The 28th International Concert Season of Music for Galway was opened yesterday evening by Olive Braiden, Chair of the Arts Council in the Galway City Museum.

Around 20 concerts with the world's finest musicians from Russia, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Ireland, Argentina, Sweden, Germany, and Romania will take place in Galway between September and April of next year.

Italian pianist Alberto Nosè, who dazzled Music for Galway audiences back in 2006, is making a welcome return and bringing his Venetian Friends, the Quartetto di Venezia, to Galway to open and close the season with two concerts of mixed programmes for piano solo, string quartets and piano quintets.

Another welcome return to Galway is UK based Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa, presenting an evening with a focus on Debussy, hot on the heels of the release of her fourth volume of widely acclaimed Debussy recordings. The piano also takes centre stage in the Swedish jazz legend Bobo Stenson's appearance with his trio, in chamber music with Matthew Schellhorn from the UK celebrating Messiaen's 100th birthday featuring the 'Quartet for the End of Time'.

Two very distinct vocal performances also feature - Valeria Mignaco accompanied by Alfonso Marin on lute and cellist Adrian Mantu presenting 'The Lunatick, the Lover and the Poet…' songs from around 1600, and Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten accompanied by Finghin Collins returns after winning the hearts of Galway during last year's Schubert festival.

Finally Music for Galway again offers a weekend festival of heart warming romantic music – the theme of this season's January Festival is Russian Romantics and features Galway's ConTempo Quartet along with prize-winning young British pianist Ian Fountain, Irish bass-baritone Conor Biggs and accompanist Pádhraic ó Cuinneagáin and their colleagues from the RTE Vanbrugh Quartet, violist Simon Aspell and cellist Christopher Marwood.

To find out more about the season, or to receive the full brochure, contact the office at 091-705962 or visit www.musicforgalway.ie.

The opening concert of the season takes place on Thursday 18 September in the Aula Maxima, NUIG at 8pm.

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