NEW ROSS PIANO FESTIVAL
September 23rd - 26th, 2010
 
2009 Reviews

Dick O’Riordan, Sunday Business Post:
St. Mary’s Church sits on a steep hill looking over the grey rooftops and winding streets of New Ross and beyond to the wide Barrow river. It was from here that John F Kennedy’s forebears departed for the New World. The church has atmospheric charm, but a passer-by would be hard pressed to identify it as the venue for the finest piano festival in Ireland...read more

 

Pat O’Kelly, Irish Independent:
Now in its fourth season, the four-day New Ross Piano Festival, with Finghin Collins as Artistic Director, displays innovative planning both in content and artistic flexibility...read more

Jeremy Hill, Wexford Echo:
When they buried General John Moore, one time captor of Wexford in 1798, at Corunna in 1809 there was only silence... ‘not a drum was heard, not a funeral note’... and in St. Mary’s Church, New Ross last Friday not a cough was heard, not a snuffled-up sneeze, as Finghin Collins opened this year’s piano festival with Bach’s Partita No.2...read more

The fourth New Ross Piano Festival took place over the weekend of September 24th to 27th, celebrating the enormous diversity of the piano, with five prize-winning pianists from Ireland, Finland, Korea, Italy and the UK.

New Ross Piano Festival concerts take place in the 12th Century St Mary’s Church in New Ross, Co. Wexford.

 

Click the image to download the 2009 Programme.

Go to Visitor Info for details on travel and accommodation.

 

You can also email info@newrosspianofestival.com for any further information.