Friday, August 15, 2025 21:30

Michael Gallen is best known as a composer of outstanding choral and orchestral works for RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Irish National Symphony Orchestra and many others, and as the creator of award-winning operatic works, including The Curing Line, which premieres at the Festival next year and has already received the Fedora Prize, the world’s largest award for new opera.

But this concert offers a chance to see him working on a much more intimate scale with his new project Sudden Wells, a four-piece band that combines the lyrical quality of Gallen’s singing and piano-playing with pulsating arrangements. With a debut album due out later this year, this intimate gig is a wonderful chance to experience Gallen’s thrilling new sound.