Chamber Music Series: Pirosmani Quartet: Tenderness and Turmoil

Chamber Music Series: Pirosmani Quartet: Tenderness and Turmoil takes place at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Sunday 8 November 2026 at 15:00, in the Kevin Barry Recital Room. The quartet is Mairéad Hickey and William Hagen on violin, Natanael Ferreira on viola and Oleksey Shadrin on cello. The programme opens with Schumann's String Quartet in F major Op.41 No.2, written in 1842.

It continues with a new work by Jane O’Leary, a composer based in Galway who is writing a new quartet for the Pirosmani Quartet to present on this tour. Schubert's String Quartet in G major D.887 completes the programme. The O'Leary and Schubert pieces are marked as first performances.

This is the third tour by the Pirosmani Quartet, with Mairéad Hickey joined by colleagues from Brazil, Ukraine and the USA. The concert is presented by NCH in association with the National String Quartet Foundation.