All set! Thrilled to present at today's @nationalsymphonyorchestrairl New Year's Day Gala @nationalconcerthall- a sparkling programme of Viennese favourites, w/ acclaimed maestro Tom Fetherstonhaugh & radiant Irish diva Ava Dodd. Toi toi toi to all! 🥂✨️🎶🎉

... and a very blingy Christmas from the #FullScore team! Myself & @lindamcglynnoconnor (pictured) & producer Áine Fay (making the magic happen elsewhere) would like to thank you for your company on the complete classical experience- here's to a new year of great maaterworks! @rtelyricfm 🤶🎄🎁

A happy reminder of the most sensational night! Honoured to present at New Dublin Voices 20th anniversary gala Christ Church Cathedral Dublin. Bravi tutti- to my great friend, NDV founding maestra Bernie Sherlock, and to all the choir, you guys set the standard! RTÉ lyric fm (📸 GMU Photography )

Huge thanks to Ruth O'Connor for her @irishexaminer.bsky.social feature on my Saturdays,& the Summer Lunchtime Concert Series. The celebrations continue w/ @rteco.rte.ie ! Tues. 12/08, 1.05pm National Concert Hall, broadcast live RTÉ lyric fm. (📸 Andres Poveda) www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/pe...

Pure magic! Delighted and proud to present at tonight's Limerick Sings Choral Festival Gala Concert, starring vocal ensemble extraordinaire M'Anam & iconic director/composer @michaelmcglynn.bsky.social. Artists and gentlemen! #UCHlLmerick @rte.ie #lyricfm

What a fantastic first day at Bord Bia Bloom. 🌻 Make sure to pop by and say hi to us this June Bank Holiday at #Bloom2025 for more live shows, live music, chat and live RTÉ Weather. See rte.ie/about for details. RTÉ at Bord Bia Bloom 🌷 @lizlyricfm.bsky.social

After a wonderful (if dampish! 🌦) #BordBiaBloom show, heartfelt thanks to the women who make the #FullScore happen- magnificent producer Áine Fay & special guest production co-ordinator Lily Collins. The brains and beating heart of our on-air exploits! Thank you both so much 💃💙💃💙💃💙 @rte.ie lyric fm

Flower power! Myself and @rteco.rte.ie Principal Trumpet Shaun Hooke rocked the floral vibe at today's #FullScore at #BordBiaBloom- his t shirt designed and made by his brilliant daughter. Brava, Alice! 🌼🎉🎶 @rte.ie

Inspiring artistry, and the best of craic 'n' chat! What a pleasure and honour to interview Katherine Hunka, as she embarks on the next stage of her adventures after 25 years with Irish Chamber Orchestra. Filmed conversation 🎥 to be posted soon, ICO channels. Go n-éirí leat, dear Katherine! 🎻💐✨️

Now on sale: Summer Lunchtime with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and MARI SAMUELSEN 🎻 Performing Max Richter, Recomposed - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons & Arvo Pärt, Fratres Tue 29 July, 1.05pm NCH, Dublin Tickets €25 orchestra.rte.ie/events/4933/...

Now on sale: Summer Lunchtime with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Horn Concerto The RTÉ Concert Orchestra are joined by Hannah Miller for Anne Dudley’s Horn Concerto, Concitato, and more cinematic pieces composed by women. 26 Aug, NCH Dublin Tickets only €15 orchestra.rte.ie/events/4941/...

​🇱​​🇮​​🇬​​🇭​​🇹​​🇸​, ​🇨​​🇦​​🇲​​🇪​​🇷​​🇦​, ​🇨​​🇱​​🇦​​🇸​​🇸​​🇮​​🇨​​🇸​! The music of Verdi, Dvořák, Handel, Ponchielli, Puccini, Elgar, Massenet, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Offenbach & Sibelius Sat 31 May - The Helix, Dublin thehelix.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Tomorrow evening!

Can't wait for these- a starry, spectacular summer ahead! @rte.ie lyric fm 💃🎶📻

An opera triumph at Birr Festival of Music! What a happy privilege, to present at a @rteco.rte.ie Opera Gala, conducted by Festival Director Niall Kinsella, and starring diamond🔷️🌼 diva Ava Dodd. Cheers, ovations and triumph under a summer evening sky😎🎉🎶! Bravi tutti, @rte.ie

So many stars! What a thrill, to share a stage with maestro Nicholas Chalmers, star✨️ soprano Ava Dodd, concertmaster Mia Cooper and the fantabulous @rteco.rte.ie for an operatic finale to our Spring Lunchtime Concert season, broadcast live on #FullScore. Bravi tutti! 🎶🎉✨️🌼 @rte.ie lyric fm

