Esker Festival Orchestra’s 10th anniversary celebration concert will feature a performance of Gustav Mahler’s legendary Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ on Saturday, 19th August in the majestic Galway Cathedral at 8pm.

Esker Festival Orchestra is one of Europe’s most exciting orchestras for emerging young professional and pre-professional musicians, was set up in 2014 to provide a high quality, beneficial and meaningful musical opportunity for young emerging musicians from all across Ireland and for the first time to have an orchestra of this quality and scope based in Galway. The orchestra was set up to fill the musical and social void that currently exists in Ireland by allowing young musicians from across the country to perform together, socialise together and to build relationships that will be essential during their personal and professional lives, to promote and develop orchestral music in Ireland by nurturing the talents of its emerging musicians and crucially to provide all of this with as little financial burden as possible on the musicians themselves.
Finally, it is unique in that it is entirely led and run by its members for its members, allowing those taking part to gather invaluable first-hand experience in the world of orchestral music. The Esker Festival Orchestra now also welcomes international members each year, allowing musicians from across the world to come to Ireland, perform together and to meet and learn from their international colleagues and peers, further developing the impact and reputation of orchestral music in Ireland and abroad.

Tickets for the Galway concert are available on the door or online.

Featuring;
Peter Joyce, conductor
Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada, soprano
Madeline Judge, mezzo-soprano
& Esker Festival Choir

Photo by Tara Thomas