1830) and Hensel's "String Quartet in E flat major" (1834).

Entry to this concert is free, all are welcome. Donations gratefully accepted. Booking recommended.

Contempo Quartet is the resident ensemble of Galway Music Residency and was RTE’s Resident Quartet from 2014 until 2019. Praised as a “fabulous foursome” (Irish Independent) and noted for performances which are “exceptional” (The Strad) and “full of imaginative daring” (The Irish Times), ConTempo Quartet has forged a unique place in Irish musical life.