Galway Early Music Festival 2025
31st May-2nd June 2025
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
SATURDAY, 31 MAY 2025
The Virtuous Company - 11am Coffee Concert, St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
Resurgam will be joined by Galway’s Collegium to perform madrigals and motets by Palestrina and his fellow members of the Vertuosa Compagnia (1584), including Anerio, Soriano, Asola and Croce.
TICKETS: €10, to include coffee & cake. BOOKING: Payable at the door.
The Galeon Ensemble - Saturday afternoon
The Galeon Ensemble will delight people with performances of ethnic music on their unique instruments in the medieval streets around St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church. ​
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The Eternal City - 6pm at St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
Resurgam will be joined by the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble (ECSE) and organist Malcolm Proud to perform Palestrina's music for the three great Roman basilicas of St Peter, St John Lateran and St Mary Major, including sonorous twelve-part motets and the famous Missa Papae Marcelli.
TICKETS: €20 I €15 concession I €5 students and U18.
BOOKING: Details for online bookings to be advised and also payable at the door.
NOTE: As this concert will be recorded for delayed broadcast by RTÉ lyric fm, it is imperative that everyone is seated on time.
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SUNDAY, 1 JUNE 2025
Harmonious Society - 3pm, St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
Dance specialist Felicity Maxwell and the Galeon Ensemble will open up the transforming magic of Italian Renaissance songs and dance to participants of all ages.
TICKETS: €20 per family (up to 2 adults and 2 children) | €10 per participant I €5 per concession, student or U18. BOOKING: Details for online bookings to be advised - early booking for this event is strongly advised as places are limited, so those interested in participating can email info@resurgam.ie pending further details.
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Stylus Phantasticus - 6pm, St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
Music informed by popular dances will be presented alongside examples of the seventeenth century improvisatory ‘stylus phantasticus’ by Caitriona O’Mahony (violin) and James Taylor (keyboard).
TICKETS: €15 I €10 concession I €5 students and U18.
BOOKING: Details for online bookings to be advised and also payable at the door.
NOTE: As this concert will be recorded for delayed broadcast by RTÉ lyric fm, it is imperative that everyone is seated on time.
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MONDAY, 2 JUNE 2025
The Palestrina Circle - 11am Coffee Concert, St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church
Aisling Kenny (soprano), Conor Hastings (cornett) and Malcolm Proud (organ) will perform works by Palestrina’s teachers, contemporaries and pupils, including Lebel, Nanino, Bovicelli, Lassus, Victoria and Monteverdi.
TICKETS: €10, to include coffee & cake.
BOOKING: Payable at the door.
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For details of FESTIVAL SEASON TICKETS, please email info@resurgam.ie.
Press Release, April 2024
Resurgam is thrilled to be the new artistic directors and management of Galway Early Music Festival (GEMF) from 2024, taking over from Maura Ó Cróinín, who steps down after 18 years.
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Mark Duley, director of Resurgam, explains that “in recent years, Resurgam has been privileged to perform regularly at the festival and I have often marvelled at the unerringly imaginative themes and programmes Maura Ó Cróinín has devised. The superb array of artists from all over the globe have hugely enriched Galway and Ireland’s cultural landscape. We greatly look forward to continuing that legacy.”
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Looking back over her years of organising the festival, Maura said, “I have had such a wonderful time being a part of the Galway Early Music Festival since the very first year in 1996. I have worked with amazing international, national and local artists, colleagues, and volunteers. It has been thrilling to see interest in early music performance blossom in Galway and throughout Ireland. I look forward to the next decade of the Galway Early Music Festival under Resurgam!”
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With Resurgam taking up the baton, the company looks forward to ensuring this jewel of a festival continues to shine brightly with its core focus of bringing world-class music to audiences across Galway city and county.
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For further festival information and events, please go to the Galway Early Music website