Tomorrow, Tues 29 April, join us live on RTÉ lyric fm for our next Summer Lunchtime concert. Conducted by Nic Chalmers and joined by soprano Ava Dodd, enjoy a splendour of Mozart, Puccini, Donizetti and Strauss. Presented by @lizlyricfm.bsky.social on The Full Score. 📷 Ava Dodd, Olivia da Costa

In the company of artists and gentlemen- @rteco.rte.ie Principal Guest Maestro Stephen Bell & international piano master Finghin Collins, following a Romantic and rapturous @rte.ie lyric fm Spring Lunchtime Concert! 🎶🎹🎉

Live NOW on The Full Score, @rte.ie lyric fm 📣 Presented by @lizlyricfm.bsky.social

The concert on yesterday's The Full Score, presented by @lizlyricfm.bsky.social on Lyric FM was magnificent. The Irish Baroque Orchestra playing music by Handel, Telemann and Hasse at the Musica Antiqua Festival in Bruges. www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Excitement's building! Hope to see you @rte.ie Radio Centre this Thursday 17 April, 1.30pm, for latest Spring Lunchtime Concert w/ @rteco.rte.ie dir. Stephen Bell, and Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 starring Finghin Collins ✨️🎹. Last few audience tx going fast! Email [email protected] for yours.

The blissful recital partnership of soprano Ailish Tynan & pianist Fiachra Garvey lights up a West Wicklow Festival #FullScore concert- songs by Schubert, Richard Strauss, Barber, Muriel Herbert & more. So beautiful! Hope you can join us, 1-4pm @rte.ie lyric fm.

HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKET?! for our Spring Lunchtime Concert w/ @rteco.rte.ie,Thursday 17th April, 1.30pm. Live from Studio 1 @rte.ie - Stephen Bell cond. Liszt's Les Préludes, and Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 w/ Finghin Collins. Email [email protected] to be part of a studio audience! #RTÉlyricfm.

Today's #FullScore features a new @hyperionrecords.bsky.social release of works by pianist & polymath Stephen Hough- his Sonatina, Partita & Piano Concerto "The World of Yesterday", w/ The Halle cond. Mark Elder. A multi-faceted soundworld from a master of our time- listen in, 1-4pm @rte.ie lyric fm

What an exciting and enriching occasion, to chat with violinist & composer Henning #Kraggerud on his art, and his lived experience in music! Thank you, Henning, and to Dominik and Irish Chamber Orchestra for the opportunity.

Absolutely thrilled to present at today's UCH LImerick Rising Stars ✨️ Gala! Featuring the artistry of Defne Gultoprak pf., Ben O'Brien cl , David Kennedy bar., Leanne Fitzgerald ms., & Matteo Lo Bracco vln. , joined by Dearbhla Collins pf. Here's to these starry virtuosi! 👏🇮🇪🎶🎉 @rte.ie #bestofirish

Live recording this Sunday in Dublin of RTÉ lyric fm's The Culture File Debate panel on the many meanings of quiet and loud with: poet, Paula Meehan, composer, Siobhán Cleary: Quiet Music Ensemble's John Godfrey; composer/performer, Christine Tobin. Pop along to NCH at 4pm, and stay for the musics!

With the Fab Four! At a UCH Limerick Classical Concert, as Con Tempo Quartet perform a 30th Anniversary 🎂🥳 recital- Mozart "Haydn" Quartet in D minor, Beethoven "Razumovsky" Quartet No.2, & "Pas de Quatre" by Rhona Clarke. A milestone matinée triumph! Recorded for future broadcast, @rte.ie lyric fm.

A garden of sound, in our first #FullScore Summer Lunchtime Concert w/ @rteco.rte.ie 🌼🎶✨️ Superb performances by RDS Music Bursary winners, tubist Adam Buttimer & Ben Gannon, under the baton of maestro Stephen Bell. Listen back via our webpage- @rte.ie lyric fm www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

News: Sofia Gubaidulina dies at age of 93 bachtrack.com/news-sofia-g...

Whoop! Announcing our Spring Season of #FullScore Lunchtime Concerts w/ @rteco.rte.ie - 3 fab performances, 26/03, 17/04 & 29/04, 1.30pm @rte.ie Radio Centre. W/ top soloists Ben Gannon & Adam Buttimer, Finghin Collins pf., & Ava Dodd. Apply for your audience tx! Go to: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

A marvellous matinée gathering! At a packed University Concert Hall #LimerickClassicalConcert, starring soprano Celine Byrne, cello Gerald Peregrine, violin Nicole Hudson & pianist David Munro. A garland of opera, operetta & popular song, recorded for future broadcast, #FullScore @rte.ie lyric fm.

