ChamberFest DUBLIN is one of the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s flagship events. This ambitious and student-led festival offers audiences morning, lunchtime, and evening opportunities to experience the RIAM’s third level students performing an exhilarating mix of chamber music concerts.

The 2022 Festival features 36 chamber music groups in 12 live concerts of works by Beethoven, Haydn, Shostakovich, Dvorak, Debussy, Mozart and more, alongside contemporary works by Irish composers Amanda Feery and Jonathan Nangle and lesser-heard works by Amy Beach, Mel Bonis, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Jan Dismas Zelenka. The programme explores themes of interculturality, a journey through Baroque Europe, and celebrates collaboration through 'side-by-side' performances with RIAM Faculty and the first performance under our new strategic partnership with Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris under the Ireland-France Joint Plan of Action signed in August 2021 during the visit of President Macron to Ireland.

Audiences are invited on a Journey Through Baroque Europe featuring a wide variety of 17th and 18th century repertoire performed on a range of modern and Baroque instruments.

PROGRAMME
England 
Byrd: The Earle of Oxford's Marche from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Erick Castillo, trumpet; Aoife Garry, trumpet; Grace Taite, trumpet; Jack O'Reilly, trumpet

Germany 
Fasch: Quattro Sonata in B-flat Major, FaWV N:B1 
Leila Clarke-Carr, baroque violin; Dáire Ní Chonaill, recorder; Laoise Mc Mullen, harpsichord; Ziming Dong, oboe

Italy  
Castello: Sonata Terza A Due, Soprani
Uccellini: Aria Sopra La Bergamesca No. 24, Op. 3
Leila Clarke-Carr, baroque violin; Erin Hennessey, baroque violin; David Adams, harpsichord (Faculty) 

France 
Telemann: Quartet in G Major, No. 1, “Paris”, TWV 43:G1 
Kevin Meehan, baroque violin; Michael Noonan, traverso flute; Peadar Ó Loinsigh, baroque cello; David Adams, harpsichord (faculty) 

Spain 
Telemann: Selections from Burlesque de Quixotte in G Major, TWV 55:G10
Kevin Meehan, violin; Elizabeth Ní Mhaoláin, violin; Colla McParland, violin; Xinyi Hu, violin; Katie Ní Mhaoláin, viola; Sophie Ní Mhaoláin, cello; Katie Mercer, harpsichord