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  • Kevin O'Connell

    Belfast Music Society Festival

    Philip Hammond takes in two concerts at the Great Hall at Queen's University, featuring new work by Derry composer Kevin O'Connell and a performance by Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov
  • Inon Barnatan

    Music From The Heart

    Domingo Hindoyan stands in to conduct pianist Inon Barnatan at the Ulster Hall
  • Rafael Payare

    Ulster Orchestra

    Philip Hammond enjoys the youthful energy of principal conductor Rafael Payare 

  • Trio Rafale

    Swiss three-piece conjure the spirit of their classical forebears in a buoyant performance at Queen's

  • Portaferry Proms

    Portaferry Presbyterian Church resonates to the elegant sounds of the Endellion String Quartet

  • One City One Book

    Composer Philip Hammond struggles to relate as Glenn Patterson spins vinyl from the Good Vibrations soundtrack

  • Nikolai Demidenko

    Philip Hammond admires the Russian pianist's individual take on works by Chopin and Rakhmaninov at the Ulster Hall

  • The Bear

    NI Opera adapt William Walton's saucy one-act story under the baton of Nicholas Chambers

  • Stephen Hough

    The 'seemingly inexhaustible' pianist has Philip Hammond on the edge of his pew at Rosemary Street First Presbyterian Church

  • Ulster Orchestra Recital

    Belfast-born conductor Courtney Lewis conducts a fine group of soloists

  • Puccini

    English Touring Opera tackle two of the Italian composer's shorter works

  • Belfast Philharmonic Society

    Christopher Bell, outgoing artistic director, signs off in style and leaves a lasting legacy

  • Chopin's Mazurkas

    Despite an energetic and poetic performance, the Mazurka marathon reveals limitations

  • Badke Quartet

    The award-winning players are impressive, despite some bad tuning

  • Postcards From Dumbworld

    In typically unconventional fashion, composer Brian Irvine continues to confound with his latest opera

  • Liebeck & Forsberg

    Restraint and extravagance meet in this performance for the young at heart

  • Jan Krzysztof Broja

    Chopin's salon junkies would have been impressed

  • Ulster Youth Choir

    Volatile acoustics trump the hard seats at St Anne's Cathedral

  • ConTempo Quartet

    Good extroverted musical style, shame about the 'buzz'

  • Phil Kids

    The next generation of choral champions

  • Rain Falling Up

    Philip Hammond straps in against the gravitational pull of Brian Irvine and the Ulster Orchestra

  • Opera Theatre Company

    Philip Hammond makes a reluctant return for the concluding part of OTC's History Of Opera

  • Opera Theatre Company

    A short history of the world of opera isn't short enough for Philip Hammond

  • New Belfast Sinfonia

    Philip Hammond reviews the New Belfast Sinfonia's December concert

  • National Chamber Choir

    Philip Hammond finds little to sing about in the Great Hall at Queen's

  • The Chilingirian String Quartet

    Performing at Portaferry Presbyterian Church, the chamber music stars impress Philip Hammond with music from three classical masters

  • Ulster Orchestra

    Philip Hammond attends a lunchtime recital at the Ulster Hall

  • Polish Passions

    Michal Dworzynski and Tasmin Little storm the stage in an outstanding concert, but do enough people appreciate it?

  • Heaney/Longley

    Philip Hammond is in a minority of one at the Waterfront Hall - or is he?

  • The Mariinsky Orchestra

    Philip Hammond travels back in time to Leningrad, 1942 - but was it worth the effort?

  • Hilliard Ensemble

    Philip Hammond heads south for an exhilarating evening of musicial modernity

  • Belfast Piano Trio

    Composer Philip Hammond comes in from the rain for a transcendant performance in Belfast's Rosemary Street church