Sestina Music

Sestina Music Belfast-based early music ensemble with a reputation for exciting and imaginative music

🎄IT’S TIME!! 🎄🎫 Tickets for our popular annual Christmas carol concert are on sale now! ‘In Dulci Jubilo’ - A Sestina Ch...
06/10/2026

🎄IT’S TIME!! 🎄

🎫 Tickets for our popular annual Christmas carol concert are on sale now!

‘In Dulci Jubilo’ - A Sestina Christmas
Join us for a magical musical evening of a ca****la festive delights, all your favourite Christmas songs and new seasonal discoveries, including the winning carol from our 2026 composition competition. This year our programme celebrates Christmas music from across Europe. With a line up of 8 stunning singers, under the direction of Artistic Director Malachy Frame, this will be a concert guaranteed to send you into Christmas full of the festive spirit.

Book early to avoid disappointment!

Tickets available through the link below, and via our website.

https://ti.to/sestina-music/in-dulci-jubilo-a-sestina-christmas

🌟 Friday 18th December, 7pm, Fisherwick Presbyterian Church Belfast 🌟

This concert is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

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🔥 FROM FIRE AND ICE ❄️Meet the performers!We’re thrilled to have a line up of fantastic musicians joining us for our sea...
02/10/2026

🔥 FROM FIRE AND ICE ❄️
Meet the performers!

We’re thrilled to have a line up of fantastic musicians joining us for our season opening concert this evening. This is music not to be missed!

Aisling Kenny - Soprano
Charlotte O’Hare - Soprano
Sarah Thursfield -Mezzo Soprano
James Robinson - Tenor
Malachy Frame - Baritone & Musical Director
Christopher Webb - Bass
Toby Carr - Theorbo
Tristan Russcher - Harpsichord/Organ

From Fire and Ice: Madrigals by Gesualdo, Strozzi & Monteverdi
Friday 2nd October, 7pm
Fisherwick Presbyterian Church

🎟️ Tickets by still available:

https://ti.to/sestina-music/from-fire-and-ice-madrigals-by-gesualdo-strozzi-monteverdi

This project is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

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30/09/2026

A little throwback to the last time we performed Monteverdi’s Madrigals!

Don’t miss your chance to hear this incredible music live, performed by a line up of fantastic singers and players, this Friday 2nd October in Belfast.

🔥 FROM FIRE AND ICE ❄️
Friday 2nd October, 7pm
Fisherwick Presbyterian Church Belfast
Tickets available through link in bio and via www.sestinamusic.com

🎶 ‘A Che Tormi Il Ben Mio’ - Claudio Monteverdi
🎬’Madrigals at the Museum’, Ulster Museum, September 2020
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🎼 CALLING ALL YOUNG COMPOSERS!! 🎼We are very happy to announce the return of our carol composition competition for 2026....
29/09/2026

🎼 CALLING ALL YOUNG COMPOSERS!! 🎼

We are very happy to announce the return of our carol composition competition for 2026. After a hugely successful inaugural competition last year, we are thrilled to be able to again platform emerging composers as part of our very popular Christmas concert programme. We are delighted to welcome Dr Seán Doherty as adjudicator this year, alongside Artistic Director Malachy Frame.

Full details on all rules and guidelines can be found via our website (link in bio).

Deadline is Friday 20th November.



Seán Doherty Malachy Frame

Music Department Trinity College Dublin Chapel Choir UCD School of Music RIAMDublin DCU Chamber Choir Cork ETB School of Music University Music & Concerts at University of Birmingham Choral Scholars of University College Dublin Guildhall School of Music & Drama Royal Academy of Music Irish Composers’ Collective Women Composers Project Trinity Laban OUMS - Oxford University Music Society Faculty of Music Royal Northern College of Music MUMS

There are 33 Early Music concerts on Continuo Connect this weekend (2-4 Oct), including Continuo Foundation-supported ev...
29/09/2026

There are 33 Early Music concerts on Continuo Connect this weekend (2-4 Oct), including Continuo Foundation-supported events across the UK, festival performances at Brighton Early Music Festival, Tetbury Music Festival and Salisbury Musick, and much more besides 🎉 Here's our top picks...

FRIDAY | BELFAST | Explore the Italian Baroque with Sestina Music, featuring madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo, Barbara Strozzi and Claudio Monteverdi in 'Fire and Ice' 🔥

SATURDAY | SALISBURY | Discover Tartini and the School of Nations with Nocturnalia, a revolutionary composer whose musical and pedagogical influence continues to resonate 🎶 (Supported by a grant from Continuo Foundation ⭐)

SUNDAY | POTTERSPURY (MILTON KEYNES) | Fiori Musicali celebrates the life of David Munrow as the bucolic flauto player in 'Pied Piper Remembered' 🪈 (Supported by a grant from Continuo Foundation ⭐)

📌 ... Plus lots more! Explore the interactive map on our website to find a concert near you today

29/09/2026

In case you missed it…

We were delighted to chat to John Toal on BBC Radio Ulster Classical Connections a couple of weeks ago, all about our upcoming season.

Sound on to hear Malachy Frame talk about our opening programme, From Fire and Ice - tickets available here:

https://ti.to/sestina-music/from-fire-and-ice-madrigals-by-gesualdo-strozzi-monteverdi

and other season highlights, including our performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers in April 2027.

Listen back to the full episode here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0031stq

Join us for a season of extraordinary music!

Arts Council Northern Ireland SARC QUB Malachy Frame

We are thrilled to have been awarded a grant by the Continuo Foundation in Round 12 of their grant awards, supporting so...
24/09/2026

We are thrilled to have been awarded a grant by the Continuo Foundation in Round 12 of their grant awards, supporting so many early music projects across the UK. The grant will help fund our performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in April 2027, a piece of grand scale and spectacle, made possible as a result of the Continuo Foundations generosity and endorsement. More news on this exciting project and our other upcoming projects very soon!

We cannot wait to bring this incredible music to Belfast, and thank the Continuo Foundation for their ongoing support for Sestina Music.

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Watch this space for some big announcements over the next two days! 👀Link to join our mailing list is below, and keep an...
23/09/2026

Watch this space for some big announcements over the next two days! 👀

Link to join our mailing list is below, and keep an eye out on our stories and page! Make sure you have notifications turned on 🔔

https://www.sestinamusic.com/subscribe-to-mailing-list

31/05/2026

🌟NEXT GENERATION ARTISTS SHOWCASE🌟

Soprano Neala Cahir give a little insight into next week’s concert. Neala, currently studying at QUB Music, is one of our very talented NGA’s this year and will be performing alongside 8 other brilliant singers next Saturday 6th June in Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, 7pm. The programme is a varied and wonderful mix of baroque repertoire, from Monteverdi, Charpentier, Purcell and Rameau, offering you a chance to hear these performers in intimate, moving solo and duet repertoire, as well as exciting choruses and ensembles, accompanied by Tristan Russcher and led by our Artistic Director Malachy Frame.

Now that the summer weather has gone on pause for a bit, why not join our NGA’s for an evening of musical sunshine, and support these fabulous singers as they mark the end of this years scheme, but the beginning their musical journeys!

🎟️ Tickets available through the link below or via the Sestina music website 🎟️

https://ti.to/sestina-music/next-generation-artists-showcases

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