“CAROLAN AND CONTEMPORARIES” with Tara Viscardi & Natan Giorgetti - 24/10/2025 - 19:15
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“CAROLAN AND CONTEMPORARIES”
TARA VISCARDI (baroque triple harp) and NATHAN GIORGETTI (viola da gamba)
CONCERT - FRIDAY 24th OCTOBER - 19:15
To celebrate this year’s festival theme “The Way of the Bards”, Irish harpist Tara Viscardi is joined by viola da gambist Nathan Giorgetti as they explore the compositions of 17th century blind harper Turlough Carolan and his contemporaries, such as fellow harpers Thomas and William Connellan and other musicians of the period from Ireland and further afield.
Duration: 2 parts of 40 minutes
TARA VISCARDI, Triple Harp
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Hailing from the Beara Peninsula in the South-West of Ireland, Tara Viscardi performs on Irish traditional, classical and baroque harps. Praised for her music being “exquisitely performed” (The Times), Tara is Associate Artist with the Irish Baroque Orchestra for 2025, having been a 2024 UK Harp Association Emerging Artist and first prize winner of the 2021 London Camac Harp Competition. She has been featured playing her own arrangements and compositions on RTE Radio 1, RTE Lyric FM, RTE Raidio na Gaeltachta, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Ulster, Radio Kerry and Bloomsbury Radio. Performances have taken her across Ireland and the UK, to venues including the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, the Irish Embassy, Irish Cultural Centre and the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Further highlights include performing at the 14th World Harp Congress, Cardiff and 13th World Harp Congress, Hong Kong (supported by Culture Ireland), for Irish President Michael D. Higgins and Mrs Sabina Higgins at Aras an Uachtarain, for An Taoiseach and An Tanaiste upon their visits to London, for Prime Minister Kier Starmer at No. 10 Downing Street and for King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Hillsborough Castle.
A graduate of the Royal College of Music, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado Milan and TU Dublin Conservatoire, Tara regularly collaborates with musicians across the folk, traditional Irish, baroque and classical scenes. She launched her debut album “Beara” in April 2024, where she is joined by flautist Robert Harvey for her own compositions paired with music written and collected on the Beara Peninsula since the 18th century and released a debut EP, “Uncovered Roots” in 2023 with saxophonist Robert Finegan, which explores folk music from Ireland and the UK in different contexts. She is currently part of early music/folk ensemble Nobody’s Jig and folk/traditional group MNA as well as collaborating with countertenor Hugh Cutting. |
NATHAN GIORGETTI, Viola da gamba
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Nathan Giorgetti obtained his Masters degree from the Royal Academy of Music in 2023, where he was a Christopher Hogwood Scholarship holder and specialised in historical performance on the viola da gamba and baroque cello. In 2023-24, he was Chamber Music Fellow at the Academy as part of Intesa. Since graduating, Nathan has worked with leading figures in the early music scene, including Philipe Herreqeghe, Tachel Podger, Bjarte Eike, Michael Chance, Matthew Truscott and Pavlo Beznosiuk, as well as being accepted on the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Experience scheme. In 2022 his string trio, the Tufnell Trio, won the Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize and was selected for the BREMF Live Scheme, as well as the Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme. Nathan has collaborated with various leading period performance ensembles including The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Hanover Band, Noxwode and Platinum Consort. He is the founder of the Vilalte Festival, a yearly chamber music festival taking place in southern France. The festival has been running for 7 years and has put on over 30 concerts.
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