Applications Open for ConCorda Chamber Music Course for Strings 2023

ConCorda Chamber Music Course for Strings 2023 will take place from Sunday, 30 July until Monday, 7 August 2023 in Newtown School, Waterford. Learn more here.

Applications are now open online! Apply here.

Closing date for applications is Friday, 19 May 2023.

ConCorda is open to string players aged 14 – 24 of grade 5 or equivalent playing standard and above.

ConCorda is an exciting international chamber music course for young string musicians supported by the Irish Association of Youth Orchestras, the Irish Chamber Orchestra and The Arts Council. Founded by the late Hugh and Tricia Maguire, ConCorda is now in its 27th year and provides a rare platform for students from fourteen years upwards to discover and explore all aspects of string chamber music in a non-competitive and inspiring environment.

The course, hosted this year in Newtown School in Waterford, offers an inspiring and transforming musical experience in chamber music, string orchestra and music improvisation. Participants study chamber music intensively at a high level with a staff of Irish and international tutors.

As well as members of the prestigious Irish Chamber Orchestra, tutors have included renowned violinist, Marc Danel, the award-winning French quartet Quatuor Varese and Oscar Valsecchi, an actor and mime artist, who is in much demand across Europe’s most exciting theatre companies.