Simply love this interview with the great Erollyn Wallen- what an inspiration. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

We're hiring! Principal Violin I, RTÉ Concert Orchestra Applications close Monday 7 April 📷 Image from our Feb 26 concert, A Night at the Oscars, credit Andres Poveda

Fabulous musical talent! 🎶🤩💯 A real pleasure to present at the #ddletb Festival of Music #NationalConcertHall- with top performances by students across classical, rock, trad, and more. Meet the superb Festival Quartet- Mark Rijal, Sam Monadero, Adam Joyce & Róisín Ní Dhúbhghaill!

Incoming: New standard by which to measure infamy.

A celebration of St. Agnes Orchestra Crumlin Late Starters Orchestra & Friends 15th Anniversary Concert, @thehelix- attended by @presidenti l & Mrs Sabina Higgins! My honour to present, @rte.ie lyricfm

A thrilling conclusion to #CelebratingtheVoice at National Concert Hall ! With a National,Symphony Orchestra Opera Gala, cond. Anu #Tali, featuring CtV participants & director Tara #Erraught 👸. A superb showcase of artistry, bravi tutti! 🎉🎶✨️👏 @rte.ie lyric fm

A rare privilege, to meet an opera titan! I was thrilled to moderate at tonight's #CelebratingtheVoice Keynote Conversation, w/ Alexander Neef, Director General of Opéra de Paris, & CdV director Tara Erraught. A fantastic survey of the industry in all its aspects. @rte.ie lyric fm

One of the most inspirational & generous individuals in the business- a privilege to present Dr. Paul E Kwak, in his talk at #CelebratingtheVoice, National Concert Hall. A revelatory & relatable lecture, full of practical tips for singers and laypeople alike- thank you Paul 🙏🎶✨️. @rte.ie lyric fm

A peerless duo! Thrilled to present at the first 2025 UCH Limerick Classical Concert, featuring Michael Collins cl. & Michael McHale pf.- a rich landscape of works by Brahms, Weber, Poulenc, & "Rhapsodos" by Abbie #Betinis. Recorded live for future #FullScore broadcast @rte.ie lyric fm 📻🎶

Set up complete for today's fabulous Winter Lunchtime Concert! Tune in to today's #FullScore, as Mia Cooper 🎻dir. @rteco.rte.ie in Classical exotica- Mozart's Seraglio Overture, Haydn's Military Symphony, & Vivaldi's Piccolo Concerto in C w/ soloist Emma Roche. Spectacular! 🤩🎉🎶 @rte.ie lyric fm.

This afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm! Our third winter lunchtime concert presented by @lizlyricfm.bsky.social ❄️

Set for the most exciting and prestigious meeting of global opera experts in Ireland... "Celebrating the Voice", 10-14/02 National Concert Hall, as dir. Tara Erraught presents masterclasses, discussions, lectures & concerts w/ top industry experts- see you there! @rte.ie www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

Culture File will be on the air on Saturday evening at 6.30 in the usual place (RTÉ lyric fm and the podcast) ft. among others, @paddywoodworth.bsky.social with his latest volume for The Naturalist's Bookshelf, Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time, about gardens and their karmic cost/benefit.

Fabulous music on today's #FullScore! The Banbha Quartet perform Schubert's Quartet "Death & the Maiden", plus a beguiling new work by @seandohertymusic.bsky.social, "Varsouviana"- a #NationalStringQuartetFoundation concert. Do tune in if you can- 1-4pm, 96-99 @rte.ie lyric fm.

Stage ready and feeling the buzz! Thrilled to present at this evening's Grand Finals of the Veronica Dunne Int.l Singing Competition, broadcast live @rte.ie lyric fm. 6 outstanding singers perform w/ National Symphony Orchestra, maestro Wyn Davies, for a stellar Jury & audience. Tune in from 7pm.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on this day in 1756. To celebrate Mozart's birthday, listen back to the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performing the Haffner Symphony as part of the RTÉ lyric fm Winter Lunchtime series with @lizlyricfm.bsky.social earlier this month: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

Lovely to see @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social broadcast our Mendelssohn Konzertstücke with Karen Ní Bhroin and @rteco.rte.ie from last August. It was such a privilege to play these pieces with my own colleagues and thanks to RTÉ Lyric Fm and @lizlyricfm.bsky.social for presenting and broadcasting it!

Ready to rumble! Sidestage at The Helix, ready to present at the fabulous Dublin Youth Orchestras Gala Concert. Another year of achievement and fun for the brilliant young people of the 4 DYO orchestras- can't wait to celebrate with them! @rte.ie lyric fm.