Esker Festival Orchestra 2024

Gustav Holst - ‘The Planets’
August 12th to 18th

Applications now open!

Apply now online by filling out this online form.

The programme will also feature the Elgar Cello Concerto
with rising star Zoë Nagle as soloist and other works to be confirmed

For information about joining the Esker Festival Orchestra or Choir
please visit our Applications and F.A.Qs pages.

For details of our new Call for Composition Proposals please visit our Composers page

Details of our concerts and ticket information can found on the Events Page

Esker Festival Orchestra’s 10th Anniversary Celebration

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2
“Resurrection”

This project featured the largest orchestra in our history and for the first time the newly formed
Esker Festival Choir which was be made up of singers of all ages from all over Ireland.
From August 14th to 20th 2023, we were once again be resident in the beautiful surrounds of the University of Galway and performed concerts in Galway and Dublin, with soloists from the Irish National Opera Studio Madeline Judge and Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada under the baton of founder and director Peter Joyce.

Esker Festival Orchestra 2022

Esker Festival Orchestra 2021

To learn a little more about the beginnings of the orchestra, meet some players or see some highlights from our Film music concert in 2015 why not check out this video from our good friends at the Galway Film Fleadh!