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Galway Early Music Festival 2026

Fri, 22 May

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Galway City

Celebrating 30 years of early music in Galway, this year’s festival focuses on public engagement through performing platforms for local and internationally-acclaimed choirs and ensembles.

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Galway Early Music Festival 2026
Galway Early Music Festival 2026

Time & Location

22 May 2026, 18:00 – 24 May 2026, 21:00

Galway City, St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, Lombard St, Galway, H91 PY20, Ireland

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As part of an array of national and international artists for GEMF’s 30th festival, Resurgam is teaming up with the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble (ECSE) and Galway’s new baroque instrumental ensemble Vespera.

 

ECSE will also share the stage with Galway’s St. Patrick’s Brass Band, and Vespera will perform its own programme in the festival. A Tenebrae series in the candlelit church will feature Resurgam tenors Christopher Bowen and Edward Woodhouse, together with Malcolm Proud, organ, Norah O'Leary, cello and Kristiina Watt, theorbo, performing Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres in Tenebrae I; and harpsichordists Yonit Kosovske and Rachel Factor performing Bach’s masterpiece The Art of Fugue in Tenebrae II.

 

Resurgam will be joined by ECSE, Claire Duff and Bogdan Sofei, violin, Norah O'Leary, cello, Kristiina Watt, theorbo, Sarah Groser, bass viol and Malcolm Proud, organ in the opening concert A Measure of Time. Vox Orbis, an all-female voice choral ensemble based in Galway city, and festival favourites…



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