Limerick Early Music Festival

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Description

5th annual festival co-founded & co-directed by Yonit Kosovske

LEMF 2025 events:

Contested (Hi)Stories in Media and Creative Art (Dance Limerick):
Dr Sabine Egger and Ukrainin musicians Vsevelod Sadovyj, Snezhana Rybalska, featuring a symposium, music performance, and film screening of Oksana Karpovych’s 'Intercepted' in partnership with the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies @ Mary Immaculate College

Opening weekend choral and chamber concert (St Mary's Cathedral): Consolation & Confidence, co-directed by Peter Barley and Cecilia Madden, with local choirs, festival chamber orchestra, renowned vocal soloists, and the winner of the 1st Emerging Artist Award, and welcoming special guest, the Mayor of Limerick John Moran

Music & Puppetry in the Milk Market

Renaissance Puppetry Workshop with Rose Minnema (Belltable)

Baroque N'Roll, Interactive Family Concert, Classicalkids.ie (Belltable)

Afternoon interactive presentation, Sounds, Spaces, Stories, Dr Eoin Callery (Belltable)

Preconcert talk, The Igor Tale (Belltable): Geopoetics vs Geopolitics, with Dr Sabine Egger, Belltable

Concert (Belltable): The Tale of Igor, Vlad Smishkewych, Vsevelod Sadovyj, Snezhana Rybalska

Concert (Belltable): Still, She Rises!, curated and directed by Yonit Kosovske, featuring new music, female composers, period instruments, and the world premiere BAILE by Xenia Pestova Bennett, commissioned by Y. Kosovske

Panel (Belltable): Contemporary Storytelling and Social Justice through Music, featuring Yonit Kosovske, Xenia Pestova Bennett, Ada Witczyk, and Brooke Green

Concert finale (St John's Cathedral): Carlos Núñez and Friends, Magic Places: Celtic Stories of the Cantigas
Period18 Mar 202523 Mar 2025
Event typeOther
LocationLimerick, IrelandShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational