Bantry’s renowned West Cork Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary with yet another stellar line-up of world-class musicians circling around a core of string quartets. In 1996, the first Festival presented thirteen concerts over a week and thirty years later, in 2025 this has grown to ten days and almost sixty concerts in Bantry House, St Brendan’s Church and venues throughout Bantry. Five international quartets are at the heart of the programme –Doric Quartet from UK; Ardeo Quartet with musicians from Japan, France and South Korea; Tchalik Quartet from Ukraine; Marmen Quartet consisting of Swedish, Swiss, Irish and New Zealand-born musicians; and Chiaroscuro Quartet which is made up of musicians from Russia, Spain and France. Their collective repertoire will include much-loved works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms as well as a wide selection of less familiar works.